XPost: alt.startrek, rec.arts.startrek.current, rec.arts.tv   
   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   videonovels@yahoo.com wrote:   
   > Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
   >> videonovels@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Gene Roddenberry: "Star Trek 5 is apocryphal".  I suspect he had   
   >>> issues with Kirk traveling to the center of the galaxy (it's several   
   >>> years journey, not just a few days), and also the whole God   
   >>> nonsense.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> That does not make it non-canon. That's up to the 'suits'.   
   >> And as for traveling to the center of the galaxy, that's nothing new   
   >> or special to *his* Enterprise.   
   >> They went to Talos IV, which is at the other end (snip)   
   > .   
   >   
   >   
   > Well I said I SUSPECT those (distance & God nonsense) were the   
   > reasons. I don't know for sure   
   >   
      
   Which do not make the case for non-canonhood.   
      
   >   
   > What I >do< know is that Gene Roddenberry said ST5 is "apocryphal" and   
   > since Roddenberry is the Creator/God of Star Trek, that movie can not   
   > be considered canon.  Neither can the Animated stories (again, per   
   > Gene's explicit command).   
   >   
   > .   
      
   Several times the official canon policy link has been posted. I think that   
   one's clear enough.   
   The Franchise owners call the shots.   
      
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   Wouter Valentijn   
      
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   The peace that ignores thee, thou corrupt.   
   Chaos. I remain, as ever, thy faithful, degenerate son."   
      
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