From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: graemecree{at}aol.com
Subject: Re: The alt.tv.star-trek.tos FAQ

On Monday, November 4, 2013 6:53:24 AM UTC-6, Dani...{at}teranews.com wrote:
> So, do the FAQ's include the two re-boot films, as they feature
"Kirk" 
> and "Spock"??
There's not much about them, as most people don't consider them to be
"TOS" as such, despite having the original characters.  It's a
fine line though, because Nimoy is in both films playing the TOS Spock.  In
fact, thanks for pointing that out because both films need to be added to
the list of non-TOS projects that TOS characters appear in.
As you can see, it's a fine line, because Paramount has their definition of
canon, and each individual fan has theirs.  Paramount's is useful because
it provides a common ground, but nobody is happy with it.  Here's what The
Agony Booth had to say about excluding TAS from canon:
"...it was made with the input of Gene Roddenberry, William Shatner,
Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George
Takei, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, Walter Koenig, TOS story editor D.C.
Fontana, TOS director Marc Daniels, TOS scriptwriters David Gerrold and
Stephen Kandel, and TOS guest stars Mark Lenard, Roger C. Carmel, and
Stanley Adams. Honestly, if that's not Star Trek, then I don't know what
is.    
It would be tantamount to making an album with performances by John Lennon,
Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, produced by George
Martin, engineered by Norman Smith and Geoff Emerick, with an album cover
drawn by Klaus f---ing Voorman, and not calling it a Beatles album."
http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Star_Trek/the_animated_series/Mudd_s_Passion.aspx
But shows do weird things sometimes.  Mystery Science Theater pulled its
entire first cable season out of syndication just because they didn't think
it was good enough.
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