The Holy Core - A Star Trek Fan Production (Parts I & II) 

Our other TNG era fan film "Chance Encounter" is ready to watch here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vuMFDtpjA3M.html

This. THIS. This is Star Trek. I would pay to watch a series based on this crew.

Those were the best fitting uniforms I've ever seen in a fan film. Well done whoever was in charge of the costumes.

A Fan Production where the people can actually act! Very Very Impressed!! Congratulations!

Your starfleet uniforms actually fit. That puts you so far ahead of so many other fan films.

The entire production looks as if it was canon. Sets look so good! As is everything else!

Fitting this level of storytelling into the 30 minute (15 x 2) time limit imposed by CBS is very impressive. The beats felt snappy rather than rushed. Great job.

STAR FLEET ONCE AGAIN....GOING BACK IN TIME!!...NICE....Story Line...temporal 500 yr old msg/Effects...Directing, ACTING!!...all SUPERB!!!...Thanks @FPSD..."BRAVA"!!

Gene Rodenbury would be very proud of such a production. THANK YOU

Watching in 2023. I loved this. Great story and crew.

"Many came to realize that religion was the beginning of our civilization. To excize it would be to deny our own history." and "beyond Logic lies faith." Powerful quotes!! Love it!!

felt like a next Gen episode. So that is a massive win. make more please!

Special Notice : During the filming of this episode That no Klingon's were harmed or endangered .

This is actually one of the best TNG era fan fiction movies I've ever seen

Star Trek made by people who know Star Trek! I enjoyed this much more than anything on Paramount+. Thank you! 👌🇨🇦

Great Star Trek Captain’s quote: “We must live together as brothers or die together as fools.” Thank you all for this very impressive Star Trek fan film. 🖖🏻🖖🏼🖖🏽🖖🏾🖖🏿

Very well written and acted. True to the core of Star Trek. It was an absolute pleasure to watch this. Well done.

I am SO impressed! I've never seen such a fan production that so carefully recreated the NextGen format. The edits, the types of characters, the musical climax to end each scene... all so well thought out. Even the lighting is exactly correct. And these fans... are they professional actors? Just wow!

A stunning and beautiful tribute to the TNG era. As others have said, this was a true pleasure to watch. Thank you.

Yes! Original characters in the TNG era. Plus nothing like exploring religious concepts in a sci fi setting.

BRAVO!!! Well done! ...and it's a horrible shame that countless millions are being given to people that care only about their own egos, while *you* produce this wonderful piece virtually out-of-pocket!

Excellent work, Gary and all people involved! This is absolutely true to the TNG canon, it is amazing. A heart-felt story again ("Chance encounter" already touched my heart) which perfectly captures the spirit of TNG, good acting by all actors, beautiful sets/props/costumes that fit seamlessly into the TNG-era, music fitting nicely, BEAUTIFUL CGI. A thousand thanks to all the cast and crew for this fan film and for keeping Star Trek alive the way we remember and love it (in it's TNG incarnation). I hope we will see more Star Trek fan films from you in the future. Keep on trekking.

So worth waiting for! Efficient storytelling and plotting, decent actors, new TNG sets that fit perfectly into the canon (even Auxiliary Control!) and so much more. The discussion of faith is something S2 DSC hinted at but never truly explored, but you really do it justice. The Bridge looks great! I know exactly how much you built, but the matting is seamless. The scifi elements are an essential component and well done, but where the writing really excels is in the characters (just as with your previous productions). And the ending really surprised me. All in all this is a classic Trek tale, I cannot congratulate everyone involved enough.

If you had ever told me that fan made ST would ever reach this high level of production, I would not have believed it. The nuances, from the sounds effect, the music, the story with a lesson and purposes, just overwhelming.

Fantastic production! I liked how Starfleets morals were questioned as well!

Good to see " Star Trek" still being made.

This is by far one of the best fan films every produced. I've watched so many from people who believe just because they make a Trek fan film it must be good (and their viewers oft times feel the same) but their shows suffer on every level, from writing to acting to design. You guys really upped the game. Well done all!!

