From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Neener neener

Will Dockery  wrote in
news:2db6d727-2705-4b5f-b844-48db3cb57179@googlegroups.com: 

> On Thursday, June 19, 2014 6:09:59 PM UTC-4, Wouter Valentijn wrote:
>> Will Dockery schreef op 17-6-2014 02:05:
>> > Wiseguy wrote:
>> 
>> >> He's asking if the whale plot was ever mentioned in Next
>> >> Generation or any other spinoffs since they took place after the
>> >> events of STIV. 
>> 
>> > Yeah... is that an easy question?
>> 
>> I've seen almost all episodes. Except one of Enterprise. One were
>> Trip got cloned or something.
>> 
>> But to my knowledge they never revisited the Whale story in any live 
>> action show.
>> 
>> There was a novel though.
>> 
>> http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Probe_%28novel%29
>> 
>> But since my memory might be flawed I might be mistaken about the
>> whales 
>  
>> or the probe not being mentioned after ST IV.
> 
> Thanks, Wouter, I asked a self-proclaimed local Star Trek "expert" I
> know who was on the sidewalk downtown and he agrees with you on that,
> and went on to state that there never was a mention of the whales
> plotline in any of the other spin off series, and stated it like a
> fact so I reckon that's settled. 
> 
> Thanks for the info on the novel, although as far as I know none of
> those are ever considered canon by a Gene Roddenberry decree? 
> 
> Or are such decrees out the window in this J.J. Abrams era?
> 

Logically speaking, novels aren't canon but anything filmed officially  
by Paramount is.

So, TOS, TAS (yes), TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, All Movies are canon.

Internet episodes and novels, stories, etc. aren't.

Although anything written in novels and seen in internet episodes which 
do not contradict what is shown in official productions may be 
considered 'real' until they are contradicted by films etc.

Of course there are anal fans (aka fanatics) which think TAS isn't 
canon, etc.

Odd that a series which uses logic has fans that have no knowledge of 
the concept.

Who really cares?  It's all fiction.  There will always be 
contradictions.  Anybody who thinks otherwise can go kiss their Spock 
posters hanging on the basement wall of their parents' house.     
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