CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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Chapter 2 - Sunrise Over Valencia
He was sitting in his office in downtown Valencia, overlooking the parking lot, when he heard a scream. It was his newest client, some dame with a fluffy cat.
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Chapter 3
How everybody is wrong but me and they only sued me to stop the greatest fanfilm every from being made that would have given the fans what they really wanted!
How everybody is wrong but me and they only sued me to stop the greatest fanfilm every from being made that would have given the fans what they really wanted!
People believe what they want to believe. In this case, it's super important to some to cast CBS/Paramount in the role of villain; some people sleep better at night thinking they're good guys simply because they're not the "bad guys."
As for enforcement, CBS/P don’t plan any kind of formal policing effort, being willing to consider productions’ interpretations on a case-by-case basis. According to CBS vice president John Van Citters, “We don’t like to paint with a broad brush.”
I don't think a filmed documentary about the Axanar case and its failed attempt to get produced would be proscribed by the settlement; only the fictional feature-length work is.
The "Axanar was too good to be allowed by CBS" narrative is alive and well in the comments section of Prelude to Axanar's YouTube page. Many of those comments are a testament to delusion. Some people continue to believe the feature will be made.
No. Harcort wasn't a scam artist. He was just trying to make a buck. He had honest intentions when he made his promises. He really meant to follow thru, but *bleep* kept getting in his way. He was ......
Oh, wait. That does sound like Mr. Peters' track record, doesn't it? Maybe he picked the wrong character to play. He was miscast as Captain Garth of Izar, that's all.
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But what about a "Making of" book? Isn't that in the same league as ship models that were being sold thru the Doner Store?
Shhh...don't give him ideas.
I think the way he'd want to do it would be - IE - "And here's all of Tobias Rhicther's beautiful effects footage that the settlement precludes us from using for Axanar - all 43 minutes of it..."
That narrative is also alive and well in comments sections for Discovery.
Sheesh. Like the new show or not, but they are pros. AP is not - and the pros he worked with are all gone.
Sadly, I was witness to the existence of this attitude last year when I toured the Ticonderoga Star Trek sets with Doug Drexler and the Okudas; the night before my tour, there was a dinner at a local Elks Lodge where they were guests of honor (can't say the chicken was all that good
). I sat at a table with some other Trek fans, and the conversation was nice enough, until one of them mentioned Prelude as being "the best Trek made in 20+ years", that Peters "got a raw deal" etc. etc. I had to walk away. I was not inclined to argue the point, or for that matter, to even hear about that scumbag at what was supposed to be (and for the most part was) a fun event.
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The ONLY way I would ever even consider getting the book is that if 1) others already having reported receiving it (i.e. not bogus vaporware like damn near everything else associated with AP) and 2) it contains orthos/schematics of Tobias Richter's ship models used in Prelude.
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