Trek Canon Link

[gjnave]

This is a very informative page regarding Star Trek Canon. It's very well researched.

Here's an interesting statement from it:

 

According to Paula Block of Viacom Consumer Products:

 

"Another thing that makes canon a little confusing. Gene R. himself had a habit of decanonizing things. He didn't like the way the animated series turned out, so he proclaimed that it was NOT CANON. He also didn't like a lot of the movies. So he didn't much consider them canon either. And--okay, I'm really going to scare you with this one--after he got TNG going, he...well...he sort of decided that some of the Original Series wasn't canon either. I had a discussion with him once, where I cited a couple things that were very clearly canon in the Original Series, and he told me he didn't think that way anymore, and that he now thought of TNG as canon wherever there was conflict between the two. He admitted it was revisionist thinking, but so be it."

[Centurion]

I don't remember many conflicts between TOS and TNG besides the special effects stuff. IMHO, this sort of problem came to light with Voyager and, particularly, Enterprise.

 

Roddenberry's supposed statement sounds a little confusing, though. Canon, or not canon: that is the question.

[GlaC]

If its not Canon it means, it isn't part of the rest and official Star Trek storyline? But how can that be, i mean, a lot of stuff of TOS can be found in other series... In DS9, it even takes (1 episode) place in TOS timeline, and ENT has mirror episode, with all em stuff...

[TFMF]

I think it's really what you think - just because Gene didn't like TOS and didn't want to consider it canon doesn't mean we have to think the same thing.... :rolleyes:

[gjnave]

from reading some other stuff i think that it is mostly talking about season 3 of TOS ... because some of the episodes were .. well... ludicrous :D (Spocks Brain for example) :D

 

edit: Oh yeah.. there was also some episode with Spock hanging out with some inter-galactic hippies.. thats pretty bad too! :o

[Tenebrae]

Retcon, eh?

 

I can understand the reasoning behind that.

 

TOS and TNG were very different animals in their implementation, if not their ideals and there were a lot of stupid episodes of TOS. I imagine Roddenbury was like many creative types and looked back at his previous work and thought "what a load of pish".