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Originally Posted by JSWolf
In fact, one of the big Star Trek forums has a section for fan fiction and the powers that be 100% know of this forum as they sometimes post there. And a lot of authors post there too. So basically, if the powers that be wanted to kill off fan fiction for Star Trek, they would. But they'd also lose enough readers that it would kill off the books.
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Well, they did it once already, I assure you. I remember being good friends with a 12 year old star trek fangirl who was also a writer. She had a page of generic star trek stuff, as well as her writings. For a 28 year old, her writings were good. For a 12 year old, they were phenomenal. Most of them were not even about star trek, the two that were were more or less essays on Star Trek's effect on the subculture of fandom and a brief biography of Gene Roddenberry and Leonard Nimoy. When Paramount did their massive crackdown, not only did they order her ISP to remove the star trek page and the two essays, but EVERYTHING that linked off it. She lost her original writings too.
She never wrote again, at least all the way through middle and high school. She might have picked it up in college, but I lost touch with her. Not even the Internet Wayback Machine has her stuff, because Paramount also went to them.
This girl was good. She'd be a writer now had this not happened. It wasn't just that Paramount went around and asked people to pull down their star trek sites.. no, they literally went around demanding ISPs DELETE FULLY the star trek sites and revoke accounts for TOS violations.
So it happened, trust me, and I hope they learned from it. Now Star Trek isn't popular anymore amongst kids. The thing that kept it alive from the mid 70s to the mid 80s were the fans and their writings, drawings, and the like. When Paramount did that to my entire generation of fans, and then TNG went off the air, they might have killed the entire series.