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Activision Sues Star Trek Over Franchise Decay

Posted by simoniker on from the sliding-inexorably-towards-upn dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a press release announcing that Activision is suing Viacom for breach of contract over the Star Trek game license. The article summarizes Activion's complaints: "..through its actions and inactions, Viacom has let the once proud Star Trek franchise stagnate and decay", and furthermore that "..a continuing pipeline of movie and television production, and related marketing, is absolutely crucial to the success of video games based on a property such as Star Trek." Activision has terminated the contract agreement, and looks to recover damages and advances from Viacom - according to a Dow Jones story, "..the initial license agreement included $20 million in advance royalties and warrants, with additional payments to be based on game sales."

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  1. Sue Rick Bermen! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Its all his fault Star Trek sucks.

  2. Re:OT: Patrick Stewart through with Star Trek by Ophidian+P.+Jones · · Score: 2, Informative

    A few weeks ago us.imdb.com had a brief blurb stating that Patrick Stewart had formally decided that Nemesis would be his last Trek. (...) Sorry I don't have a link.

    Link

  3. Re:It sounds like a legitimate gripe. by databoing · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not likely to happen, Voyager got home in their finale. Neelix was left behind, so he wouldn't show up in the next one. You'll recall from Nemesis that Janeway is an Admiral now (the nerve of her to be ordering Picard around, hmmph!), so she wouldn't be doing much.

    I can just see the movie now: In the 24th century, a new paper-pusher has come to StarFleet Command...

    Hey, it can't be any worse than Nemesis...

  4. Re: Preposterous by cicatrix1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Activision isn't suing Viacom because everything since TNG has sucked, they are suing because they made a decision to stop producing any more series or movies. Your (4 Insightful, why??) analogy is way off. The proper analogy would be if the athletic wear manufacturers sued Shaq or others because they decided to quit their sport in the middle of a long term advertising deal, which would be a fair and lucrative suit.

    Also, please explain the concept of a loosing team. I am familiar with teams that lose games, and are hence labled 'losing teams'. Maybe the two terms are related?

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  5. TMR and TPM by dpilot · · Score: 2, Informative

    Both of which seem to have been 'over-anticipated' in retrospect. I guess they both made money, but neither really made fans happy.

    I guess a Fan and his money are soon parted.

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