MM>> Sorry, I don't subscribe to the "Slap in the face of fandom" mindset.
 MM>> The people at Paramount have creative control over Star Trek.  I often
 MM>> do not like what they do, but they have no obligation to research fan
 MM>> fiction -- or even Pocket Books fiction -- FASA role playing games, or
 MM>> anything else before writing their scripts.
 RM> No one said they do.  But it is highly discourteous, at the very least,
 RM> to know that there is a whole fandom out there with certain
 RM> long-established ideas, and *every* time some aspect of that is
 RM> addressed in canon Trek, to go entirely contrary to that
 RM> long-established view.
Like Kirk's middle name?
The "Slap in the face of fandom" crowd conveniently forgets the times
Paramount went along with the flow.  :-)
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