From: ikonoqlast@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, August 16, 2014 8:12:57 AM UTC-7, C. E. Gee wrote:   
      
      
   > The clones that are modeled after actual TV characters could be a real   
   problem if your work is published and widely distributed, and if you actually   
   use the names, such as "Picard."   
      
      
   I have no intention whatsoever of using their actual names, except in some   
   specific cases.  Seton and Kineson and DuKane HAVE to have those names to make   
   the references stick.  Even then they aren't Richard, or Kimball, or   
   'Blackie'.  (and yes I do    
   actually know how to spell the original)   
      
   Other characters, I'm not really using the character qua character, just the   
   outline to hang details on.  I have no intention of making people say "aha,   
   he's supposed to be Captain Picard".  No.  If they do that I have failed.    
   Modeled on Picard or not,    
   I do not intend him as a Picard reference.     
      
   Now, if they recognize the physical description of the female captain of   
   another ship (which I intend to copy verbatim from the original) with   
   alliterative initials, but who isn't otherwise named or a character, that's   
   fine.  She IS a deliberate Honor    
   Harrington reference.  But she won't be a character or have her own story.   
      
   The closest I will come is that the hero's grandfather is a Captain Kirk   
   clone.    or at least a Captain Kirk stereotype clone.   
      
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