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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I think this is *my* favorite way to approach this: admitting that there exists a canon vs. canon contradiction, and not trying to claim that some canonical information inherently outweighs other types of information. If I'm going to believe that Trek is an entire fictional universe (which it isn't) and not just a collection of often unrelated episodes (which it is, but I'm in deep denial about that), then I have to accept the contradictions in it as "features", not as "bugs". But once that step in the road to enlightenment is taken, then it becomes an issue of simply believing in what floats one's boat. I believe it's more "likely" that the registry was 1305-E and that a random computer error took place in "Contagion" - the sheer *number* or arguments for that seems crushing. I also believe that the Celsius scale has not been altered, and that Geordi LaForge (that kidder!) was just making one of his strange jokes there in "The Royale" (unfortunately with Data nowhere near him to correct the "error"). I do not try to impose any sort of systematic logic on my beliefs here, since I'm not engaged in a process of hunting down Trek "bugs". Instead, I'm engaged in a process of trying to understand Trek "features", even when they are contradictory, and I have to take a different approach on each "feature" to make it fit. When a line of dialogue has to be dismissed, I try to invent a reason to dismiss it (but with Riker and 1305-E, I can't). When a line of text or a special effect or a move made by an actor or his stuntman has to be dismissed, I try to invent a reason for that, too (and dismissing the "Contagion" registry seems easy enough - contrary to some arguments, we're NOT going to see the Yamato again, except perhaps in a calendar page or something). Of course, it would be more systematic and logical to just hunt down the "bugs", and dismiss them on the merit of them not being "features". But I don't believe in the existence of "bugs" in the Trek universe - it's perfect and self-consistent, even if the TV show describing that universe is not. :cool: Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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