CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

[Jedi_Master]

Forget Captain America: Civil War, now we have:


Star Trek: Civil War


What side are you on!

#IStandwithCaptainAmerica

Franklin - you're comment that "we are forever indebted to our donors" wasn't the best choice of words is inaccurate. Considering Mr. Peter's history of bankrupt businesses, it is likely that he will be forever indebted to someone.

 

[Tim Thomason]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoLZdKWE4io[/yt]

Ah, the episode "Sarek" written by Marc Cushman, around the same time as the films "19 and Nasty", "Breast Side Story," "Cat Lickers," and "Eat 'Em and Smile!"

No, but seriously, I don't believe it matters at all where Cushman has made his money and his career. Looking at his online biographies, it seems like he's a man who wanted to break into Hollywood, but ended up having to use his talents (and Sarek *was* a great episode) in the adult industry. He built a career there, and has only recently began branching out more into "mainstream" society with his reference books and other material.

 

[seigezunt]

More interested now in "Sex Trek: Civil War."

 

[SeerSGB]

Wait... I'm confused... Marc Cushman directed porn?

Yep. And how!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0548554/

Well to be fair, even Gene was a producer a soft-core thriller

 

[The Transformed Man]

More interested now in "Sex Trek: Civil War."

I'm waiting for the sequel: Sex Trek II: The Wrath of Blondes

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I updated my earlier blog post on Axanar Coffee. It turns out I made an incorrect assumption. Donald Hillenbrand, a collector of "Star Trek" props and costumes, wrote to let me know that I was slightly off-base when I said General Chang and Commander Kharn had "similar" costumes:

The costume that Richard Hatch is wearing is not just a copy of Plummer's costume from ST6. It IS Plummer's costume (or one of them). Peters got it direct from Paramount a few years back. So the image of his Klingon character on a coffee label is wearing a Paramount-created (and I assume specifically copyrighted?) costume. I don't know if Soval's Vulcan robes are also from production, but I do know that a friend of mine was approached by Peters regarding borrowing her Soval robes. She declined. But there would be several sets out there.

He's changed a few things as Chang's baldric thing is missing and has been replaced with a generic plain belt like one with flat disks...

CBS are gonna love this

 

[oswriter]

I updated my earlier blog post on Axanar Coffee. It turns out I made an incorrect assumption. Donald Hillenbrand, a collector of "Star Trek" props and costumes, wrote to let me know that I was slightly off-base when I said General Chang and Commander Kharn had "similar" costumes:

The costume that Richard Hatch is wearing is not just a copy of Plummer's costume from ST6. It IS Plummer's costume (or one of them). Peters got it direct from Paramount a few years back. So the image of his Klingon character on a coffee label is wearing a Paramount-created (and I assume specifically copyrighted?) costume. I don't know if Soval's Vulcan robes are also from production, but I do know that a friend of mine was approached by Peters regarding borrowing her Soval robes. She declined. But there would be several sets out there.

He's changed a few things as Chang's baldric thing is missing and has been replaced with a generic plain belt like one with flat disks...

CBS are gonna love this

I should add, Don also sent along a screen capture of the Axanar FB page where Peters acknowledged it was the same costume.

 

[Harvey]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoLZdKWE4io[/yt]

Ah, the episode "Sarek" written by Marc Cushman, around the same time as the films "19 and Nasty", "Breast Side Story," "Cat Lickers," and "Eat 'Em and Smile!"

No, but seriously, I don't believe it matters at all where Cushman has made his money and his career. Looking at his online biographies, it seems like he's a man who wanted to break into Hollywood, but ended up having to use his talents (and Sarek *was* a great episode) in the adult industry. He built a career there, and has only recently began branching out more into "mainstream" society with his reference books and other material.

Cushman cowrote the unpublished story that was adapted into Sarek, but he didn't write the story outline or teleplay, so don't give him all the credit there.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

More interested now in "Sex Trek: Civil War."

I'm waiting for the sequel: Sex Trek II: The Wrath of Blondes

Sex Trek III: The Search for Cock

 

[The Transformed Man]

I updated my earlier blog post on Axanar Coffee. It turns out I made an incorrect assumption. Donald Hillenbrand, a collector of "Star Trek" props and costumes, wrote to let me know that I was slightly off-base when I said General Chang and Commander Kharn had "similar" costumes:

He's changed a few things as Chang's baldric thing is missing and has been replaced with a generic plain belt like one with flat disks...

CBS are gonna love this

I should add, Don also sent along a screen capture of the Axanar FB page where Peters acknowledged it was the same costume.

None of this surprises me in the least. Maybe they can find a screen used toupee worn by Shatner in Star Trek VI and use it as a Tribble.

 

[SeerSGB]

I updated my earlier blog post on Axanar Coffee. It turns out I made an incorrect assumption. Donald Hillenbrand, a collector of "Star Trek" props and costumes, wrote to let me know that I was slightly off-base when I said General Chang and Commander Kharn had "similar" costumes:

The costume that Richard Hatch is wearing is not just a copy of Plummer's costume from ST6. It IS Plummer's costume (or one of them). Peters got it direct from Paramount a few years back. So the image of his Klingon character on a coffee label is wearing a Paramount-created (and I assume specifically copyrighted?) costume. I don't know if Soval's Vulcan robes are also from production, but I do know that a friend of mine was approached by Peters regarding borrowing her Soval robes. She declined. But there would be several sets out there.

