Starship Exeter: "The Night Shift" (2005)

A silly farce, shot before filming of "The Tressaurian Intersection" began. (Some of the lighting hasn't been perfected, nor has the set been quite completed at this point). Enjoy!

[@onetruekeeper418]

Of course the night shift should realize that the ship's flight recorder is recording everything they are doing on the bridge and the captain and XO will find out.

[@blockmasterscott]

See the color of this shirt? I'll stay here thank you very much!

[@georgeherod4252]

That was Awesome! The drops about hive minded species was perfect.

[@JovianJeff]

A nice, humorous short. Well done to all involved.

[@BrokenNeuron]

If I've told you once, I've told you a million times... DON'T PROVOKE THE BORG!!!!!

[@markc7440]

Give the Borg some coffee and maybe they'll chill out! 😂

[@informatimago]

I never understood this night shift affair. An alien species who would specialize in night shift attacks could conquer the galaxy in a wheeze. They should just have two shifts A and B. So we could have ST TNG/A and ST TNG/B, twice the fun for the same milleage.

[@MrNealSalo]

That was a good laugh. It's hard to beat a silly farce.

[@basilforth]

Oh, I love the New Yoik Goil accent. Hilarious!

[@HerrEllsworth]

Good acting exercise. I can bet the cast was a little more loose after this.

[@genebohannon8820]

As good as any "Red.Dwarf" sceen

[@KevinJohnson-sq7cj]

I was on the bridge crew on the USS INDEPENDENCE CV-62 most night shifts...believe me it is not so 'lax', lol.

[@pwnmeisterage]

Finally some proof that Starfleet is "not" a military organization, lol.

[@OpenMawProductions]

@@pwnmeisterage Only if you discount everything in TOS including Roddenberry's own series pitch which refers to it as a military. It's a military. The military does exploration, diplomacy, and engages in combat in defense of the state. That's exactly what Starfleet does.

[@jaminova_1969]

I will respectfuly disagree. I had a little fun with the watchstanders aboard a Nimitz class carrier in port and got them to joke around a bit.

[@davidsyes5970]

It's all about levity, balance, timing, and knowing when to stop. On both my ships, serious and funny happened on the Bridge/in the Pilot House. We had a BM2 who looked like "Souky Sales" or the Maytag Man", and 3 or 4 times he screwed up the 1MC announcement after a CONREP. CO's terse response: "I suggest you get a little proFESSIONALISM in you before you touch that thing again." I once was on the helm (USS FLINT (AE-32) in 87. I minded the ordered course, but, I shifted rudder a half a degree every 10 seconds. Eventually, the EOS (Enclosed Operating Space) or CHENG (Chief Engineer) called up on the B-Box and asked, "WHO'S ON THE HELM??!!" The OOD only said, "Mind your helm." Me, "Aye. Mind my helm, Aye, Sir." I never got written up. But, some things flew in the galley, I later heard. On my second ship, an FFG-7 class, we were in the Gulf in 88. Less than 8 mos prior, we had a new big red Single Audio Server (SAS) we called the Coke Machine. It was an expensive upgrade that was done with other equipment installed in Radio. We'd had intermittent comms issues and for some reason, the CO was unable to talk to planes. Perturbed, one day, he let himself into Radio (I think I was the Watch Sup that shift), and nobody expected the Captain. But, still, none of us yelled the customary "CAPTAIN ON DECK!". We were too mesmerized by our recently-minted RMC whacking the hell out of the expensive SAS (IIRC, way over $100,000, weighed abt 500 lbs, and IIRC the door frame had to be cut so the yard birds/NAVELEX/NORDEN could get it into Radio) with the Red circuit handset. He was channeling the previous RMC, replicating all his quirks and swear words. Captain emerged from the security curtain hearing all this cussing, missives, wailing, plaintive begging, and "YOU UNMITIGATED GODDAMN POS !!! WHY WON'T YOU WORK??!! THE CAPTAIN WANTS TO TALK TO THAT PLANE!!! F U. F. U.!!!" Whack whack, bang bang, slap slap, kick slap, pow. "You fng unmitigated goddamn POS. Why won't you work. Why? Why?" Reminded me of the sailor in Gray Lady Down, when the comms kept muddying and not reaching the surface rescue ships. "Oh, I'm ok, sir. Really. I can stand my watch. Im, ok, sir..." The Captain froze, looked at us, turned around, and left. And Chief kept wailing and whacking and swearing away. It was a priceless moment in a sea of boredom. In the Gulf. Thing is that we had loud, click-y magnetic cypher locks that also buzzed to alert anyone in Radio know someone was entering. But, Chief was so embroiled in beating the hell out of that 509+ lbs machine that he didn't even hear the cypher lock or the magnets. But, all the rest of up 4 or 6 on watch did. Even above the noisy ventilation and cooling equipment. He was a VN action officer, and I'm sure he'd seen a lot. But that. He quietly left. We never told the Chief the CO saw that meltdown. The CO never asked us anything. (Not me at least. No one got written up for not announcing the CO's presence in Radio.) I miss being at sea, esp, for things like this.

[@matthewstreets9662]

Great short video, funny & harmless fun for all people.

[@KevinJohnson-sq7cj]

Did anyone catch the plastic water bottle at the bottom of the screen when they shoot to the guy in the red shirt?

[@jaminova_1969]

This is more true to life than they realize! Funny stuff though!

[@Marinealver]

This wouldn't be a parody of a Robot Chicken parody, now would it?

[@TheStarshipExeter]

This was shot in summer 2004. Robot Chicken premiered like 6 months later. So no.

[@matthewrobinson7379]

Oh, boy, is this GREAT! It's the midwatch, by the way.

