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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] [QUOTE]That's why FJ's Technical manual is non-canon. Not because GR said so. I don't give a flip about whether he declared TAS non-canon or not. GR is dead, and it's up to the present-day powers that be what is canon and what is not.[/QUOTE] Think very carefully about this paragraph. [QUOTE]The Encyclopedias and Technical Manuals, and to some extent the Chronologies are designed as guides for script writers. Paramount considers that it needs to be consistent within these publications, and that's what canon is: It's what paramount considers itself as having to be consistent within. Sternbach and Okuda's work ARE included in this.[/QUOTE] Nope, wrong again. Canon is the material that Paramount Pictures and the leading producer of Star Trek (namely Rick Berman) consider to be part of the Star Trek universe. It has nothing to do with internal consistency, that's continuity. And Star Trek has many continuity errors within itself, but the conflicting parts are still considered canon because they are included in the material that Paramount and Berman deem canon. You're now making the assumption that the supplementary material (Chronology, TNG Technical Manual, Encyclopedia, etc) are reference guides for the writers. Okay, I'll buy that but it still doesn't make them canon. As a reference guide, the writers are under no obligation to adhere to the information included within the covers of those works. When it comes to the episodes and movies, they are obligated to adhere to the information included in them. In short, the guides are simply that: guides. It proposes a way that can be (and has often been) changed when it suites the needs of the show. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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