TrekUnited Ends Fan-Fundraising, Looks Into Future

When TrekUnited was founded two months ago, it aimed to save Star Trek: Enterprise and keep alive the Star Trek legacy in one way primarily: by raising funds to sponsor the actual production of another season of the show. Since then, TrekUnited has collected $144,173 from fans who have contributed through Paypal or sent in checks. Together with a generous donation of $3m in pledges from investors in space-flight industry, this has been the highest amount of funds ever raised by a fan campaign. The new approach of "putting our money where our mouth is" was considered to be more convincing than plain letter-writing in a time of more business-oriented media.

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