These are the Voyages...

Star Trek: The Continuing Mission is a non-profit, audio only, downloadable Star Trek series that was created by Andy Tyrer and Sebastian Prooth in July 2007. Both Star Trek enthusiasts with an interest in production, and already friends from working on previous media projects the two felt ready to tackle the challenge to building a completely new Star Trek series from the ground up.

Tyrer approached Sebastian Prooth to run the series with him. Prooth brought his experience in New Media, audio Production into the mix. The series premiered on December 25 2007 and with the help of main stream media sites like CNN and About.com, garnered enormous fan response from the beginning. Prooth and Tyrer decided that Star Trek had to change in order to survive and set about building the new series with that doctrine front and center. Prooth and Tyrer, with the help of Star Trek news services and online forums, were able cast a fine set of Shakespearian trained stage actors and radio veterans.

Star Trek: The Continuing Mission produced a slick, professional- quality drama in a genre that's threatening to give mainstream TV studios a run for their money. -Thom Patterson, CNN.

After the series premiered, Prooth and Tyrer decided that they needed another hand on the producing deck and invited actor Patrick McCray, who plays "Jack McGuire" to join the production staff as Co-Executive Producer. McCray has years of theatre directing and producing experience as well as his own vision of what of Star Trek represents.

The Story

Star Trek: The Continuing Mission follows the crew of the USS Montana under the command of Captain Paul Edwards. The pilot "Ghost Ship" brings the story from the 23rd century to the time the series takes place primarily, the 24th. Upon arriving in the 24th century, the Montana is trapped and cannot return to their own time. Hailed as heroes by the Federation of the their future, they are permitted to continue voyaging into the unknown, boldly going where no crew has gone before.

Where?

The Continuing Mission is a global undertaking. The actors and producers are spread out across the United States and the United Kingdom. The actors record their takes under the direction of Prooth and McCray and send their electronic dialogue to Tyrer in London, England. Once Tyrer has the files he is able to piece together the voices, sound effects and musical soundtrack to make The Continuing Mission sound like the Star Trek the world has come to love.

The Writing

While the principal writers of Star Trek: The Continuing Mission are its producers, the series has benefitted from the talent of playwright David Raines for its most recent "Sword of Romulus" trilogy starting with the mid season episode "The Darkest of Thoughts". Raines has taken changing Star Trek's squeaky clean image to a new level with gripping "HBO" style story telling in keeping with current television drama style.

This is the base standard for million-dollar productions, produced here with diligence, effort, and pluck by qualified amateurs, should really prompt us to wonder where those Hollywood millions are going - Mark Wilson

The Media

With a major articles on CNN.com and About.com in December 2007 and continued media interest throughout 2008 from Slice of Sci Fi Podcast, TrekMovie, TrekWeb, Treks in Sci Fi and others, The Continuing Mission has been no stranger to Star Trek headlines. The producers also release periodic podcasts about the development, production and commentary on the episodes. In January 2009, Star Trek: The Continuing Mission was awarded "Best Audio Drama of 2008" by TrekMovie.com.