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This is the 19th entry in a surprisingly long series of posts about Star Trek’s future and its fandom called Crisis of Infinite Star Treks. I’m not saying this is the most depressing entry, but well, read on. I want to tell you a story. It’s not a particularly happy story, but it’s a true story. It’s my story and yet I feel it is many a fan’s story: one marked first by excitement, giddy anticipation, fear,…

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This is the 17th entry in an ongoing series about Star Trek fandom and its future called Crisis of Infinite Star Treks. Based on today’s updates, I’ll be writing about this through Spring 2017. Who woulda thunk it? While this amounts to legal maneuvers around the Axanar Lawsuit, a judge issued a ruling on Monday that will allow the lawsuit to move forward. Essentially, it’s a rejection of Axanar’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, but…

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This is the ninth entry in a surprisingly long series of posts about Star Trek’s future and its fandom called Crisis of Infinite Star Treks. Reece Watkins, over at Krypton Radio, has an editorial about the Axanar lawsuit. From this perspective, maybe things aren’t as dire as I was musing last month. I guess we’ll see. I’m much happier learning more about Beyond and the new TV series anyway.

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This is the eighth entry in a surprisingly long series of posts about Star Trek’s future and its fandom called Crisis of Infinite Star Treks. Here’s an update on the Axanar lawsuit, in the form of an article by Eriq Gardner over at The Hollywood Reporter. As mentioned before, this case could be interesting for more than just Star Trek fans in terms of what it means for copyrights, IP, etc. I’m not so convinced Axanar…

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This is the seventh entry in a surprisingly long series of posts about Star Trek’s future and its fandom called Crisis of Infinite Star Treks. Christine Wang at CNBC had an article yesterday giving an update on the Axanar Lawsuit. In the good news, at least in the court of opinion, the director of the upcoming Star Trek Beyond, Justin Lin essentially tweeted his support for Axanar. Awkward. I would strongly suspect Justin Lin got contacted…

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It’s one thing to have too many choices, something we arguably have in today’s world. It’s another thing to have choices violently cut down. Imagine if Baskin Robbins decided their Thirty-One-Derful world needed to be Thirteen. Or Three. In my previous post on this subject, I noted that I was okay with the different –in some cases radically different– flavors of Star Trek. My issue was that a whole set of flavors, ones that I…

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