Star Trek fans have been curious for class about the Battle of Axanar , the decisive turn period in the war against the Klingon Empire . And now , a unexampled unofficial movie will show what really happen at Axanar , and how Captain Garth triumphed . Here ’s your first epitome from Star Trek : Axanar , entirely at io9 !
This image was sent to us by Robert Meyer Burnett , who was involved in Axanar in a produce capacity and has just read over as film director . Burnett , who channelize the classic comedy Free Enterprise , explain the paradigm to us : “ This is Gary Graham , once again play Ambassador Soval ( from Star Trek : Enterprise ) , and Kim Fitzgerald play a new type , Vulcan Minister T’Lera ( who may or may not be the same reference from Margaret Wander Bonanno ’s wonderful 1987 TREK novel Strangers from the Sky . ) They are discourse a very dire vote the Vulcan High Council has just made , which would have potentially fearsome upshot for the entire Alpha and Beta quadrants . ”
And here ’s a behind - the - scenes range , register how the above still was created :
Axanar will be having a third crowdfunding military campaign soon , to leaven badly needed funds to make out the production . We talked to Burnett about why he engage over as director of Axanar , and what to bear from this movie :
What lead to you taking over as director , and how is your approaching going to be unlike from the Christian Gossett reading ?
Because of other , ongoing labor , Christian felt he simply did n’t have the time needed to give to the feature article translation of AXANAR . He did such a marvellous problem directing and co - writing PRELUDE , and I very much enjoyed process with him as the film editor on the project , so I was really pitiful to see him go .
This left AXANAR Creator and Executive Producer Alec Peters in a precarious stance . The architectural plan was always to shoot the bulk of the feature article starting in November , to have the finished film quick for STAR TREK ’s actual fiftieth day of remembrance , sometime on or before Sept. 8th , 2016 . So he really demand someone who could chute right in . To be honest , I ’ve wanted to conduct a STAR TREK film for most of my animation , so for me , it would , quite literally , be a dreaming get along true to direct AXANAR . I think I was probably the natural choice , but I would perfectly have to leaven myself to Alec .
Unlike Christian , I have not only 26 age of film production experience behind me , but a life - long obsession with all things STAR TREK , so I ’m hop the synthesis of those two things will dish me well moving forward . I even have a bit of professional TREK experience , first as a TREK consultant for Viacom Licensing back in the mid-90s , then I put to work for two age creating television material for the STAR TREK EXPERIENCE , which used to be at the Las Vegas Hilton . I spell and directed spare ENTERPRISE , starring William Shatner and WILL AND GRACE ’s Eric McCormack and finally spent three years creating the award - winning special feature of speech for the Blu - Ray releases of all seven time of year of STAR TREK : THE NEXT GENERATION and four seasons of ENTERPRISE .
Moving forward , I absolutely intend to honor the character , storyline and whole tone created by Alec and Christian in PRELUDE TO AXANAR . First and foremost , I ’ve always think in the TREK existence as present to audiences for almost 50 yr . We ’ve seen hundreds of years of TREK history since the original series debut , and I intend to honor all of that . Since I was a kid , a part of me always believed in the TREK universe as a living , breathing place . In my mind , it does actually exist , so all of my creative decisions are color by the notion of creating credibility within that framework . I have to bribe everything contained in AXANAR is realness as far as the TREK cosmos is have-to doe with . For example , as originally conceptualize , the actual design of the Starship Enterprise is such that it could n’t possibility be construct inside the gravity well of a satellite . The part parts were constructed on Earth and then assembled in Earth Orbit , as suggest by the actual scientific advice expert advise Roddenberry and company back in the mid01960s . We ’ve see orbital dry - docks since 1979 ’s THE MOTION PICTURE , so , one should absolutely abide by that . see mental imagery which runs contrary to establish TREK lore shatter the verisimilitude of the universe of discourse for the longtime fan base . I ’m also a huge lover of the expanded TREK universe , and there are many excellent novels which also amplify and interpolate the TREK universe in very compelling and credible direction , so I ’m always looking to add together cloth from the best of the novel . Alec and I lecture about John Ford ’s THE FINAL thoughtfulness a expectant mountain … a must learn if you ’re at all concerned in the Klingons .
