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- | ====== Suing Burnett creates battle lines among Axanar staff ====== | ||
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- | **Alec Peters’ legal dispute **with former //Axanar// director Rob Burnett is polarizing his own team, leading to both very public and some private breaks with their one-time leader. | ||
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- | ===== Telltale Exhibits ===== | ||
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- | ==== Stalwart defender ==== | ||
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- | Most prominent among the exhibits is a February 26 email from Peters’ former advisor and Axanar PR director Mike Bawden. Once Peters’ most stalwart defender, Bawden says Peters’ stubborn threats and decision to sue Burnett [[: | ||
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- | ==== Bullying Burnett ==== | ||
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- | Bawden calls out Peters for picking on his loyal director while foregoing legal action against actual enemies: " | ||
- | === ‘Opportunistic bully’ === | ||
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- | Bawden calls out Peters for "suing **the** guy who stood beside you and had your back through the entire [[: | ||
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- | ==== Peters owes colleagues money, too. ==== | ||
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- | Despite producing no evidence his payments to Burnett were loans rather than payments, Peters himself owes money Bawden observes isn’t getting paid either. | ||
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- | * **Peters owes Bawden.** | ||
- | * **Peters owes Diana Kingsbury**: | ||
- | * **Less rosy for Peters.** | ||
- | * **‘Exploding point’**: Kingsbury, also Peters’ former girlfriend, is frustrated by " | ||
- | ===== Refusing Counsel ===== | ||
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- | Despite knowing Peters won’t take his advice, Bawden continues to urge Peters to focus instead on completing the two // | ||
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- | > You’ve filed suit. And now you can either finish things off (serve the suit and see how hard the shit hits the fan), or you can drop it and we can work on getting you the footage you need to produce the two, 15-minute segments [of // | ||
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- | ===== Missing Hard Drives ===== | ||
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- | Kingsbury’s email also notes that Burnett had in fact turned over Axanar’s digital assets almost two years ago in hard drives that languished in Peters’ California warehouse: "I definitely remember **both** | ||
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- | ===== Why it Matters ===== | ||
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- | The more his colleagues abandon him in the face of his treatment of others, the greater tension around Axanar escalates. For her part, Kingsbury has never publicly rebuked Peters before. And Bawden warns Peters: "Know this. If battle lines get drawn on this thing, we won’t be on the same side." | ||
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