Kitumba Script

[Dukhat]

If setting your fan film in the Star Trek universe limits your options, you may want to make a non-Star Trek film.

Why does a fan film have to even abide by Star Trek canon or continuity? Not even the official shows give a crap about that. Do you really think there's some guy on the DSC payroll whose job it is to make sure whatever story the scriptwriter comes up with doesn't conflict with something that happened in a show that was produced 50 years before?

 

[fireproof78]

Why does a fan film have to even abide by Star Trek canon or continuity? Not even the official shows give a crap about that. Do you really think there's some guy on the DSC payroll whose job it is to make sure whatever story the scriptwriter comes up with doesn't conflict with something that happened in a show that was produced 50 years before?

There is not but many fans wish it were so.

 

[Firebird]

Do you really think there's some guy on the DSC payroll whose job it is to make sure whatever story the scriptwriter comes up with doesn't conflict with something that happened in a show that was produced 50 years before?

I mean, they had that on previous shows, those folks just happened to also be the writers (like Ron Moore and Robert Hewitt Wolfe).

 

[Dukhat]

I mean, they had that on previous shows, those folks just happened to also be the writers (like Ron Moore and Robert Hewitt Wolfe).

During TNG, DS9 and VOY, Michael Okuda was actively writing and revising his Star Trek Chronology and Encyclopedia, which some of the writers started using as a reference book. However, it wasn't always followed, and even Okuda himself made it clear that it shouldn't be used that way since it could hamstring stories that the writers wanted to tell if they had to constantly make sure it didn't contradict something else.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

During TNG, DS9 and VOY, Michael Okuda was actively writing and revising his Star Trek Chronology and Encyclopedia, which some of the writers started using as a reference book. However, it wasn't always followed, and even Okuda himself made it clear that it shouldn't be used that way since it could hamstring stories that the writers wanted to tell if they had to constantly make sure it didn't contradict something else.

Which is a sensible attitude. The Okudas realized that continuity is the tail and not the dog. I remember that the first edition of the Chronology gave 2061 as the possible date of Zephram Cochrane's warp flight, which the movie First Contact adjusted to 2063. The subsequent editions of the Chronology were adjusted to feature the now "correct" 2063 date. (Inasmuch as anything in the future chronology of a fictional universe can be correct.)

I do remember the shows occasionally going out of their way to make one or another of the Chronology's dates "official" though, like Troi just randomly mentioning during a poker game in TNG's "The Outcast" that the Federation was founded in 2161 or Icheb's report in VOY's "Q2" definitively stating that Kirk's original five-year mission ended in 2270. I guess those were both such major dates in the history of the ST Universe that they wanted to nail them down.

 

[Dukhat]

I do remember the shows occasionally going out of their way to make one or another of the Chronology's dates "official" though, like Troi just randomly mentioning during a poker game in TNG's "The Outcast" that the Federation was founded in 2161 or Icheb's report in VOY's "Q2" definitively stating that Kirk's original five-year mission ended in 2270. I guess those were both such major dates in the history of the ST Universe that they wanted to nail them down.

I could have sworn that Troi mentioning the date for the founding of the Federation was before Okuda wrote the Chronology. The reference about Kirk's five year mission was definitely taken from the book, though.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I could have sworn that Troi mentioning the date for the founding of the Federation was before Okuda wrote the Chronology. The reference about Kirk's five year mission was definitely taken from the book, though.

Possible. I'm sure that the Odukas were at least working on the Chronology by that point, though. And it's still awkwardly shoved into the scene:

TROI: All right. This hand, the game is Federation Day.
WORF: What is that?
TROI: Well, the Federation was founded in 2161, so, twos, sixes, and aces are wild.
WORF: That is a woman's game.
TROI: Oh? Why is that?
WORF: All those wild cards. They support a weak hand. A man's game has no wild cards.
CRUSHER: Let me get this straight. Are you saying it's a woman's game because women are weak and need more help?
WORF: Yes.
CRUSHER: And just this afternoon I was insisting to one of the J'naii that those attitudes were but a distant memory.
WORF: The J'naii. They bother me.
TROI: Why, Worf?
WORF: They just do. They're all alike. No males, no females.
TROI: Well I'm sure we're just as strange to them.
CRUSHER: Well one of them seems to be overcoming the differences, at least in regards to one of us.
WORF: What are you saying, Doctor?
CRUSHER: I could be wrong, but I get the definite impression that Soren is attracted to Commander Riker.
WORF: A human and a J'naii? Impossible.
DATA: Why?
TROI: Good question. Worf?
WORF: With all these wild cards, it is difficult to know exactly what is in my hand. However, I will open with fifty.