Is Cryptic or PWE directly involved in any way with the new CBS Star Trek series?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_2017_Star_Trek...Posted Jan 15, 2016, 9:45 AM UTC
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As far as I can make out, no.
If anything, CBS will hand down marching orders to Cryptic and PWE whenever contract negotiations happen.
There is also a chance CBS might leave trek canon behind and move the timeline/setting far beyond the star trek we know and nothing needs to change. Honestly, I'd say 90% of it is up in the air. CBS wants to do something with Star Trek- but doesn't seem to know exactly what or they can't square the numbers which is why they haven't done anything in a decade. With the series set a year off, production definitely has to start ASAP, ads have to start airing promoting it in what, six month's time? But so far, it seems nothing has been said public other than "Coming in 2017" which means all we have is speculation at this point that they might be doing something eventually. Who knows who will be in charge at CBS at that point.
That said, if STO makes any money for CBS (which it has to be doing otherwise they'd pull the plug) then there will be tie-in's and retcon's to compensate for the new TV series and sell new goodies in the C-Store. We are, after all, entering the Temporal Cold War which will allow Cryptic/PWE to move things around, maybe with another delta-recruit style event (hint hint cryptic).
But going back to the tie ins, with the 2009 film I think STO had a number of indirect tie ins, the Exeter Class, Red Matter Capacitors, and some of the Tal Shi'ar ships I think are examples off the top of my head. If anything, we can expect that.
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No
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No official involvement.
However, I suspect there'll be some response in game when the show comes out.
The show could easily attract a few players to the game, and I imagine Cryptic would have some form of small event to help that process and retain those players.
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I doubt CBS will take anything in STO into consideration.
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I wouldn't say nothing. It's entirely possible we might get some background (as in on-screen, not lore) stuff from STO. Maybe a shot of ESD will have an Armitage in drydock, for instance.
Doubtful that anything will be featured though. Though, any reasonable costume designer would see the Odyssey uniform and realize it's the uniform they need.
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I have to agree with the uniform. It looks nice and professional while not being busy, and I like the idea of having the commanding officer wearing the white shoulders since it would help the audience establish "oh, that's the captain of the other ship" or they open hailing frequencies and the responding person doesn't have the white shoulders, the audience would be asking at the same time as the cast "what happened to the captain?"
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This. Just as the writers of the new Star Wars films have thrown out all of that "expanded universe" stuff (except anything cool they can pilfer), CBS will ignore anything STO has done.
And that's fine with me, I want any Trek series to try to tell its own story, and STO should do the same. This is... its own timeline, let's say.
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imo they should use some of the ship designs and weapon designs from STO , but following the STO timeline is a really really bad idea since the show needs to tell its own story.
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Nope! Not at all. If it takes place in the "Prime" timeline though, we'll almost certainly get ships and uniforms and things from or based on the show. And possibly some hasty retconning to try to work it into the background!
Thanks for the response :)
I mean, I'm assuming there's at least some contact between the organisations, even if just a discussion at the content copyright holder level. There's also potential for cross-marketing, that sort of stuff... seems a bit silly if PWE and CBS ignore each other completely.
CBS will most likely ignore everything Cryptic has done.
Dont expect the new series to have an Odyssey flagship for the Federation for example. (if its even in that timeline and period)
Once their content is done, Cryptic will probably adopt a lot of it for STO though.
Actually CBS owns the Odyssey design since that was one of the rules of Design the next Enterprise.
It doesn't mean it'll get used though. IIRC CBS had relinquished creative control of the show to the production company.
Honestly there probably won't be any talking about putting stuff in STO from the show until the show's out. They've got a lot more important things to handle right now!