All the Kelvin Enterprise sets were rebuilt from scratch for Star Trek Beyond, for that same reason (and I am so curious what The Picard Show will look like, since it's being filmed in LA and thus won't reuse Disco sets)
USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?
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At the time, TPTB was thought that the Phase II scripts might be used in a new Trek show after TMP or that there would be a sequel film, as chronicled in Susan Sackett's The Making of Star Trek The Motion Picture.
Two years later, TWOK was made and various sequel movies soon after that, then TNG, then cannibalized one last time for VOY.
Would it be cheaper to have moved and refitted ENT sets for a Walker class ship?
The Shenzhou sets, other than the bridge, are all the same as the Discovery's but with slightly different lighting and a few panels swapped out. Even the transporter room is the same, just with the floor changed around and the circular wall pads.
After being in storage for 12 years? I can't imagine that painted plywood would be in any decent shape.
That's understandable.
That would have been a nice touch. Let's say for a moment that the Walker-class starship was one of the very first new starship classes commissioned by the unified Federation Starfleet after 2161. 23rd and 24th century starship bridges tend to share many similarities in design and layout even if they belong to wildly different classes designed and launched decades apart. It wouldn't be out of the ordinary for the Walker-class ships like the Shenzhou to retain certain bridge design elements of the NX-class vessels built and launched before the Federation even existed.
Were the DSC producers going to do that? No, but that would have been a nice tie-in with the previous series and a visual clue to how old the Walker-class starships might actually be and I think many of us would have enjoyed seeing that.
The Enterprise sets were not stored. Just about all the Trek sets left on the Paramount lot were destroyed a year or two after Enterprise ended. Folks who worked on Trek salvaged a few bits.
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But CBS gave Paramount a license to produce Trek films after ENT was cancelled. It was no longer their problem. It was up to Paramount to build new sets, props, models, etc., which they did.
Everything has a dollar value. I imagine it wouldn't have been cheap to store the Enterprise sets for twelve years.
There was no license granted, my understanding is that Trek is co-owned in perpituity by CBS and Paramount, with Paramount owning and controlling the cinematic side of things, and CBS everything else.
My understanding is that Paramount has become another Licensee of Trek from CBS, with exclusive rights to making Trek movies.
That's why CBS can use anything it wishes at any time and also why Paramount has to go through CBS to get approval for any movie decisions Paramount wants to make.
This is also the main reason why JJ couldn't get all the business things he wanted when making Trek-2009.
CBS has final say on all things Trek.
(this is also backed up by the fact that the CBS logo is on every piece of Trek Merchandising out there, including the movies)
If those rumours are true, JJ wanted to make Trek into a multimedia franchise, including stuff like TV series' and animation, but CBS control all that and told him "no" because they had their own plans (which they're realising now)
Paramount owns the TOS and TNG films. That’s why any show made by CBS cannot use stock footage from those films.
Actually, JJ wanted all new TOS Merchandise Licensing stopped so Bad Robot could get a larger cut of the 2009 Trek stuff.
CBS said NO to that and that's what caused JJ to pull back on his involvement.
Very likely. The Sales Materials PDF on that page is out of date but they count 12 movies and 6 series. What's missing is Discovery and Beyond. Everything else is counted as a CBS property and grouped together.
Check again, those films all have the CBS logo prominently displayed on them as owners of the IP.
Again, Paramount has essentially become a Licensee of Trek in cooperation with CBS.
It has the Exclusive Right to make Trek Movies, but that's about it.
Any new merchandise based on the Pre-Kelvin Universe belongs to CBS.
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They own the IP, but they don’t own the individual TOS/TNG films. Those became Paramount’s property after the split.
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