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Graeme <graemecree@aol.com> wrote in
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> It's been a while since we've re-posted the FAQ, so...
> 
> http://graeme.50webs.com/trek/tosfaq/index.htm
> 
> 
> THE ALT.TV.STAR-TREK.TOS FAQ 
> 
> Reposted for those who are new here. 
> 
> Sections I-IV originally written by ConnMoore (connmoore @aol.com),
> used with his permission, and revised by Graeme Cree. Sections V-VI by
> Graeme Cree. 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions? Something you'd like to add or
> modify, respond in the newsgroup please!  
> 
> FAQ
>  Welcome to alt.tv.star-trek.tos. This document is here to answer some
>  of the most basic questions about this newsgroup. 
>  
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> --- 
> 
> 
> I. INTRODUCTION
>  
>  1. WHAT IS STAR TREK?
>  For those among us living in a cave the last 40+ years, Star Trek was
>  a television science fiction show that aired on NBC television for
>  three seasons, from 1966, until 1969, and which chronicled the
>  adventures of the Starship Enterprise, a paramilitary exploration
>  vessel sent out by an organization known as Starfleet Command to
>  explore strange new worlds on behalf of the United Federation of
>  Planets. It has become, in the interceding years, a global
>  phenomenon, with sequels and prequels made of the original show.
>  There are now Star Trek books, movies, comics, cartoons, games, etc.
>  and they all spawned from the original television series. 
> 
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  ---- 
> 
> 
> II. TREK SLANGUAGE
>  
>  4. THAT'S ALL WELL AND GOOD, BUT I SEE ALL THESE STAR TREK RELATED
>  WORDS AND ACRONYMS BEING THROWN ABOUT. WHAT DO THEY MEAN? As with any
>  culture, Star Trek has created a bit of its own language. Here are
>  some of the phrases that are part of the world of Star Trek. 
> 
> B&B: B&B: Everywhere else, this stands for "Bed & Breakfast". Here, it
> refers to the last initials of the two men, Rick Berman and Brannon
> Braga, that were in charge of the Star Trek franchise from Gene
> Roddenberry's death, through the end of Enterprises' run. Sometimes
> not held in high esteem by fans of TOS, because of perceived lack of
> respect for that show, but they take heat from fans of all the shows. 
> 
> CANON: Short dictionary definition of Canon: "A body of works or
> writings recognized as approved or official." In Star Trek "Canon" is
> a word thrown about to indicate absolute truths about what happened on
> the show. Thus, what constitutes canon is the actual content of the
> episodes of the various Star Trek television shows and theatrical
> features. For obvious reasons, this excludes fanfic. It also excludes
> the novels, technical manuals, and other products such as the comic
> books from Gold Key, Marvel, and DC, despite the fact that these are
> "officially licensed" products. In addition, the half-hour animated
> television series featuring the voices of most of the cast of Star
> Trek (TAS) is generally excluded from canon as well, possibly because
> it was produced by Filmation, rather than Paramount, though no
> official reason has been given. Interpretations of Canon create a lot
> of the discussions in alt.tv.star-trek.tos. 
> 

There is no rational, or logical, reason for excluding the animated series 
from canon and several reasons to include it. Sorry to have to bring an 
obscure concept like logic into a Star Trek group.

