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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HerbShrump: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mirror-Amasov: [qb], you know, I was thinking the exact same thing. If you really have a good story that does not fit into canon, you should be free to abandon it (I mean canon, not the sory... :) ). [/qb][/QUOTE]I disagree on this point. Then again, I'm a canonista so what would one expect but to disagree? I never knew my feelings about canon until I read an interview with Frank Miller several years ago. He was of the above mindset - canon (well, I think he said continuity) can be ignored in the face of a good story. I understand this thinking but it ultimately comes down to what parts of canon you choose to ignore and what parts you choose to accept. Let's say I've got a great story for TOS but at the end of it Chekov dies. Can I do that? Can I tell this story, kill Chekov off only to have him reappear again later with no explanation? Some people think so but this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Sure, maybe they're just minor background points. So what if Kirk was born/raised in Iowa or not? So what if Kirk ever spent time on Tarsus IV or not? In the grand scheme of things what does it matter? Probably not much. But for those of us that live, eat and breathe this stuff constantly ripping out and reworking canon and continuity is akin to ripping out and re-weaving our favorite shirt over and over and over again. Why should we get to pick and choose which bits of canon to include and which bits to exclude? And does that mean that next week we can go back and include and exclude different bits over again? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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