The whole complicated relation between CBS and JJ and then his production company headed by Alex Kurtzman is about 70% of the reason behind all of it. There is a lot of information about it on the internet(some truths, some conspiracies).
Can you expand on this? Haven’t heard about it before and I’m now incredibly curious.
-It was originaly under production by Bryan Fuller who had a completely different vision, it was going to be more episodic and perhaps more extravagant(full CGI crewmembers) but for whatever reason he was kicked from the production and Kurtzman crew took over with a complete mandate to do whatever it takes to save the show.
-The production was so disorganized that they were likely literaly googling for ideas and managed to land on some random Steam game page. Some poor guy called Anas made a game Tardigrades and he sued CBS for copyright over the STD S1 story. The plagiarized characters(looks like they literally copy pasted 3 characters) and setting is pretty fucking obvious and once again you have to be a legal ghoul to not see it. You can have one similarity, two maybe, three is pushing, fucking half a dozen or more is just obvious. Anyway he obviously lost.
-There were many theories whether STD was part of the prime timeline or not and there were some conspiracy theories that it wasn't prime timeline because of a licensing deal with JJ/Kurtzman.
The idea was that some of the designs are different simply because Kurtzman/JJ had a seperate license that gave him some profits from merchandising, however that would require his stuff to be "different".
CBS of course denied all of it, but then even if it was true what would they say? Either way it explains that some changes are completely arbitrary and nonsensical for money only.
Can you expand on this? Haven’t heard about it before and I’m now incredibly curious.
The Discovery production was a shitshow:
-It was originaly under production by Bryan Fuller who had a completely different vision, it was going to be more episodic and perhaps more extravagant(full CGI crewmembers) but for whatever reason he was kicked from the production and Kurtzman crew took over with a complete mandate to do whatever it takes to save the show.
-The production was so disorganized that they were likely literaly googling for ideas and managed to land on some random Steam game page. Some poor guy called Anas made a game Tardigrades and he sued CBS for copyright over the STD S1 story. The plagiarized characters(looks like they literally copy pasted 3 characters) and setting is pretty fucking obvious and once again you have to be a legal ghoul to not see it. You can have one similarity, two maybe, three is pushing, fucking half a dozen or more is just obvious. Anyway he obviously lost.
-There were many theories whether STD was part of the prime timeline or not and there were some conspiracy theories that it wasn't prime timeline because of a licensing deal with JJ/Kurtzman.
Then after that one famous prop maker leaked out that he had legal requirements to make some changes to the Enterprise and it had to be about 25% different and the conspiracies went nuts.
The idea was that some of the designs are different simply because Kurtzman/JJ had a seperate license that gave him some profits from merchandising, however that would require his stuff to be "different".
CBS of course denied all of it, but then even if it was true what would they say? Either way it explains that some changes are completely arbitrary and nonsensical for money only.