Star Trek/Babylon 5 Fandom goes wild in Finland

[anotheranon]

Coming to a screen (whether computer, tv, or wide remains to be seen) near you: Star Wreck, tech-heavy fan parody of Star Trek and Babylon 5. According to the site it's been so popular on the web that a Canadian (of course!) company is looking into making a series. How they'll ever get past the copyright issues is beyond me!

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[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Spoofs can get around a lot of copyright stuff ... provided that they acknowledge that they are spoofs and don't use anything directly from the source of inspiration. "Galaxy Quest" is a good example ... perfectly OBVIOUS to everybody which show was being made fun of (it was "Upstairs, Downstairs", right?), but perfectly legit because no names were named, no costumes copied, etc.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Watch the trailer - much of it is rather dark but I can see enough to tell that they are doing direct copies of the B5 and ST costumes and ships! Like I said - not sure if this will ever see anything outside of Quicktime format, but it is rather amusing!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Will watch it tonight ... did have a look at their still and saw the ST ships. Would assume, if the Canadian spinoff is "official", that they'd a teensy bit less obvious about sources (after all, a GOOD spoof shouldn't HAVE to include a program identifying the players).

BTW, speaking of watching things ... if you do have a desire to experience sick & twisted Canadian kiddie-TV, I discovered that the fansite for Frightenstein includes one complete, downloadable episode (a chance to see Vincent Price being VERY silly indeed ***grin***)