Prelude to Axanar

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Movie
Original title Prelude to Axanar
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 21 minutes
Rod
Director Christian Gosset
script Christian Gossett,
Alec Peters
music Alexander Bornstein
camera Milton Santiago
cut Robert Meyer Burnett
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Prelude to Axanar ( German  prelude to Axanar ; working title: Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar ) is an American fan film from 2014 , which was financed by a crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter.com platform , at 100,000 US dollars were taken.

The short film, which is based on Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry , deals in the style of a documentary with events in the run-up to the fictional battle of Axanar between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets mentioned in Star Trek: The Original Series .

action

In the form of a historical documentation of the Federation, the Vulcan ambassador Soval, the Klingon warlord Kharn and the Starfleet officers Captain Garth, Captain Alexander and the Admirals Ramirez and Travis describe in interviews the course of the war in the Four Years War between the Federation and the Klingons as they experienced it . The description begins at stardate 2241.03, about 20 years before the start of the five-year mission of the spacecraft Enterprise under Captain Kirk . Accordingly, the war was started by the Klingons as a campaign of conquest and annihilation and initially brought high losses to Starfleet due to inferior spaceships and tactics.

Only with the appointment of a new commander-in-chief named Ramirez, who oversees the construction of the new Ares class of ships and lets them intervene in the battle as quickly as possible, can the Starfleet move from defensive battles to offensive actions against the Klingon fleet. An important turning point is the battle of Cygnus III, in which Captain Garth, commander of the prototype of the Ares class, inflicts a heavy defeat on the Klingons and their previously superior D6 cruisers. In the aftermath of this battle, Starfleet succeeds in recapturing three systems previously conquered by the Klingons.

In order to regain the initiative, the Klingon Empire is relying on the new battlecruiser class D7 , which Starfleet has nothing to oppose at first, as their new heavy cruisers of the Constitution class are still under construction in the shipyards of the Axanar system. The film ends on stardate 2245.1, shortly before the Battle of Axanar, with the intervention of the first three D7 cruisers in the war.

production

Since the rights to the Star Trek brand are owned by CBS and Paramount Pictures , fan films like Prelude to Axanar are not allowed to make a profit, which is why Alec Peters has chosen a Kickstarter campaign to finance the project, in which instead of the initially targeted 10,000 over $ 100,000 was raised. The film was released in August 2014 and has since been viewed free of charge on the video platform Youtube .

Planned feature film

After the release of the short film Prelude to Axanar , the producers launched another Kickstarter campaign that raised over $ 600,000 for a feature film based on the short film entitled Star Trek: Axanar . After another crowdfunding campaign on the Indiegogo platform , which has already raised over 500,000 US dollars, the film should be completed by 2016, including the characters who have already appeared in Prelude to Axanar .

Litigation with trademark owners

At the end of 2015, the rights holders of the Star Trek franchise (CBS and Paramount Pictures) sued the producers of the fan film on the grounds that the film was too professional for a fan project. In May 2016, the legal battle was ended with the intervention of JJ Abrams (director and producer) and director Justin Lin (director of the current, official Star Trek film Star Trek Beyond ). CBS then announced that there would be guidelines for fan films (“fan film guidelines”) in the future. In June 2016, Paramount and CBS announced in court that despite the explanation by Abrams, Lin and the studio tweets , a copyright infringement lawsuit was being held. In January 2017, Paramount and CBS reached an out-of-court settlement with the producers.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Star Trek Fans Release 'Prelude to Axanar' and Plans to Trek Further , accessed on August 19, 2015
  2. ↑ Star Trek Axanar Just Released , accessed on August 19, 2015
  3. ↑ 'Star Trek: Axanar' Fan Film Kicks Fundraising into Warp Drive , accessed August 19, 2015
  4. ↑ Star Trek: Axanar - Professional Indie Film Project on Indiegogo , accessed August 19, 2015
  5. ↑ Indiegogo campaign page , accessed August 30, 2015
  6. ↑ FAQ of the official website of the production ( Memento of August 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), retrieved on August 19, 2015
  7. ↑ Crowdfunded 'Star Trek' Movie Draws Lawsuit from Paramount, CBS. In: The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 22, 2016 .
  8. ↑ JJ Abrams Announces that Paramount to Drop Lawsuit! May 22, 2016, accessed on May 22, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Star Trek - Paramount and CBS don't drop lawsuit against fan film Axanar. In: moviepilot.de. June 19, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Werner Pluta: The fight for Axanar ends with an out-of-court settlement. In: https://www.golem.de . January 23, 2017, accessed February 24, 2020 .

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