Star Trek: Encarta - The Mission. Encarta's mission has always been to entertain an audience, first and foremost. Webber, Elliott & Dines original Star Trek Encarta laid the ground work for a long running film saga. The only thing was, it had to be believable, and realistic. Visionary Director Ryan Webber worked from there, and over the course of the next 7 years has broken bounds and leaps in visual effects to produce the film saga Star Trek Encarta. Webber & Elliott believed that the film should be a spin-off of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and take place with original characters and stories. From there, without much (a small, young cast) they sped of toward the future. The film saga Star Trek: Encarta celebrates its 7th official anniversary this fall!

Star Trek Encarta: The Mission
The mission of Encarta is to create fun, interesting stories that can attract an audience and to appeal with out of this world effects. The idea of Encarta has always been to use what you've got and make it better, and so far that’s just what we've been striving for.

Star Trek Encarta: The Original Series
In early 1997 "Star Trek: Encarta" was started as an online episodic television series to debut on then popular Star Trek Online download sites. The underground download sites were used by thousands to download episodes of the 4 TV series of Star Trek on your computer. Star Trek Encarta director Ryan Webber ran the historic website www.startrekfiles.com before being run down due to internet issues. The Star Trek online download community (compromised of 6 main sites, one ran by Webber) fell apart in early 1998, and 'Star Trek: Encarta' never officialy debuted to the audience, but some work and early production draft renderings were concluded on the pilot. The series was a 3D animated Star Trek adventure..

Spartan Studios - Star Trek: Encarta (2000)
Under the administration of David Fix, Fix ordered films to be made in the legendary first year of "Cinema" attached to "Spartan Studios." Fix ordered students to re-create parts of the matrix and muse them into their own films. Ryan Webber, Chris Elliott, Trevor Gates, Ben Flory and Pat Dines decided to make a spoof of Star Trek using action figures, a comical adventure consisting of a claymation. It didn’t work out, and Dines suggested to Webber that they do a live action version of "Star Trek" in their own series. The bright vision laid out as "Encarta" sparked and Webber ran with it. The motion picture soon grew to be the most popular film of the saga, and the most successful taking home 3 film festival nominations & awards.

Star Trek Encarta II: Destiny's Advocate (AKA The Wrath Of Liberty) (2002)
In late 2001 following the conclusion of the first film, it was decided that such a film demanded a sequel. Webber & Elliott decided that they would create 3 films to make a Encarta trilogy. Work on the second film began, after relations with Dines fell apart, he left the series. The most complicated of all the films to date, production took nearly 2 years before the film was successfully completed in 2004. It took 11 months to finish shooting Encarta II successfuly. With many major script changes, due to unforeseen circumstances the film was falling apart at the buckle. It was decided to go ahead with the third film even though II was still in post production. Though the film will never quite be what it was intended to, it remains the culmination of change for the Encarta saga, and allowed full experimentation of Encarta to begin.

Star Trek Encarta III: Condemned (2003)
Work began on the third and thought to be final film of Star Trek Encarta after a year break from Destiny's Advocate. This allowed the crew to age, and forget some of the bad experiences of II. The cast was at their best in Condemned, and pulled of some great triumphs and acting. Taking only 4 months to film, production wrapped in spring and the film was released before the second film in the summer. III debuted with state of the art visual effects and one of the best pieces of work at her time. Later Webber decided to cut a directors edition in 2004.

Encarta IV: Dark Hope - (Star Trek Encarta IV: Dark Hope) (2004-2008)
After 2 years of no new Encarta films, and what was left to be a dead franchise ideas sparked between Webber & Wolgemuth about continuing the series. The idea was a success and the most anticipated of all 4 films is still in production to this date. The film began shooting in July of 2004 and has been in post production ever since. Surprisingly this film was shot in only 2 days and remains the best work of the entire saga. This film is pulling out all the stops and putting the best of everything together. Visual Effects are at there maximum levels, and story telling is the best of all 4 films.