>>9702
>If the rumors are true, it's the nuTrek Paramount / Bad Robot license and stipulates that everything has to look different.
those aren't rumors it's been directly and indirectly confirmed. It's why they had to for instance change the look of the uniforms for nuTrek. It wasn't done for shits and giggles it had to be distinct from the original.
A big reason for this is because of just how huge Star Trek is with merchandising and branding. If CBS lost that branding the brand would be useless. JJ Abrams for instance wanted there to be only JJ Trek merchandise after his series, and CBS agreed only if JJ Trek merchandise was successful. When it predictably tanked JJ Abrams jumped ship to Star Wars.
They apparently had to license certain things from the original series separately like tribbles in particular because of these very specific license agreements.