Kudos! An unusually sophisticated storyline for a TREK film and indeed compared to a good fistful of TNG episodes.

This is REAL Star Trek, unlike STD. Thanks to the team that created this.

This is an excellent fan production. Its cored on a TNG-style plotline involving conflict resolution via diplomatic means, time travel, and seeking to understand alien's culture and belief system, just like Gene Roddenberry has wanted it. It doesn't involved action-packed, dark, and gritty plotlines like JJ-Trek and Discovery, yet at the same time takes the idea of religion as a positive inspiration for scientific discovery and as a means to understand the universe seriously, unlike 'The Orville' which simply dismisses religion as a source of war, prejudice, and other things evil, which is often true, but throws out its the positive aspects out of the window. I really like the cast members who are playing Starfleet officers. The actresses who played the captain and the XO did a good job playing TNG-era Starfleet officers, those who can be diplomats who negotiate with other aliens, anthropologists who try to understand their cultures, and detective/investigators who investigated a space incident/phenomena and tried to find resolutions to them. Hopefully there will be more episodes featuring the adventures of USS Vigilance and her crew. If the quality of plot and the writing is as this good, it has a lot of potential as an alternative series beyond the Trek canon. Two thumbs up!!

This was the best fan film I’ve seen so far. Great plot, wonderful acting, engaging characters, and a true to form TNG era story. I have to admit, I teared up at the nostalgia of the credits. Wonderful work, all of you

That was so good! Your production value is insanely good, and both the acting and the writing were on point. I even got a little choked up when Jennifer was transmitting that final message. Really well done.

RU-vid welcomes all people, even those that are cross eyed and hit the wrong thumb button. D'oh. Just starting to watch it now, will be back afterwards. : )

Now we NEED a continuation of this series!!!

I honestly felt like I was truly watching a lost episode of the TNG! This was so wonderfully executed. Great writing, acting, directing, special effects... Thanks for adding another chapter to TNG legacy!

Found my way to this episode per RU-vidr Dave Cullen's analysis and recommendation. Thoroughly enjoyed it

Thank you, I really enjoyed this polished fan film. Well done to everyone involved. If this is the quality you're producing on a shoe-string budget, I cannot possibly imagine what you'd achieve if you were given just 10% of Star Trek Discovery's budget! Try to get some of the popular sci-fi RU-vidrs to mention this video, their followers will thank them for it. BTW, it's a shame Cmdr Boltzmann was blown up, she would have been great to have in a future episode. Stop blowing up good actors! LOL!

Thank you for that episode it was truly Star Trek. Thank you so much.

This is what real Star Trek is about! In under 30 minutes you made me care about all of the characters and created an alien society that was believable. I wish CBS would get back to this type of story telling. Thank you so much for your hard work.

There is nothing I can add that hasn't already been said. This WAS Star Trek. Very very well done. Congratulations. Given that I am only seeing this five years after it's release, I certainly hope it spawned additional episodes as well done as this.

I just heard about this fan film today. I thought Star Trek was dead since Nemesis. Because what is officially shown today as Star Trek via streaming platforms, such as Discovery or Picard and others, is called Star Trek, but it is not. Today was the first time I watched REAL Star Trek again. I thank you for that. You are great filmmakers.

Really good. Best TNG era fan production!

Probably the best fan film I have ever seen. Felt like discovering a lost episode, a lovely feeling to be back in the realm of this show so thank you very much. Executed beautifully. Immediately rewatched it from the start when the credits appeared, can't remember any film or TV episode that last made me do that. What an achievement, well done.

This was so true to the spirit of Star Trek and genuinely better then anything made under the name for a while. I wish my mom could have seen this. Thank you so much to everyone involved in this production. I hope you all live long and prosper.

Gods. It felt like I was 12 again watching Star Trek TNG all over again. Great fan production, WELL done.

I went from "decent TNG era fan flick with some nice attempts with green screen" to actually really caring about the story and specifically the deaths of those two characters. Very very nicely done.

