Do you have a "personal" canon?
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I think it is only an issue for fan fiction writers. But just for the sake of argument:
Elite Force (PC Videogame)
Bridge Commander (PC Videogame)
The rest of the games are good but contradictory to real canon.
STO is out, just because.
And I only joined in cause I am a fan fiction writer.
Elite Force (PC Videogame)
Bridge Commander (PC Videogame)
The rest of the games are good but contradictory to real canon.
STO is out, just because.
And I only joined in cause I am a fan fiction writer.
I think it is only an issue for fan fiction writers. But just for the sake of argument:
Elite Force (PC Videogame)
Bridge Commander (PC Videogame)
The rest of the games are good but contradictory to real canon.
STO is out, just because.
And I only joined in cause I am a fan fiction writer.
Yeah, as far as anyone else is concerned personal canon is pointless...but it's important to have a good grasp of what goes on in 'your' universe.
I don't possess a 'personal canon' but I do have a personal continuity. It's a series of explanations, justifications and filled in pot holes that I've created through the years or have adopted from others in order to have Star Trek make sense without using retcon and multiple alternate universes. Some make more sense than others.
Aw, no time travel fanon?
*Sulks in corner*
*Sulks in corner*
Yeah, I am a huge time travel fan. So I can't help myself when it comes to theoretical possibilities and alternate time lines.
In a way I suppose it is my "personal canon".
In a way I suppose it is my "personal canon".
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I take the good with the bad. So all six series (TAS counts) and eleven movies are canon for me, like it or not.
I also consider videogames and novels I like to be canon as well!
I also consider videogames and novels I like to be canon as well!
There are episodes I dislike, but they still 'happened'. There's decisions TPTB made which I found incredibly stupid like 'Threshold' or the Warp Five speed limit in 'Force Of Nature' (which conveniently got forgotten about after that ep), but they still happened. There's parts of Trek that blatantly contradict other parts, but it still happened. If you just go along for the ride, and stop thinking that all the dots need to connect up, you have a lot more fun!
It all happened, but admittedly I wish I could ignore some episodes. 
I despise Turnabout Intruder, there's no reason why women couldn't be Starfleet captains, except the hidebound ideas of writers and network execs in the 1960s.
I also dislike the implication that the Hansens encountered the Borg years before Q2. There was no reason why they couldn't have been assimilated later, say at Wolf 359, with Annika a little child. She would've been put in a maturation chamber for a few months and then served some years as a drone, rather than spending her adolescence as a drone to arrive at her current biological age through normal growth.
I despise Turnabout Intruder, there's no reason why women couldn't be Starfleet captains, except the hidebound ideas of writers and network execs in the 1960s.
I also dislike the implication that the Hansens encountered the Borg years before Q2. There was no reason why they couldn't have been assimilated later, say at Wolf 359, with Annika a little child. She would've been put in a maturation chamber for a few months and then served some years as a drone, rather than spending her adolescence as a drone to arrive at her current biological age through normal growth.
You just can't be a woman AND be freaking insane too (it's not fair I know).
This.
My 'personal canon' includes everything from the TV shows (which is supposed to be canon anyway) but then goes on to include all these novels too, even though they aren't considered canon 'officially'.
As for why people create their own personal canons? There are plenty of episodes or movies we don't like, and wish hadn't been made (or had been made differently), and seeing as this is a TV show and form of entertainment, we decide to create our own personal interpretations of what 'really happened' and what didn't.
I'd like to think the Voyager episode Threshold didn't happen, because it was just godawful and made no sesne. And I'd also like to think Nemesis didn't happen, because what's the point of killing off Data? But the event of Nemesis influence many relaunch novels so I grudgingly accept the events depicted, even if I wish it hadn't happened.
I generally consider all the five series and movies I-X as 'cannon'. I also regard the Titan, TNG relaunch, Destiny, the upcoming 'Typhon Pact', as well as Voyager's 'Full Circle' and 'Unworthy' as 'canon'. I would not regard 'Star Trek Online' (although it does look fun to play), 'The Path to 2409', 'Star Trek XI' or 'Countdown' as canon.
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