I wonder if that was from private colletion or propworx inventory cause I asked that question last night of burnett and he claimed that none of propworx inventory was being used o the production. Not saying that it is, but it's something I was wondering about.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

I updated my earlier blog post on Axanar Coffee. It turns out I made an incorrect assumption. Donald Hillenbrand, a collector of "Star Trek" props and costumes, wrote to let me know that I was slightly off-base when I said General Chang and Commander Kharn had "similar" costumes:

He's changed a few things as Chang's baldric thing is missing and has been replaced with a generic plain belt like one with flat disks...

CBS are gonna love this

I should add, Don also sent along a screen capture of the Axanar FB page where Peters acknowledged it was the same costume.

Might be the same costume, but he's not wearing some of the things that go with it

Also, it implies that Chang got his uniform at a garage sale!

 

[oswriter]

I updated my earlier blog post on Axanar Coffee. It turns out I made an incorrect assumption. Donald Hillenbrand, a collector of "Star Trek" props and costumes, wrote to let me know that I was slightly off-base when I said General Chang and Commander Kharn had "similar" costumes:

The costume that Richard Hatch is wearing is not just a copy of Plummer's costume from ST6. It IS Plummer's costume (or one of them). Peters got it direct from Paramount a few years back. So the image of his Klingon character on a coffee label is wearing a Paramount-created (and I assume specifically copyrighted?) costume. I don't know if Soval's Vulcan robes are also from production, but I do know that a friend of mine was approached by Peters regarding borrowing her Soval robes. She declined. But there would be several sets out there.

I wonder if that was from private colletion or propworx inventory cause I asked that question last night of burnett and he claimed that none of propworx inventory was being used o the production. Not saying that it is, but it's something I was wondering about.

According to the FB screen capture Don sent me, Peters said, "I own that costume."

 

[Indysolo]

Cash made "Sex Trek II: The Search for Sperm" and "Sex Trek III: The Wrath of Bob".

There has been much discussion about how much research he actually did for his books. He claims it was years, but looking at his extensive filmography, it's clear that porn was a full-time gig until around 2011, while the first "These Are The Voyages" book came out in 2013.

Also at some point during all of this porno production and Star Trek research and writing, Mr. Cushman battled "advanced, stage-three cancer." It seems he's doing well now, though.

Neil

 

[The Transformed Man]

I updated my earlier blog post on Axanar Coffee. It turns out I made an incorrect assumption. Donald Hillenbrand, a collector of "Star Trek" props and costumes, wrote to let me know that I was slightly off-base when I said General Chang and Commander Kharn had "similar" costumes:

I wonder if that was from private colletion or propworx inventory cause I asked that question last night of burnett and he claimed that none of propworx inventory was being used o the production. Not saying that it is, but it's something I was wondering about.

According to the FB screen capture Don sent me, Peters said, "I own that costume."

it may be his property but it appeared in a film owned by Paramount and is their intellectual property. That would be like me buying replica Stormtrooper costumes, making an independent film, calling them Dronetroopers and trying to pass it off as my own.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Wow. I just assumed that the costumer was being a bit lazy and just purchased one of those Chang-costume replicas you see everywhere.

I wonder if that was from private colletion or propworx inventory cause I asked that question last night of burnett and he claimed that none of propworx inventory was being used o the production. Not saying that it is, but it's something I was wondering about.

They probably purchased it out of Propworx with some of the extra money they had lying around.

Also, it implies that Chang got his uniform at a garage sale!

I think the implication, perhaps revealed in the final product, was going to be that Kharn was Chang's father or older brother or something. But the different baldric might say otherwise.

 

[GSchnitzer]

He's changed a few things as Chang's baldric thing is missing and has been replaced with a generic plain belt like one with flat disks...

CBS are gonna love this

I should add, Don also sent along a screen capture of the Axanar FB page where Peters acknowledged it was the same costume.

None of this surprises me in the least. Maybe they can find a screen used toupee worn by Shatner in Star Trek VI and use it as a Tribble.

...or as a merkin.

 

[Ion]

According to the FB screen capture Don sent me, Peters said, "I own that costume."

Okay, wild speculation time.

Could Alec's extensive collection of props be the reason that (a) he was named individually on the suit, and (b) they seem to be going for maximum damages?

Maybe they're hoping they can essentially claim his prop collection in lieu of cash, which would help avoid situations like this in the future, or something to that effect.

Or I might be reaching here.

 

[Karzak]

I updated my earlier blog post on Axanar Coffee. It turns out I made an incorrect assumption. Donald Hillenbrand, a collector of "Star Trek" props and costumes, wrote to let me know that I was slightly off-base when I said General Chang and Commander Kharn had "similar" costumes:

The costume that Richard Hatch is wearing is not just a copy of Plummer's costume from ST6. It IS Plummer's costume (or one of them). Peters got it direct from Paramount a few years back. So the image of his Klingon character on a coffee label is wearing a Paramount-created (and I assume specifically copyrighted?) costume. I don't know if Soval's Vulcan robes are also from production, but I do know that a friend of mine was approached by Peters regarding borrowing her Soval robes. She declined. But there would be several sets out there.

Hmm... now why am I not surprised to hear that?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

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