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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] I think the problem is that canon doesn't exist. Which is to say, there is no inviable rulebook. All filmed material is "canon" only until it is contradicted. Or simply forgotten. Is there "really" a huge energy field surrounding the galaxy? In a few episodes of TOS there was. But no one has seen hide nor hair of it since, despite getting a fair number of references to things extragalactic. Does UESPA exist? Is Kirk's middle initial R or T? When did Data graduate from Starfleet Academy? Can you fire phasers out of the torpedo launchers? And so on. I think, rather than thinking in terms of canon vs. noncanon, we should probably be thinking of...a continuum of probabilities. Filmed material that isn't goofy is extremely likely to be included by later writers. Filmed material that is goofy is slightly less so. Reference materials by certain people have one probability of being used, those by others, another. And so on. Tie-in novels are way down on the other end. I apologize if this is overly wordy. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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