{"id":1635,"date":"2003-08-20T12:37:01","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T02:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/activision-sues-viacomover-bad-star-trek\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:06:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:06:33","slug":"activision-sues-viacomover-bad-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/activision-sues-viacomover-bad-star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"ActiVision sues Viacom&#8230;over bad Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13709,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.activision.com\\\/en_US\\\/news_article_cc\\\/a2d66498-9dde-49c0-ade0-fde70b0caab9.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.activision.com\\\/en_US\\\/news_article_cc\\\/a2d66498-9dde-49c0-ade0-fde70b0caab9.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13710,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\\\/eyv\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/finally_someone.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050323182442\\\/http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com:80\\\/eyv\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/finally_someone.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 13:07:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 11:22:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 11:22:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13711,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/6305252599\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/6305252599\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13712,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/6305127638\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312131130\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/6305127638\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/6305127638\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 11:22:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 11:22:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13713,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.fatlion.com\\\/randy\\\/nettrek.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.fatlion.com\\\/nettrek\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Activision, Inc., a leading developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment software products, today announced that it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activision.com\/en_US\/news_article_cc\/a2d66498-9dde-49c0-ade0-fde70b0caab9.html\" title=\"Activision Files Breach Of Contract Lawsuit Against Viacom\">filed a breach of contract suit against Viacom<\/a>. &#8230;through its actions and inactions, Viacom has let the once proud Star Trek franchise stagnate and decay. Viacom has released only one &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; movie since entering into agreement with Activision and has recently informed Activision it has no current plans for further &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; films. Viacom also has allowed two &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; television series to go off the air and the remaining series suffers from weak ratings. Viacom also frustrated Activision&#8217;s efforts to coordinate the development and marketing of its games with Viacom&#8217;s development and marketing of its new movies and television series.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\/eyv\/2003\/08\/finally_someone.html\" title=\"Finally, Someone Sues Viacom for Crappy Star Trek Movies\">Lane<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>My first response? It&#8217;s about damn time! Trek has been going steadily downhill for quite a while now &#8212; I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/29\/bye-bye-enterprise\/\" title=\"Bye-bye Enterprise\">less than impressed<\/a> with Enterprise, I&#8217;m being told to <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/16\/discovering-deep-space-nine\/#comment-2401\" title=\"Resistance is not futile.\">forego purchasing Voyager<\/a>, and there hasn&#8217;t been a truly good Trek movie since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/6305252599\/djwudicom-20\/\" title=\"The Undiscovered Country\">Star Trek VI<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/6305127638\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"First Contact\">First Contact<\/a> came the closest, but I&#8217;ve got some definite issues with it, too). Whether it&#8217;s the fault of Viacom, Paramount, or the people writing and controlling the franchise, the fact is that it&#8217;s nowhere near where it was &#8212; nor where it likely could be.<\/p>\n<p>However, that said &#8212; this seems pretty frivolous. Is it really Viacom&#8217;s purported mismanagement of the Trek franchise that is causing problems for ActiVision and their Trek-themed games? Or is it that the games themselves aren&#8217;t all that good to begin with? I&#8217;m not a gamer myself, and have neither seen nor played a Star Trek themed computer game since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatlion.com\/randy\/nettrek.html\" title=\"NetTrek\">NetTrek<\/a>, so I&#8217;m not at all in a position to judge the games. I just question whether the downward slide of the Trek franchise is enough of a contributor to ActiVision&#8217;s lack of sales to support a breach of contract suit. I&#8217;m sure it was one factor, but that much of a deciding factor? I&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision, Inc&#8230;.today announced that it has filed a breach of contract suit against Viacom. &#8230;through its actions and inactions, Viacom has let the once proud Star Trek franchise stagnate and decay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047,2038],"tags":[924,23,4097,8,1768],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","category-tech","tag-ent","tag-film","tag-star-trek","tag-television","tag-voy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}