Found a new/old one today. The effects are contemporary, so I thought the film grain was a deliberate choice until I saw young Takei.
Takagi! From Die Hard! The VFX are really not bad, though a whole bunch of things--the acting, framing, pacing, lighting, dialogue--are, like every fan film, hopelessly amateurish. Ruger apparently makes a phaser version of the Mini-14, and one of the hippies has a stormtrooper blaster and another Han Solo's pistol from Star Wars! Where the heck did the old footage come from? Was this some Saturday morning sci-fi show I was unaware of? Or a very early fan film?
Fan films suck, but here's some interesting background on George Takei's appearance in this particular fan film, and why they used film grain to try and match the original footage from 1985: https://fanfilmfactor.com/2022/04/0...george-takei-as-sulu-the-37-year-trek-part-1/ I totally give them an A for effort and an F for execution. Because fan films suck. (The exception being "Star Trek Continues", which proves the rule.)
This was interesting. They used the xenophobic Colonel Green fan boy plot 20 years before Enterprise did it.
I never thought one could emote while wearing a Stormtrooper helmet, but that "look" he gave him was priceless.
