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How is it a group of non-affiliated people, actors from the 90s era shows with a much smaller budget can make a better star trek than anything the actual IP owners can?
Prelude is a great short film - really well done, decent cast and characters, music and spc effects. Really enjoyable
Then there is Discovery Season 2 :( Sorry I mean the Imcomparable Adventures of her divine majesty Michael Burnham.
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Just watched it.
1) Damn that is excellent. I loved the documentary style. It makes use of good acting to set the atmosphere and maximize the limited CGI budget.
2) Great writing!
3) Some serious actors in that. I loved the irony of Martok as a starfleet officer. Was that original Apollo as the Klingon commander?
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Yodhrin wrote: Wait, are they still doing something more? I thought they got nuked from orbit by CBS.
They can still make a movie, but it can't be any longer than 30 minutes (and has to be released in 2 15 minute parts) which isn't really a movie, I guess?
I haven't heard anything about the project though since the lawsuit settled in 2017, not that I've specifically gone looking. I kind of get the sense it died under the weight of Paramount/CBS' restrictions. EDIT: The website is still being updated as of May 2019, so I guess they're still going?
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CBS is run by fools for not backing this and making bank off of it. It never ceases to amaze me just how stupid some people are out there in the world.
Yeah, I saw this back when it seemed like the whole channel was about to get nuked because CBS was touting its own pre-TOS series and couldn't risk being shown up by a passionate fan project.
Funny enough, by trying to do that they just drew attention to Axanar and... Yeah, it shows up Disco pretty hard.
IIRC the problem wasn't so much making a fan film as it was trying to merchandise it using an IP they didn't own.
Is that true?
I am not someone who buys model ships (do they even make good plastic model star trek ships?) but that one ship... Looks like a TOS rendition of the Newton class from the Abramseverse, the one with the two secondary hulls underneath and the two nacels up top with the roll bar? I'd pay cash money for that. That is a damn pretty spaceship.
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Captain Joystick wrote: Yeah, I saw this back when it seemed like the whole channel was about to get nuked because CBS was touting its own pre-TOS series and couldn't risk being shown up by a passionate fan project.
Funny enough, by trying to do that they just drew attention to Axanar and... Yeah, it shows up Disco pretty hard.
IIRC the problem wasn't so much making a fan film as it was trying to merchandise it using an IP they didn't own.
Is that true?
I am not someone who buys model ships (do they even make good plastic model star trek ships?) but that one ship... The one with the two secondary hulls underneath and the two nacels up top with the roll bar? I'd pay cash money for that. That is a damn pretty spaceship.
I too would like to know the basis for this, I've been searching, and I can't find any supporting evidence.
It's the thing that initially got them attention from the legal department, but I think the whole episode ultimately called more attention to CBS draconian approach to fan film projects than anything.
3) Some serious actors in that. I loved the irony of Martok as a starfleet officer. Was that original Apollo as the Klingon commander?
JG Hertzler's growl makes him recognisable, even without makeup.
Yes, it's Richard Hatch as Karn. Those sequences were shot a few years ago.
Gary Graham reprised his Enterprise roll as Soval.
The axanar dispute has been resolved. but I don't think they can tell the story they want within the confines they are now given. Max 30 minutes, no more than 2 parts of 15 minutes each.
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
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this was great, really well done. I liked Richard Hatch as the klingon, guess they've been working on it for a while since he passed away a couple years ago.
We're more likely to first see the Axanar spinoff that's being planned than the official Axanar film. The guy who tirelessly promotes/shills (depending on your opinion of the Axanar debacle) for Axanar and runs the fan film factor blog is making the spinoff with the two directors/actors/producers who run the Avalan fan film universe. He's detailing his planning for the crowdfunding right now.
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