Regarding continuity and canon, yes it is important but not the be all. In the end this is just a TV show not real life and meant for enjoyment. If you like it watch it if you don’t ……simple as that.

Regarding continuity and canon, yes it is important but not the be all. In the end this is just a TV show not real life and meant for enjoyment. If you like it watch it if you don’t ……simple as that.

And, for what it’s worth, I still think ENT was a very good idea that was poorly executed at times. I’d been waiting for a Trek show like it for years. I love Origin stories. The Trek universe is huge and awesome and complex, but how did it get that way? Who were the men and women that built it, made it possible, sacrificed for it. I wish they had kept ENT on because it was finally hitting it’s stride and finding it’s voice. It had so much potential. So this book was perfect for me.

It’s funny how Dennis can argue that Trek has many continuity errors and really isn’t concerned with it yet can also argue how it needs not to adhere to it’s own continuity like Doctor Who.

It’s easy to see he is the most self contradictionary person around here and anyone who visits other Trek boards can see he is ego-tripping all over the place.

To be quite Frank, if he thinks Continuity is the problem with Television Shows and movies and that lack of it is what makes something good then he really doesn’t know what he’s talking about and seems more interested in been right. How dull.

Good writing, acting and direction makes a show good. Continuity kept or not kept is not the most important as this obsessed Star Trek fan would have us believe.

oohps…sorry. I meant it just hasn’t been written yet!

Regarding “canon” I do like Star Trek’s history to tie in thought-out all of the shows. I enjoy the fact that they do all tie in.
I think there is always an unexplained explanation for these mistakes or creative license used in a story or script.It just has been written yet.

While we wait to find out what the writers answers are for these discrepancies, I just have a guess at what the eventual answer THEY eventually come up with could be. So it doesn’t bother me too much. But I do like it when we do find out. It just takes a little bit of imagination while you wait that’s all.

It is such an easy solution for your likes and dislikes.

It’s called “choice”.

You dislike something, avoid it. Don’t associate with it.
It obviously pains you to even think that these other Treks existed, let alone someone might like like them.
I am sorry you feel that way, but it’s your Choice. There’s that word again.

It must have been awful sitting there week after week for 20 years with a gun to your head watching TV shows that you didn’t like.

Now I sit and wait to be told how wrong I am and even be insulted a few times.

Every see “Smallville”? Now here is a show that chucks canon out the window as much or more that Trek or Dr. Who show. By canon definitions flown around here, it should have never lasted the fist season. Yet, “Smallville” is in its 6th season, 128 eps., and counting, and seems to be going strong. Why? Good story telling for the most part. Format too, I suppose. Let’s call it what it is, a teen/young adult soap.

How about the current “Battlestar Galactica”? I remember the original gripes. “It doesn’t follow canon of the original.” Well, the original is swill compared to the new. Great story telling in the current version has me, and its fans, riveted to show weekly. It’s not your father’s 1970’s prime time family viewing, mind you, but it tells great stories about the human condition the original BS never did and that Star Trek did (does) at its best.

I like Star Trek, all of it. I’ve been watching it since the ’70’s when I could see it in syndication, sometimes 2-3 times a day. I read all the novels that came out in the 80’s-90’s. (Come to think of it, I like a lot of sci-fi).

I never once thought an entire series, novel, or movie was bad because it took liberties with canon. However, tell a bad or uninteresting story, then that’s another matter. For a series, tell enough bad stories in a row, then it dies.

So I’ll repeat, canon, BFD. Star Trek is science *fiction*, not science *fact*. Fiction = story. Tell good stories, even bend canon now and then, no one will hardly notice.

I’m look forward to ST XI, no matter where it plants itself in the time line. Then I judge it on its story. As for the books announced above, I’ll reserve judgment until I’ve read them.