Your own personal continuity

[LordMudd]

Janeway and 7 were totally doing it.

Would be interesting to see ...

Janeway: "The Doctor failed to mention that particular "implant."

Reminds me of an idea I had once: the swiss army Borg. Interchangeable attachments for any occasion.

CCC.

 

[Mario de Monti]

Janeway and 7 were totally doing it.

Would be interesting to see ...

Janeway: "The Doctor failed to mention that particular "implant."

Now it sounds even more interesting ...

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I am totes on board.

Borg.. appliances. Need to see more stat.

I mean.. assmimlate?! They can't be that stupid.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Gene Roddenberry, writing as James T. Kirk in the first person, pages 7 and 8:

Unfortunately, Starfleet's enthusiasm affected even those who chronicled our adventures, and we were all painted somewhat larger than life, especially myself.
Eventually, I found that I had been fictionalized into some sort of "Modern Ulysses" [...] ... As a result, I have become determined that if I ever find myself involved in an affair attracting public attention, I would insist that some way be found to tell the story more accurately.

In other words, the TOS we saw wasn't the real thing. Gene Roddenberry's little way of jettisoning everything he'd thought better of since the 60's.

I think this is just conjectural speculation because we do not really know to what these "chronicled adventures" refer to (written articles in public magazines or the actual TOS episodes?).

And how were the crew members painted "larger than life"?

Do we instead have to assume

• that the chief engineer was constantly drunk and exaggerating his actual capabilities?
• that the navigator was a fanatic, rebellious Russia lover, wearing actually a red star in his insignia and constantly talked about the great Soviet Union and how much communism laid the foundation of the UFP?
• that the helmsman was such a knife and dagger lover that he constantly brought one to the Bridge and had strange daydreaming fantasies ("And the Children...")?
• that the doctor, too, was most of the time drunk, explaining his permanent cursing, and incompetent (according to the Klingons in TUC)?
• that the communications officer permanently had to be asked to speak in English and not Swahili?

Bob

I kind of imagine this "larger than life" reputation is why Mr. Adventure was genuinely confused by Uhura picking essentially a desk job, Preston a wee bit in awe of the ship, Klaa wanting the fairly obsessed honor of hunting Kirk, the crew minus Kirk keeping their ranks after court martial, and why the Enterprise was picked to meet with Kronos-1.

But if nothing else, I suppose it goes to show that word-of-mouth rumor mills are still a thing in the future, even with the vast gulfs of space. Details can be exaggerated, taken out of context, or changed in other ways quite quickly when it comes to rumors, hearsay, and gossip.

I kind of view it that way. I think TOS happened exactly as we saw it onscreen, but there was a lot of stuff that was exaggerated or is more myth than fact by the public (I could see someone writing that during the Enterprise's encounter with the alien entity Apollo in "Who Mourns For Adonais?" Kirk simply defeated a god with his bare hands, when it really didn't happen that way).

 

[Robert Comsol]

^^ I agree, especially considering that he did defeat a "god" partially with bare hands in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (although there were no witnesses).

Bob

 

[C.E. Evans]

^^ I agree, especially considering that he did defeat a "god" partially with bare hands in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (although there were no witnesses).

In a sense, that's what I'm talking about, how certain details are embellished, overlooked, or just personally termed. In "Where No Man Has Gone Before," the truth was that Kirk actually used a phaser rifle to stop a crewmember with mutated telepathic and telekinetic powers, and even then by using it indirectly to create a rockslide to crush him.

Someone else might say that Kirk shot a "god" with a phaser rifle or might leave out the phaser rifle bit altogether, making Kirk look even more bad-arse than he actually was in the situation.