Anyone watch Star Trek: Axanar (the prelude)?

[dave_the_nerd]

that was indeed good. but .. what is it? is this some sort of future story, or alt reality ?

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Keywords are "Garth of Izar" and "Axanar."

 

[Bateluer]

Looks very promising. I've said before, and I'll saw again, you know the Star Trek franchise is floundering when its best material is fan made. :/

This, Star Trek Renegades(Walter Koenig and Tim Ross), and Star Trek Continues are incredible looking productions.

 

[Skel]

For the people that funded this.. it looks like Paramount is a bit cranky at the makers of this now and are suing.

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[Ken g6]

I hadn't seen this when it was originally posted, but I saw it elsewhere and it looks really good! I hope Paramount can come to some sort of deal where this gets made, even if it's for-profit direct-to-disc sales, and all the profits go to Paramount.

 

[Sonikku]

I enjoyed it.

 

[lupi]

During a recent interview, JJ said he didn't like that the fan film was being sued and talked the studio into dropping the lawsuit. Sounds like there will be some sort of formal statement in a couple weeks once an agreement on use is completed.

 

[ultimatebob]

That looked pretty cool. Better than Star Trek Continues, anyway. Man, that show was cheesy.

 

[Childs]

Heh...Richard Hatch as Kharn. The weakest actor was the guy playing Garth, who was also the producer. Other than that, it was pretty good.

 

[lupi]

Legal agreement finally reached. Will have to wait to know exactly how much they managed to beat them down, but changes to current film have been promised as well as following those stupid "fanfilm" guide requirements for any future works.

 

[Skel]

Link for the settlement talks via Hollywood reporter.

 

[Elixer]

Heard that they had to make it 15 min max "episodes", and lots of other changes.
Hope it turns out good, since cBS only knows how to make crap these days.

 

[Skel]

Heard that they had to make it 15 min max "episodes", and lots of other changes.
Hope it turns out good, since cBS only knows how to make crap these days.

From what I've read they have to follow CBS/Paramount's guidelines for ST fan films, so yes they're only allowed to do two 15 min 'episodes'. My question is what's going to happen to all the people that supported the Kickstarter? All of the perks had them getting a complete 'feature film', not two episodes that can only be distributed via YouTube. Word is the people making it already spent all the money (the legal stuff was pro bono) and they only filmed one 'scene'. I'm expecting more fallout from this. On the legal side, the case is already being used in another Star Trek copyright lawsuit about some book.

 

[superstition]

I wasn't impressed with it but I haven't been impressed with anything Trek since Voyager. Despite its flaws it was Trek, at least.

Axanar strikes me as "war war war... with more war war and war on the side".