JPH>BN>OK, leave us be sure we tell that to the person who said last week
JPH>BN>that Riker couldn't possibly be captain because a novel said Data
JPH>BN>would be, right? }}};)
JPH>        Your whole argument is based on the idea that there is a
JPH> "Correct" trekk out there somewhere.  That they guy who said that Riker
Well, no, actually, Jay, it's not. :)  Reason being, that there
_are_ folks who will insist that the show can't be right because
a novel contradicted it.  Now all logic tells us that that makes
  I'm not saying that there's a
One True Trek  -- in fact I'm saying just the opposite.  My point
was that looking at it from the POV that the wishes of a 3rd
generation cousin (twice removed ) would have standing to
dictate reality to the rest of the family is more than a little
nonsensical. ;)
JPH> couldn't be captain because the novel had Data as the captain is
JPH> *wrong*.
JPH>        Perhaps his statement might be inaccurate or unlikely, and
JPH> perhaps I might agree with it, but to take a stand on the idea of
JPH> "Right"-trek and "Wrong"-Trek is to miss the point that it's
JPH> all imaginary anyway.
True, but we do expect our fictional mythos to have a certain
amount of consistency, no?   Par exemple, if in one novel Jim
Kirk is captain & in the next (given a succeeding timeline) he's
doing a Kevin Riley & retraining down in engineering as an ensign,
would that make sense?  Obviously no. :)  And yet if we're to
accept as an axiom that each novel is as much an authoritative
reality as the next, or as the show it itself owes its very life
to, then we're in the illogical & very untenable position of
having to take the inconsistency as definitive fact.  And that's
where the breakdown comes in & the need for some core reality in
the mythos becomes evident. :)
That's why years ago I made the statement that the novels perhaps
should be considered as consistent within themselves, but
discounted entirely for any *other* novel, or as regards the show
itself, which in the final analysis *is* the patriarch, after all.
There's room for it all, but we have to be careful of not falling
into the trap of saying (as DB did) that the spin-off supersedes
its parent.
Of course, the fact that DB said all that for no other reason than
to disrupt the echo is neither nor there.   You've noticed,
I'm sure, BTW, that he's, er, "no longer here." ;)  It's amazing
what a little mod effort here & there can accomplish. }}:)
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