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<blockquote data-quote="Krensky" data-source="post: 4830568" data-attributes="member: 30936"><p>You're not talking about canon then, you're talking about continuity.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's verisimilitude or internal consistency. Continuity is the fictional history of a world. Canon can define continuity, but is not continuity in and of itself.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not necessarily. Again, canon is a body of literary work. People, especially fen, tend to be opinionated about just what is and is not part of a fictional universe. This leads to people forming their own canon, the list of works they consider genuine to the universe. At it's base form, a canon is just a list of artistic works, typically limited to those of a narrative bent. All those '10 Essential Fantasy Novel' or whatever lists on Amazon are technically canons. Your college reading list was a canon.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The link between canon (the actual word, you seem to be confusing it with continuity) and official comes about because the original canon was the list of books the Catholic Church decided to include in the bible. Canon also comes from the ancient Greek word (via Latin) for measuring rod or standard.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Largely so that they could ignore the continuity of those books.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Abrams created a new continuity but he didn't reset the overall continuity or change the canon. Everything in the series and movies happened. It just happened in a different universe. Star Trek has been pretty consistent in it's support for (or at least it's use of it as hand waving) the Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Plot device happens, things change. Old things still happen, just in a universe where Plot Device didn't occur. Spock was pretty clear on this in his 'stop whining at us about continuity' speech in the middle of the film.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The problem comes in when people start confusing and conflating different bits of literary jargon. A canon is just a list of 'books'. In this context it's a list of books that defines a fictional universe and the events that 'actually' happened in it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Krensky, post: 4830568, member: 30936"] You're not talking about canon then, you're talking about continuity. That's verisimilitude or internal consistency. Continuity is the fictional history of a world. Canon can define continuity, but is not continuity in and of itself. Not necessarily. Again, canon is a body of literary work. People, especially fen, tend to be opinionated about just what is and is not part of a fictional universe. This leads to people forming their own canon, the list of works they consider genuine to the universe. At it's base form, a canon is just a list of artistic works, typically limited to those of a narrative bent. All those '10 Essential Fantasy Novel' or whatever lists on Amazon are technically canons. Your college reading list was a canon. The link between canon (the actual word, you seem to be confusing it with continuity) and official comes about because the original canon was the list of books the Catholic Church decided to include in the bible. Canon also comes from the ancient Greek word (via Latin) for measuring rod or standard. Largely so that they could ignore the continuity of those books. Abrams created a new continuity but he didn't reset the overall continuity or change the canon. Everything in the series and movies happened. It just happened in a different universe. Star Trek has been pretty consistent in it's support for (or at least it's use of it as hand waving) the Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Plot device happens, things change. Old things still happen, just in a universe where Plot Device didn't occur. Spock was pretty clear on this in his 'stop whining at us about continuity' speech in the middle of the film. The problem comes in when people start confusing and conflating different bits of literary jargon. A canon is just a list of 'books'. In this context it's a list of books that defines a fictional universe and the events that 'actually' happened in it. [/QUOTE]
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