Prelude to Axanar

Prelude to Axanar
Prelude to Axanar
	Film poster
Directed by	Christian Gossett
Screenplay by	Alec Peters; Christian Gossett;
Story by	Alec Peters
Based on	Star Trek; by Gene Roddenberry
Produced by	Carter Smith; Neal Fischer; Jhennifer Webberley;
Starring	Richard Hatch; Tony Todd; Kate Vernon; J. G. Hertzler; Gary Graham; Alec Peters; ;
Cinematography	Milton Santiago
Edited by	Robert Meyer Burnett
Music by	Alexander Bornstein
Production; company	Axanar Productions
Distributed by	Axanar Productions
Release date	July 26, 2014 (San Diego Comic-Con);
Running time	21 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$80,000

Prelude to Axanar (working title: Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar, and long title: The Four Years War Part III: Prelude to Axanar) is a 2014 fan-made short film, directed by Christian Gossett and written by Gossett and Alec Peters. Funded through Kickstarter, production sought $10,000 in funding, but raised $101,000. It had its public debut July 26, 2014, at San Diego Comic-Con.

Set in the Star Trek universe, the film stars Kate Vernon, Tony Todd, Richard Hatch, Gary Graham, and J. G. Hertzler, in a documentary-style film recounting the events surrounding the Battle of Axanar, mentioned without any detail in passing in the original Star Trek series episode "Whom Gods Destroy", here depicted as a decisive military engagement between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire.