When it aired I watched it on SDTV. The HD remasters of TOS show the Defiant much better than ENT did. Fight me.
"Living Witness", in which the ship of death and plague known as the Voyager is remembered in the way it should, and in which I presume Janeway gives into the spider-demon that possesses her and just eats anyone who disagrees with her.
true. my point was just most trek shows needed to find it's footing, and a lot of people say ENT gets better with S4 - and I remember reading what they planned back then and it sounded exciting, so I'll probably always look back as some kind of missed chance (like making shran part of the enterprise crew, which could've shown more of how andoria joined the federation). otoh they apparently thought of a doctor who crossover too, so maybe it's for the better.
Don't forget the Doctor's fanfic. (which SFDebris described as "writing an episode of Voyager based entirely off my reviews")
The redesign of the bat'leth further illustrates how they were legally required to change all of the designs. (And also illustrates that they are idiots with shite taste.) That was a cool-looking, simple weapon, yet they chose to transform it into what looks like a fossilized section of bowel from an Alien xenomorph.
Like the rest of STD, I doubt that it's entirely a legal issue. I think it's a lack of understanding of the material and it's done on purpose because they just don't care. The bat'leth redesign is the perfect example. It was a weapon used in close combat but now every sharp ends are aimed towards the person who is holding it. The logic behind that change is absolutely reetarted: "we think that a knife is a defensive weapon, that means they have to hold it by the blade".
As much as I like the design, between this and Mouse Wars it became clear that if they're recycling old unused Ralph Mcquarrie designs it means it's time to bail on the franchise.
I think it's just that they're both creatively bankrupt and trying to reuse existing assets they already have in reach, and in both cases that happened to mean Ralph McQuarrie because the dude got around.
I would assume that the material was property of the studio it was developed for, like that work for hire comic stuff or whatever.
Fake nostalgia and the whole "it was designed by McQuarrie" as if it would exempt them from any criticism. It's like on Disney Wars, they have no idea of what makes Star Wars "Star Wars" so they're using old artworks or rejected designs as a way to say "we're honoring the past" even though there's a reason why a concept art remains a concept and why a rejected design stays rejected: they don't fit with the final vision/product.
If I'm not mistaken, Trekyards got Pierre Drolet a couple of times on their channel to talk about his work on BSG/Caprica, Enterprise and STD but I doubt that he would talk about the actual behind-the-scenes stuff on STD. That said, I too would like to know what it's like to work for a science-fiction show where science and logic are totally ignored by the producers and showrunners. The people who are in charge of [current year] Trek think that a ship is like a Tardis, that you can put whatever you want in it because "science fiction is like magic". I bet they know that starships can't have elevators on a roller coaster but they don't care, they double-down (see the latest Short Trek where they showed the engine room of the Enteprise apparently from the "TOS" era).