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This article deals with fan-made productions using elements of the Star Trek franchise. Paramount Pictures and its licensees are the only organizations legally allowed to create any commercial products with the name and trademark Star Trek. Consequently, these fan productions are unauthorized and subject to legal issues. Even so, this massive body of work exists and continues to grow. Fans have produced works in the performing arts (fan films, the stage, audio drama or filk), literature (fan fiction and screenplays), the visual arts (2D & 3D) and the recreational arts (games, models & crafts).

Fan Films

With the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005 and the improbability of any professional productions for the next few years, Star Trek fan films have become news. The number of groups producing fan films has trebled with a new crop of fan films planned for release in 2006. For the purposes of this article we are categorising them by productions status and notability. Produced films are listed first with the most notable productions first. Films that are in post-production (filming or preparing the raw footage for release) come next followed by those in pre-production. Fan Trailers have been listed last, not because they are any less notable, but because they are not meant for production at all. Some fan trailers, such as ', have eclipsed many produced fan films in popularity.
Notable Projects
A few productions are more notable than others due to fan and media attention from around the world. These films are often larger productions, with larger budgets, and in some cases are produced with the participation of actual Star Trek cast and crew.

;Starship Exeter : An online series which focuses on the adventures of the starship Exeter (NCC-1706) in the original series time, with production design matching the era. One complete episode has been released, with the second mid-way through its release in installments. A third episode is planned. This series features extensive use of interior starship sets and many human, Klingon, and Andorian characters.

;Star Trek: Hidden Frontier : A long-running series with 42 produced episodes, the series focuses on the starship Excelsior and its home base, Deep Space 12, as they mediate disputes between various races, and fend off attacks from a powerful new alien race, The Grey. This series is offshoot of a previous Los Angeles Star Trek fan series, Voyages of the USS Angeles, sharing some settings and characters.

;Star Trek: New Voyages : One of the most ambitious fan film projects, co-creators James Cawley and Jack Marshall aimed to complete the original series' five-year mission, with fan actors cast as Kirk, Spock and the rest of the Enterprise crew on an exact replica of the original bridge set. The series has received major media coverage, with articles in Variety and Wired. :Two episodes have been produced - the pilot, "Come What May" and episode one, "In Harm’s Way” in October. The second episode, "To Serve All My Days" (penned by D.C. Fontana, story editor on the original series) is currently in post-production, and features Walter Koenig
guest-starring as an older version of Pavel Chekov, his character from the original series. Several other actors from the original Trek series have also now signed on to appear in future episodes, including George Takei
reprising the role of Hikaru Sulu in the third episode, "World Enough and Time", joining the original Yeoman Janice Rand, Grace Lee Whitney
.

;Star Wreck
: A series of Finnish parody movies created by Samuli Torssonen from 1992 onward. The first release was a simple animated film, but later films grew more complex, moving into 3D animation, then live action. The latest film, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
, was released in October 2005 and became an internet sensation, having drawn more than four million downloads from the main site alone, making it the most popular film of all time in Finland.

;Stone Trek : A Flash animated cartoon series that presents episodes of Star Trek as it might have appeared in the universe of The Flintstones, complete with 1960's style laugh tracks. The series takes place aboard the stoneship U.S.S. Magnetize, powered by its magma/antimagma engines. Characters include Captain James T. Kirkstone, the Vulcano first officer Mr. Sprock and ship's doctor Leonard "Fossils" RcKoy. The series also features a running count of redshirts killed in each episode, and fans can write in to nominate themselves to be caricatured as a redshirt in future episodes.
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