It had a great idea and the opportunity to tell a story that fans had some curiosity about. That's about all it got to.
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Don't. I'll save you the trouble. Garth is wonderful. Garth is great. Garth can do anything.
Now you don't need to read it.
So there was a script?
This blog review is way more entertaining than the script itself: https://axanarsporking.wordpress.com/
Yes. Terry mcintosh leaked it. It is the "locked" version that was the subject of the lawsuit.
I just looked and stopped reading the actual script and just read the commentary! It was much better!
According to this site, as of this month there are 2,291 Star Trek books and comics, none of which are canon so it's a bit late to be worrying about this.
Summed up: Garth is THE Marty Stu character to end all Marty Stu characters. The only real internal conflict he has during this whole incident is how quickly can he trick and destroy the Klingon attack force. At the end (even though the Klingons at the start state how tthey are so close to victory, the conquering/subjugation of Earth is just around the corner - after they lose at Axanar, it's "Okay, the war is over, we'll go home now..."
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It sounds like the writing for Axanar was terrible, and I won't bother reading it. I did really like the look they were going for though, and I enjoyed Prelude to Axanar. Of course, at the time I watched it, I thought the Prime Timeline was never coming back. Now it's back (more or less).
$1.4 million raised from Trekkies on the promise of a movie, the money instead goes on Alec Peters' and his friends' expenses and salaries and launching a film studio which immediately tanks.
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The visual work of Tobias was really good.
Some might say that the look, design, acting, and scripts were great. For me, Prelude to Axanar looked very much style over substance and took themselves so seriously that it made it look silly.
Less. It's definitely less.
They raised 1.4 million and instead of making a movie started a for profit studio and got sued. All 1.4 million is gone with no movie and they don't even have the studio anymore.
If you want details check axamonitor.com.
Apart from the money issue, the thinking on Peters' part that he could appropriate the name Star Trek and think that he could release movies under that name without any kind of permission or thought to copyright was beyond stupid.
A class act, indeed.
If you want the film to look like a video game cutscene, I agree.
Some of the greenscreen composite work by Tommy Kraft was well done.
