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Jun 21, 2009 14:12

loneraven's In Service is an absolutely awesome Scotty & McCoy friendship story, as they are sent off in a runabout to do their jobs while Enterprise does Enterprise things.

In other news, I am trying to mentally reconcile Number One's background in Vulcan's Glory with what we know about Eugenics ( in Trek canon )

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skywaterblue June 21 2009, 23:14:46 UTC
This is why the books aren't really canon. At best they're secondary canon. (Ugh, when I found out about that Immortal junk I wanted to thwap Peter David upside the head, but when don't I, recently?)

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taraljc June 21 2009, 23:19:02 UTC
I've always adhered to "Only What Airs Is Canon" with Trek because that was the party line from the start.

But when you're dealing with a character with only an hour of screentime total, I'm pretty much adopting my fave bits from fanon as I see fit. And I adopted Vulcan's Glory as part of my eprsonal canon a long time ago, along with Fontana's animated episode, "Yesteryear". So now I'm just trying to make the pieces fit.

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skywaterblue June 21 2009, 23:44:15 UTC
I think it might be more productive to just scrap it all and start over, but yeah.

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fizzixrat June 22 2009, 01:09:51 UTC
"I've always adhered to "Only What Airs Is Canon" with Trek because that was the party line from the start."

Well, except that Gene himself indicated (while still involved with TNG) that he was willing to ignore the animated series and chunks of the third season of TOS...

Me, all of TOS and the animated series are in my canon. The entire seven years of Voyager can be liberally ignored, however, as can parts of DS9. :)

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skywaterblue June 22 2009, 01:39:49 UTC
Ignoring any of DS9 is like trying to start a rumble with me.

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taraljc June 22 2009, 04:20:20 UTC
No-one claims any of the live-action TV series aren't canon--it's only the cartoon that was never considered official canon, even tho it aired on telly.

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taraljc June 22 2009, 04:19:31 UTC
TAS was never considered canon, tho elements made their way into the novels and the later tv series. But by "aired" I meant TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, plus films. No licensed products so far as I know are considered canon, nor the animated series. But once elements from those are a part of the on-screen canon, then they're binding. But not until then.

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