Its because lawyers (of which there are already too many) need to have something to do to justify their salaries. They don't care if they hurt the franchise they are "protecting". At this point I'd love for someone like Patrick Steward or LeVar Burton (very interesting guy with nice projects like LeVar Burton reads btw...) to drop some comments on Twitter about this nonsense.

These lawyers do nothing but hurt people that love Star Trek a lot and probably are among the franchise's best customers.