All Trek novels, stories and canon...

[Drago-Kazov]

Since we've established that Star Trek has a multiverse, no story should be discounted because it clashes with what appears on screen or another tie-in.

I can accept the JJverse but there is a limit to suspension of disbelief.

 

[BillJ]

Since we've established that Star Trek has a multiverse, no story should be discounted because it clashes with what appears on screen or another tie-in.

I can accept the JJverse but there is a limit to suspension of disbelief.

Well, Trek was set in a multiverse as far back as Mirror, Mirror.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Since we've established that Star Trek has a multiverse, no story should be discounted because it clashes with what appears on screen or another tie-in.

I can accept the JJverse but there is a limit to suspension of disbelief.

The JJverse is based on the Many World's Interpretation of quantum mechanics so the number of universes can be infinite.

 

[Drago-Kazov]

Yeah but i cannot create an another universe in my head every time there is an inconsistency.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Since we've established that Star Trek has a multiverse, no story should be discounted because it clashes with what appears on screen or another tie-in.

I can accept the JJverse but there is a limit to suspension of disbelief.

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzUEu7Gb7Cg[/YT]
I'll take Data's word over yours

 

[BillJ]

Yeah but i cannot create an another universe in my head every time there is an inconsistency.

That sounds like a personal limitation but even canon contradicts itself, quite a bit.

I like the movie First Contact and love the novel Federation, which tell two completely different stories about the same event. Why should I sacrifice one of them at the altar of canon?

 

[Darth Duck]

Thanks godness we have Dave Filoni watching over us and curbing his excesses.

Good one.

 

[Drago-Kazov]

Because?

I'll take Data's word over yours

Interesting concept but i prefer 3 realities, the real one, the mirror universe and the JJverse.

It does not mean others dont exist, i just want to explore these.

 

[Jimi_James]

It's CBS, not Paramount, that owns Star Trek. If CBS wanted the novels or other currently non-canon material to be canon I believe they could.

CBS only owns the rights to television. Paramount still retains the films rights.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I believe Paramount pays CBS for the license to make movies based on Star Trek.

 

[BillJ]

I believe Paramount pays CBS for the licence to make movies based on Star Trek.

This is my understanding of the relationship. CBS could license any studio to make Trek films.

 

[Darth Duck]

Because?

Because Dave Filoni's catchphrase is "George wanted." The man pays his bills. He owes his loyalty to George, not us. Katie Lucas has done more to keep the EU relevant than Filoni.

 

[Drago-Kazov]

Because she has the leverage being the daughter, that does not mean that Filoni is not busting his a'' for us canonistas.

 

[Darth Duck]

He ain't busting nothing for us.

This series at least to George is NOT EU, it is a part of Star Wars as he sees it. I think if anything there was a period where Henry and I had to learn exactly what it took to be a part of George Lucas’ Star Wars, and tell the Star Wars story his way. We had to learn how to look at the Galaxy from his point of view and let go of some of what we considered canon after we found out the ideas were only EU. Really we had to “unlearn what we had learned” and go back to the movies as the defining source material.

Interview with Filoni.

I guess by keeping ST novels strictly non-canon it avoids the debates that you get in SW fandom. Instead we get to kvetch about what TV series/movie we hate. Yay.

 

[The Wormhole]

There is one aspect from the books that I want to see incorporated into canon though, that being the Andorian four sexes idea. It gives an interesting (and very alien) slant on the species, but that's me.

That is canon, mentioned in Data's Day.

 

[Nerys Myk]

There is one aspect from the books that I want to see incorporated into canon though, that being the Andorian four sexes idea. It gives an interesting (and very alien) slant on the species, but that's me.

That is canon, mentioned in Data's Day.

Sort of. All Data said was "Andorian marriages require groups of four". Nothing really about the sex of the four participants.

 

[The Wormhole]

There is one aspect from the books that I want to see incorporated into canon though, that being the Andorian four sexes idea. It gives an interesting (and very alien) slant on the species, but that's me.

That is canon, mentioned in Data's Day.

Sort of. All Data said was "Andorian marriages require groups of four". Nothing really about the sex of the four participants.

Well, there's nothing saying that there aren't four genders, so I see no reason not to assume there are. Certainly the novels chose to intrepret the line that way, as I'm sure others must have before the novels started developing the Andorians.

 

[Drago-Kazov]

There is one aspect from the books that I want to see incorporated into canon though, that being the Andorian four sexes idea. It gives an interesting (and very alien) slant on the species, but that's me.

That is canon, mentioned in Data's Day.

Sort of. All Data said was "Andorian marriages require groups of four". Nothing really about the sex of the four participants.

It actually sounds more like an orgy.

 

[plynch]

I am not a Sherlock Holmes buff, but even they, as I understand, have canon problems, and their stuff was all written by one dude. (The last stories are really bad/weird, from what I've read, and many reject them.)

Come to think of it, doesn't GR's beloved Horatio Hornblower saga have contradictions?

To quote Pierce Brosnan from an ancient Pepsi commercial: "Ours is not a perfect world...."

 

[Drago-Kazov]

He ain't busting nothing for us.

This series at least to George is NOT EU, it is a part of Star Wars as he sees it. I think if anything there was a period where Henry and I had to learn exactly what it took to be a part of George Lucas’ Star Wars, and tell the Star Wars story his way. We had to learn how to look at the Galaxy from his point of view and let go of some of what we considered canon after we found out the ideas were only EU. Really we had to “unlearn what we had learned” and go back to the movies as the defining source material.

Interview with Filoni.

I guess by keeping ST novels strictly non-canon it avoids the debates that you get in SW fandom. Instead we get to kvetch about what TV series/movie we hate. Yay.

He tells to George:

You know in the Essential Atlas...

Too bad George sometimes ignores his advice.

He specifically said he likes the clone commandos and was trying to get them into cw and here they are.