“I’m always amazed at a certain fan film production team up North and their inability to film something
then never release it. This same set of folks have a few that love to bash our productions and the folks
that bring them to life. I guess since they have nothing new on their own to present, they have to mention
our productions to give their soapbox a cleaning. I would rather they quietly go their own way and leave us
alone. If it doesn’t stop, I’m apt to put forth my experiences with them for the public to read.

- Michael Bednar

“Okay….does anyone else think it’s funny when someone who is NOT your friend, and therefore can NOT see your wall posts….starts bitching about them on his own wall…thus presenting his opinion of something he had spend a lot of energy to seek out and read without telling the person that posted said post and, of course, not allowing them to refute the opinion. Grow up and grow some already. Michael Bednar: I have a right to my own personal opinion, and I have the right to voice it on FaceBook. It doesn’t reflect on any one but me, and certinally not anyone I’ve worked for: including, but not limited to, Phase II, Good Shepherd Lutheran Home, Center for Human Development, ARC, Women’s Words, Westfield Evening News, Mystic Seaport, Tupperware, the Mystic Whaler, Wal Mart, all the Boards of Directors I did or currently serve on…and all
the rest. I will not (and have not) delete or edit those posts. If you find amusement in stalking me on FaceBook and trolling my posts, then posting about me to amuse your friends (instead of reply to me), I will be sure to post something at least once a month to amuse you all. Though I have a busy, full life, I sure have a few minutes a month to amuse people. And, for those who didn’t get to see the post he is currently obsessed with, this is the post (below) that I made: I have read the script STC’s current episode is based on. I think it’s a lame premise, and I believe the hard-working cast and crew of STC deserves their work to be devoted to something worthy of all that hard work. There are a LOT of good writers and scripts out there and I hate seeing “new Trek” not living up to the fan’s intelligence. That’s my opinion. You all have a right to your own, and I sure would never argue with you posting them – nor would I think they reflect on MIT because you work for MIT.”

- P2 production associate

It never would have started, Michael, if you hadn’t made certain negative remarks about my friend. Remarks with words that go like ‘a sad shell of a woman, and mentally ill, and that she edits and deletes posts, that she is a demented troll, and,’ well…the same old shit.

If nothing else, Michael Bednar is not only proving what many have accused him as(i.e. being a liar), he is most certainly ‘calling the kettle black’, and taking hypocriscy to an all new level. If not an all time high.

My friend from P2 made some very valid and serious points in response to Bednar’s uncalled for post.

Once again, Michael Bednar and the staff at Farragut Films have shown their true colors by not posting on my friend’s post in his rant. One of the many things I have noticed about Bednar and the staff at Farragut Films is that he censors what other people say in their own walls. If he were actually bothered by it, why did he not just post on my friend’s post?

Or even better, to those who have witnessed the exchange, did any of you READ what she(my friend)posted?”

Since he didn’t do that, the people responding have no idea as to what issue my friend was addressing.

Obviously, Bednar is proving what has been said concerning the state of character that has been running Farragut Films for some time. Let alone how bad their reputation has been tarnished since Vic Mignogna became Farragut Films’s business partner right after the issue concerning ‘Kitumba’ and the illegal seizure of it, last year.

Seriously, folks, anybody who says that the P2 people are jealous that Farragut Films is doing a better job, let alone the Farragut Films people being a class act and wanting to particpate in either the STC or SF production, is both sadly misinformed and a serious glutton for punishment. There are not that many who appreciate all that Team Farragut has done to further the lore of Star Trek.

A class act. Maybe in the Farragut Films staff’s own demented minds.

If anything, Team Farragut has proven they are like any other Washington, D.C. based facility. One that is managed by dishonesty, lying, and by your average crook. Someone the late Richard M. Nixon would have taken pride in. No wonder the District Of Columbia has become a fetid and festering sewer and pigmire populated by pernicious vermin who have no comprehension of honesty and integrity whatsoever.

Harry S. Truman was right. If you want a friend in Washington, DC, go buy yourself a dog. At least the canine is a noble and honest creature.

As one poster pointed out, nothing really derogatory was said about STC, it was pointed out that STC was using a rejected script from another production. That was all. Those things happen in life, and one rejection is another’s acceptance. There was really no need to start a flame war.

Michael Bednar would also go so far as to state this to another poster: “When I read it, I was just amazed at how far she goes to start something like this. You are right. If both parties went there separate ways, none of this would happen. Lord knows we have tried.”

It seems to me that the only thing that Farragut Films has tried to do is release erroneous and less than truthful information, call the kettle black, and act with hypocriscy,

What amazes me, Michael, is how far Farragut Films is willing to stoop, just to release a Star Trek episode. By allying yourselves with a controversial skunk and his actions, you have certainly proven your true colors and that has put both Farragut Films and your business partners in a very bad light. I’m still amazed that one of Farragut Films business partners/sponsors didn’t pull out after that Kitumba ordeal. I certainly would have. U.S.S. Farragut is definitely NOT crewed by fine folks who know better than to let a toxic narcicisst tarnish their reputation. They have already done it to themselves. Especially after knowing how controversial and unethical their business partner is.

While some may think that Farragut at its core is a happy bunch of folks that are making Star Trek because they love it, they are just a bunch of folks with high school clique-like mentalities who believe that certain people are ‘beneath them’. I would hardly call that as having a blast making Star Trek or having their work standing on its own merit.

Both Starship Farragut and Star Trek Continues, for lack of a better description, is bad fan film making, period. The darkness that steps up to try and bring down other fans film-making to a *Non-productive level*

It take TWO to cause a misunderstanding and those that hear only one side should not make pre-determined judgements.

Farragut Films has a very bad habit of creating and committing such latter atrocities and this is one of them.

Stick with Star Trek – Phase 2. The BEST and ONLY THE BEST in Star Trek fan films. One that has professional cinema/television experience. Most of all, one that continues to uphold the legacy, morals, honesty, integrity, professionalism, and ethics of the late Gene Roddenberry’s original space odyssey. Noble qualities that will last into the 23rd Century and Beyond!

http://trekmovie.com/2012/03/26/new-star-trek-fan-film-to-feature-chris-doohan-as-scotty-and-mythbusters-imahara-as-sulu/#comment-4656857

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=6187033#post6187033

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=169732

http://www.facebook.com/startrekphase2/posts/10150828754860934

http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=5440252#post5440252

As for the fan movies, anything done by the Trek fans with passion is OK by me.
I’m not expecting anything professional grade so I’m never disappointed.
I only wish that the H8ers would either make a better movie or keep their criticisms to themselves.

However, since you asked….

http://trekmovie.com/2012/03/26/new-star-trek-fan-film-to-feature-chris-doohan-as-scotty-and-mythbusters-imahara-as-sulu/#comment-4656857

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=6187033#post6187033

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=169732

http://www.facebook.com/startrekphase2/posts/10150828754860934

http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=5440252#post5440252

Supposedly, some people have already resigned from STC. That’s a very good sign.