Memory Alpha and Memory Beta

[Richard S. Ta]

Putting banal in inverted commas doesn’t make the practice of writing/reading about apples on MA any less so.

 

[Enterprise1701]

I didn't think Memory Beta's wannabe fanfiction method could get worse, but the updated article on T'Pring's mother has the longest made-up fluff I have seen yet.

T'Pril

T'Pril was a Vulcan woman who lived in the 23rd century. She was the wife of Sevet and mother of T'Pring. (SNW episode: "Charades") Before T'Pril appeared in canon in SNW, the TOS novel: Vulcan's Glory referenced T'Pring's then-unnamed mother having died ten years before T'Pring reached...

memory-beta.fandom.com

Before T'Pril appeared in canon in SNW, the TOS novel: Vulcan's Glory referenced T'Pring's then-unnamed mother having died ten years before T'Pring reached adulthood. The explanation for this contradiction is that Vulcan's Glory pre-dated SNW by many years and there was no editorial collaboration between the two sources. From the POV of the Star Trek universe, this changed premise represents the likelihood that the episode and novel take place in alternate histories, possibly explained by a temporal revision or more simply just representing incompatible or dissimilar continuities. There is a much less likely possibility that T'Pril's death was described by unreliable narration, or was presumed and erroneous. This would indicate she could have been later found to be alive, or replaced through means unknown, but neither source carries any implication of such a speculative intention.

 

[Tosk]

Putting banal in inverted commas doesn’t make the practice of writing/reading about apples on MA any less so.

So just don't read or write about apples then? Problem solved.

Another thing I find irritating about MA is their weird habit of listing different versions of a character as a separate character. IE LeVar Burton's page lists him as playing eleven different characters: Geordi La Forge, seven holograms based on Geordi and three representations of Geordi that appeared in someone's dream.

The people at MA really need to go outside and touch some grass.

But what harm does that kind of specificity actually cause?

"Touch grass" is just the new "get out of your parents basement" and it's an equally lame insult

 

[The Wormhole]

Meh, this among other things discussed over the years and earlier in this thread shows how out of touch MA is. Maybe they aren't "hurting" anyone in a strictly literal sense, but they aren't providing a positive portrayal of Trek fandom either. I stand behind my statement.

 

[BillJ]

Never was a fan of either site.

 

[Tosk]

but they aren't providing a positive portrayal of Trek fandom either

Oh no!

I stand behind my statement.

No one asked you to renounce it. But it's okay, because you answered my question.
They are hurting no one.

I'm sure you've got some hobby or past-time that others would deem foolish. We all do.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I'm sure you've got some hobby or past-time that others would deem foolish. We all do.

I know I do, I have 785+ pages of my 26th Century Head Canon for what I see Star Trek progressing into for a new set of shows to take place in that era, along my time line.
That's not even accounting plenty of other documents & images to accompany everything.