> CLASSIC TREK: Another name for The Original Series, which was used in
> the late 80's, after the premier of The Next Generation, when the "New
> Coke" fiasco was fresh in everyone's mind, the idea being that The
> Next Generation was to New Coke what The Original Series was to
> Coca-Cola Classic. A few wits went so far as to apply the nickname
> "Diet Trek" to the Animated Series. With the advent of the internet,
> the name "Classic Trek" gradually gave way to the easier-to-type
> "TOS". Nowadays, the term "Classic Trek" can be taken to loosely refer
> to the entire onscreen adventures of the original crew, namely the
> original Series, the Animated Series, and the first 6 Star Trek
> movies. 
> 
> DS9: Abbreviation for the fourth Star Trek series, Star Trek: Deep
> Space Nine, which appeared as a syndicated show from 1993 to 1999.
> This was the first show to not feature the starship Enterprise, as it
> was set aboard a stationary space station. Its only connection to The
> Original Series is an occasional reference to that show. This show
> takes place at roughly the same time period as TNG, roughly 80 years
> after TOS. 
> 
> ENTERPRISE (Ship): Name of the ship (Registry Number NCC-1701) that is
> used throughout the run of The Original Series. This ship was finally
> destroyed in the motion picture, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. 
> 
> ENTERPRISE A: (Ship) Ship introduced at the very end of Star Trek IV
> and used during the next two TOS movies. 
> 
> ENTERPRISE (Show): The sixth and most recent show in the Star Trek
> franchise. Enterprise was the first 'Star Trek' franchise series to be
> set prior to the events of TOS (approximiately 100 years earlier).
> Show debuted on The Paramount Network in 2001, and ran for four
> seasons, ending in 2005. The only connection to the Original Series
> was the use of the name Enterprise and some of the alien species and
> planets first mentioned in The Original Series, though such references
> frequently contradicted previously established facts. 
> 
> FANFIC: Short for Fan Fiction. Unlicensed writings about TOS
> characters by fans of the show. 
> 
> REDSHIRTS: Security Guards that appear on the show, usually only long
> enough to die a grisly death. They are named this because of the color
> of their shirts. (Duh) 
> 
> RETCON: "Retroactive Continuity". A process where things that were
> considered true in an early episode are changed in later episodes,
> sometimes deliberately, sometimes accidentally. In many cases, the
> last word is considered, the authoritative one, though this is
> sometimes highly debatable. Also, not all changed concepts are
> necessarily mutually exclusive. For example, if Captain Kirk has one
> middle initial in the pilot, but a different middle initial is used
> every other time such is referenced, this could be considered a
> change, or it could just be that he's got two middle initials. 
> 
> SLASH: A term used by writers of fanfic to indicate a pairing of two
> or more Star Trek characters. The term comes from the "slash" used
> between the characters in the writing. Such as, Spock/Chapel, which
> would be fan fiction that would have a Spock and Christine Chapel
> relation in it. Slash fiction can take many forms, homosexual;
> heterosexual and multi species pairings are not uncommon. There are
> four other newsgroups, alt.tv.star-trek.tos.slash,
> alt.sex.fetish.startrek, alt.startrek.creative.erotica, and
> alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated, specially devoted to
> discussions of this nature. 
> 
> K/S: A particular type of slash fan fiction devoted to theorizing a
> homosexual relation Kirk and Spock. This particular genre of fanfic
> has been the subject of a long-term trolling attack on this newsgroup
> that has stretched over several years. The topic is, strictly
> speaking, off topic here, and belongs rather in one of the four
> newsgroups mentioned above. 
> 
> TAS: Abbreviation for The Animated Series, which ran for two seasons
> in 1973 and 1974. This was the first sequel to TOS. No longer
> considered Canon by the powers at Paramount, but it did have Gene
> Roddenberry's approval, and direct participation, and had many of the
> Original Series actors and writers working on it. 
> 
> TMP: Abbreviation for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first Star
> Trek movie. 
> 
> TNG: Abbreviation for Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 3rd Star
> Trek series, and the second sequel to the original. This show appeared
> in syndication for 1987 until 1994. This show takes place
> approximately 80 years after The Original Series, and had an all-new
> cast, with only very rare appearances by cast members from TOS 
> 
> TOS: Acronym for "Star Trek", the original series, that ran from 1966
> until 1969 on NBC television. This show (along with TAS) is the
> primary focus of this group, and is by far the best of any Star Trek
> series. :) All other Star Trek shows are pale imitations of this, the
> original and the most entertaining. 
> 

FAQ is a place for facts not biased opinions.

