XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: rgorman@block.net   
      
   On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:20:30 -0500, 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?   
      
   The "enemy" in 1984, who are never seen and were allies last year. But   
   this year we have always been at war with Oceania.   
      
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