I've said all this before elsewhere, but I don't know if I've shared it here so I'll just say it now.
Alec Peters has no problem attacking others when it suits his needs, or if he feels cornered (because he can't defend his appalling behavior) or if he thinks it will deflect negative attention or focus on his very clear and blatant wrongdoing. Time and again Peters shits on Star Trek Continues and Vic Mignogna in particular, and as recently as a few weeks ago threw his own "good friend" James Cawley under the bus as well.
It doesn't end there, either. The internet is littered with legions of people from various sites -- including here at the TrekBBS (where Peters has been banned three (THREE!) times -- who are sick of his petty, immature and childish behavior. This man-child has no concept, no microscopic sense of the word "accountability" for his own actions, consistently and continuously offloading blame and responsibility for any wrongdoing to others.
Tony Todd isn't with the production anymore? Oh, well that's because he wanted too much money! It can't possibly be that Todd is a respected actor who has worked consistently in Hollywood for over 30 years having issues with Peters' ineptitude as a producer. Perish the thought!
CBS sues because Peters tells everyone that he paid himself nearly $40K to work "full-time" on his fan film? Oh, well that's not fair at all! How is Peters supposed to support himself? It can't possibly be that CBS/Paramount are actually doing their due diligence to protect their property and property rights now that they feel someone has crossed a line beyond their generosity.
And let's not forget that Peters used the money he collected from goodwill of the fans and on the strength of a name and franchise he doesn't own to fund his own for-profit studio... and then announced exactly that plan to the world. That can't possibly be relevant to this case, could it?
As for Axanar "competing" with Star Trek Beyond, give me a fucking break. Prelude was shot well and the visual effects are pretty to look at because unlike Peters and Burnett, Chrisian Gossett and Tobias Richter actually knew what the fuck they were doing. But the piece itself is a glorified interview, a bunch of talking heads up against a green-screen discussing war. War! That's not what STAR TREK is, that's not what STAR TREK ever was, and it's not what STAR TREK is about. I've been more riveted by Bill Moyers interview with Joseph Campbell on Mythology than this sizzle reel, essentially all flash and zero substance but there is no way in any reality (or version of it that conforms to even the most liberal use of the word "reality") where Prelude to Axanar or the shitty Vulcan scene would ever seriously be taken as "competition" for any of Paramount's films. Axanerds claiming this as their defense are even more deluded than Peters if they believe the schlock he's selling them on that one.
The reason CBS and Paramount are suing is likely because Peters, the fool that he is, not only made money off this project but he broadcast it to the world and that -- making money on the STAR TREK IP -- has been, consistently, the one thing CBS and Paramount have said over and over and over again NOT TO DO.
Axanar is the only group that seem to fail to grasp this simple little concept.
New Voyages, Exeter, Continues, Potemkin, Farragut, Valiant, Intrepid, Secret Voyage, Hidden Frontier, Excalibur, Captain Pike, Exeter Trek, Lexington, Dominion, et al... they all play/played by the rules. Alec Peters and Axanar are the ones who have chosen to color outside those lines and are now paying the price for it.
Now, I don't believe that they started out this way intentionally nor do I believe that it was Peters' plan all along to hoodwink so many fans out of $1.1 million. I very much can see the likelihood that "scope creep" could be at fault as much as any of Peters' own stupid hubris and arrogance.
But make no mistake. Peters is arrogant as fuck. He encricles himself with an echo chamber on his Axanar Fan Page on Facebook, where only the "true" fans are safe from being banned. Peters, Burnett and Terry McIntosh are completely incapable of handling even the slightest negative commentary against them or their vanity project, or any critical discussion about anything Axanar or Peters may have done wrong to warrant this lawsuit. Peters himself has an IV of his own Kharn Coffee-flavored Kool-Aid hooked right into his bloodstream and he believes each outrageous and stupid comment he makes until it backfires on him and then he quickly backpedals it all.
