The fan film Ambush won some awards this week and the 2022 Trekzone Fan Film Awards was mentioned, I did not want to say anything, but I have to say something because I am defending the awards that I co-created and the situation I had first hand knowledge about.

Yesterday, it was said in The Real Truth About Axanar that Matt Miller banned Ambush from the 2022 awards, it did not happen, this is how events unfolded and this is from going through chats to piece together the timeline.

February 2022 – Ambush got posted in AxaMonitor, Alec Peters gets thanked in the credits, Matt comments that it is out of Fan Films Done Right, Greg and others explain the credit to Matt, both parties moved on.

On April 13, 2022, I told Matt that I had picked Ambush for the Best Fight Scene (working title) Award, it wasn’t questioned, and I was not told to not pick it, he just let me work on things.

On April 28, 2022, to keep the awards airtime as trim as possible, one category had to go, Matt was given the choice to choose out of keeping the Fight award (still didn’t have a finalised name) or the Villains in Space one, he was not told or reminded of the nominees/winners of either award and so he chose to keep the Villains in Space award and the Fight award was placed in reserve in the event of problems striking the categories.

On May 5, 2022, the subject of Alec Peters being thanked by Greg Lock popped back up in private talks between Greg and Matt, it was a topic that Matt had forgotten about after it was explained to him by Greg in February, Greg asked Matt in a PM why Ambush wasn’t nominated for any awards and was told the reason in the DM.

Matt even asked me what I had thought about Ambush forgetting that I mentioned it to him in April, the same day (May 5, 2022) we discussed the possibility of sticking the category back in the awards as we had to make some changes due to Interlude’s partial withdrawal but as Greg had already questioned us, it would have appeared to be appeasement (Greg did not know the original result) we also did not want to get ripped into by Fan Film Factor who questioned our awards in a blog post around the same time.

Ambush was not mentioned again until June 8, 2023, in the aftermath of Greg signing that letter that he and 18 others put their names to.

That’s the story, if people believe it, great and if people don’t, well they don’t but we’ll keep on keeping on.