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Old 25-September-2008, 03:47 PM
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Default Referencing "Star Trek" Without Referencing "Star Trek"

Okay, so I was watching the Twins game the other night (on Fox Sports Net), and they ran a little advertisement/PSA about Admiral Farragut. It's part of a series called "Americans in Focus." You can see them all online here - Farragut's is at the top of the second column.

Anyway, there's a "U.S.S. Farragut" dedication plaque that is partially visible right at the very beginning, and they show it in more detail later on, particularly when they focus on the "Damn the torpedoes" quote. The Starfleet emblem is pretty eviden if you're looking for it, and when they show it later, you can actually read the references to things like "Starfleet," "Gene Roddenberry," and "United Federation of Planets."

The really interesting thing, though, is that they got the graphic here. It's not even an official Paramount "Star Trek" graphic - it was made by a fan for his fan-fic website! And....they took the graphic without even notifying the website owner! When I e-mailed him about it, he had no idea his graphic was being broadcast on national television.

As he said, he doesn't think he'd be able to issue a "cease & desist" order or sue for compensation since it's a derivative work to begin with, but I still found it interesting all around. Not only that they'd take a graphic off the internet without even acknowledging it, but that they'd use a "Star Trek" graphic without acknowledging it!
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