It's worth pointing out, though, that the BBC does own the rights to the appearance of the Daleks, as that was created by Ray Cusick, who was a BBC employee. The concept of a Dalek, on the other hand, is Terry Nation's.
That's true. It's been pointed out that the BBC could use the Dalek casings for, say, Teletubbies-like creatures that sings and dances and talks in high-pitched babble, and there's nothing Nation's estate could do. It's the same thing with K-9. The BBC owns the design, but Martin and Baker own the character. (Or did one of the two sell their share to the other? I can never remember.) And when RTD's series was in development, I seem to recall that one of the TARDIS console room concept designs incorporated the K-9 design as a feature.
No, you're right about K-9. Baker was able to use the original K-9 design in the K-9 pilot because they traded with the BBC, allowing the BBC to use the character in Series 3 of Sarah Jane.
I know this was released as two seperate TPB's, but I've just seen on Amazon this is now out as a complete HC And I just hard to say, wow, that cover artwork is awful! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Trek-G...ords=star+trek+federation+the+first+150+years
That's not the cover. It's a wraparound piece by J.K. Woodward that sort of riffs on George Perez's 1980's unused JLA/Avengers cover -- on the right (in this case, front) there are the heroes and they're matching up against the Borg and Cybermen on the left (in this case, back).