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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp,net.startrek
Subject: Re: Star Trek - The Role Playing Game
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 20:29:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 20:29:50 1985
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> ... buy any reasonably obscure SF novel from the '50s or early
> '60s. Read the book & take notes. Change the names. Give credit to the
> author if you're going to publish.

And if you're going to publish something in the Star Trek universe,
check out the legalities.  Perhaps the RPG side of things follows
different rules from the books, but here's the situation for writing
Star Trek books:  you can't.  You cannot use the trademarked characters
without approval from the trademark owners, and they won't even look
at your manuscript before they tell you "no".  The Star Trek books are
written by prearrangement only, and if you don't have an SF or movie/TV
track record, they won't talk to you.  These rules probably don't carry
over too literally to ST-TRPG, but check before you invest lots of time.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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