TNG on "Comic Relief" -- canon or not?

[KyleCHaight]

If you haven't seen this B-4, the cast (sans Patrick Stewart) did a sketch for the 1994 edition of "Comic Relief" using the Enterprise sets and TNG characters.

Here's a YouTube video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hra0I-w3XBY

Now, I think this sketch was pretty funny and I appreciate how authentic it is to the television show; I only saw it for the first time the other day and it was like finding a lost segment of TNG.

So, the question is, seeing as how it's the TNG cast playing the TNG characters on the TNG sets, and it is "on-screen", should it be counted as canon?

 

[Sec31Mike]

That was funny. IT was very authentic feeling. I think it was a way for Paramount to contribute. I would not consider it Canon though.

It was really funny when Data called Whoopi Who-pie, the look on Worf's face was hilarious.

 

[tomalak301]

What kind of name is "Hoo-Pie?"

Great sketch.

 

[Trekker4747]

I've seen this before, love this sketch.

I wouldn't consider it canon though. And, yes, I'd like to think that Guinan masqueraded as a somewhat risque 20th/21st century comedian during her extended tenure on Earth.



There's a really neat shot in the begining I wish they had done in the series where the camera looks into the ObsLounge from the outside.

 

[Vanyel]

I remember watching that, and Whoopi's reaction to it. It was great. And Guinan is what 600 or so years old? Maybe she was a comedian on Earth during the 20th/21st century.

 

[Trekker4747]

Guinan is atleast 500 years old, we see her as a woman in 19th century Earth so presumably she's been alive for a great deal of time before that to be an adult.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Didn't she make an offhand comment about having tons of children?

 

[cultcross]

^ she had 27 (or so??) marriages, according to a throwaway line in Nemesis.

 

[ALF]

Seriously, that was VERY cool, and you're right, it did kind of seem like a lost episode! Not too silly.

I guess homelessness causes were beneath Stewart. Or else he had a lot of Shakepere to do that day.
I remember a BRIEF into featuring Riker and Data at the Ops station. It was for a Best Dance Video Award that TNG did for the MTV music awards that year, or possibly 1993. But this clip was much better. :thumbsup:

EDIT

THIS, however is ass. (Riker hawks Enterprise Automation for Boole & Babbage)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHm02FeCH8&mode=related&search=

But THIS is choice. (Burton vistis TNG set on Reading Rainbow)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4g4tZD3ChjY&mode=related&search=

 

[tharpdevenport]

Nemesis doesn't count. I was thinking of an episode of TNG.

 

[K-Star]

Tharpdevenport said:
Nemesis doesn't count. I was thinking of an episode of TNG.

I think I remember that too, but I can't remember what episode it was... Or maybe she said she had alot of siblings... I dunno.

 

[Therin of Andor]

KyleCHaight said:
the question is, seeing as how it's the TNG cast playing the TNG characters on the TNG sets, and it is "on-screen", should it be counted as canon?

The live action segments of the games "TNG Interactive Video Board Game", "Klingon, "Borg", "Starfleet Academy" and "Klingon Academy", plus the attractions that were/are at Universal Studios and the Hilton, Las Vegas's "ST Experience" are not canon either, despite being "live action, filmed on the genuine sets, and shown onscreen".

 

[The Borg Queen]

Guinan had lots of children, all of whom turned out okay except for one who wouldn't listen. But no, I forget which TNG episode it was...

 

[tomalak301]

The Borg Queen said:
Guinan had lots of children, all of whom turned out okay except for one who wouldn't listen. But no, I forget which TNG episode it was...

I think that was Evolution. Crusher asked Guinan about kids and she went into her experience with them.

 

[SonicRanger]

Yes, canon...

And Worf on "Webster" is canon too.

And that corporate video where Riker sells management software.

 

[Therin of Andor]

tomalak301 said:
I think that was Evolution. Crusher asked Guinan about kids and she went into her experience with them.

The first time we heard the term "El-Aurian", it was actually attributed to Martus Mazur (Chris Sarandon) in the Deep Space Nine episode, "Rivals". Undoubtably this was a script that built upon an idea, mooted when DS9 was first announced, that one of Guinan's wayward children might be imprisoned there.

The script never connects him to Guinan, of course, but he seems to have similar "listening" skills (hence the term el-Aurian). IIRC, the first time Guinan was actually identified as specifically an El-Aurian, not just a "Listener", was in some pre-publicity biographies on the characters of the feature film, "Generations".