Hi all! I came here to post about this fan film, as I met Steve Anderson this weekend, talked with him for a few hours, and then googled to learn more about the fan film and came across this thread.
A few pieces of information that might be of great interest to you all:
-Steve's a boat nomad type these days, but he still has the full finished tapes of the film, and he's currently investigating ways to digitize it and put it up on YouTube for everyone to see.
-Steve met and befriended George Takei, who's actually *in* the movie -- he plays Sulu for a cameo! And Takei came up with Sulu's lines! Apparently there was a lot of Sulu character development material for Wrath of Khan that got cut in editing, and Takei liked the idea of using some of that in the fan production. (one of the biggest take-aways from hanging out with Steve and hearing all his stories is that George Takei sounds like just about the nicest human being on earth)
-Steve's story is actually remarkable beyond anything I've heard before. Personal tales of encounters with Takei, Roddenberry, Shatner, etcetera. Touring the Wrath of Khan set with Takei! The phrase you see in that magazine, "Based on Gene Roddenberry's View of Life in the 23rd Century," was Roddenberry's personal suggestion to Anderson for how they should describe the fan film to avoid being sued. They got Roddenberry to look at the script and give them feedback!
-Steve's replica Star Trek uniform creations were so good that Paramount heard about them through the grapevine, and actually had him produce replicas of the Wrath of Khan uniforms for use in publicity events and the like.
-Steve actually has a floating museum of his Star Trek memorabilia that's a sight to behold. He floated it out to the just-concluded Ephemerisle floating festival, which is how I encountered him. We ended up on his boat at random, but noticed he had an impressive Star Trek tattoo merging the insignia of each era of Trek, and got to talking.
-Steve has enough knowledge of the current Trek fandom that he's heard about the wrangling over Axanar and modern fan films, but he's not deeply involved in any of the Trek internet. I suggested he should definitely do a Reddit "AMA" of some kind, and he hadn't heard of Reddit. But his experiences are fascinating and I hope he can find a venue to widely share them.