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'Star Trek: Discovery' Was Legally Required to Redesign the Enterprise

posted 6 years ago by Satan2016 (23367)
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The facebook post by Discovery staff has been deleted, as well as the TrekCore story.

http://comicbook.com/startrek/2018/04/15/star-trek-discovery-enterprise-design-legal/

“Back in April of 2017 the task of the Enterprise making an appearance came to be and work was to start right away,” Eaves says. “The task started with the guideline that the Enterprise for Discovery had to be 25% different otherwise production would have most likely been able to use the original design from the 60's but that couldn't happen so we took Jefferies original concepts and with great care tried to be as faithful as possible. We had the advantage of a ten-year gap in Trek history to retro the ship a bit with elements that could be removed and replaced somewhere in the time frame of Discovery and the Original series.”

The “Jeffries” mentioned by Eaves is Matt Jeffries, the artist and designer who designed the original Enterprise. When asked about whether the 25 percent rule came from legal or creative, Schneider chimed in to say it was “legal” and Eaves expanded on that a bit ...

[–] Satan2016 (23367) 6 years ago

Update: USS Enterprise Design Change Clarified As Creative Decision, Not A Legal One
https://trekmovie.com/2018/04/17/star-trek-discovery-uss-enterprise-design-change-clarified-as-creative-decision-not-a-legal-one/

CBS statement: 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.