I have to disagree with you... Canon hasn’t touched upon why or how Grievous got his current body, except for 1 scene in season 1 of the animated Clone Wars series, where he subtly hints that his statues depict his life, with 2 of them showing augmentation.
But that episode is from the Lucas era and was meant as an…

Given that the following image is of Grievous after his first assassination attempt and before he got mechanical parts, I think it’s fairly safe to assume his modifications did indeed not start as an addiction to modifications... It’s could have become that, though i doubt it ranks anywhere near as high as his…

“Reminder: Rudyard Kipling Was a Racist Fuck and The Jungle Book Is Imperialist Garbage.”

When superheroes are too busy punching each other in the face to deal with their usual enemies, what’s a villain to do?

That Ghostbusters pic reminds me of the Casey Kasem voiceover line from the original that I always wish we could have seen:

It’s funny - After GoT and Conan, I was ready to write Momoa off as a little one-note, but I watched The Red Road and I will now happily watch anything he’s in.

I think Jason Momoa can actually bring a goofy kind of humour to the film. I hope they give him the chance, given that he’s usually cast as the grunting monolithic warrior type.

PUT THE GLASSES ON!

That’s not it either. They were infringing regardless. CBS is the owner of the copyright and they can decide whenever they want to enforce it.

ALL fan films are technically infringing. ANY use of copyrighted material outside of fair use is illegal. It does not matter if they are making money off of it or not. It is up to the owner of the copyright to decide when to enforce it. Whatever stuff they’ve allowed in the past is irrelevant.

“Let’s Play” type content is fair use. If it weren’t, the top streaming/videomakers in the world would have had their pants sued off. They take donations, ad revenue, Patreon, etc. all off the content they create which incorporates someone’s IP, and it is legal.

What you definitely CAN’T do is put a soundtrack to your…

Star Trek fan films have become somewhat of a cottage industry on Kickstarter. New Voyages, Star Trek Continues, and Star Trek: Renegades all had successful Kickstarters (some had multiple Kickstarters). Also, Axanar had an Indegogo campaign and did some of the others.

Even using patreon is not legal for your purposes

Actually other projects have kickstarted, that’s not even the problem. It’s when they founded the studio and started paying themselves salaries it became a problem.

Keep in mind CBS is going after them because Axanar is no longer a “non-profit” production, since they are paying themselves with Kickstarter money and planning on using funds to open their own production company.