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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] It seems to me that what this boils down to is that, for any number of reasons, Star Trek the TV show is a cultural icon and Star Trek the cartoon is an historical curiosity. Few people talk about it because few people have seen it, and few people have seen it because it's a cultural artifact of limited appeal within a cultural artifact that itself occupies a (admittedly sizable) cultural niche. Cultural! Somebody should write a FAQ or something. Anyway, "what everybody agrees really happened" in Star Trek (avoiding the increasingly silly and annoying (at least personally) "canon") is ultimately dependant on the people who've seen it, including those making it, and therefore is of course dependant on [i]what[/i] they've seen. Had Paramount gone with Phase II, for instance, and for some reason garnered less of an audience than a televised Senate quorum, leading them to forget all about it when they tried again, I suspect we'd be having the same argument. So, in other words, it isn't an issue of quality (or at least, not directly an issue of quality), but availability, and availability during a certain crucial period. You can't just inject something into a subculture ex post facto and have it garner the kind of credibility it may have developed otherwise. Fandoms are all kinds of weird. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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