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"Choose Your Pain" Klingon ship (Visual spoilers?)

I am enjoying watching the nitpick TOS diehards cry and squirm that their beloved cardboard props are being replaced with high quality designs.

Call the waaahhhhmbulance. I'll sit back and enjoy the show.

You can make high quality designs without completely changing the shape of the ship, look at the K'Tinga, the unused battlecruiser design for Enterprise, or the Kelvin-Timeline D-7.

Hell, T'Kuvma's ship looked closer to a D-7 then what we got this episode.
 
I am enjoying watching the nitpick TOS diehards cry and squirm that their beloved cardboard props are being replaced with high quality designs.

Call the waaahhhhmbulance. I'll sit back and enjoy the show.

Naw, this is about plastic models that should be easy to at least resemble with computer technology, and then going in a totally different direction for no known reason, when the expectation is that the ships would look at least something like previous Klingon ships seen in all the shows so far, including the 2009 movie, which still kept the basics of the Klingon battlecruiser hull shape. Central body. Long neck. Head module in front. Raised bit near the back, and swept down pylons for either the warp engines or the weapons pods.
 
Nope, CBS owns the rights to it.

Or else Star Trek Online and several other CBS licensed products wouldn’t have been able to use it.

Though maybe Paramount reserves the rights to use it in a live action movie. Who knows, we don’t have access to their contract

That does not fit. Paramount owns the movie rights, everything in the kelvin movies is theirs. That was why they went with a reboot and redsign or near everything. They had rights to only those things mentioned and shown in the movies, nothing more. So they own the design of the JJ prise. Which is good, let them keep that fugly thing.
 
Did you read my post? I gave example of a CBS only licensed project using Kelvin Timeline material.

Yes, I did. But they did not own anything from Paramount. Maybe they liecned the design or bought it, but the split did not give them ownership of anything Paramount created.
 
That does not fit. Paramount owns the movie rights, everything in the kelvin movies is theirs. That was why they went with a reboot and redsign or near everything. They had rights to only those things mentioned and shown in the movies, nothing more. So they own the design of the JJ prise. Which is good, let them keep that fugly thing.

And yet, CBS publishes/licenses products with Kelvin Timeline material.

The KT Movies are listed on CBS's website as their products.
 
All this reminds me of the anime series Gundam Wing, where in the movie "Endless Waltz" all the designs for the Gundams were completely different from what they had in the show. They also had flashbacks predating the show and their earlier Gundams also had completely revamped designs, and it was just accepted that 'they always looked that way, now, I guess...whatever...'

But the real crime was that Gundam Wing was just not a great show.

"Neither is Discovery!" - many people on the board, lol.
 
And yet, CBS publishes/licenses products with Kelvin Timeline material.

The KT Movies are listed on CBS's website as their products.


Likely a licences thing as they do not own the movies. Who knows, it could be some odd thing in how the split was done and they get merch rights.
 
Likely a licences thing as they do not own the movies. Who knows, it could be some odd thing in how the split was done and they get merch rights.
Paramount probably has the right to make the movies, but CBS owns everything that comes out of those movies under the Star Trek Banner.

Like, if you look at any Star Trek product, they all say Star Trek is owned by CBS.
 
You can make high quality designs without completely changing the shape of the ship, look at the K'Tinga, the unused battlecruiser design for Enterprise, or the Kelvin-Timeline D-7.

Hell, T'Kuvma's ship looked closer to a D-7 then what we got this episode.
That D7 looked similar in shape to a Vor'cha class.

T'Kuvmas ship looked like a Negh'Var class.

Add that to the death glider like Birds of Prey.
 
Don't know if it helps but the book Desperate Hours (which was worked on with input from the show staff) state that Cage-type uniforms are only used on Constellation class ships. It even mentions a lot of the design styles and quirks (no ready room, etc) are pretty specific to the Connie class.

What’s up with the Constellation-class you keep mentioning on every single post? The Enterprise is a CONSTITUTION class starship.
 
Maybe D7 is a Federation category referring to any Klingon craft of a certain size/displacement, or crew number, or power emission, or...
 
Several possibilities:

1. It was a D-7, but it was dark and close-up so we didn't really get a good look.

2. The ship shown later on in the show is NOT the D7. It's a Klingon prison ship. Unless I missed where they identified them as the same?

3. The database is incomplete on Klingon ship design, so the computer simply made the best visual match it could given the available information. The computer "identified" it as a D7, but that doesn't mean it was a D7. Have you ever played around with image recognition software?

I think the "battlecruiser" that captured Lorca's shuttle was not the "prison ship" he ended up on later.
 
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