Paramount Is Dropping Their Lawsuit Against A Star Trek Fan Film

JJ Abrams revealed a pleasant surprise to the crowd at Paramount's Star Trek event, aside from debuting the second trailer to the Justin Lin Directed Star Trek Beyond.

During the event (via Screenrant) the Star Trek producer informed everyone that CBS and Paramount Pictures would be dropping the lawsuit against Alec Peter, who was behind the upcoming fan film Star Trek Axanar. Abrams said: "This wasn't an appropriate way to deal with the fans." Abrams also let the crowd know that it was actually Beyond's Justin Lin who convinced Paramount and CBS to drop the suit.

CBS and Paramount never gave much insight as to why they targeted Axanar, and it seems out of character for them, since they've let many other fan-made projects see the light of day. The assumption that most have come to is that because of the immense amount of crowdfunding that was done (over 600,000), the companies got uncomfortable with a project of that size not being within the CBS and Paramount family.

JJ Abrahms announcing that because of the efforts of Justin Lin, Paramount was dropping the lawsuit against Axanar pic.twitter.com/9wqo6193IT

— Axanar Productions (@StarTrekAxanar) May 21, 2016

It's also surprising because the company was making strides in court, and if they had succeeded, things like the Vulcan language would not have been usable by the Axanar team, and that would have hurt the film significantly.

Once the news hit, Axanar Productions posted a tweet saying: "JJ Abrams announcing that because of the efforts of Justin Lin, Paramount was dropping the lawsuit against Axanar."

Thankfully the whole matter has been laid to rest, and fans can look forward not only to Star Trek Beyond and a new Star Trek TV series but also to finally seeing Star Trek Axanar come to fruition after all this time.