re: The Orville - This is more Star Trek than Discovery **1st Season Done**

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It's you who misses the point. You summarily dismissed The Orville as a fan film, my point was that the quality of fan films is such now that they are beginning to rival that of major production companies.

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Fine. I'll amend my statement to, "The Orville is a crappy fan film when compared to Axanar and Discovery."

But the point that you were missing is that Axanar was leaving the realm of parody and fan fiction when it moved to selling merchandise and creating a full on Star Trek feature film. No one was questioning the quality of Axanar or its side products. You just can't make your own Star Trek feature film without the blessing of Paramount. They wanted to see how far they could go without pissing off Paramount and they got their answer.