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 A Hollywood producer, friend and associate of //[[Axanar]]// director [[Robert Meyer Burnett]], lays out how he believes the production's **endgame** will play out. A Hollywood producer, friend and associate of //[[Axanar]]// director [[Robert Meyer Burnett]], lays out how he believes the production's **endgame** will play out.
  
-Lukas Kendall, who worked on Burnett's 1998 Star Trek fan-based comedy, //[[imdb>title/tt0141105/|Free Enterprise]]//, posted a [[http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/cbs-paramount-sues-to-stop-axanar.278077/page-703#post-11535680|lengthy essay]] on the discussion board, TrekBBS, in which he described the constraints preventing quick resolution in the lawsuit brought by Star Trek owners [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures]] against [[Axanar Productions]] and producer [[Alec Peters]].+Lukas Kendall worked on Burnett's 1998 Star Trek fan-based comedy, //[[imdb>title/tt0141105/|Free Enterprise]]//, and has produced a number of albums and box sets of Star Trek music for CBS. 
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 +He posted a [[http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/cbs-paramount-sues-to-stop-axanar.278077/page-703#post-11535680|lengthy essay]] on the discussion board, TrekBBS, in which he described the constraints preventing quick resolution in the lawsuit brought by Star Trek owners [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures]] against [[Axanar Productions]] and producer [[Alec Peters]].
  
 [{{ ::lukas-kendall.jpg?nolink&150|Producer and actor **Lukas Kendall**}}] [{{ ::lukas-kendall.jpg?nolink&150|Producer and actor **Lukas Kendall**}}]
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   - Refund donors' money.   - Refund donors' money.
  
-He also notes that CBS would insist on a third condition: That Alec Peters "accept a lifetime ban on any commercial involvement with Star Trek. We’re talking //Pete Rose-banned-from baseball//."(([[http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/cbs-paramount-sues-to-stop-axanar.278077/page-703#post-11535680|TrekBBS post by Lukas Kendall]], 4/7/16.))+He also believes CBS would insist on a third condition: That Alec Peters "accept a lifetime ban on any commercial involvement with Star Trek. We’re talking //Pete Rose-banned-from baseball//."(([[http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/cbs-paramount-sues-to-stop-axanar.278077/page-703#post-11535680|TrekBBS post by Lukas Kendall]], 4/7/16.))
  
 That would include Peters' planned documentary about Axanar, memoirs, selling props or signing autographs at conventions, he said, adding: That would include Peters' planned documentary about Axanar, memoirs, selling props or signing autographs at conventions, he said, adding:
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 Kendall called for public pressure to get "Axanar to throw in the towel, refund the donor money and accept humiliation and punishment."(([[http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/cbs-paramount-sues-to-stop-axanar.278077/page-703#post-11535680|TrekBBS post by Lukas Kendall]], 4/7/16.)) Kendall called for public pressure to get "Axanar to throw in the towel, refund the donor money and accept humiliation and punishment."(([[http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/cbs-paramount-sues-to-stop-axanar.278077/page-703#post-11535680|TrekBBS post by Lukas Kendall]], 4/7/16.))
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 +[{{ :locked-script.jpg?250|**DISAPPOINTED DONORS** should at least get a copy of the August 2015 "final draft" screenplay, suggests Lukas Kendall, who's read it.}}]
  
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 An end to the lawsuit leaves some hanging threads however, which Kendall addresses: An end to the lawsuit leaves some hanging threads however, which Kendall addresses:
  
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 ==== Disappointed Donors ==== ==== Disappointed Donors ====
  
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-The assets Axanar built out in its leased warehouse, which it refers to as [[Ares Studios]] are currently up for sale to [[investor_group|secret private investor group]]. This poses a problem even if the lawsuit ends, Kendall noted:+The assets Axanar built out in its leased warehouse, which it refers to as [[Ares Studios]] are currently up for sale to a [[investor_group|secret private investor group]]. This poses a problem even if the lawsuit ends, Kendall noted:
  
