SargonAelther: No one sued Space Balls.
BreOl72: Because Mel Brooks asked George Lucas, whether he could make fun of his franchise.
Lucas said:
"ok - but under one condition, only: no merchandise!" Well, if you know the movie, you know how Mel reacted to that condition.
XD If he actually did that, then it was almost certainly done out of courtesy, rather than anything else, as Parody falls under fair use.
Breja: The difference is that in Space Balls the Death Star was a giant maid with a vacuum cleaner and Millenium Falcon was an RV with wings. In this game DS9 is DS9 and the Enterprise is the Enterprise. Not even a token effort was made to change the models.
Space Balls mocks many other movies, not just Star Wars. It also mocks Star Trek, Alien, Planet of the Apes, etc, and he was a lot less concerned with changing those. In the case of alien, he even hired the same exact actor who played the first victim of the chest burster in the original Alien, to reprise his role, so he could say
"Oh no, not again".
Reaper9988: This, if you look at some of the live action Porn Parodies, they literally use props and names that are from the universe or very closely resemble the universe props. That's fair use
Even so, most companies don't even get pissy if you use their Assets, look at commercial 3D Fanart.
Nintendo is one of the few that sometimes get really idiotic about it.
Indeed, even besides live action porn parodies, the early 2000s were full of parody movies, such as Scary Movie series, Superhero Movie, Epic Movie, etc, that barely changed anything, often using the exact likeness and names of various characters.
People just forgot about those and / or got too used to Nintendo being in a constant state of butthurt. While there is a chance that someone could get butthurt enough to take this game down, I doubt it would have come out on both Steam and GOG if that chance was significant.