Star Trek: Excalibur titles
Star Trek: Excalibur is an internet series (fan film) which follows the adventures of Captain Thomas Nelson and the crew of the USS Excalibur (NCC-1705).
The USS Excalibur[]
The USS Excalibur.
Following the events of the disastrous M-5 trials, the heavily damaged USS Excalibur returned to Earth and was put into drydock for repairs. Over the next 18 months, the ship was used as the testbed for design concepts that would later be implemented on the USS Enterprise's 2273-refit. The completely refurbished USS Excalibur was relaunched in 2269.
The Excalibur in drydock.
Later, Captain Nelson beamed down to Earth, Starfleet Headquarters, where he spoke with Yeoman Carter and Commodore Russell. While reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, he waits to talk to Admiral Yoritomo. They met in drydock and Captain Nelson was briefed on his mission. Yoritomo asked how Nelson felt about Captain James T. Kirk and if he blamed him for the M-5 incident, to which Nelson replied that he did not, having considered the whole fiasco an accident. At the end of the meeting, Nelson was given one month to clear up affairs on the USS Athena as he was reassigned to oversee the Excalibur refit. ("Homecoming")
The Excalibur's crew[]
- Captain Thomas H. Nelson (CO)
- Commander Jason Taylor (First Officer)
- Lt Commander Erik Jorgensen (Chief Engineer)
- Lt Commander Raul Mendez (Helmsman)
- Dr Nathanial Baldwin (Chief Medical Officer)
- Dr Jefferies (Junior Medical Officer)
- LTJG Jewel Washburn (Navigator)
- Lt L'Nyxx (Communications)
- Lt Daniel Berry (Chief of Security)
- Yeoman Tr'esa Cor'Vo'Sen (Logistics)
- CPO Natel (Transporter Chief)
- Lt Commander Miller (Assistant Chief Engineer)
- Lt Beth Charles (Transporter Assistant)
Other Characters/Star Fleet Headquarters personnel[]
- Captain Anton Harris (Excalibur's Previous Captain)
- Admiral Tatsuya Yoritomo (Commanding Admiral of Excalibur's Patrol area)
- Commodore Gale Russell
- Yeoman Carter
The show's history[]
Star Trek: Excalibur was originally started in 2005. Due to the illegal destruction of the sets that were being built, a lawsuit over the destruction of the sets was filed. Unfortunately, nothing came of it when the owner of the building they were renting went bankrupt. Everything was lost except for the vintage Madison chair used as part of the captain's chair and the blueprints used for constructing the sets. All their tools were stolen and every one of the vintage Burke chairs seen in the video were also lost.
Excalibur has started over and is currently looking for a new place to rebuild and funding to start full production again. The show has 9 completed scripts and 5 more in the 1st and 2nd drafts. Additional writers are currently being considered and the production is searching for additional crew to assist in the project.
The show is based in Las Vegas, NV.
In July of 2011, Excalibur was about to start the construction of their new Transporter Room set, with test filming to be done upon completion. Unfortunately, the 12 minute Pilot episode released in 2014 did not feature any footage of this transporter set. It's not known whether the transporter set was completed or not, and the short film did feature a new character Known as Beth Charles which was the Transporter Assistant and filling in for the chief. But as far as seeing Beth Charles and her chief's work area on screen, this never occurred in the first short film or vignette of this series.
A short pre-series episode was to be scheduled to be produced later in 2011 in the hopes of a Christmas release. A 12-minute pilot episode was filmed between July 21 and July 22 of 2012. It was eventually released on Youtube.com in the year 2014.
Teaser poster for the show
Production team[]
- Executive Producer: Joseph Kerezman
- Head Writer: Karen Kerezman
- Producer: Jim Van Over Sr
- Directors: Zoe Howard, Joseph Kerezman (Pilot)
- Editing: Zoe Howard, Ian Anderson
- Music: Jaedyn Conley
- Sound: Ralph Miller
- Camera: Thomas J Scott, Zoe Howard, Tristian Barnard
- CG Effects Supervisor: Gabriel Koerner
- Costume Designer: Joseph Kerezman
- TOS Uniform Design: William Ware Theiss
- Costumers: Elise Murray-Cameron, Joanne Kerezman
- Props: Scott Brodeen, Scott Nakada
- Production Design: Joseph Kerezman, Don Gaffney Scott Nakada
- Storyboards: James Avalos
- Effects Makeup: Toby Sells
- Make Up: Dana Ginsberg, Kurt Murray-Cameron
- Lighting: Ian Anderson
- Construction Supervisor: Cameron Dingler
- Set Construction: Mike Cornwell, Paul Walker, Mike Brandt, Damien Metz, Max Cervantes, Thomas Scott, Zoe Howard, Brian Storey, Joseph Kerezman
Visual effects[]
In the year 2010, Visual Effects artist Gabriel Koerner joined the crew and is supervising the visual effects.
Excalibur is seeking additional CG effects people to work with Mr. Koerner.