Plagiarism w.r.t. Horizon Backstory

Nah, plagiarism would be passing off a comparable product as their own and profiting off it.
This is a deliberate nod at Interstellar, and Apex is full of references to other cultural works and tropes.

Were you equally outraged with:
- Pathfinder's Wizard of Oz dive emote
- Mirage's voiceline 'Ladies and Gentlemen.. we got em!'
- Mirage Voyage portraying the famous Titanic boy scene
- Gibraltar and Path posing in the Edge of Tomorrow loading screen
- the Crypto banner animation emulating Nosferatu's Count Orlok
(there's dozens of them)

I personally like how the developers are putting homages into their game to these awesome bits of culture.
Is there anything more appropriate in the age of memes?