Some of those guidelines are very reasonable!
Some of them are explicitly disallowing things that would otherwise be legal, which makes me angry.
For example:
- You can't register the copyright of the things you've produced, because you produced them in service of Star Trek? Bullshit, that I hate.
- You can't sell merch for your fan production, even if you don't use any Paramount owned shit in it? Bullshit that I hate.
- No physical media? Fuck that!
- You can't pay anyone involved? That's fucking bullshit!
- Anyone who has ever been in a Star Trek thing can't participate. Why? (Specifically to exclude Tim Russ and George Takei, presumably, but also perhaps to exclude James Cawley and others who were involved in existing fan productions who had *also* cameoed in various actual Star Trek productions.)
And then, of course, no more than 15 minutes per thing, and no more than two things per group. No sequels, no series, no seasons, nothing of proper episode length.
