Good. So she was never asked to send money AFTER Paramount contacted the TrekUnited team and told them they would NEVER accept the money, and that they should not only cease in collecting it, but refund everything that had been donated. That's good.
And if she didn't donate, then she wasn't told to hold off demanding a refund while some idiotic claim that TrekUnited would produce the season themselves in Canada using some fake person named Al Vinci was offered.
Because he ain't real.
It's called guilt by association. And you were there supporting those alleged scam efforts every step of the way. I know the people who saw the light, and did so either publicly or quietly (feeding Gustavo, the LA Times and me information).
Just like with Axanar. Yes, Peters is the one sued. But others involved are guilty by association. It doesn't make them bad people necessarily, because maybe their heart was in the right place. And maybe yours was, too, Tom. But that doesn't change what was done.
And if you've become some great defender of the fans since then, that's wonderful. But it's hard for me to believe you've understood what terrible things TrekUnited did, when you defend it. And that is why you're in that context.
It's quite relevant to this conversation, because Axanar did the same thing TrekUnited did — exploit the passion of the fans to enrich themselves. Maybe the initial intentions were pure, but once the money rolled in, that purity was quickly poisoned. And the victims were/are fans, who should NEVER be targeted because they have passion about something.
It's disgusting. And it's why I abhor what Axanar is doing.
