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When do we get Surak?
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When are we getting Surak, the Kaylesshhh 100k honor replacement?
To be clear, my money is all in on Surak.
To be clear, my money is all in on Surak.
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I know your father died, but we have this video game and we'd like to include his likeness in it. When during your grieving would you like to set up an appointment with our lawyers to approve your fathers likeness so a bunch of random Star Trek fans who don't care about your father can buy a card that looks like a character he played once.
Would you like to send that letter?
If that's the issue maybe they could use the TOS Surak? A Surak is a Surak
And actually the TOS one would be interesting insofar as he would be part of the Excaliban set, from which we get Abe Lincoln and Yarnek.
I didn't think about that! That would be awesome!
That man is also dead (although significantly less recently so) and they've expressed having trouble securing rights to the decease before (TOS Mudd comes to mind).
Aaah yeah that's fair enough then.
Seems to me they should either give is a different Honor Hall character OR
Just make non-Canon artwork for Surak. I mean they have the rights to the character itself right? I don't really care about non-canon artwork if its the only way we can get Surak.
Non-cannon just means you didn't have to pay writers for the right to use their character. You still would have to compensate the actors for use of their image.
That's what I'm saying.... don't use the actors image. Use some random Vulcan and called it Surak for all I care
Exactly! If the image is the only holdup then work around it
They really need to hire better lawyers or something as this is the first game that I've been in that has had that much trouble with deceased actors images, unless they were an actual known star.
Lol im with @Pallidyne on this one. I don't recall seeing this may image issues in ANYTHING else
Have you seen the uproar in this community even with non-cannon things that look like one of the characters? Imagine the reaction when they just create a new face for an actual character.
What if they were told it's this or no Surak? Rage either way and I'd rather have Surak lol
Few of them have been RPG's but when looking small time wasters to earn on things like Applike and similar apps I have played slots games etc, with dead actors images (touched up art wise similar to Timelines) though I have not seen much activity in the RPG/character collecting arena. The Wizard of Oz slots are a good example as Judy Garland and her supporting cast is clearly who is represented there, as the artwork is not really what Baum had in his books, but is a duplicate of the DVD cover as well as a dead ringer for Garland.
Fair enough, although I would point out this is all for a "digital card" not a physical card. May seem more insulting, however digital is everlasting (or at least far more so).
Good comments in the thread!
There are other crew that have appeared whose actors have since deceased (the tos Klingons come to mind as well as David Marcus).
Being deceased doesn’t seem to disqualify by itself.
Task Force Pike/Garrett's Giants, Founder
Task Force April, Fleet Founder Emeritus
Newfie Central, Squad Founder, In Memoriam
In the recent Mega Event, there was Ambassador Shras, with an actor who has been dead since the 90s.
And TOS so appeared in Trek before the standardization of contracts listed above.
I'm betting it's coming down to cash. Some estates are probably looking for more green for the use of the likeness than DB is willing to or able to pay. (This is pure speculation on my part)
I wonder if the estates would be responsive to respectful requests from fans?
Quick, @DScottHewitt , show 'em the badge!
I wanted to post Canon but was edited to *chocolate cronuts* because of copyright issues...