User:Dannage

Like many kids of the 80s, I grew up on a lot of Science Fiction. I was going to say awesome science fiction, but 40 years later, looking back, some of it was... well.. It was good at the time. And it made me love the freedom of stories in magical worlds, out in space.

So as the internet took shape and I started to connect with people and creators, I started to see people making things online. Artists, Film Makers, Story Tellers.. All could share and continue to inspire me.

And in the late 90s little fan films started to creep out into the public domain. Lucasfilm Lawyers spent a good deal of the late 90s shutting down a LOT of stuff. Then years later, CBS did the same thing with Star Trek.

By that time I had created a million ideas for different things, and never really finished or did anything with them. I had good ideas and, if left to get bored, I would generate new ideas at quite a pace. But I lacked skillful execution, or the patience to actually get good at a craft.

When CBS clamped down on Star Trek fan films, they shut down longer running series which were emerging, and with funding and increasing production values, and I suddenly thought to myself: If I put all those ideas into a single world, and put it out there, and let film makers create works set in my universe, then I could get some of my ideas realised and some of the people making better and better shows could be free to do so.

That's where the UNITI Project was born.