Newsflash, Darth Garth: If you only meet one asshole today, they're the asshole. But if EVERYONE you meet today is an asshole, then chances are, YOU'RE THE ASSHOLE.
Alec Peters and Robert Meyer Burnett have spent the better part of the past two years going all over the internet, podcast, convention and social media world loudly proclaiming all their plans for what they would be doing with Axanar, Ares "Studios" and how they'd profit off it while at the same time taking massive conversational shits all over the official Paramount Star Trek films. Now, with this list of infringements, it's hard to defend all the wrongdoing by Peters and his cronies. Even if these jokers survive discovery during trial and somehow win, they still have to face the obvious and looming second reality of all this:
The simple fact is the other studios ABSOLUTELY WILL join in the inevitable and certain appeal CBS and Paramount will launch. You think Disney is going to sit idly by while someone else establishes law that says Joe Blow Trekkie can freely do whatever he wants with Mickey Mouse? Good luck with that.
No, Peters is screwed, and he deserves everything he's getting now, including, weirdly, doxxing himself, which he seems to stupid to realize he has done at least twice since the lawsuit was filed. Relatedly, he has not trouble doxxing others (as happened to me a few weeks ago) but becomes the same enraged hypocrite he becomes on other issues when he inadvertently revealed to someone that his address for Propworx (at the time) was his home address or when @Michael Hinman investigated the property in Florida that we learned later (from Peters himself!) was actually where his godchildren lived.
He's alienated, attacked, cajoled, threatened, trolled, insulted, demeaned, interrogated, bullied, doxxed (himself and others), and annoyed enough people online on FB, Twitter, TrekBBS and the comments sections of every single outlet that bothered to discuss Axanar that those same people are now speaking up.
The only person Peters has to blame for any of this is himself and his own stupid greed, hubris, and inexperience. He is a spoiled brat, a man-child incapable of standing up and taking the heat for his own actions and will be summarily crushed by the legal right CBS has to destroy his bug-eyed stupid ass for infringing on their rightfully-owned property.
Alec Peters has no problem attacking others when it suits his needs, or if he feels cornered (because he can't defend his appalling behavior) or if he thinks it will deflect negative attention or focus on his very clear and blatant wrongdoing. Time and again Peters shits on Star Trek Continues and Vic Mignogna in particular, and as recently as a few weeks ago threw his own "good friend" James Cawley under the bus as well.
It doesn't end there, either. The internet is littered with legions of people from various sites -- including here at the TrekBBS (where Peters has been banned three (THREE!) times -- who are sick of his petty, immature and childish behavior. This man-child has no concept, no microscopic sense of the word "accountability" for his own actions, consistently and continuously offloading blame and responsibility for any wrongdoing to others.
Tony Todd isn't with the production anymore? Oh, well that's because he wanted too much money! It can't possibly be that Todd is a respected actor who has worked consistently in Hollywood for over 30 years having issues with Peters' ineptitude as a producer. Perish the thought!
CBS sues because Peters tells everyone that he paid himself nearly $40K to work "full-time" on his fan film? Oh, well that's not fair at all! How is Peters supposed to support himself? It can't possibly be that CBS/Paramount are actually doing their due diligence to protect their property and property rights now that they feel someone has crossed a line beyond their generosity.
And let's not forget that Peters used the money he collected from goodwill of the fans and on the strength of a name and franchise he doesn't own to fund his own for-profit studio... and then announced exactly that plan to the world. That can't possibly be relevant to this case, could it?
As for Axanar "competing" with Star Trek Beyond, give me a fucking break. Prelude was shot well and the visual effects are pretty to look at because unlike Peters and Burnett, Chrisian Gossett and Tobias Richter actually knew what the fuck they were doing. But the piece itself is a glorified interview, a bunch of talking heads up against a green-screen discussing war. War! That's not what STAR TREK is, that's not what STAR TREK ever was, and it's not what STAR TREK is about. I've been more riveted by Bill Moyers interview with Joseph Campbell on Mythology than this sizzle reel, essentially all flash and zero substance but there is no way in any reality (or version of it that conforms to even the most liberal use of the word "reality") where Prelude to Axanar or the shitty Vulcan scene would ever seriously be taken as "competition" for any of Paramount's films. Axanerds claiming this as their defense are even more deluded than Peters if they believe the schlock he's selling them on that one.
