Hollywood Giants Are Headed to Trial to Kill a Star Trek Fan Film

By
Edvard Pettersson
Updated on
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Actor William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk shoots a phaser in a scene from 'The Man Trap,' the premiere episode of 'Star Trek,' which aired on Sept. 8, 1966.

 Photographer: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

CBS Corp. and Paramount Pictures Corp. are headed to a trial against the makers of a crowd-funded Star Trek fan film after a judge concluded in what he described as a “Vulcan-like” analysis that it mined the movies and TV-series down to “excruciating details.”

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