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Trek Geeks #119: The Discovery Social Media Microscope

COUNTERING THE HATE This week on Your Independent Star Trek Podcast, we examine some of the most common complaints on Social Media regarding Star Trek: Discovery. DSC is the first new Star Trek series in the age of Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites and it’s been the subject of a lot of posts. We’ll…

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Trek Geeks #91: The Axanar Settlement

THE LATEST FROM AXAMONITOR With just 11 days before the start of a copyright infringement trial, Axanar Productions and Alec Peters announced they had settled the lawsuit brought against them by CBS and Paramount Pictures. It was a case that had taken many twists and turns, ultimately revealing in court filings that the “Independent Star…

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Trek Geeks #65: The Axanar Rules

THANKS, AXANAR. In this week’s episode, we’ll take an in-depth look at the new Fan Film Guidelines released by CBS last week! These guidelines seem to change fan films as we know them–and they’re all the result of one production’s actions. For months, Axanar Productions has complained that there were no guidelines. Their constant complaining has…

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Trek Geeks #56: Federation HALTED

Note: On Saturday, 4/23/16, this week’s episode was made available at 11:15 AM EDT.  Shortly after the release, we pulled the episode due to additional information we received that ALL fan films had NOT received phone calls from CBS suggesting they shut down their productions.  We felt that as a result of this information we did…

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