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Trek Fan Film Studio Hosts Farragut Fest

You don’t need to go where no man has gone before to find a bit of "Star Trek" paradise this weekend. You just need to take a trek up the road to Farragut Fest.

Farragut Films Studio in Kingsland, Georgia is where a group of intrepid "Star Trek" fans makes movies based on the original series that premiered on NBC in 1966 and ran for just three seasons.

This weekend the public is invited to take a look around the 10,000 square foot Kingsland facility which is said to have the largest display of freestanding classic "Star Trek" sets on earth.

Dan Scanlan is one of the volunteers who helped build them.

“You will get a guided tour through a 90-foot curving corridor and then you go through an archway and the crown jewel of our sets is a functioning, blinky-light bridge with captain’s chair in the middle.”

Scanlan says the studio’s first feature length film is currently in production. It’s expected to premier sometime this summer.

Cyd Hoskinson began working at WJCT on Valentine’s Day 2011.