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CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

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Noname Given said:
Well, since that implies he'll definitely have lost the lawsuit; and then perhaps a criminal fraud case - he'd need to change the title. To suit a prison audience, I'd suggest:

"Star Chain Gang: Ass-inar" :techman::devil::evil:
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If Axanar were a porn parody then there really wouldn't be an issue...
 
Looks like the kid's an arbitrator. I think these folks are still clinging to the fantasy that they're going to sit down with some nice execs from CBS and work this out over a few Axanar microbrews.
 
Dennis said:
Looks like the kid's an arbitrator. I think these folks are still clinging to the fantasy that they're going to sit down with some nice execs from CBS and work this out over a few Axanar microbrews.
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What? No sushi or coffee? Sacrilege!
 
For whoever joked before about the Ares folks reading my blog, I just checked my logs: Looks like I've gotten about 150 hits from an IP I traced back to Peters.
 
SeerSGB said:
...it's a VFX reel with some talking.
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Generally speaking, the quality of production design (FX, sets, costumes) has gone up with fan-films but the writing and acting has lagged. I loved SFX so much as a kid I used to feeze-frame the battle in the Mutara nebula on VHS and admire ILMs work. It was special because there wasn't a lot of it being done. Not to knock the craftwork that still goes into this stuff, but I've just become not just desensitized to glossy FX but actually turned off by the emphasis on it and some of the stubborn faddish tics that everyone adheres to (lens flare, fake lens dust/dirt, super-specular ships, ultra-shaky cam, cinema-verite' style rack-zoom shots). It's kind of the visual equivalent of this. It's just too much gratuitous showing off. Spectacle is fine, but only in service of a story worth telling.
 
There's an obvious and cruel joke to be made here, which I shall eschew because...I dunno, Tuesday?

Peters' problem here is simply that he's being laughed at. No one is impressed by his bluster. Best he stays within his gated Axanar community.
 
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mos6507 said:
SeerSGB said:
...it's a VFX reel with some talking.
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Generally speaking, the quality of production design (FX, sets, costumes) has gone up with fan-films but the writing and acting has lagged. I loved SFX so much as a kid I used to feeze-frame the battle in the Mutara nebula on VHS and admire ILMs work. It was special because there wasn't a lot of it being done. Not to knock the craftwork that still goes into this stuff, but I've just become not just desensitized to glossy FX but actually turned off by the emphasis on it and some of the stubborn faddish tics that everyone adheres to (lens flare, fake lens dust/dirt, super-specular ships, ultra-shaky cam, cinema-verite' style rack-zoom shots). It's kind of the visual equivalent of this. It's just too much gratuitous showing off. Spectacle is fine, but only in service of a story worth telling.
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The Battle of the Mutara Nebula is a great example. There's not a lot of flashy action to it, it's pretty slow paced, but it when there is action the story gives a lot more emotional weight. This isn't two ships fighting, and whizzing about, this is two men in a fist fight getting in punches where they can. Even that Enterprise and Reliant are given emotion and character by the way their staged and filmed; when Enterprise takes a hit, you're not seeing a hunk of metal and plastic getting hurt, you feel like you're watching a member of the crew get cut up.

Prelude is pretty much the average these days. All flash, no emotion, no context.
 
I think the icing on the cake that is Prelude is that edgy "queen bitch whore of the Federation line" that really added nothing to the plot.
 
Dennis said:
There's an obvious and cruel joke to be made here, which I shall eschew because...I dunno, Tuesday?

Peters' problem here is simply that he's being laughed at. No one is impressed by his bluster. Best he stays within his gated Axanar community.
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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble? ;)
 
jespah said:
Gadzooks, I hope this doesn't hit fanfic writers but, if it does, I'll take my stuff down. I kinda like my house and want to keep it.
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Yes, this post was over 60 pages ago (I gave up trying to catch up after page 17), but I just wanted to make this comment:

Fanfic has been going on for decades prior to the internet. My fanfic collection started in the '80s, when I corresponded via snailmail with the people who wrote and published it. I very much doubt that fanfic would totally go away even if certain sites were shut down (of course I hope that doesn't happen).

You're not claiming that you own Star Trek or its characters, etc., right? Every fanfic site I'm aware of carries some sort of disclaimer stating that they don't own Star Trek and no copyright infringement is intended (that's a requirement on fanfiction.net; as far as I know, the authors have to post some variation of a disclaimer on every page of their stories).
 
Timewalker said:
jespah said:
Gadzooks, I hope this doesn't hit fanfic writers but, if it does, I'll take my stuff down. I kinda like my house and want to keep it.
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Yes, this post was over 60 pages ago (I gave up trying to catch up after page 17), but I just wanted to make this comment:

Fanfic has been going on for decades prior to the internet. My fanfic collection started in the '80s, when I corresponded via snailmail with the people who wrote and published it. I very much doubt that fanfic would totally go away even if certain sites were shut down (of course I hope that doesn't happen).

You're not claiming that you own Star Trek or its characters, etc., right? Every fanfic site I'm aware of carries some sort of disclaimer stating that they don't own Star Trek and no copyright infringement is intended (that's a requirement on fanfiction.net; as far as I know, the authors have to post some variation of a disclaimer on every page of their stories).
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Fan fiction did survive Lori Jareo ("Another Hope") and Austin Torney ("Star Trek: The Death Wave"), two authors who decided to sell their fan fiction on Amazon.

Edit to add:

Attempted to sell, at least. It, uh, didn't go well.
 
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