Did CBS Steal the Tardigrade Idea?

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Discovery' started by Prax, Oct 20, 2017.

  1. lurok

    lurok Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    I genuinely don't mind being taken to new consciousness-expanding ideas and areas; but I really don't miss the Tardigrade on DSC. Stamets et al and the spore drive has far more appeal.
     
  2. Jinn

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    Well, they planned to have it around permanently but it was too expansive, so I'll put my money on "it was too expensive". Plus the Discovery spend most of the time after the mid-season break in an alternate universe where they couldn't encounter the tardigrade anyway.
     
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  3. CorporalClegg

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    Ripper wasn't the major plot doohicky or McGuffin this guy makes him out to be. He was a means to an end.

    And it's not like there could have been some huge coverup on CBS's part, by the time this guy started making a fuss, Choose Your Pain had already aired. They had already moved on into Stamets's arch.

    **In fact, given the timing, I can't help but wonder if he was holding out and waiting for more "evidence" but once he realized the show was moving on he thought he better get it out there quickly.
     
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  4. Mr. Laser Beam

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    Better Call Soval! :lol:
     
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  5. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    It's kinda sad; from what little I saw this game actually looks sorta neat and now I already don't want to play it because of the drama surrounding it.
     
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  6. Philip Guyott

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    He claims he was unaware of Discovery until just prior to it's mid season break. Fans of the game wrote to him to inform him about Discovery and he started to watch it at that time to see what was going on.
     
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  8. cultcross

    cultcross Postponed for the snooker Moderator

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    So he was unaware of a fairly major new Star Trek show being advertised on mainstream media, but according to his claim, the writers were aware of his obscure game? Sounds legit.
     
  9. Awesome Possum

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    I wish they had kept Ripper as the ship pet, tardigrades are strangely cute. These claims are laughable though.
     
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  10. Serveaux

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    I wan to see the many other examples of huge star-traveling tardigrades in popular fiction that CBS will offer in defense.

    Because, you know, the idea is in the zeitgeist. ;)
     
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  11. Awesome Possum

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    A creature that can actually survive in space becoming able to travel through space to progress a plot is a fairly logical step. Cosmos popularized them, South Park and Ant-Man & the Wasp both used tardigrades too, I guess they’re ripping off a shitty game that no one ever played. But let’s just use this as a pathetic attempt to trash Discovery and ignore how dumb all of this is.
     
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  13. Awesome Possum

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    The game’s lawsuit just got bigger and now the Temporal Cold War is involved. They sue the scientist who discovered tardigrades in the first place.
     
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  14. Philip Guyott

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    Maybe Star Trek is not as popular in Egypt. Plenty of people in the Western world have yet to see Discovery.
     
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  16. cultcross

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    Yet we're apparently all so familiar with this guy's game that it's the go to for creatively bankrupt Hollywood.

    Popular enough that Spocks casting was covered in the Kuwait Times.
     
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  17. Krandor

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    Same here. I used to love the old Sierra games and it reminds me of those. I don't want to give this guy a dime though
     
  18. Krandor

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    You are aware that real tardigrades have done space travel right and were picked to be the first animal to leave the solar system? Tardigrades is space is not sci-fi but reality.
     
  19. Philip Guyott

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    The game does have an international following, but like you I do not know the truth of the matter. Unlike some people talking about this issue I am keeping an opened mind. Let the courts decide. I am merely reporting what the creator of the game has said. He could be lying or telling the truth. Time will tell. Here is his full statement regarding when he found out about Discovery if you are interested (click on it to read text, sorry the text is small, it was copied from a video).

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  20. cultcross

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    We don't require a court to dissect the validity of his argument as presented. Nor do I suspect this will ever see one. Interesting how he admits he didn't note those case winning similarities of a gay couple with one beard and a black lady until he spotted the tardigrade. Ultimately, this comes down to the inclusion of a space faring tardigrade which is hardly such a uniquely special idea it couldn't have been come up with independently by two people.
     
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