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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by MeGotBeer: [qb]I guess it'll depend on how the registry is shown. Essentially, I would only choose to contradict Riker's dialogue if the registry was spoken as NCC-7xxxx ... I don't think an obscure reference on an Okudagram should outweigh dialogue, no.[/qb][/QUOTE] Ah, but I think nobody here is saying that an Okudagram outweighs dialogue. Certainly, all that [i]I[/i] have said is that they are both canon, and both [i]equally[/i] valid. There is no rational reason for dialogue to be any more canon than anything else. And as others have pointed out, if you accept dialogue as accurate [i]no matter what[/i], it opens the door to all sorts of things. Canonically, the original series is set in 2200, the 2260s, and 2700 [i]simultaneously[/i]. Why do you (or I) only choose one? Because canon is [i]not[/i] absolute, and only one can be correct. You don't choose one based on it being [i]more canon[/i] than something else. They're all spoken in dialogue. You choose one because the current producers [i]intend[/i] for the original series to be in the 2260s, and classify the other canon eras as mistakes. You don't accept obscure in-jokes as accurate because the producers don't [i]intend[/i] them to be accurate. But, for reasons unknown, when it comes to the [i]Yamato[/i]'s registry, all of that goes out the window. [QUOTE] [qb]If the NCC-7xxxx was spoken as the correct registry, then I would assume that the NCC-1305-E was changed for some reason.[/qb][/QUOTE] And, I take it, you assume that the Celsius scale was changed for some reason, right? And the length of a year fluctuated wildly for some reason, correct? If you don't, then you're applying your standard hypocritically. All of those "facts" are just as canon as the [i]Yamato[/i]'s registry. That's why I grant that the producers are fallible humans. They screwed up the [i]Yamato[/i]'s registry, they screwed up the Celsius scale, and they screwed up the dates. [i]Star Trek[/i] is riddled with mistakes, and they can't [i]all[/i] be correct, so the only logical arbiter of what it correct are the very people who made the mistakes. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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