The Way to Eden - Canon?

[TiberiusK]

I've heard some Trekkies argue that this episode was so bad and so un-Trek, that it doesn't deserve to be in Trek canon. Do many TOS fans feel that way?

 

[Mallory]

I'd be surprised if there were very many. There's a few TOS episodes that I'm not particularly thrilled with, but I consider all of the canon.

 

[paustin]

thats rediculous....if its on the screen its canon, unless its presented as an alternate reality or a conjecture based on faulty or incomplete records...lol (ie:"...these are the voyages" Tuckers death...ok im kidding about that).

 

[RookieBatman]

Fortunately, it's not up to us to decide the canon.

 

[Shatmandu]

TiberiusK said:
I've heard some Trekkies argue that this episode was so bad and so un-Trek, that it doesn't deserve to be in Trek canon. Do many TOS fans feel that way?

Not me. To me, Star Trek is a girl playing bicycle spokes like a guitar.

Joe, eating all the fruit and throwing away the rhine

 

[RookieBatman]

Shatmandu said:

TiberiusK said:
I've heard some Trekkies argue that this episode was so bad and so un-Trek, that it doesn't deserve to be in Trek canon. Do many TOS fans feel that way?

Not me. To me, Star Trek is a girl playing bicycle spokes like a guitar.

Suddenly, when you said that, I realized that The Way to Eden solves life's greatest mystery!

 

[A beaker full of death]

Oh for Christ's sake.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Charles Napier who appeared as one of the hippies in this episode, and later went onto portray military bureaucrats in Rambo: First Blood, Part II (Murdock) and DS9's "Little Green Men" (General) found this episode to be campy and silly.

He admitted that later on people would classify something like this as "art," but he knew better than that. Incidentally, this happened to have been his very first acting work in Hollywood.

 

[Neopeius]

You know what? If not for this episode, we'd never have gotten to see the beautiful Deborah Downey on Trek.

This ep is so canon.

 

[Charles Trip Tucker III]

I like the space hippies.

 

[Maurice]

paustin said:
thats rediculous....

Is that a sort of crimson shade of ridiculous?

As to "Eden". Oh, it happened... it happened...

 

[Kenobi]

Nothing says "canon" like Spock jamming out on the Vulcan lyre. This is our heritage. This is our TOS. And no one can take that away from us.

"Spock- jamming on the Vulcan lyre? This is blasphemy! This is madness!"

"THIS. IS. STAR TREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!"

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

Good Will Riker said:Charles Napier who appeared as one of the hippies in this episode, and later went onto portray military bureaucrats in Rambo: First Blood, Part II (Murdock) and DS9's "Little Green Men" (General) found this episode to be campy and silly

A lads mag I used to read (before it went out of print, quite good too) listed the roles of Napier, the hard man of cinema, from early roles in a Meyer film to getting his brains bashed out by Lecter. I chuckled to myself and wondered why they didn't mention this episode.

 

[Hambone]

Shatmandu said: To me, Star Trek is a girl playing bicycle spokes like a guitar.

I think it's actually one of those deals they use in diners that waitresses stick orders on for the short-order cook.

But bicycle wheels... Man, that sounds!

 

[Shatmandu]

Hambone said:

Shatmandu said: To me, Star Trek is a girl playing bicycle spokes like a guitar.

I think it's actually one of those deals they use in diners that waitresses stick orders on for the short-order cook.

But bicycle wheels... Man, that sounds!

Yeah, that's real NOW!

And if anyone here doesn't agree, they're all HERBERTS!

HERBERTS! HERBERTS! HERBERTS! HERBERTS! HERBERTS!

Joe, shouting HERBERTS and painting doves on his cheeks

 

[Mike Have-Not]

Am I the only one wishing I'd chosen "Herbert" as my screen name?

Although, I am not one, so...

 

[Kryton]

Anyone ever notice that, except for the hair and those ears, Sevrin and Melakon ("Patterns of Force") could have been TWINS!

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

RookieBatman said:
Fortunately, it's not up to us to decide the canon.

Why not? And who is it up to?

 

[Outpost4]

^ Canon is simply what is on screen and what is spoken in dialog. Nothing more and nothing less.

 

[Hambone]

Kryton said:
Anyone ever notice that, except for the hair and those ears, Sevrin and Melakon ("Patterns of Force") could have been TWINS!

Hippie Nazis. Far out, mein fuhrer.