Favorite canon violation

[Butters]

Turning the whole canon hoohah on its head. How about a celebratory discussion of canon violations, continuity mishaps and general wtf-erry?

My favourite is in TWOK, when Kirk tells us in no uncertain terms that Klingons do not take prisoners, but the very next Klingon we see, Kruge in TFS, can't get enough of em. What's that about?

TFS also tells us that the Enterprise is over twenty years old, way past her time and only good for the scrap yard.

The colour of Klingon blood gave me many sleepless nights in the nineties too. I'm just about over that one now, but I'd have cheered heartily if the DSC Klingons bled pink.

 

[BillJ]

Cloaking devices in the time prior to "Balance of Terror". Enterprise came up with a pretty solid way to deal with the Romulan goof from "Minefield". Waiting to see how Discovery handles Klingon cloaking devices since Spock calls them theoretical in "Balance...", eight years after they appear.

 

[Kor]

The radically different appearance of the Trill species in DS9. They looked so much more attractive than that guy in TNG.

Kor

 

[CRM-114]

Any time the previously established look of an alien race has been changed. Things change and I cannot and will not lose sleep over these things, even as these same things will cause others an absurd (and even inappropriate) level of agitation.

 

[Garth Rockett]

Kirk's middle initial changing from "R" to "T".

 

[F. King Daniel]

Khan's ever-changing ethnicity. Northern-Indian Sikh (as imagined by people who'd never seen one), Mexican Aryan (or whatever he is in WoK, sans near-brownface and India references) and then finally British.

 

[sbk1234]

Saavik started out looking just like Kirstie Alley, but ended up looking like Robin Curtis.

And while we're talking about Romulans, the Romulan ridge that developed during TNG, disappeared for TUC, reappeared for DS9 and Nemesis, then disappeared again for ST09.

 

[The Wormhole]

O'Brien's flip-flopping status as officer or enlisted.

 

[JesterFace]

I'm not sure if it's a favorite, if there is such a thing... but Molly O'Brien seems to have aged quite rapidly?

 

[Qonundrum]

Borg Queen, I'll admit it - she made a fun nemesis for Janeway and their sparring did keep me watching. Either Borg Queen could assimilate me anytime... I still prefer Janeway's collective, though...

 

[The Wormhole]

I'm not sure if it's a favorite, if there is such a thing... but Molly O'Brien seems to have aged quite rapidly?

Well, she did suddenly become four years old on her first birthday, but otherwise she aged consistently after that.

 

[Jayson1]

None! Trek IS canon and it must not take a "Fake News" look at the historical framework first established in TOS. But as long as your willing to flog yourself afterwards I think it is okay to maybe have a brief moment of enjoyment at some of the mistakes just as long as you revert back to worship soon after. For me I will list 5 examples were I will forgo my worship for a moment and appreciate and those are:

1 New look for the Klingons in TMP that basically stayed until "Discovery."

2 Real universe LaForge still wearing his alternate universe at the end of "Yesterday's Enterprise."

3 Klingons not having pink blood in the Berman era of Trek.

4 Odo points out that Kira never worked in the mines in "Necessarry Evil" flashback but she says she did a year later to Thomas Riker I beleive.

5 Spot's gender change.

Jason

 

[Nerys Myk]

Spock going from grinning fool to the master of cool.

 

[Jayson1]

Spock going from grinning fool to the master of cool.

You forgot his in-between state of Yelling at things or his one moment of being a creep by leering or having a smirk at Rand after evil Kirk copy tried to rape her.

Jason

 

[Nerys Myk]

You forgot his in-between state of Yelling at things or his one moment of being a creep by leering or having a smirk at Rand after evil Kirk copy tried to rape her.

Jason

The grinning fool and Ol' yeller are the same guy.

 

[Shawnster]

Turning the whole canon hoohah on its head. How about a celebratory discussion of canon violations, continuity mishaps and general wtf-erry?

My favourite is in TWOK, when Kirk tells us in no uncertain terms that Klingons do not take prisoners, but the very next Klingon we see, Kruge in TFS, can't get enough of em. What's that about?

Because Admirals, especially Kirk, never lie or bust the balls /ovaries of anyone, especially young up and comers taking their first Kobayashi Maru.

 

[Mojochi]

My favorite? as in I find it most likeable? Klingon foreheads, & the desperate attempts to make sense of that madness. In fact, Klingons changing EVERY time we have a new reinvention of Star Trek

My favorite? as in the #1 example I harp on the most & find most irritating? The new age Prime Directive that lets whole species die for fear they'll interfere in the course of their development, ignoring the obvious realization that not involving yourself in someone's development is kind of pointless once they are extinct & no longer capable of developing

 

[Paul Weaver]

TFS also tells us that the Enterprise is over twenty years old, way past her time and only good for the scrap yard.

What's wrong with that?

Trek IS canon

Of all the stories you told me, which ones were canon and which ones weren't?
My dear Doctor, It's all canon
Even the inconsistencies?
Especially the inconsistencies!

 

[Tenacity]

My dear Doctor, It's all canon
Even the inconsistencies?
Especially the inconsistencies!

Basically that's it, regardless of any inconsistenecs, if it was on screen it's canon.

 

[Shawnster]

What's wrong with that?

The Enterprise was much older than 20 years by the time the statement was made in "Search for Spock."

 

[Farscape One]

Stardates before TNG season 1.