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Sternbach: Gettin' Jiggy Widdit (The Intrepid-class, that is).
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] That's the kinda funny thing of it all. The semicanon concept as I see has to do with "if it'd come up we can be pretty sure it'd be said as follows." But when you get into people leaving shows and coming into shows and shows ending it gets a little weird. For instance, Jeri Taylor's two books apparently nail down some stuff regarding Janeway's early career and the like, and we can be fairly certain that if the opportunity had come up for her to do throwaway lines based on what she established in the book she would have. Except in the year or so she was still executive producer following their publication, she never did (although the point could be made that the way she wrote the character to react to certain situations was based on how she wrote the character in her books.) But could we have that same kind of expectation of Mosaic/Pathways stuff showing up during Voyager's Seventh Season, when she was essentially out of the throwaway-line-inserting business? It's kinda convoluted. "Legends of the Ferengi" by Behr and Wolfe falls into this category, too, although there is plenty of stuff in there that ended up being canonized onscreen (Marauder Mo action figures, Slug-o Cola) in the years following its publication. And I have a hunch that the Jacquemettons read it before doing "Acquisition" on ENT, which means that figuratively speaking its possible for thoughts from beyond the grave to influence current Trek. Basically, my take is this. If the information on the Intrepid portrayed above was Rick's impression of it for a considerable period of time and that there's a good chance that on any given day in say the fourth season of Voyager that if the writers had come to him asking him for advice it would resemble the above (whew, a lot of thats) then it [i]deserves[/i] to be as semicanonical as the tech manuals. That said, by default a book on the shelf in the office is more likely to be consulted than a back-issue of a magazine by any future Trek writer and so realistically speaking the odds of any future 24th century show corroborating the stuff in there is pretty slim. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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