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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] [QUOTE]But (for some reason), if there is one thing I can NOT stand, it is historical revisionism.[/QUOTE] The history of Star Trek has always been one of revision, though. The Original Series never really had a specific date in mind as to when Captain Kirk was in command of the Enterprise. To go from examples that Ryan mentioned, some say around 2210 for his command and others say as late as 2290 or so. In episodes themselves, they flucuated between being 200 and 300 years in the future from the production dates. Then Okuda came along and gave a specific date, and that has been modified a bit by Voyager. Okuda's invalidated [i]a lot[/i] of earlier work done by fans. [QUOTE]I believe that these techie Trek fans have a right to be upset, for as long as it may last (even as long as Dixon, apparently), because they do revise quite a bit - the Eugenics Wars being a prime example.[/QUOTE] Everyone has the right to be upset when they don't like something. If the writing on Enterprise of the characters were bland, I'd be upset, too. The difference is that I know that my dislike would be the result of the show going against my personal tastes. That hypothetical situation is analagous to the "problem" of the Enterprise's design to the technical crowd. The design goes against what they thought a ship should look like for the time period or what others had said they looked like in non-canon and fandom works. Since we've only seen one ship from the period, the Daedalus, one cannot say that this is a fact. It's an opinion. But a lot of people are carrying on that the design is a continuity violation when there isn't one shred of evidence to support that. [QUOTE]Like I said before, I'll still watch "Enterprise." But it is decidedly for entertainment value only, not for incorporation. It's my choice to make, and every fan must make their own decision likewise, if they already haven't.[/QUOTE] And that is every fan's perrogative. Anyone watching the show can deem whatever parts they don't like to be non-canon. Roddenberry himself decanonized The Animated Series and parts of The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country because he didn't like them. That was his personal decision, but most of fandom does accept them wholesale. However, this is becoming a problem because some people who choose to excise Enterprise from their personal scripture of canonicity are doing nothing more than showing up in message boards, throwing insults, and then leaving. It's essentially becoming similar to the three-year-old throwing a fit because his parents wouldn't buy him a candy bar. [QUOTE]Fans were upset before because a decade's worth of self-created material was chucked out the window when they revived Trek, proper. Now, they have several hundred hours of material to base things on, not just 70-something hours.[/QUOTE] Right, fans were upset because the had built a softball field on an empty lot and here comes the city parks department to build one up to code. The hard work they poured into their projects is suddenly in jeopardy because Trek has decided to thoroughly examine this period. However, anyone who does work for Trek cannot realistically expect his or her work to stand up to the test of time and be regarding as the truth of Trek. The only people who can really have an honest expectation of such are those working for Star Trek. And, even then, if the story is vague enough, the writers can change even that. Enterprise does have a lot riding on it. There are nearly six hundred hours worth of Star Trek out there that Enterprise has to adhere to. In my opinion, Enterprise is doing fine in this regard. The possibility always exists for that to change since it can be assumed that Enterprise will last six and a half more seasons. On the plus side of this, the executive producers have had a hand in just about all of modern Trek. Mike Okuda is still onboard offering his opinions; he certainly doesn't seem to be upset that his opinion of Klingon first contact is not contrary to canon. Braga admitted that he and Berman have been watching The Original Series to understand that facet of the Trek universe. Minor screw-ups are bound to happen. Ron Moore, an admitted lifelong fan of Trek, fudged the date for the Eugenics Wars in one of his DS9 scripts. It's bound to happen to anyone. If it makes a regular habit of major snafus, then is the time for fandom to take some action. [QUOTE]Still, we know the Ent-D/E crew, they've been good to us so far.[/QUOTE] And there were lots of people that hated The Next Generation from the get-go. Fortunately, a lot of those people decided to go ahead and give TNG a chance to prove itself. What do you know, quite a few of them actually became TNG fans and could recouncil themselves to accept it and fine out that things weren't as changed as much as they thought. We're having the same situation here with Enterprise. The only difference is we have a while to wait until we find out if Enterprise really is worth it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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