I do look over at Doug's site, and there's some fantastic stuff there. But, as with some other people whose private work I'd love to feature, there are legal obstacles that simply can't be easily overcome.
That's a shame, because (as you say) the stuff at the Drex Files is pretty awesome, as are the materials from a number of other sites who've done their own original research, and it would add to the magazine if those legal obstacles weren't in the way.
That doesn't mean I don't keep looking every time that I, or someone working for me, look through the archive - some great shots from Star Trek II and Star Trek Nemesis are appearing for the first time ever in print in the villains issue simply because they turned up during a search for something completely different.
That sounds very cool, and I look forward to it.
The previous poster used a lot of
Doctor Who examples, but (IMHO) I think the sheer behind-the-scenes research tenacity of that fandom goes above and beyond that of most
Star Trek fandom, for all of the latter's pervasive nature.
Doctor Who fans have had to go on a global search for materials from the series, sometimes just to find
frames of footage from a lost episode, while every tiny nook and cranny of continuity space between episodes has had some sort of tie-in fiction squeezed into it.
The relative availability of
Star Trek, by comparison, means that its fandom has evolved differently, taking the abundance of material for granted and thus not being as interested in certain arcane details or possible spinoffs of the franchise as the equivalent
Doctor Who fan would be.
In other words, it's a different market.
