From Eurogamer: "A fan-made recreation of the Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation has been pulled offline following a cease and desist.
Stage-9 was a two-year-old fan project that let users explore a virtual recreation of the Enterprise-D, the spaceship made famous by The Next Generation tv show."
Modder ‘Blake00’ has released demos for his amazing GZDoom projects that aim to bring Star Trek and Quest for Glory IV to it.
Star Trek fans, here is something special for you today. Stage 9 is a fan project that aims to remake the sets used in Star Trek The Next Generation in Unreal Engine 4. According to its creators, the ultimate goal of this remake is to allow players to explore the entire Enterprise D from Star Trek The Next Generation in a detailed virtual recreation.
That's surprisingly awesome. I hope that they'll be able to put more of the original cast in as they release newer versions.
Brash Games writes, "So, some pretty big news this week. In case you hadn’t heard, PlayStation 4 is to be revealed on February 20th, JJ is directing Episode VII and Ross owns a human skull…..who the hell owns a human skull"?
There's gotta be more to the cease and desist order than what's being told. Lawyers aren't that heartless...
[/s]
As long as they do not use any Star Trek branding, they are under no obligation to remove it.
The original design is neither a physical object, nor software. It is simply an idea. Ideas cannot be patented/copywritten. Only the implementation of an idea can. Unless they actually physically construct a functioning version of the Enterprise, they can not lay claim to the layout.
This is not what Gene Roddenberry would have wanted