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

I don't think much of Gerrold's work. Not anymore. And as a screenwriter, I've never even read McKee's Story. So I don't much prescribe to his screenwriting methods.

 

IF this is to be believed:
DAVID GERROLD: Jar-Jar Abrams Star Trek is nothing but pew-pew-pew and I hate it!

ALSO DAVID GERROLD: Axanar is the best script I've ever seen. I especially enjoyed the pew and the pew. And also the pew.

 

In fairness, if I'm going to attribute something to Gerrold or for that matter to anybody, I'll not do it just on the say-so of Peters.

 

Ummm... WTH are you citing?

 

Robert McKee is a cancer to the art of screenwriting

 

Yeah, but if he hadn't written that one episode of Mrs. Columbo, would Voyager as we know it even exist?

 

You make it sound like that's a good thing.

 

Most screenwriting books are. They want to sell you a magical formula to storytelling and screenwriting.

The only ones I've found useful are the more practical ones, like JMS's The Complete Book of Screenwriting and his recent book, Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer.

 

How many times now over the years have we heard that he's selling off items via Propworx? Presumably this is where the money goes, so he can buy his props, instead of making Axanar. And then he has to sell them off to find money to make Axanar. This circular money pit/logic makes my head hurt!

 

The circle of life

 

FTFY.

 

Please contribute to my documentary on how we can break the Circle of Grift.

 

Grift of Izar.

 

I believe Dante covered all most all of that.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/a-visitors-guide-to-dantes-nine-circles-of-hell

 

I believe Joe Dante covered that in Gremlins II.

 

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Dispatches from Las Vegas: We’re here in Sin City all week for the convention that used to be known as STLV. But since losing its CBS license, Creation Entertainment has de-Trekified its Trek convention, renamed The 55-Year-Mission.
DAY 1 STORIES

• Axanar gets a fan film panel on Saturday, hosted by noted film critic Scott Mantz
• Or does it? Mantz now says he’s got nothing to do with Axanar
• A “new” Axa-vignette! Heroes!? Waitagoldurnminnit…
• Game developer tells Trekzone why he disavowed Axanar, and was branded a traitor

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Carlos, you're alive!

Side note, I just learned that Sean Tourangeau, who designed the Luna Class (USS Titan), also designed the Ares for Axanar.

I never really looked into who did what art wise, so it's new info to me.

 

A surprising amount of talented people have worked with Axanar at one point or another in the many years of its non-production. And they’ve all left and been disparaged by Alec Peters.

Matt Miller at Trekzone has been doing a series of interviews with people who have left Peters’ orbit. Here’s the latest:

 

Yeah, I haven't seen him post anything Axanar related in a long while. His Tumblr Bio still mentions he designed the ship, but that's about it.

Speaking of games, there was a mod for Sins of a Solar Empire that was development that was inspired by Axanar, but they quietly cancelled it and then reworked it as just another Star Trek mod after the lawsuit.

The mod still has the Ares and some of the other designs in it, and is still subtitled 'The Four Years War'. But there's no mention of Axanar or any of the characters from it in the mod.