On 2018-02-26 01:29:40 +0000,
joeyjolley1975@gmail.com said:
Why aren't the Star Trek novels canon? Why should the franchise be
confined to just television and movies?
You're better to ignore idiotic "canon" ... after all, the show
"Enterprise" is and JarJar Abram's silly reboot movies are supposedly
"canon", but the makers of both need to be fired out of a cannon at
point-blank into a solid concrete wall!!
The best approach for silly "canon" is to simply take everything
officially licensed Star Trek related and divde it into levels of
"canon". You might end up with levels like:
live-action movies and TV shows
animated TV show
resource books
novels, audio books, and comic books
computer games
blurbs on action figures / toy packaging
etc.
Any question not answerable by higher levels can therefore be taken
from the lower levels. As a silly example, you might wonder if Spock
ever drank Coca-Cola. From the movies and TV shows the likely answer is
"no" (except maybe in teh silly 'Save the Whales' movie), but reading
through the novels you may find an answer of "yes". If you reach the
bottom of the list without finding an solution then the answer is
simply "unknown".
You could even take it to further lower levels by including fan fiction
movies (especially the better ones with the original actors) and
stories, but a lot of fan fiction contains ridiculous dross, so you
could easily end up with some insane and even pornographic "answers" to
very rare questions.
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