"If it appeared on screen, it's canon." THIS is canon?!?

Ha ha, I forgot all about those!

 

Let's check this interesting and very palatable theory:

• Our protagonists go to sleep
• They wake up some time during the night (probably all still being used to the work shifts rythms aboard the Enterprise or Spock complaining it's getting too cold for him)
• They listen to Spock's music

A forensic analysis of the picture reveals that it's exactly the same spot. If the clothes they wear are the same, too, I'd say we have a winner.

Bob

 

Don't get why STV needs to be "apocryphal". Spock has a half brother who decided to follow emotions, and who kidnaps the Enterprise in order to get to a planet where a powerful creature lives that pretends to be God. During the escape, Spock's brother is killed, and eventually the God creature is destroyed as well. That's a perfectly fine story. Had it been a TOS episode, nobody would bat an eye.

Just because of deck numbers and visual effects, everyone loses their minds.

 

Not true. In the movie "everyone" looses his/her mind, swallows a blue pill and doesn't mind being brainwashed while the great Captain Kirk / William Shatner is the only guy with balls and a backbone and the ultimate philosopher:

KIRK: Dammit, Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. ...If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain.

Given this strong philosophical message in the best TOS tradition, I'd almost be tempted to rate this movie "A".

Unfortunately, it comes at the expense of every other Star Trek character in order to "paint" the James Kirk character larger than life. That should qualify for not that much more than an "F".

Bob

 

Somehow, fans popularly remember that but very little of the other stuff he considered apocryphal - like almost all of TOS ("I have never been so foolishly heroic as depicted..." he writes as Kirk in the TMP novel, backed up by interview comments from Paula Block here. That link also has a quote from Roddenberry saying Wrath of Khan "is not Star Trek") and I read somewhere that Gene also felt the same about VI as he did V, believing that Starfleet officers were beyond things like racism (apparently "Balance of Terror" is especially apocryphal) but I can't find that quote right now.

This is why I'm glad GR never got to officially pick and choose which episodes/movies count and which don't. The guy seemed intent on reimagining the Trek universe, at the cost of what made it great in the first place.

 

That really should have been DeForest Kelley's line.

 

I'm afraid that's like comparing apples and oranges. The crew was following orders because they were supposed to. Decker was outranking Spock but he was screwing with "Kirk's ship", and we all know how protective Kirk was about the Enterprise.

However, no one was forced or ordered to undergo brainwashing in ST V. The basic premise (everyone suffers from some trauma) is debatable itself, but that Kirk was the only one to stand against it (and not McCoy) is just too hard to believe, IMHO.

Bob

 

Well, but he did. For the first couple of seasons of TNG anyway. And for the duration TMP was produced.

Then again, "canon" only holds actual relevance for people actively involved in the production of new Trek. If any writer had tried to insert something GR regarded apocryphal during the first season of TNG, he or she would have almost certainly been forbidden to do so by Roddenberry. Nevertheless, Roddenberry-unrelated stuff like Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was still being produced and distributed by Paramount.

 

What the HELL was that?!?!

 

Captain Kirk advertises DirectTV

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voILEz4iD_8[/yt]

 

Because he did. Kirk did not stand alone.

Sybok showed Spock and McCoy their hidden pain, yet both did resist joining him.

 

Cool ad. I was really surprised to see Simon Cadell from Hi-de-Hi! pop up at the end!

 

Actually, it was a case that McCoy chose to stand with his friends rather than follow Sybok.

 

A lot of straight dude would act as Kirk after this kind of transporter accident. I just hope there was not a fly with them.

Illogical, you collaterally make apocryphal Balance of Terror or all post-BOT stuff because there's a big discontinuity about weaponry.

 

Huh? I can't possibly see what weaponry has anything to do with my post. Please post comments in the corresponding and correct threads.

Bob