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-====== Text-Only 2016 Top 10 Axanar Stories ======+====== Text-Only 2017 Top 10 Axanar Stories ======
  
 //No. 10// \\ //No. 10// \\
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 **Waning Support** \\ **Waning Support** \\
 Though settling his copyright lawsuit with CBS/Paramount won Alec Peters the right to produce a 30-minute fan film – nicknamed Axanar Lite – it lost him fans who wanted a feature film. As 2017 wore on, Peters' vitriolic social media rants became self-inflicted wounds as former allies distanced them-selves or broke ties completely, including the Trekyards podcasters and the Axanar podcast's home, Trek.fm. Hundreds fled Axanar's Facebook group after one egregious rant. Once welcome at Dragon*Con, Axanar's fan group was ejected after trying to sell merchandise using actor Tony Todd's image. Though settling his copyright lawsuit with CBS/Paramount won Alec Peters the right to produce a 30-minute fan film – nicknamed Axanar Lite – it lost him fans who wanted a feature film. As 2017 wore on, Peters' vitriolic social media rants became self-inflicted wounds as former allies distanced them-selves or broke ties completely, including the Trekyards podcasters and the Axanar podcast's home, Trek.fm. Hundreds fled Axanar's Facebook group after one egregious rant. Once welcome at Dragon*Con, Axanar's fan group was ejected after trying to sell merchandise using actor Tony Todd's image.
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 +//Sidebar// \\
 +**‘I wish my hands were clean of this awful train wreck’** \\
 +In 2017, a growing number of former Axanar supporters publicly disavowed Alec Peters and his project. Duane Browning summed up their feelings in a year-end blog post:
 +“By supporting Axanar, I had contributed to the outright demise of Star Trek: Phase 2 and the early conclusion of Star Trek Continues. … I wish that I could take back my $65 and delete every post I made that supported Axanar and feel like my hands were clean of this awful trainwreck.”
  
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 **End of Lawsuit** \\ **End of Lawsuit** \\
 In a stinging repudiation of Axanar's defense in the copyright infringe-ment suit brought by CBS/Paramount, federal Judge R. Gary Klausner eliminated fair use as a defense, finding “the Axanar Works are not transformative [and] the Axanar Works are commercial.” He also ruled Axanar had to turn over two sets of financial records, which the defense had resisted. Days later, both sides announced a settlement permitting Axanar to be made under terms Alec Peters had rejected months before. In a stinging repudiation of Axanar's defense in the copyright infringe-ment suit brought by CBS/Paramount, federal Judge R. Gary Klausner eliminated fair use as a defense, finding “the Axanar Works are not transformative [and] the Axanar Works are commercial.” He also ruled Axanar had to turn over two sets of financial records, which the defense had resisted. Days later, both sides announced a settlement permitting Axanar to be made under terms Alec Peters had rejected months before.
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 +//Sidebar// \\
 +**AXANAR ANTICS** inspired three AxaMonitor publications explaining the copyright lawsuit, making sense of Axanar's convoluted fin-ances and providing daily coverage of Alec Peters’ ill-fated attempt to get fans to pay to save the belea-guered movie studio on which he'd pinned his hopes for an ongoing commercial production facility.
  
 //No. 3// \\ //No. 3// \\
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 One fan, Phil Bates, for example, posted: “This page gets angrier and angrier every day. I’ve donated pretty healthy amounts to your project, I love Axanar, however the venom gets thicker and thicker over time it seems.” Meanwhile, Peters' stalwart supporters carried out personal attacks against those they named as haters, while Axanar fans accused the haters of doing the same. Only the increasing possibility Axanar Lite may never be made has mitigated the attacks. Many who supported Axanar have turned their attacks against CBS and its new Star Trek series, Discovery, and their support to Fox television's TNG-alike, the Seth McFarlane-produced The Orville, in which he also stars. One fan, Phil Bates, for example, posted: “This page gets angrier and angrier every day. I’ve donated pretty healthy amounts to your project, I love Axanar, however the venom gets thicker and thicker over time it seems.” Meanwhile, Peters' stalwart supporters carried out personal attacks against those they named as haters, while Axanar fans accused the haters of doing the same. Only the increasing possibility Axanar Lite may never be made has mitigated the attacks. Many who supported Axanar have turned their attacks against CBS and its new Star Trek series, Discovery, and their support to Fox television's TNG-alike, the Seth McFarlane-produced The Orville, in which he also stars.
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 +**In Store for 2018** \\
 +The stories AXAMONITOR will cover in 2018 … new Axanar writer PAUL JENKINS … which ACTORS from Prelude will return … pre-production for AXANAR LITE … how will Axanar raise $150K to produce AXANAR LITE? … will OTHER WORLD COMPUTING continue its sponsorship of Axanar? … the DR. SEUSS COPYRIGHT/TRADEMARK SUIT against Axanar advocate DAVID GERROLD.
  
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