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KaVir:
They haven't made a mistake. You're not looking carefully enough at the question part of the FAQ entry. You can not generally copyright a name. That doesn't mean that a name/character can't BE PROTECTED by copyright, as Mason points out.
You could infringe with less than 10 words. Example: a story with protagonists named "Kirk" and "Spock."
It MIGHT be possible to do, but you'd have a very uphill fight if you claimed that you were not attempting to leverage off of copyrighted Star Trek IP.
It's the distinctive parts of the work that are protected, not every combination of words that happens to appear in it.
Star Trek characters may have been known to have said "Good morning" at some point, but that's not distinctive to Star Trek in any way. "Live long and prosper," on the other hand...
Stilton
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