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CBS/Paramount Sets Phasers To Kill On Star Trek Fan-Fiction With New Guidelines (audioholics.com)
Audiofan writes from a forum post on Audioholics: The Star Trek fan-fiction controversy that resulted in legal battles between CBS/Paramount and Axanar Productions concluded last week. However, CBS/Paramount have finally put forth its long-awaited guidelines intended to clarify acceptable fan-fiction so that it won't get the creative Star Trek fan sued for copyright infringement. But in doing so, it may have launched Star Trek fan-fiction's torpedo casket into space with a solemn salute. To be or not to be is the question which we ask about the future of Star Trek fan film. Some of the new guidelines for avoiding objections when making your own Star Trek movies and posting them to YouTube include: The fan production must be less than 15 minutes for a single self-contained story, or no more than 2 segments, episodes or parts, not to exceed 30 minutes total, with no additional seasons, episodes, parts, sequels or remakes. Part of the non-commercial requirements include: CBS and Paramount Pictures do not object to limited fundraising for the creation of a fan production, whether 1 or 2 segments and consistent with these guidelines, so long as the total amount does not exceed $50,000, including all platform fees, and when the $50,000 goal is reached, all fundraising must cease. The fan production cannot be distributed in a physical format such as DVD or Blu-ray. If the fan production uses commercially-available Star Trek uniforms, accessories, toys and props, these items must be official merchandise and not bootleg items or imitations of such commercially available products.
Just rewrite the dictionary and make whatever you like; If the story is good and all things being equal it will still be enjoyable.
Instead of Federation use Union, Collective, .. If Phaser is copyrighted use laser, pulse pistol.
Instead of Klingon use African American, and so on..
IMO we need new wider variety of scifi anyway.
And the guidelines are "1) don't do anything that takes away our precious money or actually competes with us, and 2) oh yeah, we're forcing you to buy all of our expensive prop junk, too."
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Life is an illusion. Everything earthlings do is pointless. Your pathetic claim that hobos or garbage are more important than fan fiction says more about you than so-called reality.
Man, you really need that seminar!
I wasn't too thrilled with any of their 'star trek-flavored' movies anyway, and now they've guaranteed that I will never go see one for any reason or recommend them to anyone else for any reason, either. What a bunch of assholes.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
The restrictions are just way too limiting. It's a big universe, and CBS/Paramount should "make" space for proper fan fiction, not beam-it-out in wide-dispersal mode.
I for one, will think twice before spending any money on any new Star Trek ventures going forward. Very, very disappointed.
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
If yucking it up over some 1960's barely acceptable at the time TV series and the host of less than endearing follow on properties including 5 TV series and even more full length movies is going to be controlled by these rules, sell me some tribbles...
Gee, it's sooo nice that you will now let me make a video using your concept I think I'm going to willingly follow your rules... NOT...
Best Paramount can hope for is to keep tossing out the DCMA letters and suing folks who violate their copyrights, nobody is going to follow these rules unless they want too. Can you imagine? Sir, prove that Tri-Corder in your parody "Enterprise's last emission" that Kirk is using it to ogle that female yeoman in his quarters is really licensed merchandise..... Do you have a receipt to prove where you got it?
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Unfortunately, film and recording studios are still extremely naive about what intellectual property policy should be to maximize income. Obviously, the Star Trek fans are what has kept this franchise going for 40 years. You can count on them as an audience, which means a film is going to be a much safer investment than it would be otherwise.
To keep the fan base alive, holding intellectual property this close is simply the wrong policy. Coming to some sort of resolution with fan fiction producers would both preserve the fan base and increase profit (you can license them and allow them to make some money, as well as you).
To think, in the U.S. we just gained the right to sing "Happy Birthday" without intellectual property restrictions. That's how the non-sharing side of the ecology is going. On the sharing side, we have a very healthy Open Source community that has produced software everyone uses (even if they don't know) and that could not be built via the conventional economic paradigm because it can't necessarily be monetized directly. And we have things like Wikipedia that would just be impossible in the conventional paradigm.
Studios need to catch up. So far, they seem to be incredibly resistant to learning.
Bruce Perens.
CBS/Paramount are run by Ferengis.
