Axanar, hired a Veteran Enterprise Line Producer to go through the script and come up with a budget, that's where the budget ballooned from being 800k to near 2 Million.... (Including Perks and payment processing fees).
Which means, that Axanar will at best, have the production quality of an episode of Enterprise (which is what the released vulcan scene looked like... a slightly lower quality scene from Enterprise), and not a feature film. And that's if they can raise the remaining 700K... they are asking for...
That's not strictly true because although the average cost might be about that, they aggregate across episodes and have start-up funds that means a two million episode of a long running series isn't the same as a one-off.
That's also why I said Best Case.... The first 660k... or MUCH of the first 660k what was raised in the last Kickstarter went to getting real estate, building out a production facility, and getting the bridge set going... I know on the last accounting I saw, which was at the opening of the Indigogo campaign, they had roughly 50K left in the bank.... (Give or take)...
So the 1.2 million that they are looking for from this indigo, I imagine is going directly into finishing the sets and and producing the film
Obviously there are a lot of other factors that will determine if we even get to see "best case".. but the amount for the current ask, is at least determined by someone who has some experience budgeting out a TV production... and that budget ask, was based on his review of the script... and not some Fan Film producer coming up with a number out of his head.....
I don't know that I'd call Axanar "shit" just yet, but I also don't know that I disagree with this analogy overall, either.
