We’re back after a bit of a break, it wasn’t planned but to be honest, the whole thing about Starfleet Academy really sucked the life out of MTM.

Seeing video after video of click bait stuff about the show and people with weird expressions in the thumbnails just didn’t make Star Trek fun, it is sad that few would consider that hundreds of people lost their jobs and hopefully they got another production to fill in the months of lost work.

Work has been carried out on The 2026 Trekzone Fan Film Awards, we actually started early and started to write a long blog entry about it but then we forgot that the entries close in May and not April but no problem, it just means that there is less to work on later on.

Four of the last five Potemkin releases have reached 10,000 views, the latest fan film ‘Stranded’ is doing really well with 11,000+ views.

We’re looking forward to seeing ‘What We Did on Frontier Day’, ManAtDeskProductions always tell good stories, and this should be no exception.

Need some comedy? Adam Schwartz has something for you, it is called ‘How First Contact Actually Went’, it is much nicer than the mirror universe version of First Contact that was on Enterprise.

Meanwhile, Axanar’s Episode IV has not pulled into the station yet, it is still delayed though they did release a video about five myths and the truth, needless to say it was picked apart fairly quickly.

Interesting the full title is ‘5 Myths About Axanar – The Star Trek CBS Doesn’t Want You to See!’ another little jab at CBS and Paramount, Axanar knows how to stir the pot to get people commenting.

The ‘Too good’ talk is basically that the number of professionals that were working on Axanar was too many to be amateur/homage, Continues had too many and New Voyages had too many and it pushed fan films from amateurs into professionalism and there’s a difference between amateurs having a go and professionals using six and seven figure budgets to take movie length films, Axanar just went in with a bigger bat, made bigger claims and had a store and so CBS and Paramount had enough, the others were about to run into the big pile of turd and Axanar was faster and went head first into it.

Axanar wasn’t ‘Too Good’ for what CBS and Paramount had on its books, it was ‘too good’ for what was considered to be a fan film, simple as that.

Axanar is just a fan film now (with some professionals who are not supposed to be there) but back then it was touted as an ‘independent Star Trek film’, don’t believe the screenshot? see for yourself, they didn’t want to be painted with the ‘fan film’ brush.

Someday we will see those Axanar two parts and maybe they’ll go into the sunset or keep making spin offs, who knows but all people want is for the train to finally pull into the station.

That’s it for this edition, hopefully we’ll have the fire to write more regularly, we shall see.

Until next time, be good to each other.