Hypothetically if it was sold off for parts.
What would happen if Disney bought the entire Star Trek IP franchise?
Would we be able to get the infamous Star Trek x Star Wars IP cross-over?
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What would happen if Disney bought the entire Star Trek IP franchise?
Would we be able to get the infamous Star Trek x Star Wars IP cross-over?
Legally, yes. But I've always had a gut feeling that Apple would end up with the Trek IP in that scenario.
Disney doesn't tend to cross their IP streams. An Easter Egg or two at best.
There would be a "First Time" for everything.
Probably not. Other than fulfilling some fanboy wet dream, I don't see any advantages. ( not even the money) Disney has a host of SF properties: Alien, Star Wars, Firefly, Avatar, MCU, Planet of the Apes and Predator. Not sure I'd want them crossing over, either. (Yes they did do Alien vs Predator.)
Which has already happened, anyway, in both directions.
It was Fox that did that, long before Disney acquired it. I believe there was an Alien Easter egg in the recent Predator animated movie, but that's continuing a precedent introduced way back in Predator 2.
As a rule, I don't like the idea of crossing over different science fiction or fantasy universes, since their histories, physics, species, planets, etc. are usually irreconcilable. And no, "alternate universes" doesn't work as a credible justification, because any parallel timelines that had Earth and humans in them would be branches off the same universe and would have the same physics and the same planets and species.
I mean, not really, since it’s all fiction and if you create a world, you can apply whatever rules you want.
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Yeah, they could create a Disney multiverse and have characters slip in and out of all their properties.
Naytiri, Ripley, Caesar, Nick Fury, Indiana Jones, the Mandalorian and Inara Serra must join forces to save the Disneyverse from Emperor Palpatine and his army of Xenomorph riding Predators...
That's why I specifically said "credible." My whole point is that crossing over different fictional universes is rarely credible, and that's what I don't like about it.
What about that one time when DC & Marvel crossed over in the comics?
It's actually happened at least a handful of times, either with individual characters or on a broader scale:
The first known crossover with characters from both properties (rather than a joint agreement to publish a third party property)
The best known and most significant is probably the DC vs. Marvel "fan vote" contest title that lead into the brief combined Amalgam Comics imprint back in the late 90s.
AFAICT, most recent was JLA/Avengers in the early 2000s.
JLA/Avengers? Beautiful art work by George Perez.
Somehow, I think credibility is something that matters to less than 1% of people reading crossovers.
Comics are not known for their credibility.
I wasn't speaking for them. I was expressing my personal preference.
And what does reading have to do with it? We were talking about the possibility of Disney crossing over its film or TV franchises.
Doesn't matter what form the audience is taking it in. Reading was just the word that came to my mind as I was writing the comment, so no need to get pedantic about it.
And there's no need to tell me I'm not entitled to my own preferences because other people don't share them. I find that incredibly pedantic.
DC Comics did the 'Oz Wonderland War' featuring Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew along with various characters from the land of Oz and Wonderland, and it was glorious, capturing the spirit of both authors.