> TPTB: Abbreviation for "The Powers That Be". Usually used in a
> derisive tone when you are PO'ed about something that the creators of
> the show have done. 
> 
> TIIC: Acronym for "The Idiots In Charge". A more derisive term for
> TPTB. 
> 
> VOYAGER (Show): Name of the ship and series featured in the fifth Star
> Trek series, Star Trek: Voyager, which appeared on The Paramount
> Network, from 1995 until 2001. Set in the same time frame as The Next
> Generation, about 80-90 years after the events of TOS, this show has
> only passing references to The Original Series. 
>  
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>  ---- 
> 
> IV. THE MAIN PEOPLE BEHIND STAR TREK
> 
>  
>  6. WHO ARE SOME OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE SHOW?
>  
> 
> CAPTAIN KIRK, (James T. R. Kirk): Captain of The Enterprise during the
> entire run of The Original Series. Played by William Shatner. 
> 
> COMMANDER SPOCK: Half Vulcan, Half Human First officer and Science
> officer of the Enterprise throughout the run of The Original Series,
> played by Leonard Nimoy. Has a father, Sarek (Played by Mark Lenard),
> and a mother, Amanda (Played by Jane Wyatt). Referred to as "Lt.
> Commander Spock" in a couple of First Season episodes, though his
> braid never reflected this. 
> 
> LT. COMMANDER MCCOY, (Leonard H. McCoy): Chief Medical Officer of the
> Enterprise throughout most of The Original Series. Played by Deforest
> Kelly. Nicknamed "Bones" by Captain Kirk. 
> 
> LT. COMMANDER SCOTT, (Montgomery Scott, aka Scotty): Chief Engineer of
> the Enterprise throughout the Original Series run. Played by James
> Doohan. 
> 
> LT. UHURA: Chief communication officer aboard the Enterprise
> throughout most of the Original Series run. Played by Nichelle
> Nichols. 
> 
> LT. SULU, (Hikaru Sulu): Helmsman aboard the Enterprise during most of
> the Original Series run. Played by George Takei. 
> 
> ENSIGN CHEKOV, (Pavel Andreivich Chekov): Helmsman and weapons officer
> during the second and third seasons of The Original Series run. Played
> by Walter Koenig. 
> 
> YEOMAN RAND, (Janice Rand): Blonde yeoman that appeared in 8 episodes,
> all in the first half of the First Season, and in four of the six TOS
> movies. Played by Grace Lee Whitney. 
> 
> NURSE CHAPEL, (Christine Chapel): Nurse on the Enterprise, played by
> Majel Barrett, who married Gene Roddenberry after the series. 
> 
> LT. RILEY, (Kevin Riley): Crewman who played an important part in two
> first season TOS episodes. Played by Bruce Hyde. 
> 
> CAPTAIN PIKE, (Christopher Pike): Captain on the Enterprise before
> Kirk, in the original series pilot episode. This pilot was never
> broadcast during the series run, but most of it was integrated into a
> 2-part series episode, and slightly modified versions of the original
> pilot were later released on VHS and DVD. Pike was played by Jeffery
> Hunter. 
> 

Also portrayed by Sean Kenney in "The Menagerie."

> LT. AREX: Tripedal (3 arms, 3 legs) navigator who appeared in the
> Animated Series as a replacement for Mr. Chekov. Lt. Arex was played
> by James Doohan. 
> 

You mean "voiced by." If you think the animated series is not canon, then 
why list the characters here?

> LT. M'RESS: Felinoid communications officer, used in a few Animated
> episodes as a backup to Lt. Uhura. Lt. M'Ress was played by Majel
> Barrett. 
> 

You mean "voiced by."

> LT. LESLIE: The best all-around utility man in Starfleet, Mr. Leslie
> (named after one of William Shatner's daughters) can be seen in more
> than half the episodes of the series, performing virtually every ship
> function imaginable (including command!). His top specialties seemed
> to be engineering, security, and showing concern at the action going
> on in the foreground of the screen. Though he rarely spoke, he has a
> small but devoted cadre of admirers, and his own dedicated webpage at
> http://hometown.aol.com/led4acs/LeslieArchives.html (NOTE: This page
> currently offline, and not yet re-located).. Mr. Leslie was played by
> Eddie Paskey, who has a personal webpage at
> http://www.eddiepaskey.com. 
> 
> LT. GALLOWAY: Another utility redshirt, played by David L. Ross, who
> served mostly as security guard and transporter officer. Less well
> known than Leslie, he appeared in only a half dozen or so episodes,
> and does not have his own dedicated webpage, but he did manage to pull
> off the trick of coming back from the dead; the least important
> character on the show to ever do so. 
> 
> ENTERPRISE COMPUTER (Majel Barrett and others): Several actors and
> actresses have played the voice of the Enterprise computer, but the
> most frequently heard voice was that of Majel Barrett, who played the
> "role" at least once in all six Star Trek series. She was the most
> frequently heard voice of the computer in TOS. 
> 
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  ---- 
> 
> 
> V. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
>  
> 
>  11. WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL NAME OF THE 6th STAR TREK SERIES?
>  This series has had two official titles. At its premiere, it was
>  called simply Enterprise. After two seasons, of increasingly bad
>  ratings, the name was changed to Star Trek: Enterprise, apparently
>  hoping that people would watch any show, so long as it had Star Trek
>  in the title. Rumors about Paramount releasing new series' entitled
>  Star Trek: The 6 o'clock News, Star Trek's Wide, Wide World of
>  Sports, and Star Trek: Babylon Five, are, so far, unfounded. 
> 

Unfounded and not funny.

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> 
>  12. WASN'T THERE ANOTHER TELEVISION SERIES CALLED "ENTERPRISE"?
>  Yes, in fact there was. Running from 1952-1958, the series Enterprise
>  consisted of a series of documentary films about American industry.
>  In the opinion of many, Trek's Enterprise was about as interesting as
>  that other one sounds. 
> 

FAQ is a place for facts not biased opinions.

