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   On 2018-02-26 01:29:40 +0000, joeyjolley1975@gmail.com said:   
   >   
   > Why aren't the Star Trek novels canon? Why should the franchise be   
   > confined to just television and movies?   
      
   You're better to ignore idiotic "canon" ... after all, the show   
   "Enterprise" is and JarJar Abram's silly reboot movies are supposedly   
   "canon", but the makers of both need to be fired out of a cannon at   
   point-blank into a solid concrete wall!!   
      
   The best approach for silly "canon" is to simply take everything   
   officially licensed Star Trek related and divde it into levels of   
   "canon". You might end up with levels like:   
      
      live-action movies and TV shows   
      animated TV show   
      resource books   
      novels, audio books, and comic books   
      computer games   
      blurbs on action figures / toy packaging   
      etc.   
      
   Any question not answerable by higher levels can therefore be taken   
   from the lower levels. As a silly example, you might wonder if Spock   
   ever drank Coca-Cola. From the movies and TV shows the likely answer is   
   "no" (except maybe in teh silly 'Save the Whales' movie), but reading   
   through the novels you may find an answer of "yes". If you reach the   
   bottom of the list without finding an solution then the answer is   
   simply "unknown".   
      
   You could even take it to further lower levels by including fan fiction   
   movies (especially the better ones with the original actors) and   
   stories, but a lot of fan fiction contains ridiculous dross, so you   
   could easily end up with some insane and even pornographic "answers" to   
   very rare questions.   
      
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