In honor of Star Trek’s 40th Anniversary, I wrote and directed a 3 minute episode of Deliverance where the Pizza Dude delivers to a couple of comic book store Trekkies and has to decide who the best Starfleet Officer is- Mr. Spock or Dr. McCoy.

I had a lot of fun with this project. One of the cool things about it is I shot all the background plates at the original location that was used in the 1966 Star Trek episode “Arena”. We didn’t have the budget to actually shoot at that location, so I took my digital camera and shot the backgrounds on my own, then composited them with Apple’s Shake software. That’s right- every shot is a greenscreen one on this episode.

Here’s the link to a QuickTime version of that episode (latest QuickTime required). And here’s a link to it on YouTube.

Happy Birthday, Star Trek!