The reason CBS and Paramount are suing is likely because Peters, the fool that he is, not only made money off this project but he broadcast it to the world and that -- making money on the STAR TREK IP -- has been, consistently, the one thing CBS and Paramount have said over and over and over again NOT TO DO.
Axanar is the only group that seem to fail to grasp this simple little concept.
New Voyages, Exeter, Continues, Potemkin, Farragut, Valiant, Intrepid, Secret Voyage, Hidden Frontier, Excalibur, Captain Pike, Exeter Trek, Lexington, Dominion, et al... they all play/played by the rules. Alec Peters and Axanar are the ones who have chosen to color outside those lines and are now paying the price for it.
Now, I don't believe that they started out this way intentionally nor do I believe that it was Peters' plan all along to hoodwink so many fans out of $1.1 million. I very much can see the likelihood that "scope creep" could be at fault as much as any of Peters' own stupid hubris and arrogance.
But make no mistake. Peters is arrogant as fuck. He encricles himself with an echo chamber on his Axanar Fan Page on Facebook, where only the "true" fans are safe from being banned. Peters, Burnett and Terry McIntosh are completely incapable of handling even the slightest negative commentary against them or their vanity project, or any critical discussion about anything Axanar or Peters may have done wrong to warrant this lawsuit. Peters himself has an IV of his own Kharn Coffee-flavored Kool-Aid hooked right into his bloodstream and he believes each outrageous and stupid comment he makes until it backfires on him and then he quickly backpedals it all.
Newsflash, Darth Garth: If you only meet one asshole today, they're the asshole. But if EVERYONE you meet today is an asshole, then chances are, YOU'RE THE ASSHOLE.
Alec Peters and Robert Meyer Burnett have spent the better part of the past two years going all over the internet, podcast, convention and social media world loudly proclaiming all their plans for what they would be doing with Axanar, Ares "Studios" and how they'd profit off it while at the same time taking massive conversational shits all over the official Paramount Star Trek films. Now, with this list of infringements, it's hard to defend all the wrongdoing by Peters and his cronies. Even if these jokers survive discovery during trial and somehow win, they still have to face the obvious and looming second reality of all this:
The simple fact is the other studios ABSOLUTELY WILL join in the inevitable and certain appeal CBS and Paramount will launch. You think Disney is going to sit idly by while someone else establishes law that says Joe Blow Trekkie can freely do whatever he wants with Mickey Mouse? Good luck with that.
No, Peters is screwed, and he deserves everything he's getting now, including, weirdly, doxxing himself, which he seems to stupid to realize he has done at least twice since the lawsuit was filed. Relatedly, he has not trouble doxxing others (as happened to me a few weeks ago) but becomes the same enraged hypocrite he becomes on other issues when he inadvertently revealed to someone that his address for Propworx (at the time) was his home address or when @Michael Hinman investigated the property in Florida that we learned later (from Peters himself!) was actually where his godchildren lived.
He's alienated, attacked, cajoled, threatened, trolled, insulted, demeaned, interrogated, bullied, doxxed (himself and others), and annoyed enough people online on FB, Twitter, TrekBBS and the comments sections of every single outlet that bothered to discuss Axanar that those same people are now speaking up.
The only person Peters has to blame for any of this is himself and his own stupid greed, hubris, and inexperience. He is a spoiled brat, a man-child incapable of standing up and taking the heat for his own actions and will be summarily crushed by the legal right CBS has to destroy his bug-eyed stupid ass for infringing on their rightfully-owned property.
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That is what I was told, back in 2008. And it already was verified to me with the first version of this complaint, because a licensee could not be a party in a copyright infringement claim — at least not as the plaintiff. No more than Pocket Books or Creation Entertainment.