Amazing NCC-1701-D simulator issues final command: “all stop”

Enlarge / Stage 9 did impressive renderings of both the exterior and the interior of the Enterprise-D. (credit: Stage 9)

An ambitious free-to-play fan project to build an interactive, VR-style interface of the Next Generation-era Enterprise-D has come to an untimely end after being hit with photon torpedoes-or their 21st-century legal equivalent, a cease-and-desist letter.

On Wednesday, the Stage 9 project pulled the plug one day after speaking with a CBS lawyer on the phone. News of the project's end was first reported by Eurogamer. Rob Bryan, the project lead, characterized his team's phone call with the attorney, Vanessa Costantini, as being somewhat tense. "It was stern, there was no room for compromise," Bryan told Ars.

Costantini did not respond to Ars' request for comment.

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