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CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar

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Tom said:
Alec should have bit his own ego, and had an experienced producer run the whole project.
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Which, to my understanding, would have been counter to his whole reason for doing Axanar in the first place: to show off his skills as a producer. So AP would never have started Axanar in the first place if he wasn't going to be the producer, but because he's the producer, we'll probably never get Axanar in the from we want. And if they fail to produce anything, AP will paradoxically be the reason Axanar exists and the reason it doesn't.
 
MikeH92467 said:
The Tressaurian Intersection isn't good because of the sets and the acting was uneven, but damn that story was good.
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Just watched it for the first time. It's pretty good in general, not just story (Angrier Captain Disillusion in the starring role not withstanding).
 
TREKZONE.org said:
I've been covering this since 2016 - when Alec joined me on the show ... I wish I was a stronger interviewer back then.

In fact, April 26 marks two years to the day that I began.


BTW, there is a volunteer clean up day happening at the end of the month.
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They don't make hip-waders or shovels big enough for all the bullshit they'd have to shovel out of the Georgia studio to clean the Axanar mess up.
 
Tom said:
True, I never actually read the script, but just going by what others said about it. Thing is, Axanar did have potential, and maybe the script could have changed before the shoot. The project had an inexperienced head producer and things went to shit. Alec should have bit his own ego, and had an experienced producer run the whole project.
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I did read the script and it was crap. People who read later drafts than I saw said it got no better. ANYTHING has "potential" if you imagine someone with talent could get their hands on it and manage to execute. But let's face it, so long as Alec indulged his masturbatory fantasies about playing Garth-whom-everyone-thinks-is-swell it could never be anything but SHIT.
 
Maybe let's not call Axanar's continuing issues a tragedy. It's not Sarajevo in 1993. Failure? Disappointment? Sure. But tragedy is kind of over the top, I'm saying.

I draw everyone's attention to TOS' Spectre of the Gun. A well-told, smart story that holds up some 50 years later. With basically no effects and a budget that couldn't buy a stick of gum for everyone on set.

The Twilight Zone's Long Distance Call is another shoestring budget story which still works (and, BTW, at 25 minutes, it would actually meet the length requirement of the Guidelines, even including credits).

Neither of them are the best episodes of their respective series. But they are both reasonably good and engaging and, more importantly, they both do it with minimal $$ and no pew-pew or the like.

Long Distance Call in particular benefits from Billy Mumy - about the only child actor I've seen recently who compares to Mumy in his Twilight Zone appearances is Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense.
 
MikeH92467 said:
TOS "Gem" is simply amazing. Spectre of the Gun, at least had shells of buildings. Gem was one big, dark cave. Great episode? Debatable, but I liked it and it was far from the worst in the series.
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I think you mean "The Empath" which was the title of the episode. "Gem" was the name given to the character by McCoy.
 
The script to "The Empath" didn't seem to be of great price either. There's a lot of filler in it. I never really cared for the episode for that reason. The plot moves at a snail's pace.
 
The Empath was a decent idea that feels overlong - although in all fairness, the pacing of the time differed a bit from now. They could have fleshed out the reason why she was there better, and that would have made it drag less.
 
jespah said:
The Empath was a decent idea that feels overlong - although in all fairness, the pacing of the time differed a bit from now. They could have fleshed out the reason why she was there better, and that would have made it drag less.
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Or tell us more about her, like about her life before she was captured. She was the titular character of the episode, after all.
 
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