Most of the sets in TPM were practical.
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It wasn't auctioned off by Paramount/CBS. They didn't have the chair.
http://www.startrekpropauthority.com/2008/06/captain-kirks-chair-from-star-trek.html
http://startrekpropcollector.com/trekauctions/page.pl?p=pih/allitems.html
The chair was taken by someone (I assume Bob Justman as it was auctioned as part of his collection) when they learned the sets were being torn down and destroyed in 1969.
Eaves was probably talking about the stuff they had left over from the TOS Movies+.
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Most of the set pieces, props, costumes, etc. were sold at auction after ENT ended. Moonves was also still the head of CBS when DSC was announced, and he gave Paramount a license to produce the Kelvin timeline films. So, no, you’re wrong. And I would take anything John Eaves says with a grain of salt.
But you’re right about one thing. Les Moonves is an evil man. But not evil in the way you’re trying to make him out to be.
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You really don't like him do you? What did he ever do to you?
Design ships XD
Picard was co-financed by Amazon, otherwise why would they call it an "Amazon original"?
I like him just fine. I even chatted with him on several occasions when he had his blog. He’s a nice guy and he loves Star Trek. But I don’t think he has all the correct information about things, I don’t particularly care for his design style, and I wish that the current producers of Star Trek would stop thinking that he’s some kind of hotshot designer when there are many, many other designers who are better than him IMHO. If you think I’m being personal because of that, that’s a judgement on your part. I might as well ask you why you feel the need to be his cheerleader every time his name is brought up or one negative thing is said about him.
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That's part of the deal they made with CBS All Access at the time. Yes, they LICENSCED it for their service, but they didn't co-produce or finance it. CBS didn't want that after ST: D was a success. Remember originally CBS All Access wasn't planning to deal with the International market and that's WHY Netflix agreed to co-finance, for the International rights.
When they renamed CBS All Access to Paramount+ and decided to stream worldwide; they wanted full control (and profit) from the rest of their stuff.
FYI - Picar4d was offered to Netflix, and Netflix said no when they saw the licensing price tag. Amazon didn't.
Doesn't matter. What matters is if the shows are driving enough subscriptions to make them worth the cost they are paying to produce them. A new programming head isn't going to change that strategy just because they personally don't like Star Trek.
The reverse would also be true. A sane programming executive isn't going to risk their job producing something that continually loses money just because they like it.
It wouldn't have been sets that were around since TOS. It would've been sets that were around since Phase II in 1977. And the remnants of those sets were dismantled at the end of VOY. If you're going to take this position, then at least get it right.
The Phase II sets became TMP sets, which became TNG sets, which became VOY sets. Which were then taken down.
ENT was shot on different sets.
You talk about this like it's a bad thing.
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Oh yes Doug who had nothing good to say about Trek when he wasn't working for them anymore...........wonder if he will still hate it now that he's working on Season 2 of Picard?
Besides, JJ Abrams and Alex Kurtzman both hate Star Trek and are inherently evil, and they BUILT Star Trek sets.
So...I mean....think on that bit of craziness for a little while.
He is? I expect a lot of silence on his part regarding modern Trek from now on
How about those sexual assault allegations?
Good to see "whataboutism" evolving to "howaboutism".
Enterprise was a ratings disaster and was expensive to make. The franchise was severely exhausted at this point and the fanbase was largely rejecting what was being produced and switching off. Moonves only cared about money, if Enterprise had been a ratings and critical darling and brought in coin, it would have got seven seasons.
Tsk, tsk. I expect more from my multinational, media conglomerate CEOs.
You've just crossed over into something else. There are none against Alex Kurtzman to my knowledge. If you think there are, you better back it up with sources, or you'd be moving into slander.
It's not the end of the world to lose an Internet Debate. So just fold before you dig yourself in any deeper.
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I think he’s referring to Moonves, not Kurtzman. But even so, those allegations, whether true or not, have absolutely nothing to do with his already false assertions that Moonves ‘hates’ Star Trek and did everything in his power to make sure there was no more Trek ever.
They’re referring to Moonves not Kurtzman.
Doug isn’t working on Picard S2, you’re thinking of Geoffrey Mandel. Doug is currently working on The Orville.
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Irrelevant to the discussion.
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