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Sometimes I hate continuity. There are some great stories that are ruined by the fact that they don't make any sense whatsoever in the series' arc.

But most stories could pretty easily be made to fit continuity, you gotta admit

Let me get my auger. That square hole can be octagonal by this evening!

I think most stories are made to fit canon to a point, but forty years into it, there is SO much that a writer has to agree with - stuff that really doesn't agree with itself to begin with. Say I asked you add a chapter to the bible, but you had to be sure there were no contradictions in your writing. The easiest thing would be to write a new chapter that had little/nothing to do with the old stuff, which might work with good writing, but wouldn't carry as much of the momentum of the rest of the canon.. And with STXI, they chose the opposite route, and in some places they're going to HAVE to say "to hell with canon." I mean, they're right i the middle of continuity hell. I think even though they're staying true to the original as much as possible, what it boils down to is that "as much as possible" might not be that much. And then there's the whole time travel thing, which might create an alternate canon universe. Worked great for Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow.... We'll see.

I'm not suggesting perfection, but certain things are just common sense. For example I'm curious to see how they are going to explain Checkov on the Enterprise. When Kirk and crew are supposed to be in the E-nil in this movie, if my math is right, he shouldn't even be in the Acadamy yet. Unless he's on a school exchange program.

The Borg ate it. That's why they're able to repair their Cubes.

Huh?

Oh wait........did you just go back on topic Nutso?

Threw me there for a second

Mark wrote:Huh?

Oh wait........did you just go back on topic Nutso?

Threw me there for a second

Uh...Kirk had sex with alien babes. Back off topic.

Ok, thanks...........now I feel better

Somehow I feel like Kirk having sex with alien babes is always on topic.

Yeah, they didn't explain how Khan knew Chekov either, even though he wasn't in Space Seed. But, I dunno, Chekov seems like the type of guy everybody knows. He's too good not to include simply because the OOU producers added him later to be a Russian Davy Whats-his-name from the Monkees.

Grundig wrote:Yeah, they didn't explain how Khan knew Chekov either, even though he wasn't in Space Seed.

That isn't the most difficult of problems - simply assume he was aboard from the start, and didn't become regular bridge crew until the second season.

Yeah, that's what I assumed.