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

True, but he'd make the PERFECT example to prevent others from going down that road.

 

Somebody does in some way.

 

Haven't been here in a while, but how many times has he said he's selling of part of his personal collection now?

And if he's got warehouses of stuff, how's he paying for those properties? Does this guy have a proper day job? (Grifter doesn't count)

 

All very good questions! Sadly, I don't care enough to find out. I have a day job.

 

It's been what, six years now since Alex brought the wrath of guidelines down on us?
At the time I thought the issue was funding because money is spongeable and tracing down one or two million on a 20+ minute film is damn near impossible.
Honestly and disagree with me if you must but cropping 10-15 minutes out of a short story plot makes the whole effort less interesting for me.
Peters could sell his new car tires and my give a damn is still busted.

 

My only real reason for checking on this thread is the off chance that a film will magically appear. If it does, I might be interested enough to watch. But, I'll probably wait until the early reviews give a flavor of whether it's something worth checking out or the shiteshow most of us are expecting.

 

It is funny in some ways that in the six years since the settlement we still haven't got the 30 min Axanar movies but we have had Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy and Strange New Worlds (along with Short Treks) in that time. I wonder how many other series / films will come along by the time Axanar released?

 

The vast majority of them.

What's more interesting to me is this idea that Axanar represented what Trek fans really want, while shows like CBS produced Trek were not popular, and would lead to the downfall of the franchise. Yet, now we have 5 shows being produced? How does that work?

 

If you ask the Axanar fans, Alex Kurtzman has something on Paramount and keeps pushing his agenda, no matter how many times he’s been fired.

 

Personally I wouldn't be putting all my Paramount eggs into a single Trek basket.
As much as I enjoy space adventures the Trek Universe has become so well regulated that creativity quickly turns to blasphemy and that's a trap Paramount can't keep from sticking their finger in.
Was JJ trek really that bad or just not hold up the Trek standard?

 

It. Was. That. Bad. Honestly.

 

I thought so too the first few times I watched it then I put on my old worn out producer hat and watched it as if it with the serial numbers filed off and it's better than most modern space adventures coming from the big studios.

 

Star Trek 09 remains a great film. It was a shot in the arm for the franchise after Enterprise. The problem was what came after - i.e. a very long wait and then a bloated sequel.

But if you approach that first movie with an open mind and treat it as a remake of the original show, it's got a lot of merit.

 

Oh yeah, they complained that the films were just "pew pew" but made a fan film about a literal space war.

I never got that. I guess it was just the wrong type of pew pew.

 

It's hard to fight stigma. A British audio production studio asked me to come up with a serious Galaxy Quest 20 years before the movie. None of the campy movie stuff even happened yet. I Wrote the pilot, 6 episodes and 10 episodes in the pipeline. Started recording the third episode and about everyone on the production crew hated it, to the point where it made them sick because it wasn't the Galaxy Quest they were looking for. Words were said, the production fell apart. Months down the road Episode 2 won the Parsec award. It's just the way of things.

 

Yes, it does. It reflects very heavily much of tropes of TOS and does it well.

Yeah, that's what always bothered me too. "Don't do pew pew" and then creates a pew-pew" production..,huh?

 

Not only that, but almost all of their visual effects were directly copied from '09 or Into Darkness shots.

 

Yep, many of the background ships were Abramsverse designs, but with prime-TOS warp nacelles. There was the scene of the hero ship emerging from mist, an enemy vessel crashing down in water near a city, etc.