Thank you MB!!

I'm posting this only because DS has had so much fan fiction over the years, but I'd never heard of one getting a suit filed against them. This Trek one (Axanar) getting sued is a fan made movie that had a Kickstarter campaign budget of close to a million bucks!  I'm guessing maybe a budget of this size is why they received so much attention with a new Trek film coming out this summer, and a new official series promised for next year.

I know there have been a ton of Trek fan movies/series since the early 2000's with sets built from the original blueprints of the 60's Enterprise no less! Paramount has known of these many productions, and allowed them to flourish as long as they don't turn a profit... Most of the big ones, Star Trek Continues, Phase II and ST: Renegades, all have a totally professional look to them, mostly with their on par special effects. Many actors from the numerous incarnations of Trek are involved in some of these as well, giving some a bit of street cred from fans.  It is similar in effect I guess of all the DS audio dramas from Big Finish, but with an "official" stamp on it.

http://www.avclub.com/article/paramount-lawyers-call-star-trek-fan-films-bluff-n-233718

Happy Birthday to you Patti!!!!

I hope you have a great one!! 

At first glance I thought Rog was talking about one of those flashlights on a keychain, which I had for many years in my youth as a latch-key kid!!

But the television studio work I did in college at the local PBS station paid off and finally it dawned on me!  Thanks for the refresher course Rog... 

And just one more reason to be annoyed with RD!! 

you got into Trask's 'special' brownie stash again

you're suffering from fashion envy

have a plot-line reiteration clause in your contract

PT Carl Collins' ghost scattered plastic doggie poops all over the room

are trying to open the first unlicensed musical gynecological practice in the country, out of the cottage