Whittaker Set To Break the “Barrier”

IN PHYSICS THERE EXISTS AN ULTIMATE SPEED LIMIT

It’s 2439 and things in the universe haven’t quite turn out the way Gene Roddenberry had envisioned. Life in space in the 25th Century is not at peace and there is no benevolent Federation holding everything together. What is real is the United Alliance of Independent Worlds (UAIW), a loosely bound government of allied planets in coexisted galactic space.

The government endorsed racing league called “Barrier Racing”, has been sanctioned to promote the development of faster starship engines and design. James Ngaio, a 20 year old man, already a talented pilot and racer, meets and is taken in by Juan Lau a man at the end of his career in the racing league.

Out on the fringes of inhabited regions of the galaxy an unknown derelict spacecraft drifts powerless though space. A talented, yet down on its luck Barrier Racing team, “Team Goliath”, finds and attempts to salvage the alien ship’s engine schematics.

The team’s activity attracts the attention of a vicious and xenophobic species called the Scree and a UAIW military destroyer, the Endeavor. The situation escalates into a devastating firefight between the two battleships, allowing Team Goliath time to finish their salvage and escape the battle.

Equipping their racers with new unknown alien technology, Team Goliath gains an advantage over their competition. Unfortunately, their new success attracts the attention of highly sponsored rival teams, the criminal underworld, the Alliance military and lurking in the shadows… the alien Scree.

So goes the vision of a young screenwriter from New Zealand by the name of Sheldon Whittaker. Sheldon works in the New Zealand TV/Film industry, and over the past year or two he has been developing a concept for a SciFi television series. That show idea is called “Barrier.”

The project is still very much in the development stage, but Sheldon has surrounded himself with a very able crew to help get this from the ideas in his head to television viewers. The production of “Barrier” will be a live-action television SF drama shot on live action sets, with 3D digital animation for such elements as special visual effects, planets, stars, hyperspace and space ships.

To find out more about this new SF project just now getting underway, visit the BARRIER Official Website….and, you can help Sheldon and his crew by signing the Barrier Science Fiction TV Series Pitch Petition to show producers and television execs that there is a vital interest in this kind of programming.