We are reportedly just weeks away from the release of Episode IV and that fact doesn’t appear to be good enough for Axanar as Axanar is poking the bear with every opportunity it gets.

A new video posted on YouTube has raised eyebrows as it said that instead of Axanar being Prelude, Episode IV and V, there are now The Vulcan Scene, Interlude, Icarus and Daedalus and other side dishes of fan films added to the collection, ‘a franchise of a franchise’.

This is not surprising as it was obvious that they were Axanar handled side dishes instead of being made by fan film makers motivated to add their own addition to the story.

Why is Axanar trying so hard to provoke CBS? The two parties do not see eye-to-eye, but this fighting has had its advantages for Axanar as whenever CBS takes action to enforce its legal agreement, Axanar has ammunition that CBS are being a bunch of corporate tyrants, who cares that Axanar is not following its legal agreement, people will take the corporate tyrant angle without deep research.

Axanar got given a pretty good deal in their legal agreement, some terms were far more generous than what everybody else has to play with under the Fan Film Guidelines, but they keep trying something to knock over the apple cart.

It has always been interesting that Axanar agreed to terms when it supposedly had a winning hand in the legal battle, why fold and agree to terms when you firmly believe you are right and you are spared crippling the legal costs of lawyers who were willing to do the battling to the very end?

There is a belief that CBS will stop Episode IV over violations and opinion is split over such a possible move, some think that it would just drag the saga on and on and that’s what Axanar is hoping for but if TPTB let Axanar go on by, the belief is that interest in Axanar diminishes as once they are done, they can’t do anything more.

The fan film world has changed so much since Prelude to Axanar, fan films aren’t the only game in town as we had a stack of produced Star Trek on TV/Streaming, there are almost no professionals in the hobby now, fan films were returned to the people and not the biggest fundraisers and their professional stacked staff.

There is a claim that Episode IV will be shown in San Diego, the cinema that it is supposed to be at does not have it on its online list, maybe claiming it is going to be there is just a lure, and it is going to be elsewhere making people look foolish or it really is not going to be a premiere.

Come to think of it, is a public screening of the fan film legal? One more middle finger to the holders of the IP? It will be such a relief when this all comes to an end.

Until next time, be good to each other.