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Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure

You Can't Have Your Fate and Edith, too!

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Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure

Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure

Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure

Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure

Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure

You Can't Have Your Fate and Edith, too!

You Can't Have Your Fate and Edith, too!

You Can't Have Your Fate and Edith, too!

You Can't Have Your Fate and Edith, too!

Mark Largent
Mark Largent
Mark Largent
Mark Largent
3 Campaigns |
Dallas, United States
$3,785 USD by 54 backers
$3,300 USD by 45 backers on Feb 7, 2021
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Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure (COTEF, for short!) is an animated puppet parody of what is widely regarded as the original series' best episode! It's like an animated Mad Magazine parody with digital puppets.

The previous Stalled Trek parody was Stalled Trek: Amutt Time (a parody of "Amok Time") and was animated in 2012. I don't call this STALLED Trek for nothing! 

That parody had its beginnings way back in 1995 when it started as a comic parody on my Star Trek fan page. In 2001, I made a full comic version of it and began work on a follow up comic ...which was COTEF.

Now I'm re-making them both as comics twenty years later, making the Stalled Trek name even more accurate. 

I'm currently finishing up the animation on COTEF ...and for a home-made animated puppet movie, it's coming out even better than the first one. That's not a huge accomplishment, I'll grant you, but I want to make this one the Big One.

Thanks to the original funding, I'm making 250 Blu-Rays and I have the extremely talented Max McGuire scoring the film! 

Which leads me to this second round of funding. Audio has been my Achilles Heel partly because I'm largely deaf in one ear and my good ear isn't great, either. Not a good scenario for mixing a film's audio.

Audio is 50% of the film experience and Max has been doing such a fantastic job with scoring, that I really don't want to sabotage that with inferior sound quality.

That's where you come in!

I'm starting this second round of funding so I can give the audio the best quality I can and since there's a limit of how many discs I have left over from the first campaign, I'm going back to Stalled Trek's comic roots!

Well, sort of, anyway!

If you're an older Trekkie like me, then you certainly remember the Star Trek "Fotonovels" from the 1970s, that turned twelve episodes of the original series into paperback photo-stories. Like comics, but using frames of film from the actual shows.

That's the idea here. And for the ultimate nostalgia, there's even a variant cover that parodies the covers of those original books!

 

Stalled Trek Comic Book

This is a standard comic book sized graphic novel. It's 48-pages and adapts both Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure and Stalled Trek: Amutt Time! It's a flip book, so each story gets its own side.

Just flip the book over to read the other story!

 

Stalled Trek "SeeGeeNovel" Variant Cover

This is the exact same comic, only with a different cover! I've parodied the covers of the original Fotonovels from the 70s. Only these really aren't photos, so I'm calling them SeeGeeNovels (for Computer Generated, of course!) It's just like getting Book #1 and Book #12 ...only much, much dumber!

 

Stalled Trek: COTEF Blu-Ray

(Limited to 100)

This campaign is your last chance to get one of the blu-rays! I'm only making 250 of them for crowdfunding and no more will be printed. 100 of them are gone already, which leaves 150. The Blu-Ray will include the film, a making of feature and an upscaled HD version of Amutt Time! Depending on how this round of funding goes, it might have very cool cover art by another artist!
 

Super Backer Set

(Limited to 50)

Special deal! With this tier you get the both versions of the comic, the blu-ray AND the Amutt Time DVD! Plus you get three exclusive Stalled Trek trading cards, parodying the classic 70s trading cards (which are only available with this set!) I'm limiting this to 50, again because of the limited number of blu-rays. 

 

Plus these cool Stretch Goals!

 

UNLOCKED! Stalled Trek: Amutt Time Poster

Every backer of a physical product will receive the movie poster for the first Stalled Trek!  

 

$5,000—Stalled Trek: Prelude to Ax'd-We-Are Poster

The movie poster for the 2016 parody of the controversial Star Trek fan film. Made during the lawsuit against its makers! Winner of the Best Fan Film award at the Berlin Sci-Fi Filmfest in 2017!

 

$7,500—Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure Poster

You will be able to display all three Stalled Trek posters proudly on your wall! Imagine the thrill as guests to your home stare in wonder (...wonder about your taste in entertainment, that is!)

 

$10,000—Stalled Trek: Balance of Terrier

This is a stretch goal that is really a stretch! If somehow we reach $10K, I will increase the number of pages and add a third, brand new Stalled Trek parody to the comic! In Balance of Terrier, Captain Krok finds himself and his crew in a deadly cat and mouse game with the Ruffulans! Turns out they look just like the Vulcanines and they have a bone to pick! Is the USS Secondprize any match for a Bird Dog of Prey?

 

Thank You!

I am having a blast making this movie and I'm really thankful to all who have supported me and to those who may choose to support me in this campaign. As a kid, I loved digging into Mad and Cracked magazines and watching cartoons and Star Trek. I certainly never dreamed I'd get to combine all of those loves into a hobby that I love. Please spread the word to Star Trek fans you know and thank you so much!

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Super Backer Set Again

$100 USD
The whole shebang! Get both comics (regular and variant cover) and the blu-ray ...PLUS a DVD of the original Stalled Trek, Amutt Time and three parody trading cards in the style of the old 1976 cards!
Included Items
  • Stalled Trek Comic Book
  • Stalled Trek Blu-Ray
  • Stalled Trek: Amutt Time DVD
  • 3 Stalled Trek Trading Cards
  • Stalled Trek Variant Cover
Estimated Shipping
May 2021
1 out of 29 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Stalled Trek Comic

Stalled Trek Comic

$25 USD
A 48-page comic! Contains both Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever and Stalled Trek: Amutt Time.
Included Items
  • Stalled Trek Comic Book
Estimated Shipping
May 2021
9 claimed
Ships worldwide.
Stalled Trek Variant Cover

Stalled Trek Variant Cover

$25 USD
A 48-page comic styled after the old Star Trek "fotonovels" from the 1970s! Contains both Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever and Stalled Trek: Amutt Time.
Included Items
  • Stalled Trek Variant Cover
Estimated Shipping
May 2021
14 claimed
Ships worldwide.
Stalled Trek COTEF Blu-Ray

Stalled Trek COTEF Blu-Ray

$50 USD
A Blu-Ray copy of the Animated Puppet Parody, Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure! There will only be 250 of these made! Get it while you can!
Included Items
  • Stalled Trek Blu-Ray
Estimated Shipping
May 2021
1 out of 100 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

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