[@rons9946]

funny and cool in 2020

[@williamscoggin1509]

Pretty cute, although this could be the beginning of an episode of the starship crew stepping into a pile of crap with an alien species but the near war could end up with a strong alliance with another race of beans dedicated to the same mindset as Starfleet. 👍🏻

[@nachtwaya8721]

LOL the Commo officer sounds like a 30s flapper...

[@TurtleFL]

+Thom Clark It's a corny New York accent. Manhattan, to be exact. I think it matches Gracie Allen :->

[@thefurrybastard1964]

She could flap me anytime

[@nunyabiznez6381]

Flappers were from the 20's

[@shelfstacker9317]

Love to get the boots off that Red Shirt !

[@patn19651]

love it

[@markc7440]

That was fun, more of the night shift please.

[@alexander.Rainforest1987]

Okay so I came late to these fan flicks. But I was there for the first three seasons in the late 60s for the original.

[@monicaswavel6074]

That was great!

[@gustavonaranjochacon8864]

You were the original Lower Decks! XD

[@LeftyStratPlayer]

Is the Night Science Officer Betty Boop's great, great, great, great granddaughter by chance?

[@TheStarshipExeter]

According to the script Ensign White. If she's Betty's great great great whatever, maybe she's "Betty White". ;)

[@robledrew5269]

More! More!!

[@balventray]

Ace many thanks gets better with age

[@DeanPickersgill]

Did Lower Decks come here ..?

[@arseface01]

It has certainly been a long time. Thanks for the upload. Any new material is very welcome.

[@andrestenzel9055]

Where is Vandi Richards?(Elisabeth Wheat) 3min 40 seconds might of tunerd into a min series / etc.

[@3dartistguy]

Why is the communications officer in a jumpsuit on the bridge?

[@junkman2758]

Great stuff

[@christopherthorkon3997]

Hilarious!

[@reedcharles5734]

We we.

[@TurtleFL]

So let me get this straight... The Savage Empire was shot in the 1990s, but the Tressaurian Intersection was done in the 2010s? Nearly 20 years later? The crew look like they haven't aged a day! Have you guys been making use of relativistic velocity travel???

[@TheStarshipExeter]

+Ozzman Osgood .In point of fact "Savage Empire" was shot in the 90s and "Tressaurian" was shot in 2004. The editing of the latter took about six months, but we forgot we were traveling at .9987c, which meant almost 10 years passed Earthtime. Whoops!

[@wendelljoelpeters2534]

Did they got in touch with the borg?

[@softdreams1776]

lol :)

[@gerardorocha2298]

Siempre me gusto star trek pero estas verciones o otras historias son de muy baja calidad ,las del capitam kirk y el seños spok a pesar de no tener buenos efectos especisles para su epoca son mucho mejores !!!

[@TheStarshipExeter]

Gracias por verlo aunque no te haya gustado, Gerardo. A crude English translation of Gerardo's comment is: I always liked star trek but these versions or other stories are of very low quality, those of captain kirk and spok signs despite not having good specific effects for their time are much better !!!

[@Allegheny500]

I realize this was shot over a year ago, but If you are continuing the series and I hope you do, you need to pay a bit more attention to stage blocking as the opening shot showed a piece of the bridge missing and open to the sound stage. I don't know if this was oversight or if you intended to fill in with CGI but its distracting. Oh and don't feel too bad about it, if you get your hands on the VHS copy of Star Trek the movie, the first one that is, there is the scene where Kirk is leaving the air lock to rescue Spock and you can clearly see he's on a sound stage. Note this was omited from the DVD and later copies. But it shows that even big budget pro's make mistakes.

[@TheStarshipExeter]

This was shot merely with the goal of getting the crew to work together before our episode was shot. The set wasn't yet complete, but that wasn't entirely the point of this particular shoot... "The Tressaurian Intersection" was the result, after this was shot, with a more-complete set.

[@Allegheny500]

Noted and thanks for the reply, I have seen most of "The Tressaurian Intersection" but have been unable to find the last or 4th act of the show. If you know where to find it please post. Thanks

[@TheStarshipExeter]

Allegheny500 The complete episode was released May 1, 2014. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJzYe3pnlJeApLc

[@billjenkins687]

Ouch.

[@JohnSmith-eq2tf]

Auful script and actors. What a waste of the set, sound effects, and wardrobe costumes. My gosh it's like a little kid wrote this and casted his family and friends from church.

[@adventuressurvivalinthailand]

Sort of ruined starship Exeter series for me, I mean I thought this was some harmless fun until the captain walked in. Wtf?

[@TheStarshipExeter]

Were you harmed? No? Then it remains harmless fun. :)

[@jameyhibberd6659]

edit this film its a star trek bomb

[@craigmanning7393]

Didn't like this video. Writing was bad. No way a military or in the closest analogy to a navy would allow this type of non-sense on a command bridge. However their other videos have been very good.

[@craigmanning7393]

I did not serve. I am guessing we could have a few good stories over a beer. I think you are correct and I would be shocked.

[@midniteoyl8913]

Obviously was never in the Military.. LOL. You would be amazed at some of the stuff we pulled and got away with :)

[@niceswede]

This is supposed to be a farce anyway. However, In space there is no such thing as night or day. There really should be a complete, competent crew on duty at all times. In this case, I assume that they are at a safe location and as such can afford to have team dimvtit on duty as a training exercise.

[@00chla50]

+Craig Manning They're explorers and scientists first. Defensive force second. I know of no military that uses brightly colored short skirts as standard issue.

[@CZ350tuner]

ERRRRR...... you've forgotten about some British Scottish regiments regarding that statement, or as the Germans refered to them (in WW1) "The Ladies From Hell!!".