At a minimum, Lower Decks is dragging all of its TAS references into continuity, many of which are actual plot points, and Lower Decks is holding hands with Strange New Worlds.
At a minimum, Lower Decks is dragging all of its TAS references into continuity, many of which are actual plot points, and Lower Decks is holding hands with Strange New Worlds.
Indeed. Taking TAS out of continuity was ridiculous in the first place and it's being included widens the universe.
Different portrayal of the same character. Same boat as Saavik.
For Counter-Clock Incident to be considered canon it'd have to first be considered television, and I'm not sure it qualifies.
It was used by the licensing regime, but there wasn't an official continuity in the mid-2000s. For several years, no one was making Star Trek. It seems to have been treated similarly by the reboot films as it was in the 90s.
I also hadn't realized that Roddenberry regarded significant parts of TOS as having been out of continuity when he was working on TNG.
I think he (or Maizlish) decided anything that he hadn't personally written was not "canon" at one point. He supposedly claimed TFF was apocryphal, and probably felt the same about the other Bennett movies for which he was frozen out.
Isn't there a story that says Roddenberry leaked the death of Spock in TWOK to the fans because he was upset about being pushed upstairs into an Executive Producer role and was shut out of the script writing.
And now also:
Pike
Number One (Una)
Kirk
Spock
Scotty
Uhura
Chekov
McCoy
M'Benga
...
So is an episode.
The Cage never aired. And (mi mi mi mi mi miiiiiiiii) OF COURSE TAS IS CANON.
TAS never left. You don't have scripts by, well, EVERYONE, Roddenberry with a producer credit, run by DC Fontana, and, oh, THE ORIGINAL CAST and say "Naaaa."
What's the deal with the Gorn? What's the deal with CHAPEL?
Since people don't agree on it and there are no arbiters that matter, what limits are set?
The existance of canon is a delusion.
Yeah! Some of those TMP sets were too large to be inside the Connie refit. Hollywood is incorrigible. Even with a 1000-foot long ship, they make the inside bigger than the outside. It almost never fails.
@HotRod: a standup comic should tell sci-fi jokes while doing a Jerry Seinfeld impression. He could call himself Jerry Spacefeld. I would eat that up.
The Engine room itself wasn't too big for the ship, but the top room where Kirk enters and the corridors we see don't fit with where Probert placed the room. The sets were built before he did his proposed internal layout, so it's really just a mismatch between his idea and the sets as built. The only other main set I can think of that really doesn't fit is the Rec Deck, which is too tall.
It was actually broadcast in October 1988, during the Writers' Guild strike (before the start of TNG's second season).
The limits are whatever the players at any time agree on. It doesn't really matter, because it's a Game.
There's also the sense of "the literary canon," which is essentially synonymous with "the classics," and is an amorphous gradient beginning with the more popular films and episodes, e.g. "The Menagerie," "Amok Time," "Balance of Terror."
Most people haven't watched very much Star Trek, but there are some parts of it that essentially everyone knows.
The problem with using this measurement, though, is that we have more reason to think that the scale in-universe isn't printed in feet than that it is.
