| rdfs:comment | - Star Trek: Unity is an amateur, non-profit, live-action and machinima science-fiction fan film series produced by a group of friends and student fans in the United Kingdom. With an ever-growing cast, more than fifty episodes have been made across over ten years, following the story of 'Starfleet's Youngest Crew', an eccentric and unorthodox team, led by Captain Puto and Captain Lewis. They command Unity One Starbase, a space station at the center of galactic conflicts and conspiracies with the mission to explore new worlds, defend the Federation from alien threats, corrupt political machinations and, most dangerously, trying to survive puberty aboard the venerable starship USS Odyssey.
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| abstract | - Star Trek: Unity is an amateur, non-profit, live-action and machinima science-fiction fan film series produced by a group of friends and student fans in the United Kingdom. With an ever-growing cast, more than fifty episodes have been made across over ten years, following the story of 'Starfleet's Youngest Crew', an eccentric and unorthodox team, led by Captain Puto and Captain Lewis. They command Unity One Starbase, a space station at the center of galactic conflicts and conspiracies with the mission to explore new worlds, defend the Federation from alien threats, corrupt political machinations and, most dangerously, trying to survive puberty aboard the venerable starship USS Odyssey. Despite an unsteady, zero budget (and ridiculed) amateur beginning in 2005 by teenage students at Applemore Technology College, using little more than small, handheld digital cameras, and re-dressing classrooms for sets, vast improvements have been made in production values since then: Unity utilises green screens, extensive location filming and vibrant visual effects to tell it's stories more professionally, but consciously maintains a uniquely homemade style. The primary story-arc of the series begins in "Fifth Element" & "Doomsday", and this is where new viewers should begin watching. Star Trek: Unity has become a unique fan project, controversial for the in-universe adaptation and incorporation of other sci-fi franchise lore, focusing less on traditional morality tales and more on character drama and light comedy, exploring the themes of growing up, responsibility and the choices that lead to one's destiny.
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