TMC
07-06-2026, 11:14 PM
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Did you know an Elvis Presley impersonator once recreated the Starship Enterprise in an abandoned used car lot and then used it to produce highly accurate bootleg episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series? Welcome to the weird and bizarre world of James Cawley, the man who has spent the better part of thirty years making elaborate fan films all so he could live out his dream of becoming James T. Kirk. But wait, the story only gets more surreal from there. A petty rivalry which spawned another long-running fan series, a lawsuit with Paramount, and one of the most impressive "ah, crap we gotta find some way to go legit" reinventions in modern fandom all play out against the backdrop of one man's quixotic vision of Gene Roddenberry's future.
Did you know an Elvis Presley impersonator once recreated the Starship Enterprise in an abandoned used car lot and then used it to produce highly accurate bootleg episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series? Welcome to the weird and bizarre world of James Cawley, the man who has spent the better part of thirty years making elaborate fan films all so he could live out his dream of becoming James T. Kirk. But wait, the story only gets more surreal from there. A petty rivalry which spawned another long-running fan series, a lawsuit with Paramount, and one of the most impressive "ah, crap we gotta find some way to go legit" reinventions in modern fandom all play out against the backdrop of one man's quixotic vision of Gene Roddenberry's future.