So... it would be nice if this was finally over with the change of control in Ares Studios but we all know he's a cockroach and will leech off of Star Trek forever.
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar 2 - Electric Boogaloo-Fanboys gone WILD-too many hyphens
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You don’t really believe this change of control stuff do you? I saw online a comment from his GF (but in all likelihood penned by Peters) that stated that it was the last time they’d be commenting on axanar et al. I doubt very much that this will be the case.
That's why I said it'd be nice. It's all a puppet show, sadly.
Anyone starting a betting pool on when the next "last time" will be?
Axanar took advantage of a fallow period when not much Star Trek was being produced by the studio. Since then we've had multiple seasons of Discovery, Picard, Strange New Worlds, and Lower Decks, plus a handful of Short Treks and a season of Prodigy. Even if Alec and his little friends managed to make their little community college student film (which they never ever will), who would care? Their 10 remaining fans whose whole personality is throwing Internet tantrums over the newer productions?
I was looking up another fan film and Google linked a blog entry on the Axanar website and remembered that this thing existed and is still going. I guess the drama is still going despite all these smaller productions just keeping their heads down and making videos.
On a different tangent, "The Oral History of the Battle of Wolf 359" fan project, has engaged not just the Borg, but the ire of Paramount lawyers:
https://twitter.com/StarfleetHist/status/1691928709689950256?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
https://twitter.com/StarfleetHist/status/1691928709689950256?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
So they shut down a book project? That seems a bit... excessive.
I wonder if someone else is doing a similar licensed product and the suits are doing this preemptively to forcibly remove any potential competition. Stage 9 all over again...
I wonder if someone else is doing a similar licensed product and the suits are doing this preemptively to forcibly remove any potential competition. Stage 9 all over again...
What was the reason?
There were some actual episode screencaps in it and it got flagged by a copyright-violation-hunting bot scouring the internet. Andy has said that they're revising the PDF version to eliminate any images taken directly from an official Star Trek episode or movie, but for now, a text version is available on An Archive of Our Own.
Well fancy that a copyright bot. Even humans being replaced by bots for that too. /s
These Facebook groups are insane. Alec is an obvious grifter that should be avoided, but the way people attack each other on pages like Axamonitor and The Real Truth About Axanar are just....childish? Petty? Ridiculous all around when this all centers on an IP absolutely nobody owns.
Look up "sunk cost fallacy." People go all in on their opinions, especially around their fan favorites and obsessions (yes, Trek counts as this).
Getting banned from FB was one of my better days.
100% agreed. This is why I personally recoil when some folks vilify what they refer to as "bothsideism" (usually spit forth in a venomous manner to browbeat someone into verbal submission). They're so completely polarized to one side or the other of a particular philosophy or argument, they absolutely refuse to accept that "their side" is just as guilty of dragging the conversation down into the muck as those of the "other side". Such is the state of modern-day discourse in nearly all things now, I'm afraid, no matter how innocuous...
What must one do for a ban on facebook? I mean they aren't really that strict about most things.
I'm glad to see more self reflection in this thread than the last one. No one needs to stoop low to criticize Axanar and Peters; he always provides PLENTY of low hanging fruit to last likely for generations.
Also, I'll never forgive the mods for not closing the previous megathread on page 1701. I mean... seriously... we're supposedly trekkies here!
Also, I'll never forgive the mods for not closing the previous megathread on page 1701. I mean... seriously... we're supposedly trekkies here!