Star Trek Renegades News
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Changes are happening at Star Trek: Renegades, with a familiar character leaving the fan-produced series, and two new Star Trek actors joining it.
Walter Koenig announced that Admiral Chekov’s last appearances in Star Trek: Renegades will be in episodes two and three of the production. Koenig’s first appearance as Chekov was in the original series’ episode Catspaw.
Cirroc Lofton, Jake Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has joined Star Trek: Renegades, where he will reprise his role as Benjamin Sisko’s son. Aron Eisenberg, who played his Ferengi friend Nog on Deep Space Nine, is also involved in Star Trek: Renegades.
Another Trek actor, this time from Star Trek: Voyager, is joining Star Trek: Renegades. Robert Beltran will be returning to the world of Trek as Commander Chakotay.
Star Trek: Renegades plans on making more episodes, and in view of that, will announce new details about their Kickstarter project at the end of the month. “These new episodes will take the story to new heights, introducing new cast members, as well as bringing back some of Star Trek‘s most beloved characters from Deep Space Nine and Star Trek Voyager,” they said in an announcement on their website. “Every part of production is being ramped up, from the creative team involved in the scripts, as well as the design team, wardrobe, and many more Star Trek actors, as Renegades moves into creating and producing the first full twelve-episode season.”
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ROBERT BELTRAN? But I thought he didn’t much like being in Star Trek…
🙁 The Chekov stuff was my main draw to the series. I want to see him in as much as possible while he still can be. That is extremely disappointing to me.
I think his main gripe was the lack of focus/screen time on the Chakotay character. Perhaps they’ve offered him a substantial/pivotal role in Renegades.
Its cool they do these fan films just sad it takes a year or more to make one episode.
I’m still on the fence about this series, but I’m pretty psyched for Nog and Chakotay to be joining the crew. I can’t wait to see how they fit it into the storyline.
And age may well have mellowed him on it.
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Planned time for next episode is only few months 🙂 I hope you support and wish you good times with Renegades. Check out the FB fan page that i linked “didn’t know that this site gives direct videos” and join there 🙂
Could be so. I liked almost all the Chakotay focused episodes on Voyager 🙂
Yeah maybe.
Robert was great as Chakotay and i liked many Chakotay focused episodes on Voyager 🙂
There might be even more some surprise cast later 🙂 Walter wants to have a explosive ending for Chekov and i hope you spread the message of Renegades project and maybe even become a backer 🙂 Wish you good rest of the year 2015 and time with Renegades 🙂
Yes, I found Chakotay to be quite an interesting character overall.nnnAgain, from what I understand of the situation, if Mr. Beltran had been perhaps a little less forthright in his dealings with the producers, his character would have been featured more in due course.nnnCaveat though, none of us know exactly what went on behind closed doors for sure. Who knows how complex the tensions and politics were off set.nnnOf all the Star Trek shows, it appears Voyager had the most stresses and strains between actors/producers.