What It Took to Bring Those Viral Star Trek Short Films to Life
Published on: 2025-07-12 19:30:52
In the past few years, there’s been plenty of Star Trek to talk about—new shows starting, older shows coming to their ends, the franchise’s future on screens big and small alike (although not always entirely successfully). But for some Trek diehards, a peculiar string of numbers is all that has been on their lips: 765874.
That number—the purported Starfleet serial number of Yeoman J. M. Colt from the original Star Trek pilot episode “The Cage”—is the title that has been given to a series of shorts released by OTOY and the Roddenberry Archives since 2022. Leveraging the VFX wizardry of the former and the Star Trek resources of the latter to create a handful of vignettes exploring crucial, unseen moments in Star Trek‘s past, the short-but-sweet series has become something of a viral sensation every time a new release drops, giving Trek fans everything from the moment the Enterprise-D was recovered after its near-destruction, to last year’s emotional farewell to Kirk and Spock celebratin
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