Which episode(s) would you de-canonise?
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Thank you.
Thank you.
As the topic title is not 'what do you consider canon' , just 'which episode would you decanonise?', saying that you would decanonise an episode because you really dislike it, is perfectly valid in my opinion.
I agree that this thread shouldn't devolve into people declaring something isn't canon just because they dislike it.
More specifically, it has jack all to do with "canon".
What about TOS - "Amok Time"? Sure, it's a seminal episode on Vulcans, but why does a species dedicated to logic have forced marriages that can be dissolved by legalized killing?
All of it. Do a clean reboot with none of the old stuff and go wild.
The one with the "oh no Warp engines are damaging subspace" plot.
I agree. That's a plot that I would like in my rebooted version, so we can swap.
Thank you.
As the topic title is not 'what do you consider canon' , just 'which episode would you decanonise?', saying that you would decanonise an episode because you really dislike it, is perfectly valid in my opinion.
I agree that this thread shouldn't devolve into people declaring something isn't canon just because they dislike it.
As you say it's all canon for better or for worse. It's just meant to be a little light hearted fun as to which episodes we wished they had never made. And it's no suprise really that a some episodes are mentioned more than others.
Sure I'm not keen on "Force of Nature" it's one of the episodes I've only seen a couple of times. And yes it has structural flaws in it's story telling as civilliations have no doubt been using warp drive/affecting subspace for millenia. But I guess over time subspace could have repaired itself as civilisations rose and fell. But it was rather heavy handed with the enviromental message.
TOS: Turnabout Intruder
TNG: Angel One
DS9: The Storyteller
VOY: Drive
ENT: These are the Voyages
TNG: Angel One
DS9: The Storyteller
VOY: Drive
ENT: These are the Voyages
Apparently the official answer to that is "biology", it seems their emotions are so out of control during the Pon Farr that it makes something like that necessary. Before they had their culture of logic and stoicism they actually almost always killed each other to win mates.
Just one of the reasons Vulcans are my least favorite (major) Star Trek aliens.
(The other reasons are the whole "purging of emotions" thing and their ugly, uniform haircuts
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TNG "Parallels" not because of its quality but because of the conundrum it introduced with regards to time travel.
Except that one wasn't about time travel, it was about parrallel universes.
^And I don't see the mystery involved; physicists have hypothesized for several years that every possible outcome is realized in an alternate universe. "Parallels" gave us a chance to see some of these outcomes up close and personal.
--Sran
--Sran
I like the way you think. We could make a bizarro Trek with all the worst plots and episodes being immutably canon.
Spock's Brain would be the pilot episode.
Exactly.TNG "Parallels" not because of its quality but because of the conundrum it introduced with regards to time travel.
Except that one wasn't about time travel, it was about parrallel universes.
Does that mean J.J. Abrams is going to break into my house and steal my DVD's/Blu ray's?!
I knew that would come up. I happen to like the theme of that episode, although it does challenge the utopianism of Star Trek, but given the current rapidly degrading situation with the environment now compared to then, maybe the moral of technology having unintended consequences is worth more than protecting the magical utopianism of Trek.
Though not technically episodes, I would go for all the TOS movies except TMP. I would also de-canonize Generations.
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