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You should be aware of something as a Star Trek fan, with regard to the show's copyright owner, Viacom.  They seem to have a problem with us fans using the internet to discuss our favorite show.  They have asked many web sites (I haven't been asked, I guess my web page counter hasn't gotten enough hits to become a threat to them) to stop publishing anything about the show for profit or because they're infringing on their copyrights.  Please note, and this is mainly for any readers who are associated with Viacom, that THIS IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT WEB SITE, and that the shows Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, the Star Trek cartoon series, possibly even Gene Roddenberry's Ashes floating above the earth aboard a small earth observing satellite launched by Spain, and any images appearing at this web site related to Star Trek, are dibs of, trademarks, and copyrights of Viacom International Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  They even own the copyright for, and are solely responsible for Star Trek V:  The Final Frontier.... 

If you detected a note of irritation in the above, it's because of Viacom's poor treatment of the fans of the show.  This, after Gene Roddenbery had to kick and scratch to get them to produce the first series in the 60's.   The Vidiot has compiled a list of several articles written about the war between Viacom and the rest of the world regarding this subject, and it occurs to me that Viacom is attempting to assimilate as much as it can, much like a race known as the Borg...  It's also interesting to note that this war started at the same time Viacom opened their Star Trek site on the Microsoft Network, which can only be fully viewed using Microsoft's Internet Explorer - they've deliberately written the site to fail loading in Netscape browsers.  Also, should you actually decide to load up the disk bloating software known as the Internet Explorer and go visit the site, they're going to charge you $$$ to get anywhere inside it.  Needless to say that since I don't use Internet Explorer, don't want to send my credit card numbers through the internet, and don't think that Bill Gates needs to be any richer than he is now, I don't visit the site.  I won't even provide a link to the site, since 1), I tried to go find it, and couldn't get anywhere using my preffered browser, Netscape, and 2), since they do make money using this site, I might be inadvertently providing a path for some type of Star Trek related profit based on a link from my page. 

If you feel that this isn't fair, you can visit the Online Freedom Federation for more information about what can be done to keep Star Trek web sites available on the net.