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What's the worst canon decision in the history of Trek?

  • Kirk being born in space is nitpicking, since the Kelvin was in a crisis situation and did not have the luxury of returning to Earth right away.
  • The Narada appearing in the 23rd century changed everything – including the past. Meaning TVH, FC, “Past Tense”, “Future’s End”, ENT & “The Cage” don’t happen the way they originally did, if they happen at all. We can likely add Disco to the list too. The events that lead to the development and construction of the original Constitution class have changed, meaning they would choose a bigger design. I’d imagine more changes would be in store for Starfleet and the Federation in general after Vulcan was destroyed.
  • Over the top. But if Kirk was made captain of the Farragut instead of the Enterprise, I don’t think much complaints would have came up about this scene.
 
FederationHistorian said:
  • Kirk being born in space is nitpicking, since the Kelvin was in a crisis situation and did not have the luxury of returning to Earth right away.
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Was the original question about what's valid/invalid with respect to canon, or what we like/dislike in what was made canon? I was interpreting the OP's question as the latter. Since we are all entitled to our personal likes/dislikes, is it not nitpicking to call out someone's personal likes/dislikes as being nitpicking?

Regarding the above-mentioned point, my meaning was that, if the timeline was split on the day of Kirk's birth, then I might have had his mother in Iowa on the morning of that day, prior to the split. That is, if I were the writer. Which I wasn't. And I accept that.

And that's my response to the question that was asked. What's yours?
 
In Star Trek IV, Kirk says "I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space" which IMO is legit even if TOS Kirk was born in space, since he was raised in Iowa. I have an aunt who was born in Africa but raised in England and she doesn't consider herself African.

They did consider calling the ship the USS Iowa as a fudge workaround at one point, but it wasn't necessary. I like the idea the Kelvin was en route to Earth and Jim was born premature (January 4, since his non-canon TOS birthday is in March) due to the rather stressful situation of the Romulan attack.
 
F. King Daniel said:
In Star Trek IV, Kirk says "I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space" which IMO is legit even if TOS Kirk was born in space, since he was raised in Iowa. I have an aunt who was born in Africa but raised in England and she doesn't consider herself African.
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This. Having Kirk born in space and raised in Iowa would work perfectly. Maybe he didn't even know he was born in space.
 
F. King Daniel said:
In Star Trek IV, Kirk says "I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space" which IMO is legit even if TOS Kirk was born in space, since he was raised in Iowa. I have an aunt who was born in Africa but raised in England and she doesn't consider herself African.

They did consider calling the ship the USS Iowa as a fudge workaround at one point, but it wasn't necessary. I like the idea the Kelvin was en route to Earth and Jim was born premature (January 4, since his non-canon TOS birthday is in March) due to the rather stressful situation of the Romulan attack.
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Yes, of course. As I alluded earlier, I'm not saying it can't work. It's just a different from what I'd prefer (which is what the OP was asking, as I understood).

Or did I misunderstand the purpose of the thread?
 
JRandomRedshirt said:
Or did I misunderstand the purpose of the thread?
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It seems to me the purpose of this thread is supposed to be "what was the worst thing established in canon?" All your complaints are contradictions of previously established things, not originally established things.
 
Don't know if this is the worst canon decision or not but unlike any other canon as far as I know, it is canon literally graven in stone.


"James R. Kirk"


Robert
 
The Wormhole said:
It seems to me the purpose of this thread is supposed to be "what was the worst thing established in canon?" All your complaints are contradictions of previously established things, not originally established things.
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So the question of this thread is (a) "What was the worst thing established in canon?", or (b) "What was the worst thing established in canon that has no effect or interaction with anything else established in canon?"

I assumed it was (a). And a lot of the previous posts seem to follow that understanding (e.g., introduction of ridged Klingon heads)... so that appears to be the canon of this thread, is it not?
 
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