 > That [sound] stage has a significant “burn rate” that will exhaust the donor money and get Axanar evicted—unless Axanar leases it for commercial use. Both options are problematic. The stage cannot be liquidated (dismantled) in order to repay the donors, but clearly somebody—be it the landlord or the next tenant—is going to benefit from the donors’ largesse.(([[http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/cbs-paramount-sues-to-stop-axanar.278077/page-703#post-11535680|TrekBBS post by Lukas Kendall]], 4/7/16.)) > That [sound] stage has a significant “burn rate” that will exhaust the donor money and get Axanar evicted—unless Axanar leases it for commercial use. Both options are problematic. The stage cannot be liquidated (dismantled) in order to repay the donors, but clearly somebody—be it the landlord or the next tenant—is going to benefit from the donors’ largesse.(([[http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/cbs-paramount-sues-to-stop-axanar.278077/page-703#post-11535680|TrekBBS post by Lukas Kendall]], 4/7/16.))
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 Finally, he explained his reason for speaking out: Finally, he explained his reason for speaking out:
  
-> As much as I love hate-watching Axanar, I empathize with all the people being hurt by this fiasco: Primarily, the Star Trek fans who gave their money. But there are also the makers of the other fan films (now in jeopardy), the CBS executives dealing with this shit (better people than anybody realizes), and even the John Does at Axanar who just wanted to make a Star Trek film. //This needs to end//.+> As much as I love hate-watching Axanar, I empathize with all the people being hurt by this fiasco: Primarily, the Star Trek fans who gave their money. But there are also the makers of the other fan films (now in jeopardy), the CBS executives dealing with this shit (better people than anybody realizes), and even the John Does at Axanar who just wanted to make a Star Trek film. \\ \\ //This needs to end//.
  
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-**[[imdb>name/nm0447620/|Lukas Kendall]]** is an award-winning producer and actor, known for //Lucky Bastard// (2014), //Basil Poledouris: His Life and Music// (1997), in addition to //Free Enterprise//, in which he is credited for providing additional voices. He is also known as the editor and publisher of the film music appreciation newsletter and website, [[http://filmsscoremonthly.com|Film Score Monthly]]. His Star Trek credentials include producing most of the recent collector’s edition soundtrack CDs, including the 15-disc La-La Land Records TOS box set. He also assisted with the publication of "Return to Tomorrow," the oral history of //Star Trek: The Motion Picture//. In 2015, he wrote a seminal essay for TrekMovie.com, "[[http://trekmovie.com/2015/01/11/editorial-the-future-of-star-trek-its-the-story-stupid/|The Future of Star Trek: It’s the Story, Stupid]]," examining the franchise's fundamental appeal and the reasons why J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot is so polarizing.((Some of Kendall's biographical information adapted from [[http://trekmovie.com/2015/01/11/editorial-the-future-of-star-trek-its-the-story-stupid/|TrekMovie.com]].))+<wrap lo>**[[imdb>name/nm0447620/|Lukas Kendall]]** is an award-winning producer and actor, known for //Lucky Bastard// (2014), //Basil Poledouris: His Life and Music// (1997), in addition to //Free Enterprise//, in which he is credited for providing additional voices. He is also known as the editor and publisher of the film music appreciation newsletter and website, [[http://filmsscoremonthly.com|Film Score Monthly]]. \\ \\ 
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 +His Star Trek credentials include producing most of the recent collector’s edition soundtrack CDs, including the 15-disc La-La Land Records TOS box set. He also assisted with the publication of "Return to Tomorrow," the oral history of //Star Trek: The Motion Picture//. In 2015, he wrote a seminal essay for TrekMovie.com, "[[http://trekmovie.com/2015/01/11/editorial-the-future-of-star-trek-its-the-story-stupid/|The Future of Star Trek: It’s the Story, Stupid]]," examining the franchise's fundamental appeal and the reasons why J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot is so polarizing.((Some of Kendall's biographical information adapted from [[http://trekmovie.com/2015/01/11/editorial-the-future-of-star-trek-its-the-story-stupid/|TrekMovie.com]].))</wrap> {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}
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