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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Griffworks: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: [qb] So the Gene Roddenberry estate got paid when Riker showed up in Voyager? [/qb][/QUOTE]Exactly! Or like when Q has shown up on both DS9 and VOY? The thing w/Larry Niven and the Kzinti is a completely different animal, tho. I've never read his works w/the Kzinti in it, but my understanding is that he had published them as a race before Star Trek came out. His Kzinit had nothing to do with Star Trek or Paramount/Viacom, being a completely independent work from same. Larry Niven worked out some sort of "Handshake" deal w/GR to show them in TAS, tho I don't know the details. However, no paperwork was apparently signed or it was a "one time good deal" arrangement - something along those lines. Anyhow, they can't appear as a named species in Trek because of something to do w/Niven's publishers and their army of lawyers w/o Paramount/Viacom handing over a large check, even tho Niven would be delighted for their appearance to occur. While Q - and presumably Nick Locarno - would be trademarked to Paramount/Viacom, the Kzinti were never their property to begin with. Anyhow, I'm confused by how the Locarno character would have cost Paramount more money. You'd think that if there was some sort of copyright involved, that McNeil wouldn't be able to play a character almost exactly like him. No, I'm inclined to believe that they didn't want to recreate the character of Locarno since I seem to recall he was kicked out of StarFleet Academy. Would have been a very convoluted backstory on how he got back in, only to be punted again for doing more Bad Stuff and then was needed to get into the Bad Lands.... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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