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-**UPDATED 2/20/16** with comments from Axanar spokesman.+**UPDATED 2/20/16** with comments from Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden.
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 Burnett's revelation came just ahead of the Monday, February 22, filing deadline for Axanar's [[Answer]] to the [[lawsuit|legal complaint]] filed two months before by [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures]]. In exchange for a [[lawsuit#axanar's response|30-day extension]] to file its Answer, Axanar had previously agreed to not proceed with filming until at least the filing deadline. Burnett's revelation came just ahead of the Monday, February 22, filing deadline for Axanar's [[Answer]] to the [[lawsuit|legal complaint]] filed two months before by [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures]]. In exchange for a [[lawsuit#axanar's response|30-day extension]] to file its Answer, Axanar had previously agreed to not proceed with filming until at least the filing deadline.
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 +Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden did not specifically confirm Burnett's production halt beyond the filing deadline, but said Saturday that much depends on what happens after the Answer is filed:
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 +> When production will resume is not certain, a lot of things ride on the judge's reaction to the response to be filed by Winston & Strawn. ...  I can't speculate as to the outcome of that review and whether or not production will resume immediately, sometime in the future or at all.((Email reply from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor, received 2/20/16))
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 +He pointed out that preproduction has never stopped, especially in light of the lawsuit:
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 +>  While production work has stopped, pre-production work has not. For the most part, this consists of contingency planning and working through various production details that need to be re-examined because of delays, new directions with the script/story, interest from actors, etc.  ... There's plenty to do that doesn't require putting people in costume on a sound stage and rolling cameras.((Email reply from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor, received 2/20/16))
  
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     * Renting out the studio to other productions while their own is on hold in order to defray ongoing costs, like the building's rent and utilities?     * Renting out the studio to other productions while their own is on hold in order to defray ongoing costs, like the building's rent and utilities?
     * Proceeding with its announced merchandising plans creating,  selling and distributing other Axanar merchandise (e.g., books, posters, patches, DVDs, Blu-rays, apparel, etc.)?     * Proceeding with its announced merchandising plans creating,  selling and distributing other Axanar merchandise (e.g., books, posters, patches, DVDs, Blu-rays, apparel, etc.)?
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 +Bowden said the production is focused finding "a way to work things out with Paramount and CBS. "Those discussions can't start in earnest until both parties have presented their initial arguments to the judge," he said. "I'm not a party to any of that, so I can't tell you if those conversations are happening or not."((Email reply from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor, received 2/20/16))
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 +===== Facebook Fans Question Production =====
  
 Burnett's post was part of a long and controversial thread in the [[face>groups/axanarfansgroup|Axanar Fan Group]] in which administrators repeatedly warned members that questions about accountability or discussion about the lawsuit would get them banned from the group.((View screenshot, "deleted threads," from  {{::deletedthreads.jpg?linkonly|Axanar Fan Group on Facebook.}})) ((View screenshot, "group admins threaten," from {{::admins.jpg?linkonly|Axanar Fan Group on Facebook.}})) Burnett's post was part of a long and controversial thread in the [[face>groups/axanarfansgroup|Axanar Fan Group]] in which administrators repeatedly warned members that questions about accountability or discussion about the lawsuit would get them banned from the group.((View screenshot, "deleted threads," from  {{::deletedthreads.jpg?linkonly|Axanar Fan Group on Facebook.}})) ((View screenshot, "group admins threaten," from {{::admins.jpg?linkonly|Axanar Fan Group on Facebook.}}))
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 While Burnett himself is not named in the suit, as director of the feature film he is widely believed to be one of the unnamed '[[does|John Doe]]' defendants described in CBS/Paramount's legal complaint.(({{:startreklawsuit.pdf|Complaint}}, Paramount v. Axanar, p. 3 ¶10)) While Burnett himself is not named in the suit, as director of the feature film he is widely believed to be one of the unnamed '[[does|John Doe]]' defendants described in CBS/Paramount's legal complaint.(({{:startreklawsuit.pdf|Complaint}}, Paramount v. Axanar, p. 3 ¶10))
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 + --- By //[[carlos@blueserif.com|Carlos Pedraza]] 2016/02/20//
  
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