Vermont filmmaker Matt Bucy spent two weeks on the set last October of Star Trek: Phase II’s newest episode, “The Child,” shooting footage he’s assembled into a first-draft documentary. “Behind the Scenes: The Child” is a 5 1/2-minute video featuring the filming of the award-winning fan series and interviews with some of the crew, including Phase II creator James Cawley. “The Child” is a teleplay written by Jon Povill for the aborted 1970s TV relaunch of Star Trek. Povill served as story editor for that show and went on to work on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. During the TV writers’ strike in 1988, producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation changed the characters in Povill’s script and produced it for that TV series. Povill wanted to see his teleplay produced as he wrote it, and Cawley offered him the chance to direct it for Phase II. Full disclosure: I worked as story editor for Phase II’s production of “The Child,” as well as 1st assistant director. That’s me you’ll hear yelling a lot throughout the mini-documentary. Sorry for that. Filmmaking, I’ve come to learn, involves many raised voices. Bucy says this first effort is only a sampling of a longer documentary he’s planning about production of “The Child.” — Carlos Pedraza
 Don’t Forget Star Trek: Phase II is releasing Part 1 of the episode I co-wrote with David Gerrold, “Blood and Fire,” on Dec. 20. More information at the Phase II Web site. Related Stories |