CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar 2 - Electric Boogaloo-Fanboys gone WILD-too many hyphens

Is bugged eyed crazy Peters' default expression when "acting"? More Tracy than Garth.

 

The guy behind this could have just made an independent sci fi movie with an original storyline and his own characters instead of an expensive 15 minute fan film.

 

It's okay it's "Axanar Universe" whatever that means.

 

Well, he clearly states in the article that it was a deliberate homage, and the trailer was implemented competently enough that I didn't need the article to tell me that. But the paradox here is that, if you're saying the trailer was so bad that it ended up being an accidental parody of Space: 1999, you're actually arguing FOR his fair use defense.

Wait, do we need to feed the starving children first, or can we fund the indie sci-fi films at the same time? And how many indie films to I need to do before I can get to make a fan film?

Or they're just physical buttons under a plastic membrane, like on most microwaves and fridges. Or they ARE using touchscreens, but they get replaced later with physical controls for the same reason we still uses physical keyboards. Or maybe Mr. Lane was using someone else's bridge set because he couldn't afford to build his own from scratch and we're judging him for another person's continuity mistakes. Nah, it's probably the first one.

Perhaps it means that the fan film is based on a franchise that's been a fictional multiverse since before I was born, or that he wants his fan film to be in continuity with the "Axanar" fan film, or that there's already precedent for this kind of terminology thanks to the "Avalon Universe". But I'm just spitballing here.

 

Peters is living off of this money. An original sci-fi premise wouldn't make fans part with their money the way "Star Trek" in the title does.

 

No, I'm saying that maybe they realized Interlude itself was so bad that the best thing to do was treat it as a parody. I haven't read the article, but I can't think of a good reason to promote your fan film based on an American sci-fi series as a spoof of a British series.

 

Including Prelude, Peters has raised in the neighborhood of $2.5 million to date. Even accounting for his various misadventures (such as the original warehouse "studio" in California), plus the actual onscreen results maybe adds up to around a million bucks actually spent on Axanar. The rest obviously went into his pockets.

 

Yes, that's true. Someone recently asked Steve Cole if he ever thought of porting the Star Fleet Battles game-engine to another franchise, either to a different IP universe or to an original setting. Steve's reply was "Trek's were the money's at, so that's where we'll stay." Of course, the big difference is Steve holds a license contract and pays royalties to the Trek IP owners.

 

Honestly, I think that Paramount should put more effort in trying to come up with a good Star Trek series than bickering about "Axanar".

 

They don’t care about Axanar, as they don’t make TV series, CBS does. And while I don’t care for the All-Access stuff, “good” is in the eye of the beholder.

A lot of people don’t consider ‘insert Trek series here’ “good”.

 

"Paramount" ( actually ViacomCBS) hasn't said boo about Axanar in a while. If they're "giving them enough rope" it could reach the moon by now. Do try and keep up.

 

I wonder if the apparent lack of interest in taking down Axanar comes from Viacom believing that there really isn't any threat of confusion with LFIM's project and their various franchises on the streaming service. Thinking further along those lines, Alec may be able to get away with perpetual fund-raising as long as he doesn't put out any product. At this point Viacom may feel that the only harm being done is to the wallets of the Axaheads. If I were in that position I might not be eager to spend my own money, to in essence save those donors from their own gullibility.

 

You're overthinking it. He's just a big sci-fi dork. Probably would have done the same with the trailer, because I'm a sci-fi dork too.

 

Don't think it will be a legacy for 45. Isn't it just a rebranding?

 

What has Paramount done regarding Axanar? O_o

 

Since the merger started, absolutely nothing as far as I’ve seen.