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

[Tuskin38]

Just saw this on reddit

 

[David cgc]

I had been under the impression that the much-delayed, off-revamped next volume of Axanar has been released, but it turned out, it was just a video saying it's been finished.

 

[Firebird]

Just saw this on reddit

I hope Peters gets sued into the sun. He just doesn't learn.

 

[Maurice]

Is anyone surprised at this point? It's just the same tedious grind year after year. In other news, the grift keeps on grifting.

 

[KennyB]

Grifters keep grifting...........they have never stopped selling crap........

 

[Tom]

And 12 years later... https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/man-killed-star-trek-fan-154459779.html

Ahh Alec, do you know the Klingon proverb ...

 

[137th Gebirg]

 

[David cgc]

I was going to say it was nice to see an article about Axanar that wasn't still painting Peters as the great hope single-handedly standing athwart the evil Kurtzman in the name of True Trek, but then I got to the second sentence.

 

[Tosk]

From an Axanar email:

"Because of Backerkit suspending our project due to the assholes at CBS, we have moved checkout to the Axanar store and you can find all of the pledge levels there."

 

[Firebird]

"The assholes at CBS" is gonna be a fun one for Alec to explain the next time he's deposed.

 

[Sgt_G]

Yeah, let's insult the people who sued once already.

 

[Tomalak]

The continuing mission: to exploit strange, new fans.
To seek out new marks and gullible Trekkies
To shamelessly grift where no grifer has grifted before...

 

[trynda1701]

I believe the project might be the 'USS Geronimo' Blueprints? Something they are claiming is their own design, and has NO Trek marks.

The Blueprints show a design from Star Trek (2009). Seen as the Enterprise turns to starboard at Earth Spacedock, readying to warp to Vulcan. It is the design with two nacelles above, and a torpedo pod between them, two secondary hulls below. Has been modified to have the nacelles look more TOS like, but it's CLEARLY that design!

Plus, the 'Command Star' from the TOS Delta badges are seen 'in the background' of the Blueprints!

 

[F. King Daniel]

These blueprints?

 

[trynda1701]

These blueprints?

Those Blueprints.

Here's a link showing the 'Command Star' image. The cover page, perhaps?

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Love how the @F. King Daniel link also shows a side by side comparison with the original Star Trek 2009 design, and the Axanar version.

 

[Tomalak]

It's so funny to me that this fan film that ostensibly presented itself as "real" Star Trek in opposition to the Kelvin movies is straight up ripping off so much of their iconography. The ships, the warp effect, bridges and costumes etc.

What a hack job.

 

[trynda1701]

The copying is one thing, but then all Trek fan films replicate costumes, sets, iconography etc. They just aren't ripping off the owner of Trek!

 

[David cgc]

The Blueprints show a design from Star Trek (2009). Seen as the Enterprise turns to starboard at Earth Spacedock, readying to warp to Vulcan. It is the design with two nacelles above, and a torpedo pod between them, two secondary hulls below. Has been modified to have the nacelles look more TOS like, but it's CLEARLY that design!

To be fair, the Axanar version is also much smaller than the ST09 version.

 

[Firebird]

It's so funny to me that this fan film that ostensibly presented itself as "real" Star Trek in opposition to the Kelvin movies is straight up ripping off so much of their iconography. The ships, the warp effect, bridges and costumes etc.

What a hack job.

One of the Axanar shorts even copied shots from Into Darkness, but replacing it with their ships, fer chrissakes!

 

[F. King Daniel]

Oh man, I had a comparison of that too but it's on Imgur and thus I cannot access it anymore. They did their own Vengeance crash with the D7, the Enterprise-rising-from-Jupiter shot with the Ares and a nebula and so on and so on.

FANTASTIC advertising for Tobias Richter, showing he could do approximations of (then recent) blockbuster movie effects.