Don't use Collective, it's probably copyrighted by The Borg.
I'm curious: how many homeless have been housed by your Slashdot comments, since that's apparently the only metric for determining how worthwhile an activity is?
Fifteen minutes maximum you say? I suppose that means Kirk/Spock is now limited to quickies, rather than involving lots of character development.
The fundraising issue really bothers me. I know that Star Trek Continues had done some fundraising and was producing 45m episodes that were excellent. The production value was amazing, and they recreated parts of the set that were very convincing.
This may shut that down, without special dispensation from cbs/p.
Fortunately, we'll always have Star Wreck - In the Pirkining. Watch it or full downloads in various formats from archive.org. It's funny, lots of poking fun at star trek, and CBS can't do squat about it since it's a parody, doesn't use their characters or their universe.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
I said it last time this topic came up, and I'll say it again now. Its no surprise to me that their rules are so draconian that they would eliminate pretty much all Star Trek fan fiction created thus far, and would make anyone think twice before bothering to create anything new. The reboot is so horrible they can't survive any real competition. Even with just a short at this point, its obvious that Axanar is going to totally blow away Star trek: Fast & Furious In Space.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
Good grief. This is a geek genre, for people with honest-to-god attention spans. Fifteen minutes is not a bad length of time to reach the opening credits.
Paramount Pictures can FOAD.
Fund primarily via Bitcoin.
Make it as long as you want, then double, triple, quadruple, etc. the playback rate get it under 15 minutes. I'm sure every hypernerd that watches this shit can play it back at the intended speed. (And no, you won't lose frames if you merely alter the rate.)
Lets back up here a bit CBS/Paramount. You didn't invent Star Trek. You didn't even fund it's creation. You know who did: Lucille Ball (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Ball). Yep. That woman. She sunk her company's last penny into it and sold off all her rights to her own TV show to blood suckers like you to do it, until she could not hold any longer and had to sell out completely. If she could have held out another year she would have made it, but not one of you misogynist pigs in the industry would support a woman. So you buy the rights to Star Trek out from under her for a song, and then what do you decide to do? Cancel the show! CANCEL THE SHOW! Only a massive writing campaign by fans restrain you from canceling it, to your recorded dismay, so in retribution you stuff the last season into the Friday night death slot. It wasn't for the massive rerun support of fans you would have shelved the who thing long long ago, in a closet far far forgotten.
Paramount, you have no shame and I'm not sure you deserve any of the proceeds you've made off this franchise. I wish Lucille Ball could sue you, but alas, she has a statue of limitation. Meanwhile you get to keep exploiting her and Gene's legacy endlessly.
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I say dump the StarTrek universe and fuck CBS/Paramount. Why don't people just cook up their own fan created 'open source' universe anybody can contribute to and make a SciFi film based in it. All the pieces are already on the board. Axanar Productions has already demonstrated their ability finance such a project via Kickstarter and produce a decent product. That trailer from Axanar Productions looks good enough to me that I'd pay to watch that movie on a streaming service, the acting is decent and so are the special effects. I watch more YouTube videos and other streaming services than corporate television anyway and even the silly unboxing/review videos on YouTube are more useful, watchable and sometimes more entertaining than the stream of reality shows and other cultural sewage offered by corporate TV networks.
Are they doing anything right now to contribute to the franchise. Are they doing anything that is better than the fan made one? The answer is no. Then they should fuck off, move over and let actual interested parties, ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK, get whatever benefits those parties see fit.
You shouldn't be able to copyright a fictional universe. As long as bullshit money rules, copyright has become the spurning of creativity, not supporting it. How many years do they own "star trek" for? beyond the lifetime of most humans?? and even then, its a 60s era remake!! if you cant make enough fucking money off an idea you BOUGHT from a human, in 60 years, whoes problem is that?
A company by its nature can not produce a creative work. Humans do this, and the creative work should then remain the property of humanity, not corporations!
How dare they dictate what people do in their own time, creatively, with their own resources and skills. Fuck CBS. This shit really pisses me off!!
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Your stories can no longer be imaginative and better than our, you must find a way to make them more lame because we don't know how to. Breach these conditions and we will sue you out of existence.
