I'm currently writing episode 4. I'm a quarter of the way through, current scene involves the Doctor explaining his emitter to members of Project Pathfinder.
The vfx artist I may have or not have mentioned before sent me some samples of his renders. His plan is to map out the entirety of Voyager and he's hoping to create the backgrounds that are relevant to the first episode (so we have visuals to put on Youtube). Here are some renders he considers "basic". I think they are amazing and I can't wait to find a character artist to draw our heroes in later.
My vfx artist said once the environment is completed I can have any angle I want with the light settings to adjust. I'd be visually directing in a sense. The money you donate will go to Andy's incredible efforts, and you can find him on Deviant Art at: https://www.deviantart.com/watch/magentashift/deviations
I'm also re-recording the audio for the first episode to remove some problems I found with the audio but to also prepare for the youtube version.
As Patreons, you'll get the rest of the story in stages in small updates, but if I can write fast enough with these next 4 episodes, I'd like to fully publish episode 4 in January, 5 in February, 6 in March and episode 8 in April. Last year I only published 2 episodes, so this effort is greater for 2021. Sorry it takes so long, but I'f I'm ahead of schedule, I will publish sooner.