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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] I also like some of the Trek novels. But I can quite happily accept that Vendetta never happened. The thing is, it doesn't really matter for the small novels. Who cares that in the last TNG novel, the Enterprise went to a planet, Picard and, oh, let's say Troi got kidnapped. Riker panicked a bit. And everything worked out. No-one cares. OTOH, to take Vendetta as an example, everyone cares. 3 Borg Cubes invade the Federation. Picard goes through the pain of remembering Locutus. Big Doomsday Machine mk 2 blows shit up. Hugely important. And also potentially runinous to future episodes. We'd have had to insert a scene into "I, Borg". TROI: You're not over Locutus, are you? PICARD: No. Especially when that Ferengi got turned into a Borg. And there were those 3 Borg Cubes... The chances of the viewer at that point having seen "BOBW" is fair. The chances of them having read Vendetta is tiny. Confusion, and sulking ensues. And comparing to Star Wars doesn't work either. There are 8 filmed hours of Star Wars. There are roughly 9 million filmed hours of Star Trek. If you have to compare it to something, compare it to B5, which adopts a similar policy of "It's canon if JMS says so", so most of the books are in the universe, but not strictly canon. One book is 10% canon, and one is 90%. Everything else, it's one a case by case basis. And that's for a show that lasted 5 years. So, essentially, with Trek; small books: No one cares. Big books: Too important NOT to mention, and confuse everyone. Besides, Okuda already has enough trouble compiling all the info from a couple of hundred filmed hours of Trek. You want to add the hundred odd novels to his workload too? Poor bloke... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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