I just had to repost this. Brace yourselves: -----
In only a few days time, Star Trek's Executive Producer Rick Berman will declare that Star Trek has entered the public domain. This decision was made after unsettling reactions to its most recent installment, "Enterprise."
"We've been looking at the success of open-source software like Linux for some years now, and decided to go along with this unprecedented move in order to ensure a proper continuation of the show, just the way Roddenberry would've wanted it."
Berman noted that all of the production materials and movie footage will be donated to the Library of Congress, from where it will be distributed to fans at impossibly low prices. Users will be able to access things like Rick Sternbach's blueprints and Foundation Imaging CG models online at a nominal price.
"Like everybody else, Paramount will still continue to develop the show, but it is hoped that, now that the show is in public domain, a group of independent fans will manage to restore the show to its former glory. We will, of course, try our best to stay competitive," said Brannon Braga, the creative head of "Enterprise."
An old fandom artist, who wanted to remain anonymous until the official annoucement has been made, reportedly kept jumping up and down for about ten minutes. "I cannot tell you how happy I am, " said the artist, "This is the moment we've been waiting for since 1975. I will finally be able to make money off my blueprints legally."
The more vocal group of "canon-heads" now have a conceputal problem to solve. "Since the fans are the ones that decide what is and what isn't canon, just about any question can now be resolved with polls. How big is the Defiant? The majority rules."
Another, "since September 8" fan said just this: "Landru is dead."
Boris
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Y'know, it might help if it wasn't such a blatant April Fools joke (and, er, if today wasn't April First )
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Not bad, had me scratching my head there for a second.
It was the Defiant reference that gave it away.
BTW, who's Landru?
Posted by Boris (Member # 713) on :
Ok, ok, it's a blatant joke. I still think it wouldn't look that bad in The Onion, though.
Landru was the leader of the planet from "Return of the Archons." He died and left behind a computer to simulate his presence and control the population, but the population stagnated until Kirk came in and made it self-destruct. Just one of the myriad "expulsion from paradise" TOS shows.
Boris
Posted by Styrofoaman (Member # 706) on :
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Porthos has also taken it upon himself to suggest multiple storylines to the writers, most of which, according to one source, "suck."
quote:A recent study by sociologists has concluded that many of the events depicted on the popular TV show Star Trek are in fact just made up and have not transpired. In fact, the study goes on to conclude, the events are unlikely to ever happen. Proof came in the form of correlation and reconciliation of events portrayed on the show, and reality.
LOL!
-MMoM Posted by Styrofoaman (Member # 706) on :
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Porthos has also taken it upon himself to suggest multiple storylines to the writers, most of which, according to one source, "suck."
An old fandom artist, who wanted to remain anonymous until the official annoucement has been made, reportedly kept jumping up and down for about ten minutes. "I cannot tell you how happy I am, " said the artist, "This is the moment we've been waiting for since 1975. I will finally be able to make money off my blueprints legally."
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