CT> TA> countries for example, that may not have gotten a novel to be
CT>bothered.
CT>        HA!  Sorry, that was too easy.  The bottom line regarding canon
CT>is to save face.  No need to explain a plot conflict away when you can
CT>merely look at the source and declare it "Non-canon" and therefore avoid
CT>the whole issue.
The reverse argument could be also made about the novel, of
course. };)  Which is more a true dog, the part that eats & barks,
or the tail?  If we cut the tail off a dog, which part is still a
dog, the 4-legged part, or the tail?  Will the dog live without
the tail, or the tail without the dog? 
CT> TA> different dialects (the novels, books, shos, movies, fanfic)
CT> TA> main language that everyone can understand and speak
CT> TA>(shows, movies).
CT>        Bad analogy. Would you have a Sicilian stop speaking his dialect
CT>because it was not "canon" Italian?   Trek is the same way.
Actually, it really isn't (a bad analogy, that is ).  Sicily &
Sicilians are *real*-real; Trek's fiction, & in its own universe
_its_ "reality" is the show itself -- things like the novels are
tangential spin-offs that become more nebulous the more removed
they are from the primary source. ;)
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