It’s not my intent to push any buttons (at least not only for the sake of pushing buttons). As i said before, we dont have access to any documents of this case. You either believe that the plaintiff has a case or you don’t.
All i know is that IP cases have been won (or at least settled) with way less obvious similarities.
The timeline doesn’t add up with some of the accusations.
For one, the Tardigrade. While it has been known (by anyone who knew the game existed) for a couple years that the game was using one, the fact that it was human sized, and was used as a form of space travel for the characters wasn’t publicly revealed until mid 2017, a few months after Discovery had already written and filmed their episodes with their tardigrade ideas.
This can be confirmed by looking at the upload dates of all the YouTube videos related to the game, and reading the developers own blog where he keeps track of game development.
Another one is in character similarities, the character design he says Stamets is ripping off, wasn’t publicly revealed until after Anthony Rapp had already been cast in DSC, so they couldn’t have done that one.
If you read all of the publicly released information on the game, from steam posts and his blog, DSC shares none of the same story points at all. No 20000BC earth, no ancient civilizations, not based around a space station. None of the characters have remotely the same jobs or personalities.
Most of his case based on visual similarities, not plot/story. Not the actual substance of the project.
I also suggest reading this
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2018/09/11/understanding-the-star-trek-discovery-plagiarism-allegations/
