"If your writing is good enough you won't need a engine room."
- Vic Mignogna, 2011
Vic Mignogna said this to the Starship Ajax production in 2011 when he learned they were building an engine room for their sets.
Then later, the sets were hijacked by him and members of the Farragut Films production.
If the above quote were the case, one wonders why he and others from Farragut Films hijacked the sets from the Ajax Studios facility in December of 2011?
Well, to answer that question, it was the following two situations.
1. Vic being fast and lose when lying on the fly to roll with any conversation. Basically, Vic was blowing smoke and other BS.
2. Because he and Michael Bednar were bent on having the Starship Farragut production being the first Star Trek (TOS) fan film to have such a set(i.e. it smacks of Farragut trying to build one). Or to be more precise, Vic was trying to disabuse the notion of building an engine room for Ajax because he and Bednar were bent on Farragut having the honor of being the first since TOS to have one.
I can see now where John Broughton was coming from in a recent podcast interview concerning his term of service in the U.S. Navy as yeoman. He mentioned how he located certain items for others without going through the proper channels.
Such tactics were applied in the 2011 incident and it was applied in a very wrongheaded manner.
Man, if Gene Roddenberry were still alive, he would be appalled at such toxic methodology and modis operandi.
These type of behavioral acts certainly give Star Trek fandom a bad reputation.
Most illogical and most shameful.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vdPKYn7mio0J:www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php%3Fp%3D5440714+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
http://trekmovie.com/2012/03/26/new-star-trek-fan-film-to-feature-chris-doohan-as-scotty-and-mythbusters-imahara-as-sulu/
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ZAROVE
9 years ago
Gene Rddenbery wasnt exactly above toxic methodology himself.
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