Personally, I think the fan stories are more interesting. I've kind of given up on paramount's version of star trek because it is usually disappointing so I don't see any point in it any more. I think the fan fiction is the only thing keeping their franchise alive simply because CBS make the movies for a wider audience that isn't interested in ST knowing that fans will go for the eye candy.
I think that once CBS lamifies the fan fiction, it's all over for star trek, at least for me, simply because it's just not that interesting or challenging anymore.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Commodore Kirker: Best guess, Zulu. Zulu: Aye, sir. (HMS Corporation fires phasors [hey, Master of Orion II got away with that] at HMS Infallible, missing.) (HMS Infallible shakes.) Genghis: Forward missiles, fire! (Missile launches into space, missing.) This, ladies and gentlemen, is what Paramount is going to do to Star Trek.
Yeah, I can't wait until Major Keerk uses his Maser to take down a charging Klangron warrior before beaming up to his star cruiser and engaging the hyperspeed drive at speed factor 6.
There, I just invented my own Star Trek knockoff lingo!
I keep wondering if some billionaire Star Trek fans should settle this argument once and for all, by paying CBS/Paramount enough money to release the rights.
After all, I think its been established that the official studios can no longer be trusted to produce Star Trek content, and many fans feel as though Star Trek is too important to be left to the official studios.
IANAL, but almost none of the original series or movies used "officially licensed" uniforms or props. They just used whatever the costume department or prop department came up with for an episode. From movie to movie the outfits were always different. Even from season to season, in many cases. What then, do any of the genuine-looking costumes or props have anything in common with the licensed ones which are generally plastic toys, or are made of cheap fabrics that are poorly stitched or just outright glued together? I'm sorry, if Paramount is going to put this bird-cage fodder in their requirements then they, too, need to seriously commit to improving the quality of the products they're trying to force on the fans. The only other logical option is revise the requirement so that people trying to make a believable fan fiction are allowed to use self-made articles of, unquestionably, higher quality than the mass produced garbage and NOT SELL THEM. Because that's how you respect the trademarks and copyrights, to not sell knock-offs to undercut their bottom line. Maybe something for the CBS folks to consider is that THE STAR WARS FRANCHISE DOESN'T DO THIS CRAP TO THEIR FANS. (They do other crap, but not this. ;) )
There is nothing stopping Paramount from working with fan fiction producers, even elevating the really good ones to top production quality with licensing arrangements. There's is clearly more demand then Paramount knows what to do with, which means they are loosing money by their own actions, not the fan film maker's.
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You're thinking of trademarks, not copyright. The Star Trek universe, and the characters, are copyrighted even if someone else writes a script using those characters. The copyright holder can selectively choose to prosecute all or none of the violators at his whim.
Certain copyright violations cannot be prosecuted, such as Fair Use. But it's very unlikely fan fiction can fall under fair use, although that has yet to be seen. I believe Star Trek Continues is trying to use that defense as they are non profit and claim their usage is educational (which usually does fall under Fair Use). This is a weak shield, but they also are not harming the franchise so it will likely be overlooked anyway.
"See a lot of post ignorant of the law."
*cough*
The entire point of Copyright, Trademark was to "encourage" not "discourage" or Troll the audience for creative ideas.
CBS has turned the founding principals of our nation into a Mockery.. a Joke.
CBS should be roundingly boycotted and left to their own.. "here take your ball and good home, please don't come back."
there's always someone into molesting children...
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
"Set pulsenators to incinerate!"
Is anyone troubled that an entertainment company is trying to make United State laws?
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Because they are afraid, very afraid that the fan films will be better than their own productions.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
That was kind of sexy until you got to the "incinerate" part.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Well, you're close, anyway... It already happened. See: "Gene Roddenberry's : Andromeda" it was a Star Trek adapted to a non-Trek property because Paramount wasn't interested.
I had a sucky sig.
What if someone compresses normal length video to 15 minutes by speeding it up to some 300 fps. Probably unplayable at the "normal" speed unless you happen to have 16 cores and can wrap your brains around such flowrate. A quick videoplayer setting to slow down 10 times and watch it as nothing was forbidden for 150 minutes. Fans are creative, the proopertyheads will never catch up with their rules. If we put our minds to it, all of those rules would be ignorable.
