Chris Ellis, a Paramount lawyer who policed IP issues and has been harassing Axanar for years, left recently for another job according to his LinkedIn profile. Whether he was fired, or left seeing the writing on the wall with the coming acquisition of Paramount by Skydance, is unknown. Ce
Ellis threatened various Axanar partners, including Gaaays in Spaaace, the LGBTQ advocacy organization, telling them that they would be cut off from all Star Trek actors if they continued to work with Axanar. In addition, Axanar actors were threatened that they would be barred from Star Trek events if they worked with Axanar.
This is the type of underhanded tactics CBS lawyers have been using to wage their petty, unethical attacks on Axanar. Similarly, Paramount outside counsel David Grossman at Loeb & Loeb has been enabling and working with convicted stalkers who physically assaulted Alec Peters. Ellis and Grossman have been wasting millions of shareholder dollars on their pursuit of Axanar because Alec had the temerity to make better Star Trek than Paramount could at a tiny fraction of the cost.
Everyone at Axanar hopes the incoming lawyers have a better view of what the relation with Star Trek fans Paramount and CBS should have. Certainly the antagonistic animosity lead by CBS Associate General Counsel Mallory Levitt and Star Trek Brand Manager John Van Citters at CBS will change as Skydance seeks to engage fans and not attack them for doing a better job than the disastrous Alex Kurtzman regime.
