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Case dismissed! Discovery and Tardigrade game "not similar"

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So we are to believe that a single employee saw his concepts and ran that up a chain of bosses until upper management said "Yes, go with that"? It's absurd.
Abdin's lawyers still haven't even proved that anybody in the production had seen his minuscule entry into the STEAM contest.
The one person they've named so far, wasn't even working on the show during it's initial production.
(in fact, I don't think that person even joined the show till well after a year or so into production)

The last filing that I can see posted to the court, was the one that asked for names of the employees working on the show from CBS and computer data from STEAM's parent company.
(they need both of those to prove that "somebody" can be connected to seeing his entry during the contest)
 
So we are to believe that a single employee saw his concepts and ran that up a chain of bosses until upper management said "Yes, go with that"? It's absurd.
And if I recall correctly, a single employee who joined the Discovery production staff well after those concepts were already incorporated into the general narrative plan of the show.

A single employee who was so powerful that she retroactively imposed her creative will onto the entire production staff and got all of her (plagiarized) ideas adopted by the show.

So clearly some kind of godlike being with control over time and space that can telepathically influence others. But simultaneously incapable of thinking to change the characters around a bit from the impressively unique creative vision that is MSPaint Blond Guy, Bearded Guy, Black Woman, Gay Couple.

Or, it was just a coincidence. I'm going with her being a Q.
 
No, but I have found a way to use mushrooms to instantaneously transport to strange places I've never seen before.

Does that count?
No because ALICE learned how to do that back in 1865 and her daddy wrote a book about it.
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And if I recall correctly, a single employee who joined the Discovery production staff well after those concepts were already incorporated into the general narrative plan of the show.

A single employee who was so powerful that she retroactively imposed her creative will onto the entire production staff and got all of her (plagiarized) ideas adopted by the show.

So clearly some kind of godlike being with control over time and space that can telepathically influence others. But simultaneously incapable of thinking to change the characters around a bit from the impressively unique creative vision that is MSPaint Blond Guy, Bearded Guy, Black Woman, Gay Couple.

Or, it was just a coincidence. I'm going with her being a Q.

What does God want with a TV show?
 
What does God want with a TV show?

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Oh, I'm with you there.

Forget the timing; the notion that those involved in a $100+ million production are making their casting choices based on resemblance to pixelated characters in an obscure game is batshit insane.
Yep – that's not how casting choices are made. Like any other form of employment, they're based on skill, price, availability, etc. Besides, if there was some casting call which said specifically that Stamets (for example) had to be blond, plaintiff would have been calling for it by now. And perhaps he has, but CBS can't supply it because, spoiler alert – it doesn't exist!

So we are to believe that a single employee saw his concepts and ran that up a chain of bosses until upper management said "Yes, go with that"? It's absurd.
That's also not how corporations work. Corporate decision-making (don't forget, Sarbanes-Oxley applies) isn't made on a whim. The powers that be have their asses on the line if they make enough bad management decisions. They're not going to suddenly drop everything in favor of some obscure employee, way down the food chain, and the one thing s/he saw one time which wasn't even fully developed.

And if I recall correctly, a single employee who joined the Discovery production staff well after those concepts were already incorporated into the general narrative plan of the show.

A single employee who was so powerful that she retroactively imposed her creative will onto the entire production staff and got all of her (plagiarized) ideas adopted by the show.

So clearly some kind of godlike being with control over time and space that can telepathically influence others. But simultaneously incapable of thinking to change the characters around a bit from the impressively unique creative vision that is MSPaint Blond Guy, Bearded Guy, Black Woman, Gay Couple.

Or, it was just a coincidence. I'm going with her being a Q.
Let's not forget white uniforms for medical personnel, which were never, ever used in -
Men in White, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, or Awakenings.

Or the blue space uniforms, which were never, ever used in -
Babylon 5, or in ENT which is the actual precursor to Disco and therefore continuing that design sensibility is an obvious stylistic choice.

This is the land of coincidences and wishful thinking.

And I doubt CBS will settle for more than truly nominal $$, assuming they have to. Abdin and his lawyers saw dollar signs. He'll be lucky if he leaves with his shirt intact.
 
And I wonder if the initial idea to have the all-blue unis was born out of Disco being a science ship, and they just decided to make them the SF standard out of production practicality reasons.
 
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