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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Let me see how briefly and non-inflammatorily I can touch on some of the points raised... Some of those who have been here for a while know my position on registries. I look at both the intention and the execution, and when the two don't match up, I tend to err on the side of intention. Execution gaffes tend to be due to time or budgetary restrictions, or to a breakdown in communication. I think everything could be resolved if the impetus was there to go back and fine-tune the episodes -- from all of the series -- that felt the effects of those considerations. [/QUOTE]I'm sure some of these changes would be made -- for the Director's Edition of TMP, the size of V'Ger was reduced to 2 AU, and the planets in Vulcan's sky were omitted. However, no fan could guess exactly what would be changed beforehand and in what ways it would be changed. We didn't even know whether there would be a Director's Edition. If we could see into the future and prove that Star Trek will be reedited in the ways you suggest, preferably by acquiring the reedited DVD collection, you would be able to convince me unless there is a possibility that the future will change as a result of your actions. I want to analyze Star Trek, and Star Trek is objectively defined as the collection of television shows, movies, books, novels owned by Paramount and created by its employees and licensees. Legally, only Paramount or its licensees can create more of Star Trek and decide what Star Trek is -- by ignoring certain materials or establishing an order of precedence -- while outsiders can merely reproduce parts of these sources for scholarly analysis under the Fair Use terms of the copyright law, if ever they intend to go public without licensing their work. If we're not playing by these rules, then we're not analyzing Star Trek. If you believe part of the legal definition is wrong, that's your view and not necessarily mine, and you can always try to become a writer or a licensee. Otherwise, we're analyzing and discussing our individual views of Star Trek, which can technically range from "Voyager is a dream" to "Everything happened just the way it is shown onscreen." These views can depend on everything from how much we like a show under analysis to how much Okuda we've read. The result is a rough consensus called the Flare View of Star Trek. It's not Star Trek. If, on the other hand, we analyze Star Trek, the conclusions we reach will have no creativity to them given what we know about Star Trek so far -- there are many more shows to be made. By the virtue of being objective, these conclusions help the writers and technical advisors who do not have the time to make up a registry system that would take into account an occassional random number. The best part is that they're not the intellectual property of fans and can be technically used without the fear of stealing story ideas. The method produces useful theories that explain what we see throughout the entire history of Star Trek, as opposed to just one particular show. These theories can alert the writers of any unintended consequences of their shows, such as communism or racism that have been observed by serious essayists in published books. That's why I like analyzing Star Trek as opposed to my own view of what Star Trek should be. You may not like analyzing Star Trek, but the conclusions reached are objective if done right. Hence, it does not belong in the "Designs, Artwork, and Creativity" forum, whereas the other kind of discussion technically does. Regardless of whether or not we retitle this forum, it can be described as "Discussion of Subjective Views of Star Trek Starships and Technology". That's why there's such a thin line between this and "Designs, Artwork, and Creativity." To sum up, the result of such discussions is not an objective view of Star Trek, but rather a comparatively useless Flare consensus. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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