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jeremy-varner [2016/09/14 21:00] – [Betting on Whose Talent?] word fix Carlos Pedrazajeremy-varner [2017/01/03 16:28] – Updates to clarify Carlos Pedraza
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 Varner's August 15 piece observed that //Star Trek: Discovery// show runner [[imdb>name/nm0298188/|Bryan Fuller]] "accidentally confirmed why CBS sued Axanar,"(([[http://jeremyvarner.com/blog/2016/08/discovery-and-axanar/|"Discovery and Axanar," by Jeremy Varner]], jeremyvarner.com, 8/15/16.)) which proved sufficient to retweet and share across social media, drawing even more readers to Varner's website. Varner's August 15 piece observed that //Star Trek: Discovery// show runner [[imdb>name/nm0298188/|Bryan Fuller]] "accidentally confirmed why CBS sued Axanar,"(([[http://jeremyvarner.com/blog/2016/08/discovery-and-axanar/|"Discovery and Axanar," by Jeremy Varner]], jeremyvarner.com, 8/15/16.)) which proved sufficient to retweet and share across social media, drawing even more readers to Varner's website.
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 +[{{ ::false-discovery-axanar.jpg?direct&100|**Propaganda**}}]
 +<wrap lo><wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> On January 3, 2017, Axanar posted on its Facebook fan page a loosely sourced article Axanar used to support the unfounded claim that CBS had "stolen" the concept for //Star Trek: Discovery// from Axanar.</wrap>
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 ===== Eureka! 'Discovery' Must be About Axanar ===== ===== Eureka! 'Discovery' Must be About Axanar =====
  
 [{{ ::uss-discovery.jpg?300|**USS DISCOVERY** appears in a teaser released by CBS at Comic-Con 2016.}}] [{{ ::uss-discovery.jpg?300|**USS DISCOVERY** appears in a teaser released by CBS at Comic-Con 2016.}}]
  
-There, Varner wrote, "Bryan Fuller started talking about what [//Discovery//] was going to be, and a lot of people had their 'Eureka' moment. … A lot of people started to connect the dots and see that maybe, just maybe, Axanar was a threat to the show,"(([[http://jeremyvarner.com/blog/2016/08/discovery-and-axanar/|"Discovery and Axanar," by Jeremy Varner]], jeremyvarner.com, 8/15/16.)) with Fuller's pending exploration of the time before the Original Series (just like //Axanar//), and of an event referred to in TOS (just like //Axanar//), to which Fuller's negative reply to whether the show would be about the [[mema>Earth-Romulan War|Romulan War]] had to mean the show would treat with some other major conflict, Varner speculated:+In his August piece, Varner wrote, "Bryan Fuller started talking about what [//Discovery//] was going to be, and a lot of people had their 'Eureka' moment. … A lot of people started to connect the dots and see that maybe, just maybe, Axanar was a threat to the show,"(([[http://jeremyvarner.com/blog/2016/08/discovery-and-axanar/|"Discovery and Axanar," by Jeremy Varner]], jeremyvarner.com, 8/15/16.)) with Fuller's pending exploration of the time before the Original Series (just like //Axanar//), and of an event referred to in TOS (just like //Axanar//), to which Fuller's negative reply to whether the show would be about the [[mema>Earth-Romulan War|Romulan War]] had to mean the show would treat with some other major conflict, Varner speculated:
  
 > The problem, really, is that there are very few events that happened between //Enterprise// and TOS which had any “discussion”. And, in fact, there were so few events worth talking about that even the interview above came down to “does it involve the [[mema>Battle of Axanar]]?”(([[http://jeremyvarner.com/blog/2016/08/discovery-and-axanar/|"Discovery and Axanar," by Jeremy Varner]], jeremyvarner.com, 8/15/16.)) > The problem, really, is that there are very few events that happened between //Enterprise// and TOS which had any “discussion”. And, in fact, there were so few events worth talking about that even the interview above came down to “does it involve the [[mema>Battle of Axanar]]?”(([[http://jeremyvarner.com/blog/2016/08/discovery-and-axanar/|"Discovery and Axanar," by Jeremy Varner]], jeremyvarner.com, 8/15/16.))