And a talking Chekov who’s looking for the “nuucler wessels”!

They need to crank out a bunch of Ken dolls in red shirts so you can afford to buy twenty or thirty of them so you can send out an away team. Honestly, they’ll get used up pretty quickly.

I... can’t... find... any... Kirks!

In DeForest Kelley’s case it’s likely due to not having likeness rights

“Um, I do believe you mean ConstITUTION-class, which of course included the Enterprise (and Enterprise-A), and not the Constellation-class, which featured no secondary hull and mounted its four nacelles directly on the saucer.

I would be amazed if the likeness rights, in perpetuity, weren’t signed away ages ago.

In DeForest Kelley’s case it’s likely due to not having likeness rights, given that he passed in ‘99 and his wife in ‘04, with no children, there would be no one to release them. While Shatner and Nichols are still alive and Nimoy’s wife and or children would have been able to give permission for his.

As per canon, it gets destroyed during shipping.

But missing is Leonard “Bones” McCoy. I’m sure that it’s because he doesn’t have the popularity of Spock and Kirk.

...and a Gorn...

“I’m a doll-maker, not a bee-keeper!”

I’d have loved to see dolls of everyone in that picture, as well as including Yeoman Rand.

But they own it. Come up with your own idea and you’ll own it. We’re not entitled to more Star Trek just because you didn’t like what they did last.

Points #1 and #3 may be perfectly valid, but as for #2, I guarantee you that Paramount and their legal department are not “afraid” of Axanar. It may very well be much better than any recent official Trek films, but that would have no impact whatsoever on the success or failure of future official products.

...that “Big Corporation” you want to screw is the only reason Star Trek exists in the first place... but yeah! Fuck ‘em!

Yeah, protecting the ideas that they developed and own. What horrible people they are.

The makers of Axanar are paying themselves salaries from their crowdfunded movie and wanted to use the money to set up a future, for-profit studio for the creators, and they were doing it on the back of fans of an established, copyrighted franchise which CBS, who own the TV rights (and Paramount, who own the movie…

Then my perfectly good rant now stand corrected ,for this article ,but we, on a side note concur ,that Paramount is a bunch of dicks for not giving us our greatly deserved WOK Directors cut blue ray with added fotage from Abc tv version in the 50 th Anniversary of Star Trek!

True. But this is from CBS.