XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current, alt.humor, demon.local   
   From: thecroft@macunlimited.net   
      
   On 2007-02-26 21:39:36 +0000, Tim Bruening  said:   
      
   >   
   >   
   > Flip Wilson wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:14:27 +0000, David Johnston wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Star Trek violated previously established canon and watchers just   
   >>> nodded and said "We have always been at war with Oceania, and genetic   
   >>> engineering has been forbidden by  law for centuries".  But as soon as a   
   >>> show is set in the past, suddenly "canon" becomes so much more   
   >>> important.  Why is that?   
   >>   
   >> What's Oceania?   
   >   
   > Australia and several island nations off the coast of Southeast Asia.   
      
   The reference is to doublethink in George Orwell's 1984.   
      
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