From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 25 14:15:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from argus.tfs.net (host1-224.birch.net [216.212.1.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDA41524F for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbryant@argus.tfs.net) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus.tfs.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) id QAA59132; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:14:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199910252114.QAA59132@argus.tfs.net> Subject: Re: trek73 In-Reply-To: <000101bf1f28$2a498f40$021d85d1@youwant.to> from David Schwartz at "Oct 25, 99 01:33:15 pm" To: davids@webmaster.com (David Schwartz) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:12:47 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Reply-To: jbryant@tfs.net X-Windows: R00LZ!@# MS-Winbl0wz DR00LZ!@# X-files: The truth is that the X-Files is fiction X-Republican: The best kind!!! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #31: Thu Apr 8 10:40:17 CDT 1999 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply: > > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Jim Bryant wrote: > > > > > "unauthorized" things for keeping Trek alive in the first place... If > > > it came out that Paramount ever tried litigation over such things, > > > they would lose a LOT of fans, and the money in their pockets! What > > > would come next? Sueing people at conventions for getting the > > > uniforms wrong? > > > > Or sueing fan websites, perhaps? > > Isn't this more or less precisely what happened once X-Files became popular > enough to not need them anymore? > > DS In case you haven't noticed... The current Trek series' have an ever-dwindling audience. The ONLY thing keeping Voyager alive is widely accepted to be the Borg chick with the extremely fine hooters and the pouty voice. Their litigation money would be better spent going after those unauthorized items that are commercial products, and there is an endless supply of those. If litigation was ever threatened over this CLASSIC public-domain 27 year old game, we can always dig up interviews with the stars and producers to back us up. All true Trekkies have heard the interviews. Trek has always been an underground phenomenon. This game has existed in various forms since 1973, and has never been a commercial product. Paramount would be hard-pressed to prove that they have lost one dime as a result of this game. Burdon of proof is on the litigant. This game in fact when put side by side with a modern trek game in front of a jury would only prove to a jury how frivilous and petty such a suit would be in the first place. The Trek sub-culture is unique. A universe without money, where prestige is based on accomplishment, and not what family you were born into or how big your bank accounts are. Ten or fifteen years earlier, and the right wing would have blackballed Roddenberry as a commie. "Humans are capable of so much more than we yet understand. We're really something! Star Trek fans really believe that, and so do I." -- Gene Roddenberry jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ HF to 23cm grid: EM28pw - http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IC-706MkII - IC-T81A - HTX-202 - HTX-212 - HTX-404 - KPC3+ - PK-232MBX/DSP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message