Case dismissed! Discovery and Tardigrade game "not similar"

Nailed it. While I don't like Discovery much at all, it's really CBS that I want to see get screwed by this lawsuit.

 

Boom.

 

The winky face was an indication of sarcasm. But, kudos for honesty, I guess... Not sure what screwing CBS over accomplishes besides draining their money.

 

Countersuit?

 

Honestly, when I saw the Tardigrade and that they were using it to power the Spore Drive, the first thing I thought of was "Equinox". Which made me glad when Burnham pushed to set it free.

 

Oh, it could still get tossed. It probably won't unless the complaint is totally frivolous or there is another screw up in their pleadings. but just because the suit hasn't been tossed yet, doesn't mean it still cannot be.

 

Isn't that the episode where Janeway gets randy over the alien gestapo guy?

 

Counterpoint, but you're not far off

 

The fact CBS hasn’t put any merch or other stuff related to the tardigrade on hold, shows they’re probably not that worried.

You can get a pet tardigrade in Star Trek Online, and one mission has a Tardigrade in it, and that just came out last Tuesday.

 

And Eagle-moss will be sending out a free Tardigrade statue in the next few months...


AlreaDY GOT THE POSTERS & THE sHENZHOU PLAQUE.
OOPS... Dang CAPS Button.

 

It's not a remarkable coincidence at all, it's a very obvious way to go if you have a creature living in space. Unless you want it to be stuck in one place it has to be able to do FTL travel.

 

Potato, Potahtoh.

(fyi: I did actually know the name of the episode, i just saw a chance to take a dig at voyager and it's tendency to have boring singular episode titles and couldn't resist)

 

I honestly have no horse in this race.
If CBS got a little bit more than just "inspired" by this guys idea, they should pay up accordingly. If it turns out to be a pure coincidence, I can't blame the guy for trying, but also understand if he gets nothing but trouble out of this whole thing.

Overall, the giant Tardigrade was probably the only unique addition to the franchise in season 1 of DIS that was also interesting. I could have done without the whole "super mushroom" explanation, and making the FTL instantanious instead of just "faster than anyone else" really created a clusterfuck of continuity issues. But overall, having a giant, alien living being as part of a hypercharged engine was an interesting idea (even if it was already used on VOY before - but there was still unmined potential in there!).

So I was sad to see him go this fast, especially since I have the feeling his plotline really never got logically resolved, and felt like a rushed exit (did they mentioned why it was unbearable for the Tardigrade, but not for Stamets? I honestly don't remember anymore...)

 

Well, I don't think it was really supposed to be a huge difference between Stamets and Ripper. The key, as Stamets put it, was finding someone to voluntarily take that position. So the point isn't really that the experience was fundamentally unbearable to Ripper, just that he was in pain (as Stamets also was) and that the process was doing long-term damage (as also happened to Stamets). Ripper's scenes just looked more dramatic because he didn't understand what was happening and he was fighting it the whole time. The desiccation bit I would interpret less as him being on the verge of death and more as a natural defense mechanism.

 

True. Countersuit could have been an interesting Season 7 VOY episode

 

Wishing a group of people legal trouble, even if you're not sure if it's really a matter of justice, strikes me as very dark.

 

I wrote short story when I was -1 about some guy with a lazer sword and a girl with buns for hair.. Where's my money!??

I work in the legal field, Either the plantiff or the defendant can stop and plea/settle at any time before the jury steps out to decide. you can have 2 weeks of trial, and then poof, settled. or 1 minute before the trial starts, he gets cold feet and bails. happens... ALOT in courts, most things are plea deals/settlements, maybe.. 5-10% goes to court.. maybe. I have some lawyers that havent tried a case in months, because most plead guilty or take a deal from the State. He may have a case, but doesn't want to go to court, if say, he wants $10,000, they'll pay in an instant because it'll cost 5 times that much to have a trial. It all depends on what they want to do.

 

It's schadenfreude, through and through. Just taking delight at some one else's misfortunes.

 

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