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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [qb] I think we're going to have to agree to disagree here, Guardian.[/qb][/QUOTE]Cool, that I can do. :) [QUOTE]If I understand you correctly (and please correct me if I'm not), you're saying that nothing outside of the episodes and movies themselves can be used to help interpret or expand upon the Trek canon, and that canon is indisputable and unalterable, and all-inclusive no matter the (apparent) contradictions.[/QUOTE]No, not at all. As a fan, that sort of thing sounds weird. But, as a researcher of the canon (for want of a better term), attempting to understand the Trek universe as a functional and self-consistent reality, you're coming close. It isn't indisputable . . . elements of the canon disagree with other elements . . . but for the most part, we can try to go for a "best fit" estimate based on the available facts. In the case of the million tons versus 190,000, we have a canon statement being contrasted with a non-canon one. By the concept of canon, the latter is disqualified, and even if we feel the million tons is wonky, it must be accepted because we simply don't have anything else to work with. [QUOTE]Guardian, couldn't you at least include that data with a note that it's NOT canon, but being displayed because it may be useful IF the reader chooses to accept that source?[/QUOTE]If I did so, I'd be going against the fundamentals of my website. Not only that, but including Trek and Wars non-canon on every page would produce tangents and page derailments even more numerous than what already exists. As has been often noted, my pages are pretty damned long as it is. :) [QUOTE]Just so there are no hard feelings, I was never intending to be insulting with my comments -- they were supposed to be friendly jabs. My apologies if they came across otherwise.[/QUOTE]It was probably my bad. I ended up over at TrekBBS where Aridas once again required my smacking, so I was probably over-reacting to the resemblance. (I only mean insofar as non-canon vs. canon and such . . . no offense intended or implied.) [QUOTE](Oh, and for the record, I'm working towards a minor in Philosophy, and I studied both logic and metaphysics with Richard Hanley, the author of [i]The Metaphyics of Star Trek[/i].) ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]Philosophy major with honors here. Hanley's book wasn't too bad, but I do have some disagreements with him. But, then, that's philosophy. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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