Star Trek: Lexington Announces Release Timeline

Star Trek: Lexington announced yesterday that the Internet-based Star Trek fan film has posted the first 23 new photos of their latest shoot, which took place on location at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama. The museum helped the production by supplying both some flight gear and some locations. Mr. Joseph Bonice, one of the executive producers for the production, was very glad that the museum had opened their doors to the start-up fan film.

“[Mr.] Wayne [Novy], who is the assistant director, was just wonderful to work with,” says Bonice, “I have to hand it to [Wayne], he really helped us out in a tight jam we found ourselves in and the entire museum staff helped us when we needed it. It was a positive experience for all of us. I am glad they were there to help out.”

The Lexington production team worked closely with the museum staff to coordinate the location shoot and to locate props that were difficult to find anywhere else. Mr. Bonice also credits Lexington producers Don Cano and Ritch Bradford for their hard work, working with Director Novy on scheduling the shoot, locating the props and showing the actors how they worked, and for making the location shoot possible.

While not letting any details out about the series premiere, Mr. Bonice did give us a bit of a hint as to why the production was at an aviation museum and not on set for filming that day.

“I really can’t tell you much about why we were there,” he says, “as it would sort of ruin some surprises we have planned for the audience and fans. I can tell you that it’s a really big scene that you’ll see in the series premiere. We’ve got some really cool surprises in store for the fans!”

Mr. Bonice also mentioned in his interview a few things that he’s seen lately on the Internet that was Lexington related: Lexington has a couple of fan videos posted by Trek fans and some interesting discussion about the characters.

“Actually, Justin was the one who pointed out that we’ve got a couple of fan videos over on YouTube (since, they’ve been added to the Lexington’s YouTube site as favorites). When I saw them for the first time the other day, I was floored. We have fan videos and we’ve yet to get our episode released? Wow! And they did a good job on them too! I was taken completely by surprise! I would like to thank the authors of those videos for that!

“Then Justin had seen on the Bridge Commander mod site there was some discussion about Angie (played by Jody Rivera) and what race she was playing. I’m not letting THAT cat out of the bag just yet but I did say there that Angie is an interesting character and she’ll be fun to watch! Then there was another one on YouTube that was asking which girl was cuter: Angie (Jody) or Valentina (played by Bonnie Kilpatrick)! You should have seen the reaction of the ladies when I told them they were the subject of a YouTube discussion!”

Mr. Bonice is nothing short of amazed at the amount of attention that Lexington is gaining lately and is happy with what he sees. As a treat, he did make a statement of when fans could start looking for Lexington to make her Internet debut.

“Right now, we’re looking at a minimum of three months of editing work ahead of us. We’re winding down principal photography but we’ve still got some small scenes to film in secondary photography. If all goes well, we should have the premiere released on or around the holiday season of 2007. It’s all very tentative, so please don’t hold us to this as final!”

Bonice also mentioned that the Lexington team was working closely with another TMP-era fan film being formed in Canada, called “Star Trek: Tears of the Suns”. The new series is based on one of the Lexington’s sister ships, the Bonhomme Richard and is in the same timeline as the Lexington and her crew. At time of printing, it was not certain that there would be a crossover episode between the two series, as it had not been discussed by either staff.

“We’ve been working closely with Executive Producer Craig Pichach of ‘Tears of the Suns.’ They’re forming a new TMP-era fan film up in Canada and they’re needing some technical assistance to get things started. My staff and I are happy to work with them and help out where we can. It’s a good thing that fan films can help each other like this. This isn’t a competition; we make our fan films because we love Star Trek and what it stands for. And if I can help out in small way to another production, then that’s a good thing!”

For more information and to see photos from the Lexington’s location shoot, visit http://www.starshiplexington.com.

The Southern Museum of Flight’s website is http://www.southernmuseumofflight.org.
“Star Trek: Tears of the Suns” is temporarily co-located on the Lexington’s forums and gallery.

Joseph Bonice, Co-Executive Producer, Star Trek: Lexington
Justin Burton, Co-Executive Producer, Star Trek: Lexington
Russell Christiansen, Co-Executive Producer, Star Trek: Lexington