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   From: paul@harper.net   
      
   On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:23:26 -0000, "Ali Hopkins"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   > wrote in message   
   >news:1131017314.615034.100430@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   >> >Why be led down a path that could easily be 100% contradicted by a   
   >>>canon offering in the future?  I don't have the time or patience for   
   >>>travelling down a false path, and then having to toss it once it turns   
   >>>out that it's been contradicted by a canon offering.   
   >>   
   >> To which the obvious answer is "don't toss it out"!   
   >   
   >Intersting  point here; there are non canon Trek novels which are FAR better   
   >than the unbearable twadlle perpetrated by the likes of Braga. I am   
   >infitnely more keen on  well written books than on some spurious cleaving to   
   >"canon".   
   >   
   >I care far more anout the  kind of character assasination and out of whack   
   >nonsense dissemintaed by some "universe" creators. By hwich I mean they   
   >create a character, the back story, whole thing - and then make said   
   >charactter do something uttertly nonsnesical. And these  are their *own*   
   >creations, for heavn's sake.   
      
   Absolutely. I am sure "Infection" and "Grey 17..." and the entire   
   singing Loreal telepath arc are considered "canon". Doesn't make them   
   any good, though.   
      
   At times, when authors go off on their own tangent the result can be   
   absolutely superb (Peter David is very good at this).   
      
   >> I really do not see the problem in having alternative views of a   
   >> particular fictional universe. After all, they're *all* fictional, for   
   >> goodness sake.   
   >   
   >Bugger me. Are they? Damn.   
      
   Yup, and therefore to use Mr Mysterious' own words, all  false paths.   
      
   Mind you, to dare to suggest something non-canon is worthy would be   
   blasphemous, after all, so it might be best we don't go there lest we   
   be struck from on high by fearsome fire and brimstone...   
      
   Paul.   
      
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