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Discovery plagiarism
Isn't doing a season based on discovery a really bad idea? everything in that show was plagiarised so bringing that content into STO would make STO liable for lawsuits, could this be such a terribly bad idea that it could get the game shut down?
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The show wasn't plagiarized. That lawsuit is downright comical if you actually look into the details of it. People are just eager to jump on the discovery hate train because they didn't like the creative choices on the show.
Literally the only parallel between the two things is that they have giant space tardigrades, characters that are white guys, and also characters that aren't white guys.
And I suspect it wouldn't lead to the game shutting down, at worst, it would lead to removing the content again and paying some kind of fee/compensation. (Though I suspect that Cryptic itself wouldn't be liable here, since they acted in good faith, and CBS would have to pay for it.)
Either way, this guy isn't shutting down Discovery or STO.
The character that the author of the "Tardigrades" game alleges resembles Michael Burnham has one trait in common with her. She's black. She isn't the protagonist, she isn't even important. "Yolanda" is basically a janitor.
The character he claims resembles Stamets is a beefy workman who is blonde. The only thing he shares with Stamets is that he's a blonde white guy. He's not homosexual, he's not an engineer, he's not even quirky as far as I know. Blonde hair, blue eyes. PLAGIARISM!!!!
The character that resembles Hugh Culber is TRIBBLE, and is a person of color. He's not the same race as Culber, and while he is in a homosexual relationship, it isn't with the character that resembles Stamets. He isn't a doctor, and as far as I know, he doesn't get murdered?
The strongest point in the whole thing is that there is a space Tardigrade that teleports around the universe. A lot of comparisons are made between Ripper and the tardigrade in the game, but, I mean...that's what tardigrades look like. The only thing unique about it is that it's blue, and the one in Discovery -isn't- blue. It's a real animal, they just made it big. Even if the Discovery writers were inspired by the game's visuals, that wouldn't be sufficient for a plagiarism claim. If taking one element of an existing story (giant teleporting space tardigrade) and expanding on it in a new and different direction was worthy of plagiarism, then every author of everything ever is facing serious legal issues.
This thing is going to get thrown out of court with such high velocity it will probably punch a hole in an adjacent building. I know a lot of people don't like some of the creative decisions Discovery made. I don't like a lot of them, myself. But this lawsuit is unfounded trash.
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