What story did Prelude have? It was a 'background' explanation video of some made up military science fantasy tactical BS. We saw a few talking heads and some video game cutscene level VFX. Yep 'Real Trek' there...not.
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar 2 - Electric Boogaloo-Fanboys gone WILD-too many hyphens
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Prelude does a good job as a gussied up trailer of showing just enough to allow the audience to fill in the gaps. It ticks all the feel good boxes of Star Trek (Constitution class, proud speeches, Klingons) to really give a grander sense of the world. As trailer, it sells itself effectively.
I did love seeing that D-7 crashing into the colony city- had to wait for years to see something like that again in ST-ID...
The PtA SFX may not be movie theater quality, but for a fan film I think they were pretty good
You have it the other way around. STID did the shot first (with the U.S.S. Vengence). Tobias Richter basically re-did a version of that shot on whatever software he was using AFTER seeing said similar shot in STID.
That's another thing that cracked me up - Alec Peters (at that time) supposedly HATED all aspects of JJ Abrams 'Star Trek', yet the people working for him/with him on prelude cribbed from BOTH JJ Films for numerous ship designs and VFX scene composition.
(Oh, and to Alec Peters you'd be a 'Hater' as his production wasn't a 'fan film'...he promoted it as the first fully independent Star Trek 'feature film...and said (in 2014) he would be able to do it "faster/cheaper/better".
Even if yo9u say "Well, he was stopped in production for 1 year with the CBS/Paramount lawsuit; of which he lost/caved in that he said he'd never give in...he'd take it to the SCOTUS!...and Axanar would be a full length 2 hour film - yet in the settlement, he agreed to the majority of the fan film guidelines - got an exception in that he could use the professional actors that were seen in Prelude; BUT he also agreed to it being two 15 minute segments...so yeah, he effectively LOST the case....
But yeah as of January 2017 - he was clear to continue production; and in the 5 years since, made what? a couple of 3 minute promos - and even Johnathan Lane has effectively made a small Axanar feature in the interim 4 year period from 2017 to today.
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Prelude to Axanar is just a bunch of talking heads and lumbering space ships pew pewing all over the place. That's not a story.
You're right- got the releases reversed.You have it the other way around. STID did the shot first (with the U.S.S. Vengence). Tobias Richter basically re-did a version of that shot on whatever software he was using AFTER seeing said similar shot in STID.
That's another thing that cracked me up - Alec Peters (at that time) supposedly HATED all aspects of JJ Abrams 'Star Trek', yet the people working for him/with him on prelude cribbed from BOTH JJ Films for numerous ship designs and VFX scene composition.
(Oh, and to Alec Peters you'd be a 'Hater' as his production wasn't a 'fan film'...he promoted it as the first fully independent Star Trek 'feature film...and said (in 2014) he would be able to do it "faster/cheaper/better".
Even if yo9u say "Well, he was stopped in production for 1 year with the CBS/Paramount lawsuit; of which he lost/caved in that he said he'd never give in...he'd take it to the SCOTUS!...and Axanar would be a full length 2 hour film - yet in the settlement, he agreed to the majority of the fan film guidelines - got an exception in that he could use the professional actors that were seen in Prelude; BUT he also agreed to it being two 15 minute segments...so yeah, he effectively LOST the case....
But yeah as of January 2017 - he was clear to continue production; and in the 5 years since, made what? a couple of 3 minute promos - and even Johnathan Lane has effectively made a small Axanar feature in the interim 4 year period from 2017 to today.
It’s pretty for a fan film but that’s about it.
All style and no substance.
Yes, but he was able to use the worlds largest green screen (or was this filmed before the worlds largest green screen was built and then abandoned?).
AP is nothing more than a con man and will never product squat
Abandoned? I thought it was ruined, damaged beyond repair.
No. That was the Green Screen of Paul Jenkins, which Johnathan Lane damaged and then did a Go Fund Me to get it replacement. (And it of course was damaged due to incompetence.)
Okay, I get it, I'm in the minority, but I still liked it! 
It turned out to be a shaggy dog story. All build up with no punch line.
Having seen the greenscreen at 32 Ten studios (the former ILM plant) I have my doubts it was the biggest. But then I don't find "mine's bigger than yours" conversations worth having.
Plenty of people here liked it. But it's still just an unfulfilled promise.Okay, I get it, I'm in the minority, but I still liked it!
Me too. I'm a FASA fan.Okay, I get it, I'm in the minority, but I still liked it!
But for its claim to be 'true Trek', not 'JJ-Drek', or whatever the nickname he used was, he used the ship designs from "Star Trek" (2009), just updated so we got the 'Christmas lights' style nacelle caps.
It's the insanity that followed, continuing to today, that boggles the mind.
good summation