Hello Bill!
 BN> Exactly.  What's even worse is that quite often you'll then see
 BN> some people who'll start saying the novels are right & the show's
 BN> wrong because it doesn't agree with the *novel*. I've been on
 BN> these echoes a lot of years now & I've seen it happen more than
 BN> some folks might think -- it's a tail-should-wag-the-dog approach
 BN> that's IMNSHO quite simply moronic.
Exactly the point I was trying to make.
 
 TA>the background of Troi meeting Riker.  But you can't take the
 TA>fact that Data had command of the E in the future to mean that in
 TA>the aired world Will Riker will not be the next captain but
 TA>that Data will.
 BN> Certainly not using a novel as ultimate authority, no. }};)
 
 TA> CT> There actually is no difference between a book and the actual
 TA> CT> series episode, in fact all the Trek episodes start out as books
 TA> CT> (stories) that end up in a nice little one hour audio/visual format.
 
 TA>True but there is a difference.  The aired episodes very usually tie in
 BN> Actually, not quite; they don't start out as books, but as scripts.
 BN> That's why we have the very word "novelization" -- the act of
 BN> making a book out of something that originally was >not< a book.
 
 You knew what I meant. :p
 TA>happens very rarely. But the novels sometimes contradict each
 TA>other the very next book. And they can contradict the TV
 TA>episodes.
 BN> And if they do, then of course, well, hey, it's the _show_ that's
 BN> wrong, ain't it? }:) (Hey, it's the attitude some people *have* --
 BN> from whence cometh, GOK. )
 :)
 TA> CT> You can hold a book in your hand and see the words in black
 TA> CT> and white, and that's about as close to canon as you're going to get
 TA> CT> with any media.
 
 TA>Depends on your interpretation of canon.  Most (most not all) ST fans
 TA>consider the shows and the movies as canon.
 BN> My very old tag below pretty much sums it up.  This has always been
 BN> the historical rule of thumb when it comes to this -- anything else
 BN> is nothing but an attempt to pull a Gowron & revise history....
 The winner does dictate history, and the current PTB can rewrite what
 they want.
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