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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7265664" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>But, it was answered. That you don't like the answer doesn't mean it wasn't answered. The reason to use a known IP is to give it immediate recognition. The reason not to be tied down by (often contradictory) canon is because it makes for a poorer show.</p><p></p><p>I mean, good grief, Star Trek continuity is about as solid as Doctor Who continuity. There are so many holes and contradictions that it isn't even funny. I mean, seriously, there are any number of godlike beings wandering around in the Trekverse. Any contradictions can easily be pinned on one of them. </p><p></p><p>Why are klingons different? Q did it. A Q did it. Why did he/she do it? Who knows? Maybe it was Tremaine. Maybe someone wandered through the Guardian of Forever and changed history. Maybe someone took a spin around a sun and changed history. </p><p></p><p>Let me ask it a different way. How would the show be improved by slavish attention to canon? Should we be using card reader computers? In many ways the technology on TOS is lower tech than what we have right now. Makes sense in a FIFTY year old SF show. So, we should ignore that and make sure that all the tech and materials adheres to something made before many viewer's GRANDPARENTS were born? </p><p></p><p>Oh, and let's not forget some of the ... ummm... less than culturally aware elements of the time as well. Original Klingons were white actors in what amounts to blackface made up to look vaguely Asian:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/7/79/Kor%2C_2266.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090212231042&path-prefix=en" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>This doesn't ring any alarm bells for you? The script for "Errand of Mercy specifically calls them out as "Orientals". Maybe we should be keeping that in no? It's canon after all. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7265664, member: 22779"] But, it was answered. That you don't like the answer doesn't mean it wasn't answered. The reason to use a known IP is to give it immediate recognition. The reason not to be tied down by (often contradictory) canon is because it makes for a poorer show. I mean, good grief, Star Trek continuity is about as solid as Doctor Who continuity. There are so many holes and contradictions that it isn't even funny. I mean, seriously, there are any number of godlike beings wandering around in the Trekverse. Any contradictions can easily be pinned on one of them. Why are klingons different? Q did it. A Q did it. Why did he/she do it? Who knows? Maybe it was Tremaine. Maybe someone wandered through the Guardian of Forever and changed history. Maybe someone took a spin around a sun and changed history. Let me ask it a different way. How would the show be improved by slavish attention to canon? Should we be using card reader computers? In many ways the technology on TOS is lower tech than what we have right now. Makes sense in a FIFTY year old SF show. So, we should ignore that and make sure that all the tech and materials adheres to something made before many viewer's GRANDPARENTS were born? Oh, and let's not forget some of the ... ummm... less than culturally aware elements of the time as well. Original Klingons were white actors in what amounts to blackface made up to look vaguely Asian: [img]http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/7/79/Kor%2C_2266.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090212231042&path-prefix=en[/img] This doesn't ring any alarm bells for you? The script for "Errand of Mercy specifically calls them out as "Orientals". Maybe we should be keeping that in no? It's canon after all. :uhoh: [/QUOTE]
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