What?? Is this true what you're saying that an idea can't be used because it was formed during the writers strike? That is the stupidest fuckin thing I've heard in some time. So private ideas in the minds of people employed in the writers guild are what...owned by the guild and not the people?
I don't understand that....and further to that I can't understand how anybody would abide by it. What a racket they got going on over there in Crapwood.
No, that's not at all correct. Abrams came up with a new line of dialogue on the spur of the moment. In other words, he wrote some new words to use in the film, even if he didn't put them on paper. To actually use them would have meant, as a striking member of the Writers' Guild, that he was crossing the picket line. As a member of the Writers' Guild, he supported the strike and did not want to cross the picket line, therefore he couldn't use the line. He was showing solidarity with the Guild, that's all.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled parody thread....