‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Documentary Is The Most Successful Indiegogo Documentary Campaign Ever
455 Films, the award-winning production company known for putting out such Star Trek focused documentaries as The Captains, For the Love of Spock, and What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has an update on their currently untitled Star Trek: Voyager documentary. The Indiegogo campaign recently surpassed $700,000, nearing $740,000 at the time of this article being written. The campaign, which set out with a goal of $150,000, reached over $450,000 within its first 24 hours, thus making it the most successful documentary campaign in Indiegogo’s history. The campaign to fund this documentary centered on the 1995-2001 TV series ends on March 31, 2021.
Via press release, David Zappone, the director and executive producer of the documentary, says the following:
"The entire Voyager Documentary team and Cast of Star Trek Voyager continue to be amazed and grateful to the fans of Star Trek for their overwhelming support of this documentary. We have many more surprises in store over the next couple weeks before the campaign wraps, including working with CBS on exploring the possibility of taking select standard definition Voyager series scenes and transcoding them to a higher resolution. Stay tuned to our social media accounts for more information."
Star Trek fans who wish to continue following the progress of the documentary can do so via @voydocumentary on the documentary team’s Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. Producers and cast members will have a panel at WonderCon on March 26, 2021.