RM>MM> RM> among Trekkies, and this is just one more example of how TPTB
RM>MM> RM> and flouted all that had become "true."
RM>MM>Sorry, I don't subscribe to the "Slap in the face of fandom" mindset.
RM>MM>The people at Paramount have creative control over Star Trek.  I often
RM>MM>do not like what they do, but they have no obligation to research fan
RM>MM>fiction -- or even Pocket Books fiction -- FASA role playing games, or
RM> 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
In point of fact, though, that doesn't happen. ;)  IIRC, there've
been a number of elements from fandom that have made it into the
show & been "codified."   The problem arises when you have fans
who by-god deMAND!! that *their* "Trek" be used.  An arrogant
attitude usually will get a person less than nowhere.  And sad to
have to say here also, a number of people who've gotten 115%
wrapped up in *fan*-Trek _have_ adopted that way of thinking. 
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