And I was going to edit to make a very clear that I find all this to be the Axanar guys fault that if he have not tried to make money off of this (which I find wrong because I do agree with you it’s not theirs. Although I never said it was) we would not have these guidelines.
Alec isn't some sort of apocalyptic special snowflake. Where there's money, there's always going to be grift, and where there's notoriety, there will always be people seeking attention. There may not have specifically been "guidelines" if Alec hadn't existed, but there would have inevitably been a crackdown equally as extreme. It would have simply taken another form.
The executives at CBS are adults running a large corporation employing thousands of people, and they're responsible for their own actions and policies. They were not in any way compelled to publish those Guidelines. The Devil didn't make them do it.
If you think the Guidelines are perfectly reasonable, you're entitled to that opinion. I may not agree, but I can respect an honest opinion. But if you're making excuses for CBS because you don't expect any better from them than you do from Alec, then I pity you.
What’s wrong with 30 minutes?
The original run of Doctor Who was split into 25-minute episodes. There were 694 episodes in total. Of those, only one was a single-part story, and it featured neither the Doctor nor his companions. It didn't even feature the TARDIS. If 30 minutes is such a great period of time to tell a story in, why have they only done so once in a show that ran a quarter of a century?
And remember, you can't do continuing stories over multiple films. "[...]no additional seasons, episodes, parts, sequels or remakes."
My point is what would be the point of a 2 hour limit that YOU suggested when no movie has gone over 2 hours? That is a useless limit.
With the limitations on the funds you can raise, even a 15-minute film has far fewer dollars/minute than any Star Trek series or film. So fan films will self-limit their lengths to no greater than movie length anyway, or else they just run out of money before they're ever completed. We don't actually need an upper limit.
The issue is: There IS a way to legally create Star trek content and get in on the game - GET A LICENSE FROM CBS.
Has anyone ever successfully done this in the history of the franchise? Lot's of things are technically possible that will never actually happen in reality, no matter how hard you try.
i developed an intense hatred for the "let me be clear" opener, followed by some murky wall of text or not.
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