Recreate Miles O' Brian (Closed; likenesses are not allowed)

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• jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  markascarter wrote: »

  Miles O' Brian is one of my favorite characters in the series because of Christina his Lycosa tarantula. I was wondering if it's possible to recreate his likeness in the game or not? Also i was wondering if "she" was available for purchase in the store. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Markas Carter

  
  Whhhhhatttt???

  

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• markascarter Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  jam3s1701 wrote: »

  Whhhhhatttt???

  
  This is what:
  Miles O' Brien
  Christina
  
  I want to recreate his likeness in-game as well as having his pet. Hope that makes sense.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Markas Carter

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• nagrom7 Member Posts: 995 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  They would need to get permission from the actor to create his likeness. Which is why the only actors with their likeness in game are ones who have done voiceover, or are dead.

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• markascarter Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  nagrom7 wrote: »

  They would need to get permission from the actor to create his likeness. Which is why the only actors with their likeness in game are ones who have done voiceover, or are dead.

  
  So i guess if i created a character that looked like him, PWE could get into trouble. That also means that if someone was to give me advice on creating such a character he/she could face getting banned. Wow what happened to Star Trek Fandom Anyways I also guess having Christina as a pet is out of the question? :P
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Markas Carter

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• pokersmith1 Member Posts: 2 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  You can try and create a character that has likeness with Miles O'Brien. It's fair use policy.. or something like that. Because you are not in the business of selling the likeness of Miles O'Brien and profit off it.

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• markascarter Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  pokersmith1 wrote: »

  You can try and create a character that has likeness with Miles O'Brien. It's fair use policy.. or something like that. Because you are not in the business of selling the likeness of Miles O'Brien and profit off it.

  
  Where is the actor who played Miles O' Brien anywaysand what happened to Christina anyways, she appeared on one episode and was never to be seen again? I assume she died sometime after that episode?
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Markas Carter

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• edgecrysger Member Posts: 2,740 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brian) has recently appeared in the show "Hell on wheels" as a recurrent character.
  
  About Christina.. i cant even remember who she was..

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• questerius Member Posts: 8,502 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  Miles should be retired by now after a distinguished service record on the Enterprise D, DS9 and Star Fleet Academy.
  
  It's 20 years after DS9 so it'd be more likely to see his daughter in the game.

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• aliensamongus Member Posts: 285 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  Recently he's been in Alan Partridge Alpha Papa as a "terrorist", it's awesome. They used the name Molly as his daughter's (or other relative) name. Quite hilarious - not sure if it's intentional or not though.

  

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• gurluas Member Posts: 464 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  His son is in the Enterprise-F afaik.

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• kyeto13 Member Posts: 3 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  General say is that you cannot reproduce the face of a living actor. For copyright and actor reasons. You can reproduce the characters, as long as they are in disguise or otherwise not on screen. This is because of the legal issues of using an actor's face, which is considered an asset.
  
  Also, it is considered really tacky and unimaginative to copy a main character from Canon. See Mary Sue Test
  
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• lilchibiclari Member Posts: 1,193 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  edgecrysger wrote: »

  
  About Christina.. i cant even remember who she was..

  
  Christina was O'Brien's pet tarantula, first seen in the TNG episode "Realm of Fear", where he introduces Barclay to her, talking about how keeping her helped him get over his fear of spiders.

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• grendelthewise

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  January 2014 edited January 2014

  I would really enjoy to see this idea incorporated into the game. Darn good idea...

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• edgecrysger Member Posts: 2,740 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  lilchibiclari wrote: »

  Christina was O'Brien's pet tarantula, first seen in the TNG episode "Realm of Fear", where he introduces Barclay to her, talking about how keeping her helped him get over his fear of spiders.

  
  Lol. I forgot, but as far as i remember, the last time i saw that episode was almost 10 years ago.. xD. But he have real trekkies here, that is something that not everybody remembers..

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• nynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  I saw a discussion thread about this on a trek board ages ago. The most supported conclusion was that Christina was eaten by a Cardassian Vole when O'Brien transferred to Deep Space Nine. This is what fuels O'Brien's hatred for the creatures.

  

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• red01999 Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  I have seen many, many instances of Captain Picard, Captain Janeway, Captain Kirk, Spock, and many other Star Trek characters running around, with tailor results ranging from 'awesome' to 'utterly hideous.' So it can be done, in theory.
  
  In practice, though, I have no idea if this flies in the face of the game's TOS. I do know that Foundry authors aren't allowed to reproduce the likeness of a character, but that might be because Foundry missions become part of the game, whereas a random character running around is just someone's player character. I also know that the computer will not accept certain names, but I don't know what those names are precisely, so that's something to keep in mind as well.

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• red01999 Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  questerius wrote: »

  Miles should be retired by now after a distinguished service record on the Enterprise D, DS9 and Star Fleet Academy.
  
  It's 20 years after DS9 so it'd be more likely to see his daughter in the game.

  
  Unless Keiko finally henpecked him into retirement, I can't really see him ever completely withdrawing unless he went into some branch of engineering civilian-side. I could easily see him continuing on at Starfleet Academy, or possibly be working at Utopia Planitia. It might not be to his preference of getting hands-on work in a grimey old space station with everything breaking down, but it would definitely be better than staring at the holovid all day waiting for a heart attack.

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