The Star Trek Fan Film Guidelines and the Changing Face of Fan Films

The Star Trek Fan Film Guidelines came out last week as a part of the fallout over the Axanar project. But some of the changes in fandom that may have contributed to this being a “final straw” moment by the powers that be aren’t all in the camp of the fan film filmmakers. Some of these changes should have been very big, very bright warning signs to fandom that this was coming though. What’s worse for the fan film guys and gals, I don’t think it’s going to get better from here.

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Random Bits and Pieces

Random thoughts on various topics. Brock, Roman, Flash, King King, Godzilla, Dragon Con, documentaries on kidnapped filmmakers. It’s all here.

 

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One of the great yet overlooked Hammer films

Quatermass and the Pitt.

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And this is why we can’t have nice things…

No, it’s not Captain America going bad that’s the problem, it’s the action of fans on social media. It’s the actions of the many- large numbers of them likely not reading the book to begin with -getting their pitchforks and torches out and rallying the angry mobs to attack Marvel under ever more and more flimsy and bizarre rationales.