"CBS Shuts Down Ambitious Fan Effort To Make A Virtual " Topic

…Starship Enterprise.

"Before there was Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Ubisoft's game about piloting the original Enterprise, there was Star Trek Stage-9, a fan project recreating the Enterprise-D from The Next Generation in Unreal Engine. This week the project is no more, following a cease and desist demand by CBS.

One of the leads on the project, who goes by Scragnog, posted a video on YouTube explaining why it would no longer be getting future updates and development was coming to an end. "On Wednesday, September 12, 2018, we received a letter from the CBS legal department," he said. "This letter was a cease and desist order. The uncertain future we always had at the back of our minds had caught up to us."

The team immediately shut down the project's website and began trying to reach out to the company to try and work on an alternative outcome. After nearly two weeks of not being able to get ahold of anybody, a representative from the legal depart confirmed the Stage 9 team that CBS wasn't going to budge and the game needed to stay down. CBS did not respond to a request by Kotaku for comment…."
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"The Idiots In Charge" need to start thinking about the long term effect of kicking fans for loving their product…

CBS has absolutely NO clue what they are doing and every time they do something like this, they pi$$ off more fans and drive a wedge deeper between them and us.

If the fans are not trying to make money from it, there should be no issue.

Incorrect.

If fans can use a free comparable product from a non profit third party, the parent company will lose money. This is because some fans will use the free product over buying the official product.

It could be called free advertising for their property, but, if that was needed, the parent company would get it made them selves.

Fan had it so good for so long. Then one project just pushed it way too far. We were lucky they ignored it for so long.

Copyrights need to be enforced or you introduce grounds for other people getting away with it. It's the only time that "Well they did it first" is acceptable. They even mention their "uncertain future", knowing they didn't have permission… it's not CBS' fault that these people started something without getting permission first.

What does it say about CBS (and Paramount) that no-budget fan projects are more "trek" and of higher quality than some of their big budget stuff?

Probably because their perceived audience is not just the relatively small number of die-hard fans but a much wider and less 'informed' audience.

If it were not so then we would not have had such abominations as Braveheart.

Unfortunately with large franchises owned by large companies, many of which are no longer controlled by the people who created the franchise, it becomes all about money. Unfortunately money is people. To cater to a wider market they change the franchise.

Modern Star Wars, Dr Who are unfortunate examples of this.

Agree!

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