Putting together a television series isn't easy, even if the scripts that are being written and released never make it to the actual small screen.

Yehuda Katz, executive producer of the online fan series, "Star Trek: Renaissance," learned that first-hand, but the series continues on schedule and with a strong core of fans.

"It started with just a small international group of people, most of whom expected this great experiment to fail quickly, despite our good intentions," Katz recently told Airlock Alpha. "It was to our surprise that eight months later, on Star Trek Day (Sept. 8), we were ready to launch with our first episode, the two-parter 'Aftermath.' Even with the success of 'Aftermath,' and excellent numbers, we still had a long way to go before we could say our eight months of planning had come to fruition."

"Star Trek: Renaissance" produces weekly episodes of a whole new U.S.S. Enteprise, and an even newer crew set in the 25th century, some years after the conclusion of the Federation-Dominion war featured in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." Every episode is delivered in script form, and released on a weekly basis -- hiatuses included -- as if it were an actual television series on a network.

"We continued to release episodes on schedule, and despite several serious internal issues, we continued to produce epsiodes at our originally agreed upon pace, never willing to compromise on the principles that created the series: to emulate the writing staff of a real Star Trek series," Katz said. "Months later, one hiatus already is behind us, and another one on the way, we have released our tenth 60-minute episode. While we have not yet succeeded entirely in our aspirations, every day we are moving closer to our ultimate goal."

Katz said that originally, it was unclear whether there would be enough energy and drive to continue on to a second season following the conclusion of the first season, but now there is no doubt in his mind that there will at least be second, and maybe even a fully seven seasons as planned.

"We have a core of approximately 350 dedicated fans and another 150 fans who occasionally read the episodes, and we hope that will grow," he said.

The site, located at www.startrekrenaissance.com, maintains a database of past episodes, and features the release of a new episode each week (outside of hiatus). There also are complete bios of members of the crew, message boards and more.