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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HerbShrump: [QB] Your mission, should you choose to accept it - support all of your claims made in this thread based SOLELY on FILMED/AIRED material. Star Trek novels are not canon. There was never as much care taken with the various novels as there has been with the Star Wars novels. That's why in some novels Uhura's first name is Penda. The information about McCoy joining Starfleet to escape from problems at home in Georgia are through the novels and, perhaps, even from the writer's bible, but I do not recall any on-screen mentions or references to these events. Even the existance of his daughter, Joanna, isn't strictly canon (thanks to changes made to WTE). Is there ever any dialogue stating he's from Georgia? It's obvious he's southern, but that's it, isn't it? Now, some facts first mentioned in novels have become canon. The T in James T Kirk is Tiberius. Sulu's first name is Hikaru. Dialogue from WNMHGB implies that Kirk and Spock have only recently met. Nothing is ever stated, but the implication is there. There is no evidence supporting Spock being the only Vulcan in Starfleet. That was always implied or assumed, but never explicitly stated. In fact, the opposite is implied to be true with the loss of the starship Intrepid manned by over 400 Vulcans. If the Intrepid was a Starfleet vessel, then these Vulcans were part of Starfleet. If this crew knew each other prior to meeting on the Enterprise, the galaxy is indeed a small place. How many command staffs on a U.S. Navy ship knew each other from their Academy days? And these people are from a much smaller location (the U.S., as opposed to the whole Earth, Luna, Mars area). Credibility is a little strained on this point, and is strained further when you factor in ages (if Kirk, for example, is more than 5 years older than Uhura or Sulu or Chekov). I've always thought Spock was older than Kirk. Again, if their ages are more than 5 years apart, then it's less likely they new each other at the academy, unless one was an instructor. In fact, Spock's death scene in STII:TWOK implies Kirk didn't know much about Spock's Academy experience (Spock had to tell Kirk; "I never took the Kobyashi Maru. What did you think of my solution?") Of course, you could take that line as Spock stating/reminding Kirk of already known information. But the casual fan won't pay attention to continuity point any more than they do on any other show. And the casual fan is where the big bucks are earned, not the hard-core ones. Romulans COULD be used in a movie set during the Academy days. Mr. Stiles from BOT had family that fought the Romulans and he definitely seemed to have heard first-hand accounts of those battles. I used to be of the opinion that a Starfleet Academy concept wouldn't work all that well, but, after reading Heinlin's Starship Troopers and Space Cadet, I've changed my mind somewhat. I think they could do a viable series based around the Academy and different training situations, but I'm still not sold on a movie idea. Some concepts work better on the small screen than the large. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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