If Paramount and CBS had a clue, they would ask for a copy of the script, and if it met with being canon with the original universe, (and Enterprise) either offer to hire them to do a one shot straight to DVD/BluRay movie, (or mini-series), pending script approval, cut them in for some of the take, and let them go at…

CBS and Paramount can eat a bag of dicks. According to their guidelines, everyone can make a sci-fi spacehip video in their backyard out of a cardboard box wearing pajamas.

Well, Galaxy Quest is still the best Star Trek fan film ever made.

Wow...

While I like the idea of having some guidelines...those are oppressive as fuck and nonsensical. They actually destroy some of the best stuff in fan films and completely shut out the involvement a lot of Trek alumni have been enjoying in connecting to their fans. It particularly really shits on Tim Russ.

And Trek…

As far as I can tell from some online searching there are no guidelines for general fan films. However, they run the annual Star Wars Fan Films contest which are both more and less restrictive. Much shorter time limit of only 5 minutes (that may be related to what they are willing watch rather than a general…

Those aren’t legal guidelines for allowing the mere existence of fan films, those are the rules for an official award contest for fan films.

Nope. I can’t agree to that. The only reason Axanar got the hype it did was because it was promising a real Star Trek experience, something we haven’t gotten from CBS/Paramount in decades. I never watched fan fic before the Prelude, but when the fan fic is vastly better than the licensed product, what choice do we…

It’s fair inasmuch as it’s totally CBS / Paramount’s property. But OTOH I don’t believe there is a fan work yet that meets these guidelines. Based on runtime alone!

Can I also just say, for the record, that I have read a lot of fanfic and the last word I would use for it is “reasonable.”

They’re just worried that fans will do it better.

I’m 50 so I’m old enough to remember older systems just fine. But I said new systems sound as good or better for less after you figure in inflation plus have a lot of better features.

Another example of religion standing in the way of science and research.

When are people living in the stone age going to stop holding everyone else back?

I believe his exact words were...”The hybrid is Me.”

We don’t know for sure that the Doctor was the hybrid. It’s semantically confusing, and no doubt on purpose. “The hybrid is me,” or “the hybrid is Me.” I figured her chosen name was more than just a random bit of oddness. Likewise, the Doctor’s ancient statement that he’s half human (on his mother’s side) returns to…

As much as I love the comparison to Klaus, the Doctor isn’t the hybrid. He says “the hybrid is me” - what he means, of course, is that the hybrid is Me! A hybrid of two great warrior races - not the Daleks and the Time Lords - but the Vikings and the Mire!

Well, $800 in 1979 would equal $2,575 in 2015 dollars and you said to get audio quality equal to the CR 2020 would cost you $2k to $3k today. And undoubtedly the receiver costing that much would have a boatload of features that didn't even exist in 1979.

I did read the article...and I just re-read it after seeing your comment to see if I had read it incorrectly. They didn't test the SX 1980 against anything "very high end". They tested it against one of the better mid-level (mainstream) home theater receivers and a run-of-the-mill mid-level HT receiver.

But that's not what they said the testing showed. They said that the 30 year old equipment tested out and was able to "go toe to toe" with the new stuff. Which means it was comparable. If the old equipment was beating the new in sound quality, then yeah, I'd be bitching, but if it's about the same, I'll take the new…

The conclusions here seem misguided. The tone of the article implies that sound quality is suffering due to tech advancement...but it sounds more like sound quality has remained about the same, but we are now getting a lot more bang for the buck. This is particularly true when you consider that $300 in 1981 (30 years…