The 24-year-old Hessian and Trekkie Christoph Hees fulfills himself a desire... he shoots his own Star Trek fanfilm. The script exists since 1999. Christoph is a perfectionist and he leaves nothing to chance during the shooting. Everything has to be correct: he sets a high value on the setting, the uniforms, and on every single detail. Christoph and his team do everything themselves! They only buy things that really couldn't be made up.
Not to betray too much of the plot: there are scenes on the Enterprise-D-bridge, on the classic Enterprise bridge, a Klingon bridge, shootings outside and several other settings.
Mostly the settings are built and the shootings are made at week-end, as all actors are employed. Working with Christoph Hees as director and leading actor is really great fun! There is no limit to his ambition!
On May 6, 2003 a camera team of Paramount and actress Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar, TNG) visited the set of "Star Trek: The Legacy" to take pictures for the Star Trek documentation "Trekkies 2". Both sides were taken with each other! Denise Crosby and director Roger Nygard were absolutely facinated by Willi's resemblance to "Spock". The result of the shooting will be available on Video and DVD approximately mid of 2004. Then "Trekkies 2" will also be available in Germany.
The shooting of "Star Trek: The Legacy" will be finished approximately mid of 2005. Afterwards the finishing touches (cut, sound, recording) will be added. According to Christoph Hees the film will be seen on conventions and it is intended to publish it in the internet as free download
for the fans.
Shooting at the TOS Bridge
My last shooting day for "Star Trek: The Legacy" (october 15th 2005)
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Logo made by Ron Stedman
Entrance to the studio
Willi and Christoph discuss the script
Consoles and the door of the turbo lift of the bridge on Enterprise D
The ship's crews rejuvenate by a weird incident.
The crew of the Enterprise D with "young" Kirk
Worf is having a nap before the next shooting
Director Christoph Hees takes to it like a duck to water
Our Kirk... isn't he cute?!
Q'apla
Denise Crosby is listening prick-eared.
Director Christoph Hees welcomes Denise Crosby in front of the studio
The camera team of "Trekkies 2" is taking pictures of the bridge
The team of "Trekkies 2" poses on the bridge for a remembrance photo
The director of "Trekkies 2" Roger Nygard interviews us
Our Classic-Bridge under construction
Spock's Workstation
Turbolift
script study before we shoot the next scene
Spock discovers strange worlds
Uhura, Spock and Scotty
Short break with a "Tribble"
Spock at captains chair
The Bridge
Lt. Uhura
Kirk like always in the center
Kirk, Rand and Q
The TOS Bridge Set
Q
Navigation
Kirk disciplines Q
Kirk and Dr. McCoy
Chekov, Kirk, Sulu
at shooting break
Uhura, Spock, Chekov, Sulu
The TOS-Crew
TOS-Crew, Cameraman and Director
Make-up Artist Johanna
Kirk, Spock, Picard, Counselor Troi und Riker in the TNG-Shuttle
The set from outside view
Commander Riker und CounselorTroi
The crew inside the shuttle