Star Trek Enterprise II: The Beginning of the End

Movie
Original title	Star Trek Enterprise II: The Beginning of the End
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2016
length	58 minutes
Rod
Director	Jürgen Kaiser
script	Jürgen Kaiser, Stephan Mittelstraß and Sabrina Heuer-Diakow
production	Jürgen Kaiser and Sabrina Heuer-Diakow
music	Dennis Schuster
synchronization
	Lars von Velsen : Captain Jonathan Archer; René Dawn-Claude : Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III; Sabrina Heuer-Diakow : Subcommander T'Pol; Yannick Zenhäusern : Ensign Travis Mayweather; Valentin Gagarin : Lieutenant Malcolm Reed and Pavel Chekov; Verena Strauss : Red Empire I; Jan Sommer : Red Empire II; Eva Rahner : NX-01 computer; Thomas Karallus : James T. Kirk; Ingo Albrecht : Spock; Ingo Schmoll : Leonard McCoy; Sebastian Walch : Hikaru Sulu; Erik Schäffler : Montgomery Scott;

Star Trek Enterprise II: The beginning of the end is a stop-motion - animated film by Jürgen Kaiser.

action

After the first part Star Trek Enterprise: The Time Mirror , the crew of the Enterprise under Captain Jonathan Archer returns to a reality that does not run on the timeline known to them. In The Beginning of the End , the species of the future Federation fight against a cybernetic life form that wants to destroy all organic life. A destructive force is attacking the universe. The enemy is strong and is pursuing his aim in an obscure way. The crew with Trip and T'Pol receives help from the future. A previously unknown type of communication enables a connection through space, time and trust barriers.

Production and publication

The actors are 16 centimeter tall action figures, the sets are self-made. Work on the Star Trek Enterprise II: The Beginning of the End project took eight years . The film was created using stop-motion technology and computer animation.

On May 14, 2016, the film had its world premiere at FedCon 25 ("Federation Convention") in Bonn , a German convention on the topics of science fiction, fantasy and mystery. The German premiere was on June 3, 2016 in the Schweinfurt Weltbio-Kino-Center. The YouTube premiere was on June 19, 2016.

TV premiere

Star Trek Enterprise II: The Beginning of the End was first broadcast on Tele 5 on January 2, 2017 on free TV .

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews and achieved an average rating of 7.7 / 10 at the IMDb (as of January 2020).

"Impressive fan film from Germany."

- Syfy

“Star Trek is now coming from Schweinfurt Hollywood? Schweinfurt is the new thing! Jürgen Kaiser and his team shot a Star Trek fan film there - a really good one. An hour of work for a second of film? Then it happens. This is real Trekker love. "

- BR pulse

"Star Trek is now coming from Schweinfurt. Eight years of work for the enterprise mammoth project of an autodidact: Jürgen Kaiser has painstakingly produced his own" Raumschiff Enterprise "film in stop-motion."

- Spiegel Online

Awards

Camgaroo Award 2016 Special Prize Tele5

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Star Trek Enterprise II - The Beginning of the End: Impressive fan film from Germany. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
↑ Interview with Fanfilmer: Star Trek is now from Schweinfurt. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
↑ Eight years of work for the Enterprise. Der Spiegel, July 9, 2016, accessed on May 16, 2020 .

[1] Star Trek Enterprise II - The Beginning of the End: Impressive fan film from Germany. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .

[2] Interview with Fanfilmer: Star Trek is now from Schweinfurt. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .

[3] Eight years of work for the Enterprise. Der Spiegel, July 9, 2016, accessed on May 16, 2020 .