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Or he deleted it because he realized he was wrong, or someone explained to him that he was wrong.
It's still a very bad sign that the people making the show are doing things with no or incorrect understanding of why. Ditto the writer who said they're not allowed to use anything from any of the movies. I have no doubt their art is suffering as a result.
 
Some time ago John Eaves made a post on facebook, claiming that the Enterprise on Discovery had to look 25% different from the TOS one for legal reasons, (a post which he later deleted, which lead to speculation on wether CBS forced him to delete it, to keep the public from the truth or whatever). Since DSC has since used actual footage from The Cage, I don't think anyone still seriously says the 25% ting. At least I hope.
I agree with those saying the 25% different thing was to be able to sell mew Enterprise merch.

Problem is, apart from Eaglemoss producing models, nobody makes any Trek ship toys.
So someone is making ship toys. But it doesn't really matter how many companies do it now, if someone wants to do an Enterprise collection down the line having an additional design benefits CBS.
 
Powerless figurehead puppet they're still paying seven figures to.

That's the kind of failure I aspire to be.:lol:


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It's still a very bad sign that the people making the show are doing things with no or incorrect understanding of why. Ditto the writer who said they're not allowed to use anything from any of the movies. I have no doubt their art is suffering as a result.
^^^
Which writer or producer on ST: D (or any of the new Trek series in production) actually said that?

I ask because CBS IMMEDIATELY posted that Mr. Eaves was incorrect and that they could use anything from past Star Trek material in any way they choose as they own the copyright to all of it.
https://trekmovie.com/2018/04/17/st...arified-as-creative-decision-not-a-legal-one/
Today CBS provided TrekMovie with the following statement to clarify the design decisions:

CBS TV Studios does, in fact, have the right to use the U.S.S. Enterprise ship design from the past TV series, and are not legally required to make changes. The changes in the ship design were creative ones, made to utilize 2018’s VFX technology.

The art that was used in the 2019 calendar is ‘concept art,’ which was completed long before the VFX process is completed.
 
I wonder if they will creat a free CBS All Access live version for Pluto TV sometime in the future? A live version means you watch what ever is streaming at the time.
 
We’ve had movie content in the show already (Vulcan landing craft, ceti eels), so she seems to have misunderstood.
While I'm leaning towards her being misinformed (and thus the writing potentially suffering as a result), it could also be that those references were snuck in under the radar, akin to the novelverse's myriad Kelvin universe references (icy Delta Vega, Tattooed bald Romulans, Red Matter even though they don't call it that) while they explicitly didn't have the rights to feature Kelvin stuff. It would also explain why Sybok never appears even though he really should be in those Sarek family flashbacks.

Damn, I need to make my own Midnight's Edge-style conspiracy video.:lol:
 
While I'm leaning towards her being misinformed (and thus the writing potentially suffering as a result), it could also be that those references were snuck in under the radar, akin to the novelverse's myriad Kelvin universe references (icy Delta Vega, Tattooed bald Romulans, Red Matter even though they don't call it that) while they explicitly didn't have the rights to feature Kelvin stuff. It would also explain why Sybok never appears even though he really should be in those Sarek family flashbacks.

Damn, I need to make my own Midnight's Edge-style conspiracy video.:lol:
I think it was more at that time Paramount still held the license to all the Kelvin Timeline stuff (The same was the MCU had licensed Spideman to Sony) - so yes, CBS owned it all but as Paramount had a paid for license, IF CBS wanted to include KT stuff they'd have to make a deal (like what Mavel Studios did with Sony for their Spideman films).

But yeah, it's all moot with the re-merger.
 
I just hope we see Kelvin-type ships in the Section 31 show now (the only show atm taking place in the TOS timeframe).
 
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