I enjoy fan productions of TREK, STAR WARS, et. al., so I watch a great many of them. This one is superb. Really well done.

I've been waiting for this since it was first announced and it did not disappoint. Great work guys. Everyone who worked on this deserves a pat on the back. There were times where I forgot this was a fan film and just sat there taking it in. You could tell with an extra 15 mins, this would have made an excellent episode of TNG.

As an evangelical Christian myself, I really appreciate how this production handles the role and value of faith in a respectful manner, like Deep Space Nine did too. God bless you all and Gennus be with you too! :)

I really love how the got the feel of some of the regular less attention focused episodes. The cultural representation felt spot on. Performances were great, and the technical and audio production felt true to how the original felt. I was 14 when ST:TNG aired and this really brought the nostalgia feels. As God Tod says “It just works!”

OUT OF ALL THE FAN PRODUCTIONS OF STAR TREK AND THE STAR WARS FAN PRODUCTIONS, THIS HAS TO BE THE BEST THAT I HAVE SEEN. I FEEL THIS COULD HAVE BEEN PUT INTO PRODUCTION FOR A TV SERIES

I am a 50 yrs+ fan of Trek... Well done! I recognize a labor of Love when I see it. Thank you P.S.- an absolute shame this does not have 5 million views. One of THE very best fan films I have ever seen

There are currently two broadcasts that produce star trek or type programs. You beat them. Congratulations from another true Trek fan. Job very well done.

AWESOME! Great work! Looking forward to seeing more great material, and hopefully collaborating with our new TNG era sets and show too!

I love episodes like this that lay the duality and incongruities of this future that Star Trek predicts but rather portrays in metaphorical genius from the inception of Gene’s brilliant mind. This is where it gets you to think not of the future but of the present, my friends. Drink deeply, and fear not the hard to swallow ideas brought forth here and take these learned lessons into your daily life and this society of ours under so much duress. Bravo!

Watched Star Trek TOS, as a child, when it first went into syndication about early to mid-70's. I'm 54 now and have watched every TREK iteration. In one way or another, I've, literally, watched TREK everyday for about FIFTY years. I think i've earned the right to express what IS or what ISN'T Trek. "The Holy Core" and "Chance Encounter" are absolutely STAR TREK. The stuff CBS is putting out most certainly is not.

Oh my God....THIS IS GOOD

So worth having contributed to, to create, great production from our friends Star Trek The Holy Core - A Star Trek Fan Production (Parts I & II) by Gary O'Brien and crew, thank you all for this trek eye candy so well done

Wow, a brilliant way to be back in the TNG universe! Growing up with that “era” of Star Trek, made this a wonderful reliving of those wonderful times, and boy how it makes you long for more of that same great storytelling! Looking forward to your next productions!

Excellent work everyone. This felt like a broadcast TNG episode. Kudos to you all for your hard work and great storytelling.

Great production values and high quality performances. Great episodes.

The costumes, the story, THE SETS, it’s all gorgeous!

This is comparable to Hollywood grade and quality. This is by far, one of the VERY FEW top shelf fan made out there on RU-vid. I hope others will see this, and follow suit. This group of film makers is gold. 100% perfect people.

Congratulations on a fantastic production! I love just how faithful you guys are to the style of TNG. Some terrific performances, clever use of the limited (but well designed) sets and a truly 'of the era' story! Really enjoyed it!

Classic TNG! Thank you!

Outstanding. Please don't stop making these. Excellent work all around.

An excellent fan film! This is how it is supposed to be CBS!

This showcases so much talent in front of and behind the camera, i hope good things come as a result. Well done to all involved.It's a good sign when you genuinely want to see more of these characters, it is definitely a testament to the writing and the acting.

love it, felt like TNG, characters music and sets felt so nostalgic, i wouldnt mind seeing those actors and characters again they where very watchable

That was real trek. Do More. Forget the CBS Rules. They will be overturned.

