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If it makes you feel better, I showed the Dark Crystal to my son when he was 7 or 8 and he loved it. We're both looking forward to the new series.

Meh..3001 was a disappointing novel for me. 2061, while not as good as 2001 or 2010, was a good book and seemed to be setting up a lot of things for another book. 3001 dropped the ball on most of these and totally changed the way the Monolith and its builders were portrayed. I read it once and...

But so what if you are? I mean, I enjoy STV, though I admit that it is a deeply flawed film, but the fact that the majority of fans dislike the film to one degree or another has absolutely no effect on me or my enjoyment of the movie. You're talking about "herd mentality" of haters, but it seems...

Or to Lamont Cranston, one of The Shadow's many identities.

Which means it may have made more sense for the TMP Enterprise to be NCC-1701-A, the letter denoting that it was a major refit of the same ship (Which I believe was a concept suggested by Matt Jefferies, if memory serves.

And yet the Fifth Doctor had met Ten (and Seven if you count the NA/MA novels) and he wasn't sure he'd regenerate in Caves of Androzani: "I might regenerate, I don't know... feels different this time..."

If people still watch and enjoy the show, why change it? And if you don't enjoy the show for what it is, why watch it?

Does the books not being canonical somehow make them less well-written and fun? If not, then why does it matter at all?

Not just Garth, but Kirk too was implied to have served in a war before becoming primarily an explorer:

Oh, I agree 100% with that. At this point in time its clear that TPTB count TAS as part of Trek Canon. But, personally, the question doesn't even interest me much because it has no bearing on my enjoyment of the series.

No, it doesn't, because "canon" isn't a mark of quality, its just a mark of what the creator(s) of a series deem as officially part of the series. Personally, I don't see why it matters if TAS is canonical or not. It has no effect on how I enjoy the show. There are canonical series, episodes...

Matter of taste, I suppose, but I loved this movie. My wife and I took our son to see it after he and I had watched the original three movies on DVD & he loved it as well. He insisted that we dress and Indy and Mutt for Halloween that year.

Yeah, that's a concept that some people seem to have a hard time wrapping their brains around...

The good old days. I knew people who insisted (and some that still do) that TNG wasn't the "real" future of TOS, but just a "possible future" because they thought it strayed too much from "Real Star Trek." This is why I don't much bother to argue with people who declare the latest iteration of...

Exactly. This is a viewpoint I find myself coming back to more and more. Are these stories any less enjoyable if they're not in continuity with one another?

But it really doesn't. In the quote from Hamlet that the title comes from: The undiscovered country is death and/or the afterlife, which fits TWOK, with its themes of growing old and aging. To make it fit in TUC they had the clumbsy line equating it with "the future," which can work, but its...

Thanks for the replies. I do tend to agree that a Destroyer is likely not a Starship, under the TOS definition. I see the classification system something like: Starship Class Heavy Cruiser Class Constitution Class Excelsior Class Light Cruiser Class Miranda Class Constellation Class...

Why not? If the Enterprise can be a "starship," a Constritution-Class, and a Heavy Cruiser, why can't the Saladin be a "starship," a Baton-Rouge Class, and a Destroyer?

And it works that way very well, imo. I picked it up primarily because I am a fan of Christopher's Trek novels and hadn't read a single Enterprise novel (and haven't even watched all the episodes of the series) and I never once felt like I was missing anything.

I'd like to second this recommendation & also recommend his book Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong, which focuses on historically inaccurate markers/monuments and the agenda of those who built them.