Case dismissed! Discovery and Tardigrade game "not similar"

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Discovery' started by PicardSpeedo, Oct 16, 2018.

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  1. Agony_Boothb

    Agony_Boothb Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    You should disown them or put them up for adoption for not watching DSC
     
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  2. Spot261

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    It's ok, they watch (in order of descending age) Star Wars, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.

    I'm not a judgemental parent.
     
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  3. psCargile

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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.
     
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    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)
     
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  5. Nerys Myk

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    Have they made any drawings? Because you might be able to sue CBS if they have. :shifty:
     
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    No, but I have found a way to use mushrooms to instantaneously transport to strange places I've never seen before.

    Does that count?
     
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  7. Locutus of Bored

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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.
     
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    No because ALICE learned how to do that back in 1865 and her daddy wrote a book about it.
    :nyah:
     
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    No, I taught her, she just used it to travel to 1865 in an attempt to undercut me. Thankfully the judge in the case was a Time Lord.
     
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    What does God want with a TV show?
     
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  12. jespah

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    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!

    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.

    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.
     
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    White uniforms for medical staff? I'm suing every doctor's office and hospital I've ever been to on Abdin's behalf.
     
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    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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    Just like the Moody Blues said of Timothy Leary; he's on the outside looking in and flying the astral plane.
     
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    I always thought it was done to show an evolution between the blue flight suits in ENT and the TOS uniforms.
     
  18. BillJ

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    I always figured a marching band was selling off their old uniforms. :lol:
     
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    Their most popular tune being "I'm a Gazelle!"
     
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    Nah,it was a troop of rhythm gymnasts.
    The marching band won't sell their uniforms until TWOK.
     
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