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+ | ====== For the Love of Spock: Let This be Their Last Battlefield ====== | ||
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+ | **AxaMonitor** contributor \\ | ||
+ | January 8, 2017</ | ||
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+ | It finished 15th overall in the 2016 domestic box office and [[http:// | ||
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+ | As with so many modern feature films, I feel there were perhaps 20 minutes of enriching backstory in //Star Trek Beyond// that was cut from the film that would have helped it immeasurably. If this had been a modern TV series, with naught but 10-13 episodes in its exquisitely produced season, I think we would have been all agog. Every character’s storyline could have expanded to satisfying arcs and Krall’s origin could have been a fantastic reveal in the penultimate episode. | ||
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+ | Spaceflights of fancy such as these are what makes me all the more excited for the new Star Trek TV series due in May of this year. While it’s apparently experienced some turmoil as original showrunner Byran Fuller is stepping aside and executives discovered that (gasp) sci-fi/ | ||
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+ | Ah, but we can’t stay in this pleasant nexus of Star Trek thoughts, can we? | ||
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+ | Firmly in the column of unpleasant news, is the [[http:// | ||
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+ | The short version of it all is that the drunken uncle still refuses to admit he’s not entitled to use other people’s property — even when they tell him not to use their property in the form of a lawsuit in federal court. | ||
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+ | Even shorter: the case isn’t settled. | ||
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+ | It isn’t settled, despite some embarrassing facts coming to light this past Fall. Remember the [[http:// | ||
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+ | * Restaurant bills | ||
+ | * Phone bills | ||
+ | * Gas, insurance, and maintenance of his car | ||
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+ | Oh, and that whole question of using the funds to lease and renovate a building for use as a commercial studio space? That was confirmed in the depositions as well. And lest one forget what a deposition is: this is evidence. Legal evidence. Testimony given under oath. Testimony given under oath, in part, by Alec Peters. | ||
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+ | Axanar’s reaction? We shouldn’t have seen the unpleasant things in the depositions, | ||
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+ | In addition to all the official documents of the case, we have all the social media and PR pronouncements from the Axanar team, most memorably from Alec Peters (and frankly, many of those are now evidence in the case). These pronouncements have… //changed// somewhat over the past year of the lawsuit. And of course there’s never an official retraction to these statements. All of Alec Peters and Axanar’s assertions are apparently still valid. | ||
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+ | So, if you are to take Alec Peters at his word, working on Axanar has been: | ||
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+ | - A [[peters_kickstarter_facts# | ||
+ | - required a completely reasonable salary which is not a salary because he [[http:// | ||
+ | - to produce a [[compel_discovery# | ||
+ | - to be shot in a studio which is a commercial studio except when it’s not and is just a warehouse | ||
+ | - and they were all ready to begin shooting in the beginning of 2016 yet the studio/ | ||
+ | - and they have been working meticulously to get every detail adhere exactly to Star Trek canon because they’re doing this for the true Star Trek fans, | ||
+ | - but this is in no way a Star Trek film | ||
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+ | Got it? | ||
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+ | Oh, and just like the asylum denizens in that episode, Axanar still has its supporters. More on them and their cognitive dissonance below. | ||
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+ | First, let’s talk about what should be top on the mind of anyone who liked //Prelude to Axanar// and supported any of the crowdfunding campaigns: the Axanar feature film. | ||
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+ | The Axanar crew was given //$1.4 million// to make this fan film. I’ve done multiple crowdfunding campaigns for films and supported colleagues’ crowdfunding campaigns for films and web series and so on — all of them for less than one tenth of the money Axanar received. Not a single one escaped setbacks or unexpected cost overruns, but //they were made//. | ||
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+ | And this is such the important point. Even with the ridiculous game-playing by the Axanar team, I know many, many people would forgive all the ridiculousness and all the delays if there was a //Star Trek: Axanar// feature to show for it. | ||
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+ | Instead, Alec Peters says that the money was spent “as promised.” | ||
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