XPost: alt.startrek, rec.arts.startrek.current, rec.arts.tv   
   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Mike Dicenso wrote:   
   > 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".   
      
   If that's the case than Paramount must have backed him up.   
      
      
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