By GustavoLeao / 00:00, 29 March 2012 / General Genre/SciFi

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CBS has put a stop to plans to adapt Norman Spinrad’s long-lost original Star Trek script “He Walked Among Us,” which the author had been preparing to film with the Star Trek: Phase II fan film series. CBS set its phasers to “meddling threats of litigation,” sending a cease-and-desist letter to Spinrad that demanded he remove the script from the web and immediately scrap all plans to adapt it, given that it still legally belongs to the studio.

Spinrad responding to a fan’s assertion that “maybe J.J. Abrams isn’t to blame after all” with “I didn’t say that,” then continuing, “But I am not legally bound not to say that I found J.J. Abrams' first Star Trek film quite inferior to the Phase II videos and his cavalier attitude towards the decades-long legacy of what Star Trek has come to mean to the general culture quite reprehensible, and indeed artistically counterproductive.”

The full article can be found at the New York Times