Children In Need & Star Trek: Airlock 3

Children In Need isn't what it was. Though clearly raising more money than ever before, a staggering £26 million, I visited ASDA and Totton College on Friday 18th and the whole event seemed a little low-key and tired to me. It entertains children no end, but more and more I hear adults sighing heavily and complaining that it takes up a whole night of their everso precious television. I also utterly missed the opportunity to have my photo with Pudsey Bear, so that made me sad.

However, this year I did put out another special Star Trek episode to at least raise even more awareness and support for the cause, and its nice to be part of something bigger. Telethons are very much a group effort! Star Trek: Airlock 3 was mostly filmed back in June with Emma Long, and I adapted it from a larger story I'd planned and abandoned that would have involved Adam Best's character of Jimb'a in a heavier role.

Airlock 3 and the earlier episode The Castaway have recently been reviewed at the Fan Film Follies website. Which is far less ominous than it sounds...

Trapped on Trenok Nor, a Cardassian research station in the Badlands, Captain Lewis and Eleanor must escape the confines of an airlock before they are blown to their deaths in space... But what is lurking in the dark hallways? Watch what you feel...

Please donate to BBC Children In Need 2011, visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/