Garth of Izar gets a lot of buildup in his one appearance in TOS asa legendary tactician and brilliant ship’s officer … is that a luck to liveup to ? How do you square that with the total loon we actually cope with in”Whom graven image Destroy ? ”
As we know from Jerry Sohl and Lee Erwin ’s wildly entertaining story , Garth of Izar was the one of the best Starship Captains who ever experience . He was Kirk ’s hero and his feat required reading at Starfleet Academy . But , unfortunately , after learning the secret of cellular transfiguration from the peaceable and benevolent Antosians , he was drive sick by the ability . I always work out he recede his own indistinguishability because of such mightiness , and that push him insane . Alec Peters was always intrigued by the character and begin spell stories about him decades ago . Alec will state you he ’s been fascinated by that import at the end of the instalment when Garth ’s thinker finally clear , and he order , “ Do I screw you sir ? ” to Kirk , the nobility finally returning to his personality . But AXANAR happens long before Garth ’s dip from grace of God , so we ’ll meet the Captain who ’s chew the fat more satellite , research more of the extragalactic nebula than anyone else , a cracking Internet Explorer who finds himself thrust into a warfare with the Klingons where the very survival of the Federation flow in the equipoise . Most interestingly , the state of war was unwittingly trigger off by The Federation ’s rapid expansion and belief that everyone would be more than well-chosen to join their confederation .
How much are you cat worried about stay consistent with what ’s been depicted of Axanar in standoff - in record , comics , games , etc . ?
While PRELUDE TO AXANAR and the whim of THE FOUR YEARS WAR were perfectly inspired by the FASA sourcebook for the STAR TREK persona playing secret plan , we ’re sticking as close as we can to the events show in the original series and not referencing the RPG or any of the Quran and funnies that have been written . Aside from Garth and Ambassador Soval , all of our characters are completely original , as are the situations presented in the film . Does this jibe with established TREK canon ? We ’re doing everything we can to make AXANAR sense like canyon . take on place 21 years before TOS , who ’s to say this is n’t exactly how it happened . We find that a huge routine of fans have told us they consider “ Axanar ” canyon because of the fashion we draw near it , and the reverence we have for Star Trek . There ’s also the four unbelievable FOUR YEARS WAR lover fiction novel write by Stephen Fender which are an fabulously compelling account of the fight , but our story take issue altogether from the novels , which are base on the FASA game . We ’re concentrating on our own adaptation of the tale .
Let ’s be reliable — most of us just want to see awesome starship armed combat . What can you predict us in terms of starship / Bird of Prey battles and crazy space fights ?
AXANAR will indeed have some awesome starship fight … which uses literal space science in ways never before depicted on television or on film , but make no error , the film is , first and foremost , about our grapheme . The very last thing I ’m interested in is making a pew , pew , pew STAR TREK movie . I ’m shoot my intake from the very sound TOS episode dealing with war , “ residue of Terror , ” “ A Taste of Armageddon , ” “ Errand of Mercy ” and “ A Private Little War . ” I ’d also look to films such as PATTON , MIDWAY and Book of Revelation NOW for inspiration .
What ’s the goal of the third crowdfunding crusade for Axanar ? Not just financially , but what are you hoping to achieve with it ?
The intact AXANAR projection , from PRELUDE to AXANAR itself and beyond , is entirely driven by our donors . Without their generous and on-going contribution , the undertaking would n’t live . understandably , the AXANAR task is provide something to the fan base they simply are n’t getting anywhere else . The first Kickstarter campaign , to make PRELUDE , asked for 10 K and wound up making over 100K. Then , the first AXANAR proper Kickstarter was about building the substructure of our studio , renting a facility , retrofit it , building set and pre - production needed to begin production on the film . We kick upstairs 630 K , which was just astonishing and allow us to build Ares Studios . This third , and hopefully final IndieGoGo campaign will allow us to actually make the full film , which is presently budgeted at 960K. We ’ve design it to be made in four character if need be , but patently , if we ca n’t make the film all at once , each private part becomes more expensive because you ca n’t amortise your costs across the intact production . If we do achieve our crowd - funding goal , I ’m personally face to do one thing … and that ’s take a feature film which is considered by lover to be some of the best STAR TREK ever made .
And via Burnett , here ’s the implausibly jolting animatic he made for the above vista , using a duet of legal action figures in his garden :
And here ’s the more finished animatic of that same shot , that VFX artist Tobias Richter turned in :
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