10 Dream Star Trek Moments That Could Still Happen

2. OTOY And The Archive

On 18 November last year, OTOY and the Roddenberry Archive released 765874: Unification, a truly exceptional short film in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the theatrical release of Star Trek: Generations. In an instant, Kirk of Veridian III was returned to us for another's final journey. In about eight minutes, OTOY and the Roddenberry Archive changed Star Trek forever.

If that was proof of concept, it was a spectacular one. OTOY's visual effects technology clearly works, especially with Sam Witwer in the room, or by the fountain. That OTOY and the Roddenberry Archive care about canon in the most minute detail should go without saying. It is certainly evident by seeing. We can only dream of more shorts the likes of 765874 or longer.

On the TrekCulture podcast in April this year, OTOY founder and CEO Jules Urbach kept those dreams alive when he said:

There is no better ending, I think, for those characters than how it ended in that piece [765874: Unification]. But that doesn't mean there aren’t other parts of the Star Trek Universe that we wouldn't want to explore and tell similar narrative concept videos that would connect those to the things in the Archive.

Those largely independent projects aside, there should surely be a world in which OTOY is working directly with Paramount on existing Star Trek shows.

Finally, there was great news for those of us who like to delve into the virtual world, but don't have the budget to take another bite out of the Apple. On the podcast, Urbach noted that as much of the Roddenberry Archive as possible will be made available to VR headsets other than the Vision Pro using 'WebXR'. We don't know when, but the sooner the better, please! To take an immersive stroll aboard a whole gamut of starships and starbases is several dreams at once.