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Star Trek: New Voyages

Star Trek: New Voyages (also known as Star Trek: Phase II) was an American independent fan-made webseries that produced new episodes of classic-era Star Trek, dramatizing a hypothetical fourth season of the original 1960s television series. Created by James Cawley and Jack Marshall, it ran from 2004 to 2016 and aimed to fill in the missing years of the original five-year mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise and bridge the gap to Star Trek: The Motion Picture.¹ Production ended after CBS and Paramount Pictures issued restrictive fan-film guidelines in 2016, and Cawley converted his studio into the licensed Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, New York.²

Key fact	Detail
Format	Independent, non-commercial webseries of new episodes of Classic Star Trek, default runtime 52 minutes¹
Run	2004 to 2016 on the web channel stnv.de; status ended¹
Output	11 episodes and 5 vignettes continuing the original series into a fourth season³
Creators and leads	Created by James Cawley and Jack Marshall; Cawley played Captain Kirk, Andy Bray played Lt. Pavel Chekov, Charles Root played Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott¹
Final released episode	"The Holiest Thing" (episode 1x11), January 15, 2016¹
End of production	Closed after the CBS/Paramount Fan-Film Guidelines of June 2016; the studio became the CBS-licensed Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, New York²
Recognition	Described by the Los Angeles Times in 2007 as renowned for having the best production value of the fan films⁴

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Premise and production

The series positioned itself as a continuation of Star Trek: The Original Series, which NBC canceled in 1969 after three seasons. Its stated goal was to film the untold stories of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Captain Kirk, and his crew, filling in the missing years of the five-year mission and bridging the gap to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The production team described itself as a group of fans united by a love of classic-era Star Trek, with the declared aim of supporting and promoting the CBS/Paramount franchise rather than competing with it.¹

Production values. The series built full recreations of the original Enterprise bridge and other 1960s sets, and its exterior visual effects depicted the starship in the same style as the original series' shots rather than giving it more modern, faster motion.⁵ In 2007 the Los Angeles Times reported that the New York-based production was renowned for having the best production value of the fan films.⁴ The project also drew professional involvement from Star Trek alumni, and the New York Times published an article on the series and its founder covering its origins, its pedigree of Star Trek alumni, and its studios in Ticonderoga, New York.²

Episodes

The episode numbering treats the series as a fourth season of the original show. Released episodes included the pilot "Come What May" (4x00), "In Harm's Way" (4x01), "To Serve All My Days" (4x02), "World Enough and Time" (4x03), the two-part "Blood and Fire" (4x04–4x05), "Enemy Starfleet" (4x06), "The Child" (4x07), "Kitumba" (4x08), "Mind-Sifter" (4x09), and "The Holiest Thing" (4x10).⁶ The final episode released to the public, listed by TVmaze as 1x11, was "The Holiest Thing" on January 15, 2016, in which Kirk and the Enterprise investigate the devastation of Lappa III, apparently by the terraforming efforts of Dr. Carol Marcus.¹

Further episodes, including "Torment of Destiny" (4x11), "Bread and Savagery" (4x12), and "Origins" (4x13), appeared on the production's episode page but were not released.⁶ In total the series released 11 episodes and 5 vignettes.³ The story continued in a companion line of novelette eBooks, of which the first, "Friends and Foes," was part 1 of a "Conspiracy" saga set several weeks after the live-action episode "Blood and Fire" and shortly before "Enemy: Starfleet."³

The 2016 fan-film guidelines and the end of production

In June 2016, while Paramount and CBS were engaged in a legal battle over the fan-funded film Axanar, the copyright holders published formal guidelines for Star Trek fan productions.⁷ The guidelines state that CBS and Paramount Pictures will not object to fan productions that are non-professional and amateur and that meet the stated conditions: a single self-contained story must be under 15 minutes, or no more than two segments totaling no more than 30 minutes, with no additional seasons, episodes, parts, sequels, or remakes; the title cannot include the name "Star Trek" and must carry the subtitle "A STAR TREK FAN PRODUCTION"; all participants must be amateurs who are not compensated and who have not worked on any Star Trek production or licensee; fundraising is capped at $50,000 including platform fees; distribution must be at no charge, with no physical media, no advertising revenue, and no merchandise; and the content must be family friendly and carry a prescribed disclaimer.⁸

These conditions were incompatible with a series of 52-minute continuing episodes, and after the guidelines were announced James Cawley closed down production of "New Voyages" and turned the studio into the CBS-licensed Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, Upstate New York.²

Place in fan filmmaking

Star Trek fan films date back to the 1960s, but most early efforts were amateur home movies; the field later ranged from nearly unwatchable productions to professional-level work.⁵ Within that field, New Voyages became one of the large-scale original-series-era productions, alongside Starship Farragut and the later Star Trek Continues, whose director had earlier worked on episodes of New Voyages/Phase II and Starship Farragut.⁹ The series' combination of recreated sets, original-series visual style, and alumni participation set the standard that subsequent TOS-era fan series followed, and its closure under the 2016 guidelines marked the end of that era of long-form fan continuation.²^•⁸

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026