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CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

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Unless Alec (LFIM) is a shareholder, it's simply none of his business how CBS/P spends it's money. Besides Corporations have legal staff on retainer so those lawyers are paid one way or another.
 
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Krandor said:
Next level down you can only use the bathrooms if you are nice. Yes, he really put that in a reward on the IGG
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Noname Given said:
DOH! - Geez. My bad. Yeah, peters really seems to have issues.
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No worries - not surprising with the 75/7500 thing :)

In fairness to Peters or whoever wrote it, they closed with a joke which isn't a bad thing. It's just.... with this being a flexible goal, Team Axanar get the money whether that perk can be fulfilled or not. Which seems rather 'off' to me.

It's frustrating to me - not just for the scenario at present - but... I'm a good PR guy. I'd like to say a REALLY good PR guy and I know how to turn a business from this situation to a profitable one just by creating the right image and I know exactly how to turn this all around for them.

The solutions are simple enough, but I can't see it ever happening. There's a determination to say "We were right, this is awesome! Join us or be wrong!" and it's the complete opposite approach they should be taking if they want to survive.
 
jamestyler said:
No worries - not surprising with the 75/7500 thing :)

In fairness to Peters or whoever wrote it, they closed with a joke which isn't a bad thing. It's just.... with this being a flexible goal, Team Axanar get the money whether that perk can be fulfilled or not. Which seems rather 'off' to me.

It's frustrating to me - not just for the scenario at present - but... I'm a good PR guy. I'd like to say a REALLY good PR guy and I know how to turn a business from this situation to a profitable one just by creating the right image and I know exactly how to turn this all around for them.

The solutions are simple enough, but I can't see it ever happening. There's a determination to say "We were right, this is awesome! Join us or be wrong!" and it's the complete opposite approach they should be taking if they want to survive.
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I think that's why so many people see it as a cult. They have this aura about them that just screams "you're either with us or against us, and if you're against us, you deserve nothing," even if you've donated.
 
I had a representative from Indiegogo lined up to talk about crowd funding and honesty between merchandisers and donors in general, however when the subject arose that this was going to be about Axanar they stopped all communication and decided to not proceed with the interview.

With that said, the podcast will still go ahead tomorrow and will be released on Saturday Australian time. From this podcast I will no longer be riding the fence on this subject.
 
TREKZONE.org said:
I had a representative from Indiegogo lined up to talk about crowd funding and honesty between merchandisers and donors in general, however when the subject arose that this was going to be about Axanar they stopped all communication and decided to not proceed with the interview.
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That's odd. Did they specifically seem not to want to discuss Axanar, or do you think it was just the fact that you were focusing on a particular campaign?
 
TREKZONE.org said:
I had a representative from Indiegogo lined up to talk about crowd funding and honesty between merchandisers and donors in general, however when the subject arose that this was going to be about Axanar they stopped all communication and decided to not proceed with the interview.

With that said, the podcast will still go ahead tomorrow and will be released on Saturday Australian time. From this podcast I will no longer be riding the fence on this subject.
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Doesn't surprise me as my Ticket to Indegogo (and I know I'm not the only person to file one) reporting the Campaign for using Star Trek copyrighted elements (with links to specific stuff); I'm sure the LAST THING they (Indegogo) want is to go on the record about anything regarding this campaign. They KNOW what Alec Peters is doing in the Campaign is illegal - but as it's racked up $18K - and due to Indegogo rules - Indegogo will probably take 20%-30% in their fees (it'll be a lot higher because he won't make the $60K goal); they just want to get their Campaign fee and watch Alec Peters move on.
 
TREKZONE.org said:
I had a representative from Indiegogo lined up to talk about crowd funding and honesty between merchandisers and donors in general, however when the subject arose that this was going to be about Axanar they stopped all communication and decided to not proceed with the interview.

With that said, the podcast will still go ahead tomorrow and will be released on Saturday Australian time. From this podcast I will no longer be riding the fence on this subject.
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I actually think you have done some informative programs. I suppose there are times when it's not about being on one side or the other as much as producing a show that brings the facts to the viewer.
 
TREKZONE.org said:
I had a representative from Indiegogo lined up to talk about crowd funding and honesty between merchandisers and donors in general, however when the subject arose that this was going to be about Axanar they stopped all communication and decided to not proceed with the interview.

