• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      I like Stan Lee’s line. A fanboy asked him who would win a fight between two particular characters.

      “Whoever the writer decides would win.”

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      I dislike cannon contradictions because they are basically headcannon rewrites by the writers ignoring cannon

      I understand that mistakes do sometimes happen in writing where they miss a cannon detail but those are mistakes and mistakes aren’t intentional

      If someone wants to write a new star trek story there is plenty of rich cannon already there to craft into a story or a new story could be made following trek universe rules to add to the cannon

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        9 months ago

        A lot of what fans think is canon just isn’t anyway. Most so-called ‘violations’ are just different interpretations of what was shown on screen decades ago.

        There’s an entire list out there of all the headcanon that fans hold up that just isn’t supported by what’s on screen.

        Writers shouldn’t be held to fan interpretations of what they thought they saw in TOS or TNG.

        In other words, fans who clearly live in glass canon houses shouldn’t throw stones.

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    9 months ago

    Oh the irony that this quote is in response to the negative criticism of the Kelvin movies.

    Even if those movies had not been fun, even if they had not birthed a new generation of Star Trek fans that went on to discover the classics and literally revived the Star Trek franchise, even if they had not been genuinely interesting stories unto themselves… they allowed Leonard Nimoy to reprise his role as Spock one last time, they allowed Majel Barrett to reprise her role as the voice of the ship’s computer one last time.

    So, for those reasons, I am glad we got them how we did and when we did. Star Trek might still be shelved otherwise.

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      9 months ago

      Yes however, though I enjoyed the movies, and though I am not a stickler for canon, I do dislike how they don’t really contain the hopeful futurism that Trek was created to portray.

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    9 months ago

    Also, the show can’t possibly keep up with advances in science and changes in the real world.

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    9 months ago

    I like this, I’m kinda starting to read some the books and while they are not canon, I’m going to say they are unless TV congrats what happens.