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There's a few Star Trek fans here, right? Undoubtedly you've seen "Prelude to Anaxar", a 20 minute fan-made film about a battle in the Star Trek universe.
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It serves as a preview to the (crowd funded) full length movie they are making. Now, however, Paramount Pictures and CBS are sueing Anaxar Productions on grounds of copyright infringement. Now, Anaxar and Paramount supposedly have been in talks before with Paramount greenlighting the project as long as it stayed non-profit, but now they're doing a 180 on Anaxar.

Legally, Paramount probably is in the right here, but it does suck. They probably feel that with a budget of over a million dollar and professional grade production, Anaxar is too much in the same space as Star Trek Beyond and the announced TV series.

As a fan, I'm disappointed, because Anaxar is closer to the original Star Trek feel than anything since JJ Abrahms got involved. I wouldn't be surprised that Paramount got scared Anaxar would be better than the POS Beyond they're making themselves.

Sorry but can made films always suck. It's not a bad thing if it dies.

Have you seen the video I linked? It's pretty good.

it's well edited and written (and professionally acted), and certainly at the high end of the range when it comes to fan-made stuff - which probably explains why Paramount/CBS now want to sue

they may find it tricky to make a case though, given their relaxed attitude to fan-made films up to this point; an obvious question is what justifies taking a different attitude to this (i.e. justifies it to a jury)

Eraser wrote:Have you seen the video I linked? It's pretty good.

I did, a while back. There's no doubting the effort that's gone in to it, but i can't get over the cheese factor.

seremtan wrote:an obvious question is what justifies taking a different attitude to this (i.e. justifies it to a jury)

crowdfunding is not charity ; it's a way to sell your product before it is released . this is an actual commercial product .

The original series was pure cheese.

every week Kirk got himself into a different pickle

every week Kirk's pickle got found into a different self

seremtan wrote:every week Kirk got himself into a different pickle

but he always escaped because he was grater than his enemies

There are Star Trek fans here, of that I am sure and I am not happy at the bullying antics by the big bastards against such an effort by a small crowd funded effort.

While I see the point of their legal action, I do wonder if they (Paramount Pictures/CBS) would have assisted in any way if asked; I am guessing not after recent successes (Abraham's Star Trek Into Darkness) in the genre. Oh I see, they didn't even telephone call

I give credit where it is due and this production effort (Axanar) gets a positive nod here.

I watched Prelude to Axanar a while ago but will (now) again

Edit: Did and it is pretty good. I look forward to more.

Doombrain wrote:

Eraser wrote:Have you seen the video I linked? It's pretty good.

I did, a while back. There's no doubting the effort that's gone in to it, but i can't get over the cheese factor.

It's Star Trek. Cheese is an inherent part of it

As someone who has watched all 12 movies and 5 shows (700+ eps). I just wanted to say I couldn't care less about it.

p.s Deep Space 9 was great tv.

DS9 was awesome, the best Star Trek series.

Babylon 5

also, Richard Hatch as the Klingon dude. he was Apollo in the original BSG and also in the reboot

Flex Donkey wrote:DS9 was awesome, the best Star Trek series.

It was, but not before the Dominion got introduced. Before that it was a boring weekly soap opera.

I wonder what the new series will be like.
Looking forward to it, I hope they choose a better captain then the last fagtoid.

axbaby wrote:I wonder what the new series will be like.
Looking forward to it, I hope they choose a better captain then the last fagtoid.

New series?
Is there a new )TV) series in the wind? Anyone?

Here you are Whisk -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_ ... _TV_series

There's a thread posted here somewhere too. Someone said it was online release only, so may not get the backing it needs.

Axanar was quite cool though, shame we probably won't see any more.

edit: Just seen on the wiki that Enterprise ended in 2005 - 11 years ago

And captain Quantum was the bomb yo

axbaby wrote:I wonder what the new series will be like.
Looking forward to it, I hope they choose a better captain then the last fagtoid.

There maybe some brown people in it.

Eraser wrote:

Flex Donkey wrote:DS9 was awesome, the best Star Trek series.

It was, but not before the Dominion got introduced. Before that it was a boring weekly soap opera.

"Boring" is a bit harsh. I still loved it before the introduction of the Dominion, but it definitely improved once they were a part of the series. Jeffrey Combs is a legend.

losCHUNK wrote:.............. on the wiki that Enterprise ended in 2005 - 11 years ago

Thanks losCHUNK
Hey, I too didn't realise Enterprise finished 11 years ago and here, for the memories

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Flex Donkey wrote:

Eraser wrote: It was, but not before the Dominion got introduced. Before that it was a boring weekly soap opera.

"Boring" is a bit harsh. I still loved it before the introduction of the Dominion, but it definitely improved once they were a part of the series. Jeffrey Combs is a legend.

Had to look up the name. Weyoun was great indeed. Never knew Weyoun and Brunt were the same actor.
My favorite DS9 character was Elim Garak.

Weyoun, Quark, Obrien and Bashir made the show.