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   From: liamreverse@valentijn.nu   
      
   Op 30-11-2025 om 11:29 schreef john:   
   > In article , liamreverse@valentijn.nu   
   wrote:   
   >> Op 24-11-2025 om 10:30 schreef Ubiquitous:   
   >   
   >>> Spock possibly had a son with Zarabeth that gets explored in A.C. Crispin's   
   >>> Star Trek Novels.   
   >>>   
   >>> https://youtu.be/C0ryLy_dkv0?si=OAA1qXjeNQ2anGZ5   
   >>   
   >> Not in canon.   
   >   
   > "Canon" is a hotly debated topic to this very day. It shouldn't be.   
   > When there was only TOS, the idea that what showed up onscreen took   
   precedence over   
   > anything in print was merely for the convenience of the showrunners. They   
   figured   
   > they had a tough enough time not contradicting their own canons, much less   
   having   
   > to worry about what people they had no control over were saying in print.   
   > But starting with the Berman and Bennett regimes, long-running Trek   
   mysteries were   
   > more often than not answered with such dunderhead explanations that my   
   > eyes are still rolling to this day! Like an "augment virus" melting Klingon   
   skull   
   > ridges. OMFG   
   > What's wrong with a simple Klingons are a multiracial empire? Even if you do   
   not   
   > resemble the race that conquered your people way back when, you can still   
   proudly   
   > call yourself a Klingon and man the battle cruisers! But I could write a   
   book on   
   > the wrong turns this franchise took at Albuquerque; that's another story.   
   > My point is YOU must decide for yourself what "happened" or "didn't happen"   
   in this   
   > universe in order to be happy. Don't let anyone use any obsolete rules to   
   make you   
   > choke down what THEY want you to accept.   
   > MY canon does not include all aired episodes or films, and it does include   
   the best   
   > novels, comic books, and fanfic. That's the way I like it.   
   >   
      
   To each his own.   
   Canon is what the IP holders decide.   
   But, I get your point. My cut-off point is 2005.   
   The augment virus I found rather elegant.   
      
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