Are there any cases of authors/writers that have intentionally stolen a character name from another work?

  • Wolf314159@startrek.website
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    1 month ago

    They let Larry Niven write some episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series, so now the K’zinti (cat people Niven originally introduced in his Ringworld stories) are canon in the Star Trek Universe. The producer (or maybe director, I don’t really remember) of those cartoons was color blind and as a result, those cat like aliens became cannonicaly purple.