With that said, the podcast will still go ahead tomorrow and will be released on Saturday Australian time. From this podcast I will no longer be riding the fence on this subject.
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As you are being clear on your position from the outset, I really can't see why that stance would be a problem.
Imagine that...being transparent about one's motives....
 
muCephi said:
The actual Galileo is on exhibit in Texas. Its restoration was funded by a Trek fan and was performed at a ship refitter, with contributions from specialists for the interior and exterior doodads. The original had decayed to the point that the wood could not be salvaged, the 'restoration' is from just some of the metal frame. Alec had some involvement in helping raise funds, I think I read, but I don't believe he had a lot do do with the actual restoration.

http://www.space.com/22162-star-tre...w-it-was-restored-to-flight-status-video.html

http://www.space.com/20791-star-trek-galileo-shuttlecraft-photos.html

As I recall reading, there were two versions for the set, one at a scale for exterior shooting, and a taller partial set for interior shots.

This looks like a fan remake, maybe a playhouse. Notice for example no nacelles. Don't know the details but doing a tineye search on the image probably could find the source page and details.
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I restored Galileo. Alec was involved for a short while but did not fund the purchase or the restoration.
 
Search4 said:
I restored Galileo. Alec was involved for a short while but did not fund the purchase or the restoration.
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Kudos to you!

The write-up in the New Yorker by Thomas Vinciguerra in February 28, 2013 is fascinating. The following is an excerpt from that article.
Last summer, classic-“Star Trek” geeks were captivated when the full-sized mockup of the Galileo shuttlecraft that ferried passengers to and from the U.S.S. Enterprise was offered in an online auction in Ohio. After eleven days of bidding, Adam Schneider of Livingston, New Jersey, was the winner. He paid seventy thousand one hundred and fifty dollars for the Galileo, but he’s not keeping it. He wants to donate it to an air-and-space, science, or children’s museum—any place that can accommodate its twenty-four-foot-long, one-ton corpus.

“It’s not exactly a living-room piece,” said Schneider, who has filled four rooms of his house with trophies, like an eleven-foot, four-hundred-pound Starfleet dry dock from “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.”

Right now, the Galileo is being restored at Master Shipwrights, a boat-building operation in Atlantic Highlands, near Sandy Hook. On a cold Saturday morning, the repair crew was noisily straightening out the van-shaped shuttle’s metal skeleton and fitting wood bracings to its new plywood hull. Temporarily stripped of its twin tubular, eighteen-foot propulsion units, the Galileo sat on concrete blocks and a dolly under the gaze of a large portrait of Cosmo Kramer that was hung high on the workshop wall.

“I think it’s sharp,” said the welder and grinder Ken Foster. “You could put a set of outboards on it and row it across the bay.”

“It looks like an amphibious duck,” said his colleague Frank Monticelli.

“No,” said Foster, “an armored personnel carrier.”

Schneider, a principal at Deloitte, is an amiable man who calls to mind Ray Romano. But he wasn’t happy to see some disintegrating pieces of the Galileo’s vintage exterior lying on the floor. “I need this out of there,” he said. “That’s valuable. Maybe it goes on the wall if no one wants it.”

Master Shipwrights’ gray-bearded owner, Hans Mikaitis, hefted a chunk bearing the faded black registration number 1701/7 and, below that, the fragmentary letters “ERPRISE.” “Not a hell of lot of this one,” he muttered. “But it’s got to be worth at least a thousand bucks.”

The Galileo spent more than forty years getting passed among owners who tried, without much success, to spruce it up and exhibit it; sometimes it was in storage but mostly it was exposed to the elements. The ship was a crumbling wreck when it arrived, in late October, its guts ornamented with raccoon excrement and a few mouse carcasses.

“When I saw it for the first time, I said, ‘This needs a lot of T.L.C.,’ ” said Foster. “Pictures didn’t do it justice.”

Schneider shrugged. “Listen, it would have been fabulous if the wood was in great condition and we could just slap a new coat of paint on it—”

“But the more we dug into it,” Foster interrupted, “the more it was rotted rotted rotted rotted. The only way to rebuild it was to stick to the frame and start all over.”

“I bought it without looking at it,” Schneider acknowledged.

“This is how he operates,” said his wife, Leslie, who was taking photographs.

Schneider shrugged again. “Well, this is my thing. Fixing strange starships would appear to be my life’s passion.”
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