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Re: Did Spock Have A SON In The Original Series?

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Op 30-11-2025 om 11:29 schreef john:
> In article <morco1F3ujlU1@mid.individual.net>, liamreverse@valentijn.nu wrote:
>> Op 24-11-2025 om 10:30 schreef Ubiquitous:
> 
>>> Spock possibly had a son with Zarabeth that gets explored in A.C. Crispin's
>>> Star Trek Novels.
>>>
>>> https://youtu.be/C0ryLy_dkv0?si=OAA1qXjeNQ2anGZ5
>>
>> Not in canon.
> 
> "Canon" is a hotly debated topic to this very day. It shouldn't be.
> When there was only TOS, the idea that what showed up onscreen took precedence over
> anything in print was merely for the convenience of the showrunners. They figured
> they had a tough enough time not contradicting their own canons, much less having
> to worry about what people they had no control over were saying in print.
> But starting with the Berman and Bennett regimes, long-running Trek mysteries were
> more often than not answered with such dunderhead explanations that my
> eyes are still rolling to this day! Like an "augment virus" melting Klingon skull
> ridges. OMFG
> What's wrong with a simple Klingons are a multiracial empire? Even if you do not
> resemble the race that conquered your people way back when, you can still proudly
> call yourself a Klingon and man the battle cruisers! But I could write a book on
> the wrong turns this franchise took at Albuquerque; that's another story.
> My point is YOU must decide for yourself what "happened" or "didn't happen" in this
> universe in order to be happy. Don't let anyone use any obsolete rules to make you
> choke down what THEY want you to accept.
> MY canon does not include all aired episodes or films, and it does include the best
> novels, comic books, and fanfic. That's the way I like it.
> 

To each his own.
Canon is what the IP holders decide.
But, I get your point. My cut-off point is 2005.
The augment virus I found rather elegant.

-- 
Wouter Valentijn

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Did Spock Have A SON In The Original Series? Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> - 2025-11-24 04:30 -0500
  Re: Did Spock Have A SON In The Original Series? Wouter Valentijn <liamreverse@valentijn.nu> - 2025-11-27 17:32 +0100
    Re: Did Spock Have A SON In The Original Series? "john" <john@hamiltonhall.info> - 2025-11-30 10:29 +0000
      Re: Did Spock Have A SON In The Original Series? Wouter Valentijn <liamreverse@valentijn.nu> - 2025-12-01 14:05 +0100

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