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Various and Sundry

Crisis of Infinite Star Treks: A Klingon Language Hypothetical Scenario

By Bjorn Munson | by Bjorn Munson

I would say that it’s inconceivable that this is the 16th entry in an ongoing series on Star Trek’s future and fandom, but then you might say I don’t know what the word ‘inconceivable’ means. The Axanar lawsuit has gotten additional press since Friday. Peter Decherney in Forbes has an excellent article going into both the legal issues and the corporate strategy. Perhaps because of this, some lawyers I know have been sharing links on social…

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Recommended Reading: The Rise and Fall of HBO?

By Bjorn Munson | by Bjorn Munson

I’ve been thinking about “Peak TV” and such from a couple of articles I talked about back in January. Of course, one of the issues with TV or any cinematic development is that you need something of a development pipeline. As Walt Hickey’s article on FiveThirtyEight last week goes into, that might be one of the biggest issues facing HBO right now. Apparently, Game of Thrones may be shorter lived than some of us hoped.

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Crisis of Infinite Star Treks: Being a P’tach about the Klingon Language

By Bjorn Munson | by Bjorn Munson

Would you believe this is the 15th entry in an ongoing series on Star Trek’s future and fandom? Don Adams would. Eriq Gardner wrote a good article in the Hollywood Reporter yesterday about a recent amicus brief filed in relation to the CBS/Paramount lawsuit against the Axanar fan film. As I’ve mentioned earlier in this blog series, I absolutely believe that CBS/Paramount has real and legally binding ownership of Star Trek intellectual property (IP). For non-fans, this…

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Crisis of Infinite Star Treks: The Briar Patch

By Bjorn Munson | by Bjorn Munson

This is the 14th 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 sure if this is a lucky number or not. Michael Hinman’s passionate article shows a side I haven’t really delved into too much, not being a fan film producer. The not-so-nice comments by Axanar’s Alec Peters I first read about in the excellent Newsweek article I expounded about at length last week…

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Recommended Reading: The Actual Science Behind Dyson & Other Dryers

By Bjorn Munson | by Bjorn Munson

Recently, there’s been some news stories making the rounds on the Internets about the Dyson “air blade” hand dryer things actually being horrible germ-distributing death machines, etc. etc. etc. The reason for this conclusion appears to be the usual search for sensation by reporters as explained in this entertaining article by Emma Bryce. Don’t worry hypochondriacs, you can still worry.

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Recommended Reading: A FiveThirtyEight Look at Basic Income

By Bjorn Munson | by Bjorn Munson

I’ve been reading a lot about basic income over the past year or so, from activist like Scott Santens as well as actual studies that have been and are being done. So I was very pleased to see that the data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight decided to do a feature length article about it. If you want to get an idea about what basic income is all about — and what we really know about what…

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Crisis of Infinite Star Treks: Of Paramount and Puppets

By Bjorn Munson | by Bjorn Munson

This is the 13th of the ongoing series about Star Trek’s future and its fandom. I’m as surprised as anyone it keeps going, but hey, that’s why tagging is so handy (or click on Crisis of Infinite Star Treks). So, a pair of links today. The first is an article by Marc Perton that appeared this afternoon in Newsweek. If you haven’t been following this story for months like some of us nuts, it does a…

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You can never escape the shadow of Star Trek V

By Bjorn Munson | by Bjorn Munson

This is the 12th entry in a surprisingly long series of posts about Star Trek’s future and its fandom called Crisis of Infinite Star Treks. Trevor Law over at Nerd Union is worried about Star Trek and its future. There’s worries about how Paramount is handling the movie franchise and worries about whether fans will spring for the extra ducats required to sign up for CBS All Access. As I’m being reminded with all this “Saturday Morning…

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