Apart from the Ferengi.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
What the heck is this? they are policing their fans? writing rules on how fans can contribute to the zealot-like following?
Are they doing their best to alienate the fan base? -some starting sci-fi series, books etc would kill to have the sort of mass drone following of Star Trek.
An exercise to protect their work only diminishes their profits with bad press and unhappy fans.
They want to police how fans interact with their product?! I say screw Star Trek products! -Vote with your wallet.
Isnt Star Trek getting (just for the past couple of decades) a bit same old same old? - Sci-Fi needs to be about more than semi-emotional human look-alikes, red shirt deaths and the enterprise.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
If enough people care that fan fiction, you know that created by those who love the Star Trek enough to take the time to create fan fiction in the first place, has to follow these draconian rules then perhaps those fans should just put the whole thing to bed and create something else in its place?
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
See: All Sonic fanfiction, ever.
I'd be surprised sonic has fans, let alone fanfiction.
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How about set pulsenators to oblivionate
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See: "Gene Roddenberry's : Andromeda" ...
Take my advice, don't.
Watching re-runs (if there were any) of the 70's show Blake's 7 would be more enjoyable, 30 odd years difference, and the plots, dialogue, and acting all got worse.
Fat shaming = sexist?
If it's about valuing women based on physical appearance, yes. Women are not objects.
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Will the comms officer be called Ubuntu?
I knew a fair number growing up, starting with no bias what so ever... After a few random assaults and other BS I learned to be a racist(against only blacks from my exp) and with education learned of statistics and their apparent GENETIC propensity to violence (6x that of whites).. This is evident in virtually every black population; Where they are more mixed race(but still called "black" that value starts to change. IQ results generally show africans 20+ points lower than the average white person who is 11 lower than Asian.
Smart money is to avoid them and well as Klingons.
Because they are afraid, very afraid that the fan films will be better than their own productions.
That is a rather low bar to clear for much of the Star Trek universe. Some genuinely good stuff but way too much really bad writing and the plot holes generally don't get any bigger than they do on Star Trek.
Paramount is attempting to write law using the threat of big-money legal harassment as their police force. Many corporations do this.
The issue here is that Paramount isn't a lawyer, and their grip on a cultural meme doesn't expire. It's a money game where cultural evolution is dictated by intellectual property rights that are unsupportable for society itself.
It has been over 50 years since star trek became a part of our culture. It has been propagating through two generations of humanity. The right to communicate with shared cultural meme cannot be 'owned' as intellectual property in perpetuity, or like the airwaves soon every shared idea will be owned by someone. There must be limits.
My $0.02 will always be worth more than your â0.02, so
...the shit Paramount has been putting out under the name "Star Trek", they're just afraid the fan products are worlds better than theirs....
CBS/Paramount? It isn't nice to mess with your fan base. Don't do this.
Those who can't, sue.
It's sad to see that Paramount has to pull such stunts to keep from being upstaged by movies made on zero budget by amateurs.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
In other words, do the movies in countries near Generistan. The feds there only care for real crimes, not imaginary property.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
These losers is actually what created the whole hype around those movies. Without them, it's just yet another franchise that cranks out movie after movie. Yes, you can do that, and it will have some success, but these losers are what boosts it to the levels where the real money is.
These losers are your life insurance as the franchise holder. Because you can, at will, whenever you please, go and do a "$franchise marathon" in a cinema of your choice and they will go on a pilgrimage to that mecca you create there, pay whatever you want to charge for ancient movies nobody really would dream of watching in a theater anymore because they could watch it any time on their home TV. Whenever you need that extra million for whatever, this is where you can easily collect it.
This of course only works as long as you don't piss them off. Call them losers all you want, and personally, I agree, but the very last thing I'd want to do is piss losers off that I can so easily harvest money from.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
How about sports?
Do we really need to pay people millions of dollars to hit a ball with a stick and run around in a big circle?
Throwing a ball into a basket with the bottom cut out?
Slamming into one another like rutting walruses trying to pound one guy carrying a ball into the turf?
Kicking a ball then chasing madly after said ball, with the occasional (bad) performance of "He touched me, I am slain!" ?
