XPost: alt.startrek, rec.arts.startrek.current, rec.arts.tv   
   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   David Johnston wrote:   
   > On 12 May 2006 05:50:12 -0700, "videonovels@yahoo.com"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
   >>> videonovels@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> .   
   >>   
   >> So who was it who decided the Animated Trek is "officially" not   
   >> canon? Rick Berman?  Paramount CEOs?   
   >   
   > Neither.  Animation is a different medium from live action.   That's   
   > what makes it not canon just as books being a different medium makes   
   > them not live action.   
      
   The medium itself has nothing to do with it. Some background facts from   
   'Yesteryear' *are* considered canon.   
   Canon here  means: This is official. This is what actually happened within   
   this franchise universe. This is what is sanctioned. This has the great   
   stamp of approval by the powers that be.   
   Of course, as soon as they are replaced, the new powers may decide what is   
   canon as they please. Such is the nature of power.   
      
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