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 <wrap em>PARTLY TRUE</wrap> **Release Date**. According to director [[Robert Meyer Burnett]], at least Part 1 of the planned four-part //Axanar// film would have been released on the actual date of Star Trek's 50th, on September 8.(([[http://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=43514532|Blind Panels podcast]], “Episode 22: Star Trek Axanar - Robert Burnett, Part II, 4/1/16.)) Once it became clear Axanar's [[axanar_indiegogo_details|Indiegogo campaign]] would not raise the additional $1.3 million needed to shoot the entire film at once, Peters decided to split the production into four episodes, with sufficient funding in hand to produce the first two. <wrap em>PARTLY TRUE</wrap> **Release Date**. According to director [[Robert Meyer Burnett]], at least Part 1 of the planned four-part //Axanar// film would have been released on the actual date of Star Trek's 50th, on September 8.(([[http://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=43514532|Blind Panels podcast]], “Episode 22: Star Trek Axanar - Robert Burnett, Part II, 4/1/16.)) Once it became clear Axanar's [[axanar_indiegogo_details|Indiegogo campaign]] would not raise the additional $1.3 million needed to shoot the entire film at once, Peters decided to split the production into four episodes, with sufficient funding in hand to produce the first two.
  
-<wrap em>MOSTLY FALSE</wrap> **Biggest Story**. Peters' claim that "the biggest story" surrounding the 50th anniversary is the Axanar lawsuit is an opinion not borne out by examination. A search on Google News with the keywords "Star Trek 50th anniversary" and even "Star Trek" fails to reveal a single Axanar-related headline in the first several pages of results. Only one article in the search, a GQ piece on the August 2015 Star Trek Las Vegas 50 convention, mentions Axanar and its lawsuit — buried deep in the article.(([[http://www.gq.com/story/this-is-how-star-trek-invented-fandom|"This Is How Star Trek Invented Fandom," by Molly McArdle, GQ Magazine]], 9/21/16.))+<wrap em>MOSTLY FALSE</wrap> **Biggest Story**. Peters' claim that "the biggest story" surrounding the 50th anniversary is the Axanar lawsuit is an opinion not borne out by examination. A search on Google News with the keywords "Star Trek 50th anniversary" and even "Star Trek" fails to reveal a single Axanar-related headline in the first several pages of results. Only one article in the search, a GQ piece on the August 2016 Star Trek Las Vegas 50 convention, mentions Axanar and its lawsuit — buried deep in the article.(([[http://www.gq.com/story/this-is-how-star-trek-invented-fandom|"This Is How Star Trek Invented Fandom," by Molly McArdle, GQ Magazine]], 9/21/16.))
  
 The io9 article Peters did cite to criticize his lawsuit opponents, "[[http://io9.gizmodo.com/cbs-and-paramount-royally-screwed-up-star-treks-50th-an-1786447851|CBS and Paramount Royally Screwed Up Star Trek's 50th Anniversary]],"  failed to mention Axanar at all. The io9 article Peters did cite to criticize his lawsuit opponents, "[[http://io9.gizmodo.com/cbs-and-paramount-royally-screwed-up-star-treks-50th-an-1786447851|CBS and Paramount Royally Screwed Up Star Trek's 50th Anniversary]],"  failed to mention Axanar at all.
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 [{{ :winston-peters.jpg?300|**TOP FIRM** Peters, center, poses with his pro bono attorney, Erin Ranahan, left, of the firm Winston & Strawn.}}] [{{ :winston-peters.jpg?300|**TOP FIRM** Peters, center, poses with his pro bono attorney, Erin Ranahan, left, of the firm Winston & Strawn.}}]
  
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-<wrap em>PARTLY TRUE</wrap> **Just Some Fan**. Peters' characterization of himself and his project as "just some fan producing a fan film" is at odds with how he formerly portrayed Axanar until he was sued. Peters explicitly eschewed the term fan film for //Axanar//, instead describing it as "the groundbreaking … first fully professional, independent Star Trek film."+<WRAP right round box 350px> 
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 +<wrap lo><wrap em>FACT CHECK</wrap> is an **AxaMonitor** series examining claims made with regard to the Axanar case, chiefly Alec Peters' blog posts, interviews and public announcements. [[axam>tag:fact_check&do=showtag&tag=fact_check|Read the series »]]</wrap> 
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 +<wrap em>PARTLY TRUE</wrap> **Just Some Fan**. Peters' characterization of himself and his project as "just some fan producing a fan film" is at odds with how he formerly portrayed Axanar until he was sued. Peters explicitly eschewed the term fan film for //Axanar//, instead describing it as "the groundbreaking … first fully professional, independent Star Trek film."(([[http://igg.me/at/axanar/x/9027520|Axanar Indiegogo campaign page]], retrieved 9/23/16.))
  
 <wrap em>TRUE</wrap> **Top Law Firm**. Peters did successfully hire a prominent IP firm, [[Winston & Strawn]], to represent Axanar pro bono. Axanar is still liable, however, for fees and costs outside the hourly rates of the lawyers working on its case. <wrap em>TRUE</wrap> **Top Law Firm**. Peters did successfully hire a prominent IP firm, [[Winston & Strawn]], to represent Axanar pro bono. Axanar is still liable, however, for fees and costs outside the hourly rates of the lawyers working on its case.
  
 <wrap em>MOSTLY FALSE</wrap> **Crying Uncle**. The notion that CBS and Paramount expected Peters to fold immediately after they filed suit in December 2015 is mostly supposition based on some lack of specificity in the original [[lawsuit#legal complaint]], swiftly rectified by the plaintiffs in an amended filing. The fact is that Peters simply cannot know what the plaintiffs might have thought about how he would react to the suit. Peters' assertion that he unexpectedly rose up to find powerful allies to fight back is simply a narrative used to attract public support. <wrap em>MOSTLY FALSE</wrap> **Crying Uncle**. The notion that CBS and Paramount expected Peters to fold immediately after they filed suit in December 2015 is mostly supposition based on some lack of specificity in the original [[lawsuit#legal complaint]], swiftly rectified by the plaintiffs in an amended filing. The fact is that Peters simply cannot know what the plaintiffs might have thought about how he would react to the suit. Peters' assertion that he unexpectedly rose up to find powerful allies to fight back is simply a narrative used to attract public support.
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 [{{ ::desilu-copyright.jpg?300|**COPYRIGHT** The closing credits for Star Trek's first pilot, "The Cage," bears a 1964 copyright by Desilu Studios, the series' original owner.}}] [{{ ::desilu-copyright.jpg?300|**COPYRIGHT** The closing credits for Star Trek's first pilot, "The Cage," bears a 1964 copyright by Desilu Studios, the series' original owner.}}]