XPost: alt.startrek, rec.arts.startrek.current, rec.arts.tv   
   From: mdicenso@seds.org   
      
   On Fri, 12 May 2006, Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
   > >   
   > > .   
   >   
   > Someone at Paramount with the power to do so.   
      
      
   Actually, according to most accounts from insiders like Mike Okuda, it was   
   Roddenberry who did not want TAS to be considered canon, except for   
   Spock's backstory in "Yesteryear".   
   -Mike   
      
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