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RE: Moore and Continuity
By Merlinus Ambrosius

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You could either change the race of the character

Thats how we ended up with the "Klingons with a bad hair day" on Voyager....I mean...the Kazon.

Thats not creativity.

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or take the more adventurous path and tell a story of how this character was an exception to the rule.

Except thats not interesting television. Spending 20 minutes trying to explain why so and so isn't like such and such is boring.


Yes, continuity facilitates creativity. Having a rich backdrop to work with makes for a rich and textured universe. However, Star Trek right now doesn't have a rich backdrop. It has a series of predefined races who always have to behave in a certain way, to the point of cliche (Klingons are always pissed off, Romulans are always sneaky, Vulcans are always arrogant douchebags, Ferengi are greedy) and it has a string of details that have been littered amongst 5 television series and 10 movies that we as fans seem to want to demand slavish attention to.

Star Trek needs a blank slate, just to wipe out the preconceived ideas of how everything has to be. Deep Space 9 did that a bit, with its reboot of the Ferengi and the Trill. TNG rebooted the Klingons. Its happened before, just never on a big scale because there wasn't as much continuity as there is now.

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