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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Capped in Mic: [QB] i remember the concept of 'canon' being explained to me in 1989 by Richard Arnold himself (he was the archivist/licensing guy back then.. most likely the 'errand boy' Gerrold refers to).. i was 9 yrs old and there was a panel at a convention Arnold was speaking at, he was entertaining discussion about Nichelle Nichol's comments during her audience session.. the topic of Uhura's real first name was in issue, and Arnold summed it up by saying that, even though Uhura has been given a first name in novels and comics, none of those [b]mean[/b] anything, and that if Kirk turned to Uhura in the next movie and said 'Barbara' then that would be her name and the novels will just have been wrong. Many fans took offense to Uhura having a dumb name such as 'Barbara' in his analogy, some booed him. He apologized for using a goofy example and assured us that Uhura was [b]not[/b] named Barbara. At that moment i realized that a) Star Trek sucked without the novels, and Arnold's explanation (and the concept of canon in general) stinks like steamy shit b) Nyota is a better name than Barbara c) angry sci-fi fans are frightening He went on to explain that TV and movie writers are very busy people that can't be bothered to know everything about Star Trek and how audiences would be confused and dismayed by characters in filmed Trek referencing any situations or characters from Trek that wasn't filmed, because that ould be Disastrous and the audience Wouldn't Understand. hrmph [/QB][/QUOTE]
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