I'm watching this again and I still enjoy it. Its almost like a lost episode of TNG. The writing is top notch and all the actors are doing a fantastic job. Well done.

Congratulations on an excellent story, good sets and visual effects. Well done.

That was excellent! One of the best fan creations I've ever seen! FX are proper broadcast quality too. Amazing.

Wow....I honestly felt like I was watching an episode of TNG. The acting, the story, everything, it was all on point. And you didn't try to copy characters already in the Star Trek universe, you made all new ones. To everyone who worked on this project, cast, crew, all of you, thank you!

Holy crap, this was TNG production level. Acting, aesthetics, and everything were absolutely top notch. Standing O. This is also miles ahead of STD and any crap CBS could ever hope to make. This should be the rightful heir of the ST legacy.

29:38 Now there's a face that says "I'll put that in my DTI report just to see the looks on their faces"

WoW, another very impressive episode. I love seeing these TNG fan films. Amazing work yet again.

There's a lot to compliment here from top to bottom, but holy crap the score is perfect. Everything from the instrumentation to the timing is absolutely perfect. If I were just listening to this, it would be indistinguishable from a televised episode of TNG.

Must add my voice to say how brilliant this is...in every phase. This IS Star Trek.

Started sharing these to Star Trek FB groups. Amazing stuff. The writing is spot on.

Let me try to eloquently express my thoughts on this ... "Frigg'n awesome" - I hope that wasn't too high brow take on the episode 😁😏👏👏👏

Quality! The legacy of the ‘Great Bird of the Galaxy’ is in good hands. Thank you.

Wow, that's impressive. Everything was well polished. The acting, script and special effects were brilliant, and I loved the science vs religion theme. I got goosebumps when that shuttle lifted from the surface of Vita II! - Trevor

well what can i say i like this its a origanal startrek tng story which i very much enjoyed watching keep up the awesome work i think this would be awesome if you guys did a series of episodes fting captain keller and the crew of the Vigilants with "The Holy Core" being the pilot episode :D

Fantastic work. Great job to everyone involved

I thought I had watched every Star Trek fan made films on RU-vid that there is & so to find these is a real treat! Once again, thank you from this old lifelong Trekkie/Trekker. LLAP 🖖

Absolutely outstanding! The very best nod to TNG era Trek I've ever seen. Fantastic work and FAR better than anything coming out of CBS these days.

This story is just so beautifully told. I get emotional every time I watch it.

This is awesome. I'm only 5 minutes in and I'm already impressed and just as engrossed as though this were a new series on TV. Very well done. Want to see more.

I'm a little late but, I just watched this 30 minute episode and holy crap I felt more in this condensed TNG-esque episode than anything on Discovery, let alone Picard. If you've never seen this, give it a watch. Totally worth it. I actually damn near shed a tear by the end because it actually felt like Star Trek.

When I watched this, I thought it was very nicely done. The sets, costumes and props were excellent and true to the TNG era of Star Trek. This is far better than the other fan productions I've seen which used green screen for their sets. It's nice to see a fan production that went the extra mile.

SOOO much better than anything CBS can put out. True to Star Trek. Thank you for making this!

The best Tng era fan film.Great job i want more.

This will be my third comment on this film, but I just had to publicly congratulate you all on your wins at the Treklanta BJO Awards. Very much deserved!

Every time I hear someone declare "the one true Prophet" I immediately think "Another Dangerous Fool" GREAT EPISODE!

This 30 mins got more Star Trek as whole STDiscovery

This was extremely good. Shame you're limited by CBS cuz this is a quality production imho

You all have kept Gene's vision alive! This IS Star Trek! Most notably Star Trek The Next Generation! Thank you so much! This has been a pleasure and a privilege to watch! 🖖

looks like you rounded up every good looking actor and actress in Britain who wanted to be in Trek... nice to hear all the parts done with a British accent... production values look great , the script is excellent, story is excellent , everyone can actually act,....rivals the real TNG..... great job...

Star Trek: Homecoming! I did not have that feeling in both Discovery seasons.