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[Therin of Andor]

It gets tiring sometimes having to remember Richard Arnold's meddling.

I was on very friendly terms with him, but discussing the tie-ins with him was... infuriating.

 

[JD]

What was his issue with Arex and M'Ress?

 

[Christopher]

What was his issue with Arex and M'Ress?

Arnold didn't seem to care for the animated series. I've seen it suggested, I think, that the infamous 1989 memo that supposedly "decanonized" TAS (but was never actually binding on anything but the tie-ins) may well have been Arnold's doing under Roddenberry's name.

 

[JD]

OK, I figured it was probably something like that. I don't get that since the other shows were constantly throwing in references to The Animated Series.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Arnold didn't seem to care for the animated series. I've seen it suggested, I think, that the infamous 1989 memo that supposedly "decanonized" TAS (but was never actually binding on anything but the tie-ins) may well have been Arnold's doing under Roddenberry's name.

Indeed it was. Because Gene had been very supportive of TAS in places like the Lincoln Enterprises newsletters in the 70s and early 80s.

What was his issue with Arex and M'Ress?

RA's quote was that "The Animated Series does not cross over with the movies...", according to the editorial in the lettercol page of DC Comics' "Star Trek" (Series 2), Issue #1.

OK, I figured it was probably something like that. I don't get that since the other shows were constantly throwing in references to The Animated Series.

Note that the first new TAS reference was in Jeri Taylor's novelization of "TNG: Unification", the episode that aired on TV the week that Roddenberry passed away.