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Alec Peters
Alec Peters is the executive producer of Axanar and Prelude to Axanar. He is the chief executive officer of Axanar Productions, Inc., and the prop auctioneering company, Propworx.
Defendant
Peters is personally named as a defendant in the lawsuit brought against him and Axanar Productions by CBS Studios and Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement of Star Trek.
Peters’ extensive social media presence led federal Judge R. Gary Klausner to cite a public posting as justification for denying the defense’s Motions to Dismiss:
Plaintiffs’ allegations based on “information and belief” are bolstered by specific facts and many allegations gleaned directly from comparing the works at issue and from Defendants’ public postings on social media. For example, Plaintiffs include a screenshot of Defendants’ Facebook post of a photo of Defendant Peters posing with a “fully revised and locked script.”1) [emphasis added]
Biography
Peters is a serial entrepreneur and winner of Ernst & Young’s 2004 Young Entrepreneur of the Year. He is a lawyer by training and a former collegiate volleyball coach.
In 2013, Peters portrayed Garth of Izar in the fan series Star Trek: New Voyages and was to reprise the role in the planned feature-length Axanar, which he co-wrote and was set to produce, though he decided to re-cast the role with a younger, to-be-named actor.
Peters wrote the original story for Axanar 25 years ago and decided to produce it as a feature film after his experience with Star Trek: New Voyages.
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