Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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It IS the same thing. Someone belioeves a major studio used something they designed, and they feel slighted/owed reimbursement. It's something NO major studio wants to take a chance on - so NO, Paramount isn't just going to go to the Deviant Art website and take a fan design they like. They're going to continue to go to and use resources they KNOW they own lock stock and barrel.
CBS made a show that had some similarities to some guy’s video game that CBS obviously knew nothing about. That’s not remotely the same thing as what we’re talking about. We’re talking about CBS/Paramount willfully taking a fan design off the internet without reimbursing/giving credit to the person who designed it.
Are we eluding to a specific example or just discussing it generally?
As far as Star Trek Picard is concerned the Shangri-La Class was credited to Bill Krause by Terry Matalas and I'm pretty sure the Titan A was the Shangri-La modified by him and Doug Drexler. So technically the fan design is not present in the series except for the golden model in the Titan A's ready room. Terry has been very good at crediting the work of everyone involved. Wheh it comes to the Original Titan and Sean Tourangeau I am not certain. I wonder if anyone in the Lower Decks production team credited him for the Luna Class' inclusion.
Beat me to it
No, and they didn't have to, part of the contest rules was the rights of the winning design went to CBS.
Now Sean was thanked on Social media IIRC.
I did not know that
As in representing Rikers Titan ?
Well, this is the ‘Starship design in Star Trek Picard’ thread, so we’re talking about ships. At least I am.
Bill Krause was hired to help design the Titan-A and the Intrepid. His already-existing Shangri-La design was incorporated into the gold Titan history wall models. Matalas didn’t steal Krause’s designs without his permission or knowledge.
oops, I meant 2290s
He meant the 2290's Titan under Saavik
Actually, they said the ship was built in the 2280’s. Retroactively, it would have been awesome for the Enterprise-A.
If the United States Navy had nigh-infinite resources and over 250 years' worth of compatible design aesthetics to draw upon, why not?
Exactly. So there's nothing stopping Starfleet from having some retro designs out of aesthetic preference.
Possibly, but it could also just be the most advanced ship in the fleet as of 2399... Presumably it's since been beat by the Sagan class, since it's a new class as of early 2401 and incorporates Borg technology.
I think the Constitution III-class is kind of ugly and I would have much preferred that S3 be set aboard either the new Sagan-class Stargazer or the Luna-class Titan. But I have to admit that ugly ships have a habit of growing on me. I wasn't originally a fan of the Crossfield class, but now I see a lot to love in the USS Discovery. The Titan-A is starting to grow on me.
According to the "Picard Logs" the USS Titan under Saavik was launched in 2290, but yeah..close enough.
I could have sworn they said the ship was built in 2284.
Silly, perhaps. But born out of what we’ve seen on screen.
