RM> Most fans are used to literally decades of (admittedly non-canon)
 RM> history, which TNG suddenly turned on it ear.  Canon Trek has a long
 RM> history of ignoring and contradicting what has become "common knowledge"
 RM> among Trekkies, and this is just one more example of how TPTB ignored
 RM> and flouted all that had become "true."
Sorry, I don't subscribe to the "Slap in the face of fandom" mindset.
The people at Paramount have creative control over Star Trek.  I often
do not like what they do, but they have no obligation to research fan
fiction -- or even Pocket Books fiction -- FASA role playing games, or
anything else before writing their scripts.
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