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locked_script [2016/09/13 09:36] – [‘Not Terrible’] fixes typo Carlos Pedrazalocked_script [2017/06/28 17:11] – Carlos Pedraza
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 <wrap lo>**REDUCED TO RUBBLE** Klingon disruptors cut through a Federation colony, sparking the war that would've been depicted in //Axanar//. (//Photo/Prelude to Axanar, Axanar Productions//)</wrap> <wrap lo>**REDUCED TO RUBBLE** Klingon disruptors cut through a Federation colony, sparking the war that would've been depicted in //Axanar//. (//Photo/Prelude to Axanar, Axanar Productions//)</wrap>
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 ====== The 'Locked' Axanar Screenplay: A Review ====== ====== The 'Locked' Axanar Screenplay: A Review ======
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 While Kharn and Garth — presented as two great opponents — do interact, it’s small potatoes. If you expect something like //The Wrath of Khan//'s Khan or //Nemesis//' Shinzon with their constant face-offs, traps, verbal sparring, action and counteraction, hero and villain vexing each other, that’s not really the case here. (Nor, for that matter, in the earlier-ready-to-shoot script.) While Kharn and Garth — presented as two great opponents — do interact, it’s small potatoes. If you expect something like //The Wrath of Khan//'s Khan or //Nemesis//' Shinzon with their constant face-offs, traps, verbal sparring, action and counteraction, hero and villain vexing each other, that’s not really the case here. (Nor, for that matter, in the earlier-ready-to-shoot script.)
  
-Kharn is challenged more by his lieutenant, Chang, than he is by Garth. Instead of two near-perfectly matched leaders fighting with greater assets for higher stakes, Kharn is mostly sidelined so Garth can destroy the enemy-of-the-scene, with Kharn not even remotely manipulating events. “He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him!” does not happen in any way, at any time, in this script. +Kharn is challenged more by his lieutenant, Chang, than he is by Garth. Instead of two near-perfectly matched leaders fighting with greater assets for higher stakes, Kharn is mostly sidelined so Garth can destroy the enemy-of-the-scene, with Kharn not even remotely manipulating events. “He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him!”((A line spoken by Khan in Star Trek II, based on phrasing used by Captain Ahab in "Moby Dick.")) does not happen in any way, at any time, in this script. 
  
 [{{ ::sonya-alexander-kate-vernon.jpg|**CAMEO CAPTAINS** Kate Vernon's character, Sonya Alexander, is one of several from //Prelude to Axanar// who make brief appearances in the August 2015 //Axanar// script.}}] [{{ ::sonya-alexander-kate-vernon.jpg|**CAMEO CAPTAINS** Kate Vernon's character, Sonya Alexander, is one of several from //Prelude to Axanar// who make brief appearances in the August 2015 //Axanar// script.}}]
  
-**WHAT DOES** happen in this new script are expanded beats for characters introduced in //Prelude to Axanar//, like Sonya Alexander, Frank Travis and Admiral Ramirez. (Slightly surprising, as Tony Todd, he actor identified with that role, left the production and there were no reported plans to recast.) [//Editor's note: Todd was still attached to //Axanar// at the time this script was drafted; [[tony_todd|he departed]] a couple weeks later.//]+**WHAT DOES** happen in this new script are expanded beats for characters introduced in //Prelude to Axanar//, like Sonya Alexander, Frank Travis and Admiral Ramirez. (Slightly surprising, as Tony Todd, the actor identified with that role, left the production and there were no reported plans to recast.) [//Editor's note: Todd was still attached to //Axanar// at the time this script was drafted; [[tony_todd|he departed]] a couple weeks later.//]
  
 While still essentially extended cameos for fan favorite actors Kate Vernon and J.G. Hertzler, these characters now have a bit more to do than before, including a pretty funny interrogation bit for Vernon’s Captain Alexander. That said, these  as well as the other new “cameo captains” — one each Vulcan, Tellarite and Andorian — are still essentially interchangeable Starfleet figureheads, all doing the same thing in the story: Providing a familiar face to cut to when orders are issued. A bit of a waste, really. While still essentially extended cameos for fan favorite actors Kate Vernon and J.G. Hertzler, these characters now have a bit more to do than before, including a pretty funny interrogation bit for Vernon’s Captain Alexander. That said, these  as well as the other new “cameo captains” — one each Vulcan, Tellarite and Andorian — are still essentially interchangeable Starfleet figureheads, all doing the same thing in the story: Providing a familiar face to cut to when orders are issued. A bit of a waste, really.