It must be warranted because that was my first thought too.The first and only time that I'll ever be compared to Ford. Thanks.
"Polaris"
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Hmm. Get me Calista on the phone.
Expo67
Captain
Am busy working on the initial rough assembly of the footage for the show, and, amidst the tedium of syncing second-sound to picture for hundreds of takes, I saved out a couple of frames just to post here.
On the Command Deck of the starship Polaris.
Captain Fredericks and crew react to an audio message from their Transhuman nemesis Andros Gaitanis.
You'd swear that it looks like an updated version of the C-57D's bridge from Forbidden Planet. Let alone the uniforms from the 1956 MGM science fiction classic.
Expo67
Captain
I wouldn't be surprised if the producers of Doctor Who and the suits at MGM come knocking on the Polaris production's front door step.
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Oh, I'd be quite surprised if they wasted their time and money on that.
I think the designers did a wonderful job paying homage to a classic look. Nice work!
Anyone who thinks you can sue over design influences has no idea of how copyright works. Our set has touches inspired by other sci-fi show sets, as did many sci-fi sets from Star Trek to Lost in Space, but no features are direct copies from those other show. If you could sue because something resembled something else no one in Hollywood could make anything at all.
Thanks!
Please, though, don't discourage the BBC - I took one look at nuWho and said to myself "being sued by an arm of the British Government would be of extraordinary publicity value to us!" And just to top it off, I'm announcing here, for the first time anywhere, that the real "villains" of this movie are a powerful alien species...
...who call themselves "Daleqs!"
Today, it may be meant as a compliment. Tommorow, it may be meant as an insult depending on the type of avatar he wants to use.
in the year 10,000, future archivists will find this thread and determine that he meant both and neither. The man is a genius.
Reminds me of my ex-wife.
Did Harlan already sue? 
Yeah, our people are on a starship - he's pretty sure that's a direct lift from COTEOF.
Well, that and the giant time donut that figures in the plot.
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We should probably have left Edith out too, huh?
It's homage. It always is.
It's homage. It always is.
