During the heights of my Trek "fanatism", the german TV station SAT.1 was calling for submissions for their Trek home video contest, the grand prize being a Peugeot 306, well worth some 15,000 €. And I had just received my driver's license, too, so I was very much after winning this competition. There was just one minor problem: I had no camcorder to shoot my own home video. :-(
But at that time I already had some Trek models done for a project started by Tilman Laschinger and me (an alternate Trek storyline dealing with a mighty starbase outside our galaxy and a half-klingon Enterprise, which posessed artificial intelligence...). So I started animating the "pilot plot" right away, using all the resources I had at that time: an incredibly powerful Pentium 120, 3DS DOS 4, the Autodesk Animator (which I still use today!) and Adobe Premiere for the final cut and output on video, using my brand new míroVideo DC20.
In the midst of creating the 8-minutes-shortmovie it later turned out to be, I began to have my doubts wether this all would be THAT original. There had to be a character in it, and so I put my "Helmut Kohl" into the story. Since my modelling skills especially for organic shapes were lousy at that time, the "Klingon Chancellor" only got an upper body and marionette-like limbs. And for making it even more hilarious, he received a little steering wheel.
The story of the movie was developed "on the fly". And so it turned out to be a really weird thing towards the end... well, actually there was no "end", I've just been over the deadline already and HAD to stop working on it. Eventually, after almost 12 weeks of rendering, this piece of 8 minutes won the 2nd prize, a trip to Tunesia.

View the full movie here (WindowsMedia8 streaming video for dual-channel ISDN or faster)