It appears that Axanar’s strategy regarding the order to pay CBS and Paramount $292,000 is to ignore it.

Alec Peters just short of four minutes into Trek After Dark #59 shown viewers a certified envelope reportedly sent by CBS (we can’t see the sender of the mail) and then chucked it behind him, it is unknown if it was from them or if it was opened.

‘Here’s something from CBS (shows and chucks away an envelope) you have lost $300,000, why? because you lied on the stand and convinced an arbitrator of your bulls**t, yeah you go go suck an egg‘

It seems that the message to CBS and Paramount is that they have lost $300,000 because they lied on the stand and convinced an arbitrator of bulls**t and then he tells them to go go suck an egg.

People think that CBS and Paramount should be nice to fan films, they are really nice to 99.9% of fan films, fan films are meant to be a bunch of friends having fun with a camera not people building studios and needing people to pay for it or pay for all or a portion of its upkeep and having professionals aplenty on the payroll.

Axanar was a hot commodity because it was loaded with professionals, professionals led by an amateur and you simply cannot build a brand using somebody else’s intellectual property, something none of those professionals seemed to had thought about at the time.

How would you like it if you build yourself a business and somebody copies that business and makes their own version of it but they’re riding on the back of everything that made you successful? You’d be angry about it.

Star Trek does not belong to you and me, it belongs to CBS and Paramount, end of story, we can watch it, enjoy it, buy the merchandise, play the games, see the stars at conventions but we cannot try and make money from Star Trek by making your own ‘Universe’, you can slice or toast the bread any way you want but it is still their bread and if they want to take it away from you, they can.

CBS and Paramount gave Axanar a chance with the settlement, they had a sweeter deal than every other fan film, they got to keep their Prelude stars and had other unique concessions but what did they do? They chose to ignore the terms and chose to just follow the ‘spirit’ of it and plow on.

Axanar laughed at every letter that they were sent seemingly feeling assured that nothing was going to happen.

If Axanar thought that they were always in the right, then why did they accept the deal that was offered to them? Why not fight it out when the legal meter wasn’t running? Seems they had nothing to lose but they had taken the deal.

There seems to be this hope that they can sit around and wait for the new owners of CBS and Paramount to come in and then be generous by waiving the $292,000, it could happen, but they could also decide to keep on keeping on and seek to get every cent it can get.

Not long until Axanar is said to be coming out and then all that is left will be details like the $292,000 (plus interest).