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> 
>  14. HOW MANY TOS EPISODES ARE THERE?
>  Anywhere from 78-80, depending on how you count. If you count the
>  show's lone 2-parter as 2 episodes, and also count the unaired
>  90-minute pilot as an episode, then there are 80 episodes. 
> 

When was the pilot ever 90 minutes long?

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> 
>  19. WHY "U.S.S." ENTERPRISE? IS THE ENTERPRISE AN AMERICAN SHIP?
>  No. Though intended to resemble the modern American navy in the minds
>  of the viewers, the U.S.S. Enterprise (called the U.S.S. Yorktown in
>  the first draft of the original series proposal) is not an American
>  ship. Though the show is pretty darn vague about Earth's political
>  and economic future, the Earth appears to have, if not a single world
>  government, then at least a unified coalition, similar to the
>  European Common Market, and to be but one planet (though apparently
>  the most important one), in a galactic federation. U.S.S., though
>  intended to vaguely suggest America, actually stands for "United
>  StarShip." Since "Starship" is only one word, it doesn't quite work,
>  but what the heck? 
> 

I've never heard of United Starship but I did hear of United Space Ship 
when Kirk mentions it in "Space Seed."


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> 
>  20. WHAT DOES "NCC" MEAN?
>  The registration number on the hull of the Enterprise is NCC-1701. As
>  for what it means, this question is an excellent illustration of the
>  way the term "canon" works in the Star Trek universe. As you'll
>  recall, "canon" means "official Star Trek facts", those which
>  Paramount and the show's producers theoretically feel obligated to
>  remain true to in future productions (they frequently don't, but
>  that's another point entirely). With a few exceptions, "canon" is
>  defined as that which actually appears or is stated onscreen. Other
>  facts, even if deriving from officially licensed products, or from
>  the mouth of a producer or writer himself, are not canon. 
> 
> How does this relate to NCC? Well, according to Roddenberry himself,
> the term NCC stands for "Naval Construction Contract", and was derived
> from the "NC" and "NX" designations found on private planes.
> *However*, this definition has never been stated onscreen, nor any
> other definition either. So, officially (i.e. "canonically"), the term
> NCC has no fixed meaning. Though unofficially, it does, and we all
> know it. Cute, huh? 
> 

No.

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> 
>  21. WHAT DO THE UNIFORM COLORS DENOTE?
>  *Generally*, Gold shirts indicate command and ship operations, such
>  as helm and navigation. Blue indicates science and medical. Red
>  indicates engineering, security, communications, general ship's
>  services, and early deaths. There are apparent exceptions, however,
>  so if you see a blue bloused technician working in Engineering in The
>  Alternative Factor, or something like that, don't expect anybody to
>  be able to explain it. 
> 

Explain what? You mean a worker on a starship couldn't have a temporary job 
in another department? Were there forcefields around each department 
allowing only certain shirt colors in?

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> 
>  22. HOW DO STARDATES WORK?
>  They don't. The Stardate was a non-specific system of time
>  measurement, designed to allow the show to be vague about specific
>  dates. It usually consisted of 4 digits, a decimal point, and a 5th
>  digit. At least one person working on the show described the process
>  of assigning a stardate to an episode as involving shouting out the
>  window for a passerby to rattle off 5 random digits. 
> 
> It probably wasn't quite that haphazard though, as the stardates more
> or less gradually increased as the show progressed, starting at around
> 1312, and ending up at around 5925 in the final episode. Some
> tru-fans, unable to leave well enough alone, have attempted to come up
> with precise methods for determining stardates, some of them quite
> ingenious, but none of them having anything to do with what the people
> making the show were thinking. Some fans have even attempted to
> convert Gregorian dates to Stardates by taking the last two digits of
> the year, then two digits for the month, and putting the day of the
> month after the decimal point. Hence, October 16, 1997 would be
> Stardate 9710.16. Isn't that precious? 

No.

> 
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> 
>  23. WHY DO THE KLINGONS LOOK DIFFERENT IN THE MOVIES THAN IN THE TV
>  SHOW? At the time Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released,
>  Roddenberry said that this is the way the Klingons were always
>  supposed to look, they just never had the budget to show them that
>  way before. Though there are no sketches extant from the 1960's
>  showing the Klingons looking this way, it's probably true that larger
>  budgets are the real reason for the change. Several fans came up with
>  several elaborate explanations for the change in Klingon appearance
>  (the most entertaining being the idea that they now had their spines
>  up over their heads from being kicked in the butt so often by the
>  Federation), but the prevailing view seemed to be that we were
>  supposed to shut up and pretend that the Klingons had always looked
>  that way. This continued until the Deep Space Nine episode Trials and
>  Tribble-ations, in which a member of the New Look Klingons
>  encountered several of the Original Flavor Klingons, and admitted
>  onscreen that there really was both a difference and an explanation
>  for the difference, BUT... refused to say what the explanation was.
>  Doesn't that make you just want to slap someone? 
> 

No. And you ignore the explanation given in Enterprise because you 
obviously hate that series.

