• CBS misconstrues legal conclusions from other cases and and misapplies them here.
• Uses inapplicable tardigrade examples from other media because only Discovery's tardigrade replicates the concept, look and feel of his game's version of the creature. In his blog post about the pleading, Abdin boldly claims:

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“Any person watching the two works will instantly see the similarities and even think they are the same production.”
 —  Tardigrades creator Anas Abdin

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• Templates: The game's characters and tardigrade clearly served as templates for the derivative characters and creature in Discovery.
• "Excessive splintering" of the Tardigrades game renders its elements unprotectable by Abdin, an argument he claims would leave CBS without copyright protection for its own Star Trek properties.

• A human-sized tardigrade capable of instantaneous teleportation across space.
• Floating blue dots representing space, rejecting CBS' claim that the visual expression is a common one in science fiction, pointing to The Expanse as a recent example.
• The crude representation of a tardigrade in Abdin's game, compared to the realistic depiction in Discovery, doesn't mean the Trek creators didn't copy it.
• Uniforms and spacesuits in Tardigrades that are similar to those depicted in Discovery.

• Didn't fabricate gay relationships: In an affidavit attached to his pleading, Abdin does concede he erred in his legal complaint because he "inadvertently mixed up" two male characters in a homosexual relationship but it's evident the game depicts a gay relationship that CBS ignores. "Nothing has been fabricated," he says.
• Glory holes and 'out of touch': Abdin criticized CBS' insensitivity to gay culture because it didn't recognize that a bathroom encounter between two of Abdin's characters in fact demonstrated they had a homosexual relationship like that copied by Discovery.
• Spliced video clips CBS alleges were edited together to create relationships that doesn't exist were only done to demonstrate the similarity to Abdin's "body of work."

• Based on the rarely truthful character, Harry Mudd, our assessment uses a sliding scale of one to four Mudds to let readers know just how far off the mark of truth a speaker may be.
• The Mudds earned by newsmakers will be featured both on AxaMonitor Daily and on articles on the AxaMonitor site.

• The Mudds are based on a system used by the Washington Post in its fact-checking reporting. The Post uses "Pinnochios" to express its assessment.
• A full rundown of criteria we'll use for our judgments is provided in this AxaMonitor article.

• Loan forgiveness: The proposal appears to forgive more than $31,000 in loans Peter claims to have made to the former Axanar director.
• Producing 'Origins': Peters also offers to forgive asking back $5,000 Burnett was allegedly paid to produce an Axanar behind-the-scenes featurette called "Origins."
• 'Stolen' equipment: The settlement offer also says Burnett doesn't have to give back equipment allegedly owned by Axanar Productions.
• Returning digital assets: Peters says all he wants in return are all Axanar's digital assets (such as film footage) Burnett possesses.
• Burnett turned down the offer and had his lawyer refuse the settlement and allege potential employment claims Burnett can bring against Peters. Therefore:
• Peters files suit against Burnett in Georgia state court on February 18.

• The settlement language doesn't expressly release Burnett from any of the financial claims Peters makes, according to a Georgia attorney we consulted. He says the offer is "a setup" that would allow Peters to sue Burnett again for the same claims.
• No evidence of theft: Peters directly says Burnett stole equipment but no evidence of that appears in his legal complaint.
• Giving up authorship: Peters doesn't simply want hard drives back. The proposal requires Burnett to give up any claim of authorship or copyright for work he created. Peters produces no evidence this work was made for hire.
• No deal, says Burnett's attorney, and stop defaming and threatening my client.
• Reversing the order of events: Peters is not telling the truth when he says he filed suit after Burnett turned down the settlement. Burnett's lawyer responded to Peters' suit on March 1 — 12 days after Peters filed suit.
• Stuck in limbo: Burnett's attorney replied to a copy of Peters' legal complaint available online but Burnett has yet to be served almost three weeks later. The suit goes nowhere until he's served papers.
• Jurisdiction problem: Peters sidesteps the important issue of how he can sue Burnett in Georgia when his former colleague lives in California.

• Sexual harassment allegations have been made against Mignogna and the event's organizer, John Leigh.
• The Boycott Anime Matsuri movement is trying to convince people from the anime and cosplay communities not to attend the event, citing the kinds of allegations reported in the Houston Press against Leigh.
• Mignogna has been disinvited from many such conventions but not all. Meanwhile, a vocal movement is supporting him against an alleged witch hunt.
• A GoFundMe effort to pay for his legal expenses raising $106,177.
• That conflict has spilled over into such communities as Axanar, where some of producer Alec Peters' supporters have quit because of his vitriolic campaign against Mignogna, his longtime fan film rival.

• Two weeks erased: The hit the Patreon took erased two weeks of progress.
• Over the $1,800 hump: This week, the campaign reached $1,849, with 203 donors.
• Long-term, however, prospects are dimming, as the charts above demonstrate.
• Down: Average daily growth in donors, which has slid to 4.1 from 9.4 at the beginning of February, a 56 percent drop.
• Down: Average daily growth in pledges, at $83 a day on February 1, has tumbled to $38, a 54 percent slide.
• AxaMonitor's donor projection has also decreased. Two weeks ago, we projected more than 275 donors by April 1. That number is now down to about 235, a 15 percent drop.
• Our projected monthly pledges is also down. Two weeks ago, our April 1 projection stood at $2,500. Today, it's just above $2,250. That monthly difference works out to $3,000 a year. That's a decrease of about 10 percent.