Of course. I mistyped and confused the issue for everybody. Sorry. I meant STC rather than STB. Fucking acronyms. How do they work. My point was that the folks behind ST Continues are still very likely supporting themselves by doing what they are. As I've said, they're just doing so on a much smaller scale and with far more courtesy.
STC is registered as a non profit organization, with public records of funds, and they don't get paid for their time, and they even funded the first episode themselves out of pocket for over $100k. They've probably lost money on it if anything. There is a huge difference between STC and Axanar. Axanar has hired everyone to work, the main guy is paying himself a steady salary from the money so he doesn't have to otherwise work, and they've been selling their own Trek merch, and they've used the money to hire studio space for other ventures. They're leeches.
I believe nonprofits still get to support themselves, though. You can open up a charitable, nonprofit Save The Dingos Foundation and pay yourself to do it. You just have to account for the money and pay yourself reasonably. Same thing with churches. Father Chester isn't expected to work for free. I get the distinction between Axanar and STC in that regard, and I can see how it would ruffle some feathers. I just don't think that in reality it's all that different, if Axanar can justify where the money goes.
The first episode of STC is my least favourite btw. Too idealistic and hokey. The second episode is my favourite.
I was actually going to ask, but I wanted to watch one during lunch and there's not telling when you'd get back. I tend to think it's always 0400 last Thursday down where you are.
It's actually 0400 next Thursday, thank you very much. 
Vic from STC has outright said none of them are getting paid salaries. I don't know if that includes extras like the big guests stars or just the regulars, I can't claim to account for every single dollar, but the point is they certainly aren't doing it to profit themselves as a business venture. It's a labour of love. And they're not selling merch or DVDs or paying themselves to not have to work any other job, etc.
I admit there's a lot of room for grey area, but the intent of STC is simply to make the fan film and they've respected CBS's wishes at every step, while Axanar is copyright abuse for profit by a known conman who has declared bankruptcy multiple times.
The area's gray enough that I don't see the stark distinction you do, but such is life.
Out of curiosity, is Axanar still producing the full length feature? Seems that Paramount has dropped their civil suit, but I'm not sure what that means going forward.
Surprised you found E1 too idealistic and hokey but not E2. The first one was mostly fluff, but the second one was
After School Special level preachiness. Kept expecting Tasha Yar and Wesley Crusher to walk out and deliver a heartfelt lecture on the evils of slavery. Honestly, I thought they were both decent right up until the final 5 minutes when they turned sappy as hell. The mirror universe episode was pretty entertaining, but at this point it's seeming like an awful lot of fan wank. I'd say that the set and production is quite good. The acting is awful. The writing is good at a script level, plenty of good dialogue, but pretty week at the story level.
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