Or smacking a small white ball then walking towards where you hit said small white ball and repeating the process? Just pick the damn thing up and carry it with you!
More like MILF. She's in her fifties now.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
noun
1.
anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
2.
a thing, person, or matter to which thought or action is directed:
Except copyright only protects...copying verbatim or making derivative copies, still significantly like the original text/work. A character is also an idea - it's protected partly by trademark. Paramount could license these characters for little to no money and still be "protecting" their trademark.
There's no one who knows better than Disney. A lot of Mickey cartoons would likely enter the Public Domain, were it not for them using their character as a trademark. Time will tell whether it's even possible to distribute those easily without a trademark lawsuit.
[Citation needed].
Stormfront doesn't count.
How come this didn't get modded up!?!
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
According to wikipedia these rules will stop or would have stopped:
Star Trek: Axanar
Star Trek Horizon
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men
Star Trek: Renegades
Starship Exeter
Starship Farragut
Star Trek Continues
Star Trek: Dark Armada
Star Trek: Hidden Frontier
Star Trek: Intrepid
Star Trek: Odyssey
Star Trek: Phase II/New Voyages
Star Trek: Phoenix
Star Trek: Progeny
Which would all have probably been perfectly fine under the original copyright term limit.
CBS's seems to be doing everything in its power to guarantee its new Star Trek series tanks hard.
Take your fucking space gi-joe shit & shove it up your ass then Paramount
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This has nothing to do with CBS/Paramount's legal rights (which haven't changed and can't be changed by them unilaterally). This is basically a statement to the effect "Hey, we have these rules. If you break them, we're more likely to assert our rights in court. Not saying we will, just reminding you that we can."
Of course, if CBS/Paramount sicks the MPAA on them or starts doing the takedown tap-dance on them that'll be proof that I'm wrong. Until they actually do something like this, the whole article is little more than CBS/Paramount clearing their throat and aiming a (well-desserved?) "ahem" at those fans who think they can make money off the franchise.
Not really true in that respect. It protects all sorts of things, even compilations of works that might be copyrighted by others, but the compilation itself is copyrighted (e.g. the books Brad Templeton made by publishing jokes from rec.humor.funny). It doesn't have to be a verbatim copy, but derive a significant portion of its value from some copyrighted work. In fact, in the UK there was a judgement against someone who merely duplicated a style of photograph, found infringing due to having a history of actual copyright infringement. [I mostly disagree with this ruling, btw, but again copyright isn't strictly verbatim copies.]
The argument is that far fewer people will release their creative projects to the world without some form of protection, so it was coded into the US Constitution and subsequent treaties. Consider making something cool, then someone rich simply stealing the idea and capitalizing it through distribution channels while you reap nothing for your original creative idea. This has happened, and even happens today occasionally.
Basically, works based in fictional universes are copyrighted by the holder of the fictional universe, and such works are considered derivative because a large amount of their value (e.g. recognizability) are from the fictional universe or characters. There are certainly intentional exceptions such as parody where you make fun of the universe or the characters, and that's why sketch comedy like SNL has an ironclad protection to create their humor.
Glad to see you posting here again, Richard Stallman.
After 50+ years, I will not support the new movie or the new series. I fear you've sealed your fate.
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If you say so...last I checked she was hardly a child, and was very attractive, but I guess it is all a matter of perspective.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Says the slashdot troll.
There are more useful things to do than post on /., but you went and did it anyway.
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.
The original Star Trek spirit doesn't sell anymore. Having the name squeezes a last few dollars out of the diehards, but the movies are not made to attract them.
The new Star Trek movies are a lot closer to Star Wars than old-fashioned Star Trek. I realized that when I saw the latest Star Wars.
Realistically, TOS wasn't all that good. There were a few really good episodes (I seem to be in a small minority by not considering "City on the Edge of Forever" (or whatever) as one of them, but what the heck), and a lot of bad episodes, more so in the third season. It was the ideas behind the series that made it Star Trek, and Abrams has ignored them.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
You call that successful? You know what real success is? Being able to put them into a cinema in 20 years and fill it to the brim with paying customers. THAT is success in an age of perpetual copyright, being able to show an ancient movie that has regained its cost ten times in the meantime and STILL get the same idiots that have seen it a million times already to pay to see it!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
While they are both violent, Klingons have a deep sense of honor and integrity. In fact, Klingon violence is typically ritualized and regulated. There are rules of engagement and a great degree of shame for violating them.
