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Description	Star Trek Discovery 'Ripper', a giant but recognisably tardigrade-like monster which provides quasi-magical capabilities to the spaceship
Author or copyright owner	Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: Star Trek Discovery Immediate source: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ripper
Date of publication	2017
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Tardigrade
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	Support discussion in article of the gigantic alien 'Ripper' creature as a magnified version of a creature that, within the limits of artistic licence, broadly resembles a tardigrade. In the fiction it provides extraordinary powers to the spaceship, explained in the TV series itself as incorporating DNA from the mycelium of its symbiotic fungi by horizontal gene transfer to obtain extreme travel capabilities.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Other images of the subject will also be in copyright.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	The image is used only here. It is the only film image in the article. It is reduced from the original.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The image is already on the web at the stated source and no doubt many other places at better resolution than this.
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