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Avoiding a canon prison cell is not dishonarable.
By cdydatzigs

Just in case anyone is still in doubt, this is the Oxford English Dictionary's origin of the word canon:

canon 1

• noun 1
a general rule or principle by which something is judged. 2 a Church decree or law. 3 a collection of authentic sacred books. 4 the authentic works of a particular author or artist. 5 a list of literary works considered to be permanently established as being of the highest quality. — ORIGIN Greek kanon ‘rule’. Canonical is first attested early 15c.; canonize, "to place in the canon or calendar of saints," is from c.1384.

So there you go, the word canon existed 582 years before Star Trek premiered :) Now, on to more pressing issues:

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Every other Trek writer has had to deal with Trek continuity, some more successfully than others ... I have never been a Hollywood writer, but some folks have wrote 10 Trek films before this one, and they didn't take the easy way out. These guys did.

That is because those previous writers were writing films and TV shows that were continuations of the existing timelines. They had to follow canon. I have read interviews by the Pillers, Bragas, Moores and their counterparts, expressing how frustrating being brought into a confining canon was.. But that they HAD to follow it! These shows and films couldn't veer off track because they would begin to contradict each other -- especially when so many shows aired congruently, with films thrown in-between.

One of the producer/writers behind Enterprise said in 2001 as they wrapped on Voyager, "I don't think I can write another word of 24th century dialogue." So they went to the era that predated Kirk because none of that era had been fleshed out beyond a few small snippets. Yet still, they had to write their stories knowing that every one told could affect the universes of TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager that came after it.

Orci and company have been handed the reins to this franchise and have been given an opportunity to tell a new story AND avoid the confining canon-laden time periods that have already been covered. There is nothing wrong with that at all, regardless of the real reasons why they did.

By the way, I know the origin of the word canon "argument" was sarcasm TRexx -- my winking smiley implies I am being sarcastic too. So save it.

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