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Yukaphile wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:25 am This topic came about when I was fuming thinking about how if STD improves, that still doesn't justify giving it a free pass and that it should have had a stronger foundation and failed long before this point, and that the crap they're adding to the mythos amounts to negative world-building and shouldn't be allowed as part of the continuity. But it really did get me to thinking, because my stance has been, as good as Trek got, TNG had no justification for starting out so poor and should have been canned from the get-go. I stand by that point. But similar to how if STD improves, we should consider a certain qualitative "suck era" as the turning point "not canon" for STD, should we do the same for TNG? I consider Season 1 TNG to not be canon, at all, despite being referenced many times later on, and even if the creators treated it as canon, I go with "death of the author." Let's say STD actually improves and becomes as beloved as the original TNG, which is hard to see given how many continuity errors they are, but okay. Let's say they explain away the Mirror Universe characters' newfound hyper-sensitivity to light, Klingons getting twin junk, and all that other stuff. I'm fairly confident most fans wouldn't treat anything prior to the "new era" as canon, and so, similarly, does the same hold true for Season 1 TNG? Season 2 at least had kernels of good every now and then, while Season 1 was almost totally devoid of it. What are your guys' thoughts?

Yukaphile wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:25 am But it really did get me to thinking, because my stance has been, as good as Trek got, TNG had no justification for starting out so poor and should have been canned from the get-go.