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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4831469" data-attributes="member: 8863">Star Trek isn't too bad continuity-wise.  STV is canon, silly as hell, but still considered canon regardless of Roddenberry's views.  Enterprise was not that big a problem to overall continuity, and is also canon.  The reboot is probably considered canon, but I haven't seen it yet, and I don't what it did to continuity yet.  TAS is an iffy case.  It mostly wasn't considered canon, but then Paramount released the series to DVD, and the official website includes data points from the show.  Still, it probably doesn't violate too much canon.Phase II I assume is the fan production?  That, the novels, SFB, and other games, comics, books, whatever are not canon in any way and do not affect continuity unless an element from them are imported into canon.  Trek canon is pretty much anything that was aired on TV or a movie and that's it.  I'd say there's holes in Trek's continuity, but probably not as bad as they could be.Star Wars may not have huge continuity problems.  The biggest overall problem to continuity was Lucas' decision to make the Jedi a celibate order in the prequels.  This contradicts some earlier EU material which assumed the Jedi had families, since there was no hint in Jedi that Luke and Leia were the result of a forbidden relationship.  There might be a few other small details, but otherwise not a big problem, largely because the prequel era was originally off-limits until all the movies were released.  Now the EU may have many more errors given the sheer amount of material but I don't think overall continuity is badly compromised.Ah Highlander, there was more than one.  Wouldn't be a big problem if the second and third movies were the only addition to the franchise because everyone just ignores them. But then there's the TV series, which later spun off two more movies and a second series.  The TV series has its own group of fans which complicates matters, and the show itself was pretty good.  The fourth movie tried to bridge the movies and the TV series, but didn't work as well as it could.  And the fifth movie was a horrible low-budget mess that sacrificed just about all the cool stuff in the TV series for a lot of really pointless action scense.  Made worse by the fact that said movie was produced by the same people who did the show.Don't really know here.  Really, T2 should have ended it, given that it resolved the whole situation with Skynet.  Never played these games, but is there really a serious problem here?  The way I understand, the first two take place somewhere out around California [spoiler]and the ending of the second game sets the plot of the first game in motion.[/spoiler] The third game takes place around the ruins of Washinton D.C., so isn't it really just a different story in the same universe?  I never played Traveller, so can't comment.Not really familiar with Doctor Who, but each new Doctor doesn't really violate continuity, right?  As a Time Lord he has 13 lives, and there've only been 9 Doctors IIRC.Probably one of these two, with maybe DC getting the prize here, since the oldest stuff goes back well over 70 years.</blockquote>

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