They have the advantage of being the work of a single author. So I would expect the "violations" to be less.
Star Trek and Cannon... darned confusing!
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And with regards to Holmes, I believe that "Canon" was just a way to distinguish the original stories by Doyle as opposed to all the later pastiches, adaptations, etc. It wasn't a value judgment, or even a guarantee that all the Doyle stories were 100% consistent with each other; it was just a way to distinguish the original set of stories from the later stuff.
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Please shoot the post out of a cannon, not the poster.
Canon to the right of them, canon to the left of them, canon in front of them, volley'd and thunder'd
Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right...
Stuck in the middle with you
That's true. Enough inconsistencies in those to fill the rest of this board for a long time, never mind the rest
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
Star Trek continuity has been changed a few times so there is no actual order! ENT had the Future Guy interfere with established history and disrupt the timeline so maybe TOS doesn't happen like we know it did or ENT like DSC is set in another universe?
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This is the only canon I'm interested in:
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It's like I've said before. Star Trek was never ever meant to be an ongoing, 50+ year story. The fact that it holds together half as good as it does is absolutely amazing.
The illusion of continuity was artificially magnified when you had overlapping series being aired in the 90s and written, designed and produced by all the same people.
That's just not the reality though. And it's okay. Because it's not a unified, ongoing saga and was never meant to be.
The illusion of continuity was artificially magnified when you had overlapping series being aired in the 90s and written, designed and produced by all the same people.
That's just not the reality though. And it's okay. Because it's not a unified, ongoing saga and was never meant to be.
Exactly. There's the illusion that Trek is a unified whole versus the reality that it's actually seven different TV series and thirteen movies created by diverse hands over the course of fifty-plus years. So, yeah, there's some sleight of hand involved to make it look like it all fits together. 
It helps if you squint.Exactly. There's the illusion that Trek is a unified whole versus the reality that it's actually seven different TV series and thirteen movies created by diverse hands over the course of fifty-plus years. So, yeah, there's some sleight of hand involved to make it look like it all fits together.
Only in some fans' imaginations.Has it been established that DSC is another universe?
Holmes does have the advantage that the canon is supposedly Watson's accounts of the cases, and aside from errors, he states sometimes that he has disguised names, dates, etc as the price of recounting a case.
TOS has that implied by the captain's log, and the TMP novelisation's mention of an inaccurate but fun dramatized account. In Who, it's possible that what we saw were edited Matrix recordings, or the Doctor's recollections (as per Wheel in Space leading into the Evil of the Daleks repeat).
Now that's canon I can get behind.
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