Chimera is not associated with any current actual CBS or Paramount property. Any such apparent coincidence is just that.
The fan film parody operates as a "nod to Star Trek" but is clearly not official.
Libby's Brain comics and the Post Group associated pirated title both went under, and the later is a joke in the credits. Libby refers to a Pine Hill student from the 1980s.
The creators emphasize that this was made without a profit, and will not make a profit.
Post Group seems to be an in joke to the TNG era effects house, and to the church group that inspired Chimera back in 2003 with a Christmas Post play that was a crossover with then Locations.
The Sillian stories available to buy on Amazon are modeled after the Starship Locations saga, but skirt the rules by changing literally everything out that was Star Trek. They do not use any copyrighted ships, names or settings, but have changed them radically enough that it is considered "transitive new work", and yes, there is no more production company.
It is not a scam because there is and was never any money changing hands, and anyone volunteering understood they could not get paid, but could get a by line for free.
It does appear that certain Sillian names are actually fake, but again, nobody got paid for making lines. Maybe they had to put up fake names, or wanted theirs removed.
In 2015 during the ridiculous viral pitch scam of a little known fan of Star Trek, a gamer called Michael, these guys, Kat and Cards, apparently were a two voices of reason that started the counter argument that nobody can pitch their fan film to then current Star trek, and nobody can to this day.
Back in the 1990s, Adam and Jon did pitch when it was allowed in a contest, which ran for a few years, and their ideas were included in DS9 and Voyager, but they were not paid or asked to come to LA.
Then it appeared in 2019 that some of their stories from Sillian lore are indeed plot elements in Discovery, even crossing genres with a character "The Red Angel" ripped from Star Crackers, the online film from 2014, and in upcoming shows, although the angel was a "star system not a person". So the unnamed gamer could not pitch, but it appears they did.
It still seems muddy they might have some of those dozen role playing connections and they might return, but there is likely an NDA that sayus they cannot disclose who they are.
Michael's hideous script did see a spoof in a Sillian story, so his pitch did happen, but not to CBS. To the Sillians.
Maybe he is an overlord.
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