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I don't understand why CBS won't just let them do their thing. It's not like they are loosing profit from it. I further don't understand why the maker's didn't just release this anonymously to begin with.

Anyway, I believe (hope) one day copyright and ownership of stories will be seen as a major injustice. Why can't everybody have their own Star Trek? There is no need to control it, or for copyright to be exclusive. There still can be an "official" CBS Star Trek if we legalize fan works.

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Because Patrick Stewart signed on for another Star Trek reboot. This would obviously feature the bridge of the Enterprise D.

A few years ago, CBS shut down the fan film Axanar, because it told the story of the Star trek universe about 10 years before Kirk, during the Klingon war. Last year, Discovery aired, which tells the story of the Klingon war.

Take this as a sign of what the new Picard series will include.

>This would obviously feature the bridge of the Enterprise D.

I'm not sure that's obvious or even likely, but they clearly are being aggressive about the IP, whether it's justified or not.

Don't forget that they go form very relaxed police with fanfilms to a stupid police (for example, they enforce to use ORIGINAL merchandising from Star Trek for props on fan films)

Axanar is a bit different. They were paying people and crossed into profit. This whole thing is as non-profit as it gets, and I really don't see the harm.

I'm pretty sure the new Picard stuff is way after and will not have an Enterprise D element.

A perfect recreation of the Enterprise-D in an "Experience" that you just walk around, would probably not be a problem for them if that's all it was. The problem was probably that anyone could take the model and assets and turn it into either a game, or use it for CGI to place behind actors filmed in front of green-screens. Their model being available would make either of those things happening more likely and cheaper for those that might do it.

Makes sense but I think you're giving them a lot of credit here. I doubt they put this much thought into it.

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