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People miss the whole point of the canon problem...
By dark_mr_fripperton

If Star Trek just stuck to what it's SUPPOSED to be about-exploring strange new worlds every week-then the whole issue of canon wouldn't be that big of a deal because you would be constantly adding to it and only from time to time going back to what happened in a certain episode.

As much as I love TNG, each season seemed to have a "shopping list" of stories it had to tell-each season had to have a Q story, a Luwaxwanna Troi story, a Klingon politics story and so on. This is how canon starts to build up and become an albatross to a franchise. If Trek in the 90's had stuck to just telling stories of new alien cultures and only rarely telling Klingon/Romulan/Cardassian etc. back stories, there wouldn't be so much canon to worry about.

Of course, Voyager and Enterprise were attempts to do that, but they were half hearted attempts and when the writers on those shows were unable to come up with interesting new alien races they fell back on "this week B'lanna must celebrate the Klingon holiday of G'grrth or she will die!" type of stories.

So hopefully, the new team will give us a great origin story in this first film and in the sequels just focus on great adventures that test the mettle of the Enterprise crew and NOT do any "diplomatic crisis in Klingon space" stories.

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