I always got the impression from the overall collection of Star Trek stories that the Klingons became politically correct wimps over time. It seems like Niven's Kzinti which overlap through the Star Trek animated series were in response to this and become more like what the Klingons were suppose to be.
The part I find funny about copyright preventing alternative stories in the Star Trek universe is that Star Fleet Battles and Federation and Empire which were based on an early snapshot of Star Trek made a unashamed effort to copy the real world politics of the Cold War with the Klingons representing the Soviet Union, the Federation representing the US, and various other nations being represented by Kzinti, Hydrans, etc.
You jest. But the producers of the Star Wreck series (And eventually, Iron Sky) did exactly that. The last installment before they switched to moon nazis vs. Sarah Palin (No, I did not make that up.), was "In the Pirkinning", which chronicles an adventure of the C.P.P. Potkustartti, commanded by Captain James B. Pirk, with the assistance of crew members Commander Dwarf and Commander Info.
Through various somethity hole something anomaly blah blah blah; they eventually cross over into the universe of the Babel 13 space station, commanded by Captain Johnny K. Sherrypie, with first officer Commander Susannah Ivanovitsa, and Security Chief Mikhail Garybrandy, who sometimes also have to deal with the machinations of Psy-Co officer Festerbester.
Hijinks ensue.
Imagine all the people...
This is the first time since the beginning of time that I've come back to a thread a second time, more than a day later.
STC was the only one I've become invested in, and it's the main reason I'm burned up about the new "guidelines".
Unfortunately, this is an in-house affair, with both the host and the guest hewing to the official CBS / Paramount story line. Van Citters seems like a nice enough guy, but then the length restriction comes up, and I wanted to put a brick through my monitor.
48m40
Certainly, a creative person can compose shorter works. For example, Tolstoy composed a novella by the title (in English) The Death of Ivan Ilyich. This was later adapted by Akira Kurosawa as the movie Ikiru, with a a running time of 143 minutes. Oops, perhaps that was a bad example.
Let's try again.
Nobody ever accused Mozart of not being able to compose a Divertimento. Turns out he actually composed 17 numbered Divertimenti, but the performance times seem to range around the hour mark for the ones with their own Wikipedia pages. Oops, perhaps that's another bad example.
I could go on, but I think that's enough.
What made the original Star Trek captivating for me back when I was ten years old was that the stories involved having an actual attention span. No fanfic production will recapture my childhood with a crappy fifteen minute performance length.
Roger Ebert:
Did Kurosawa make it too long? You be the judge. I personally don't think you're going to pack a whole lot of "examined life" into fifteen minutes unless you're fricking Tolstoy.
I'm trying to figure out why that entire interview pussyfoots around the subject matter (I could only handle the first 50 minutes on my first pass). I started to wonder if the real problem with STC is that damn redhead, Elise McKennah, played by Michele Specht. At first I didn't like the character (or character idea), but her spunk eventually grew on me.
The thing
Sense two is the grammatical term. "The subject verbed the object." Sense 1 is not a definition of object as I'd recognise it. Objects have no agency -- they are just things.
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"So that it won't get the creative Star Trek fan sued for copyright infringement"? Years ago, i sent in an entry of Trek fan fiction for an annual contest called "Strange New Worlds". My entry went unanswered, as far as whether i'd won or lost. Some time later, in the very next Trek movie Paramount released, i noticed something happening that i thought of and had in my short-story... Commander Data flying through open space. It was then i realized, Star Trek writers and producers can easily use a simple media such as a "contest" as a source of new ideas! Ideas don't grow on trees. They'll become stale or simply run out of new material eventually, but with submissions pouring in from fans around the world, they can go on and on with what'll seem like new never-before seen ideas!
I think Captain Splendid was thinking of the REAL Wendy - Melinda Lou "Wendy" Morse née Thomas, fourth child of Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's and the person the company was named for. She has been a spokesperson for Wendy's in ads since 2010. She also owns multiple Wendy's restaurants.