Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x09 - "All Those Who Wander"
- Thread starter Commander Richard
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Sorry, TTRPG. Table Top RPG. I appear to lack an edit button.
Star Trek Adventures by Modiphus to be specific.
https://www.modiphius.net/en-us/products/star-trek-adventures-core-rulebook
The Voyages of the USS Memphis, aka Big Blue, a Shenzhou Class Starship. Basically, a post Dominion War refit of the original Walker Class vessel. Imagine a Walker and Akira kinda…smushed together.
The Chief Security/Tactical Officer was a Gorn, assigned to the ship as part of the Federation Officer Exchange Program. Big fan of Sumo wrestling, both of the Human & Gorn variety.
It's called "work for hire," and everything's agreed to by contract upfront.
An interesting peculiarity here is that, to the best of my knowledge, while teleplay writers are due compensation if characters they create are used in later TV productions, they don't get paid if someone writing a spinoff novel uses the character in some way. As far as that's concerned, Zefram Cochrane - or Tam Elbrun - belong to the IP owners, not the writers who invented them for a given script.
Has potential, so long as there is a jazz lounge.
No jazz lounge no, but there was a popular Blues club program on Holodeck 2. And a cozy little Scottish pub located on the main Engineering deck.
The problem with that line of thinking is that it enables a company to potentially make massive amounts of money in return for extremely little compensation.
If you're someone who thinks that economic hierarchy is fine, then there's no issue. But I think what you're describing is just legalized theft.
Maybe a lot of engineers ought to get together and use their collective economic leverage to obtain more favorable compensation.
Yep.
Really a shame that they killed off Hemmer, it should have been Ortegas instead. But then again, her death wouldn"t have nearly made the same impact.
We need T-shirts. Hemmer Lives!
And the compensation they received was for that story. If their labor creates value for another story besides the one they wrote, then they should get compensation for the use of their labor for that story as well.
Best part about the pub was no one knew it existed till season 2
That doesn't change the fact that the product was understood to be the property of the company. You seem to think that the result of your labour should be yours in perpetuity.
That's ridiculous. It's not theft when both parties agree.
How about my piano example? I see you've skipped that one. Should I be compensated every time someone uses a piano I made? Or writes with one of my pens? Or opens one of my doors? Or is it ok that they just pay once?
And you've just ensured the death of franchises and crossovers. Congratulations: you have reduced creativity.
Issue is that you'd have to carry out extensive work valuing the use of a character.
Is it a flat fee for any mention of them at all? Or how about fee per usage of them in said production? Scale with fees for a one off mention, background character, main character?
Who then determines these things?
The impracticality of doing it basically makes it easier to accept the status quo as the cost of challenging rulings, making the initial determination etc would end all crossover usage before it began
I don't know exactly where the Gorn empire is but it seems to be gone by TNG. Much honor in hunting Gorn for sure.
Chock"Pring.