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> 
>  24. WHO WAS THE FIRST CAPTAIN OF THE ENTERPRISE?
>  Warning: Canon Alert! The "first" Captain of the Enterprise was
>  Robert T. April, and Jeffrey Hunter was originally hired to play the
>  part of April in The Cage. Before filming, it was decided that
>  "April" wasn't a rough, tough, sonofabitchin' enough name for
>  Roddenberry's Captain, so the name was changed to Winter, and finally
>  to Pike. So April never existed, right? It's just a discarded name. 
> 
> Well, sort of. In the final episode of the Animated Star Trek, Robert
> T. April actually appears as a character, and is explicitly described
> as the first Captain of the Enterprise. Okay, so April DOES exist, and
> he served before Pike, right? That's true both in real life and in
> story terms, right? 
> 
> Well, sort of. Years later, when Paramount was formulating their
> definition of "canon", they, for one reason or another, decided to
> de-canonise the Animated Star Trek series, meaning that the only
> onscreen references to April are no longer "official". 
> 
> So, the question, like many questions, has two answers. Officially, we
> don't know who the first Captain of the Enterprise is (Pike was never
> described as the first Captain, only as the *former* Captain). But
> unofficially, and in the real world rather than the fictional one, the
> first Captain of the Enterprise was Robert T. April. 
> 
> For what it's worth, the part of Robert T. April in the Animated Star
> Trek Episode, The Counter-Clock Incident, was played by James "Scotty"
> Doohan. 
> 

You mean "voiced by."  It's also nonsense. It was explicitly stated on an 
episode of an NBC series called Star Trek starring William Shatner and 
Leonard Nimoy that Capt. April was the first captain of the Enterprise.  
Anyone who understands logic knows this.  The fact that Paramount had a 
hissy-fit over the animated series because they didn't fully produce or 
control it is umimportant.  Same with Roddenberry's later opinion.
   
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>  25. WHAT IS "THE CAGE"?
>  The original pilot episode for Star Trek, filmed in December, 1964,
>  featuring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike, Majel Barrett as Number
>  One, John Hoyt as Dr. Philip "Bones" Boyce, and Leonard Nimoy as Mr.
>  Spock. Though rejected by NBC, they were impressed enough to request
>  (and subsidize) an unheard-of second pilot episode (titled Where No
>  Man Has Gone Before; sound familiar?), which featured most of the
>  series regulars, and later aired as a series episode. 
> 
> However, The Cage was still such an extremely valuable piece of
> celluloid (until 1987, the most expensive Trek episode ever filmed)
> that it was felt it could not be allowed to sit around collecting dust
> on a shelf. A 2-part sequel story called The Menagerie was written, in
> which about 90% of The Cage's footage was shown in flashback form,
> thus enabling the show to save a valuable week of production time. 
> 
> But there was still interest in that other 10% that had never been
> seen, and so in the late 1980's, The Cage itself was released
> separately. 
> 

The Cage was integrated into the The Menagerie because production was 
getting so far behind that they needed a new episode that was already 
filmed in order to meet the NBC airdates.


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> 
>  27. IS IT TRUE THAT NBC REJECTED "THE CAGE" BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO
>  ALLOW A FEMALE FIRST OFFICER ON THE ENTERPRISE? No. This is a myth
>  which has gotten a lot of mileage, largely because its source was
>  none other than Roddenberry himself. 
> 
> With the exception of Jeffrey Hunter, NBC was displeased with most of
> the casting on The Cage, and especially with Majel Barrett's Number
> One character. Because of her limited acting rosumo, and other
> reasons, they did not believe in her ability to carry the show as its
> co-star. NBC rejected the actress, but not the character, and in fact
> supported the concept of a woman in a strong position of authority.
> The character was originally intended to appear in the second pilot,
> until her character was scrapped by Roddenberry himself, in order to
> give more importance to the Mr. Spock character that he had fought so
> hard to save. Unable to admit in later years that he had voluntarily
> discarded such a ground-breaking concept, Roddenberry cooked up this
> "The Devil Made Me Do It" explanation. 

So Roddenberry saying the animated series is not canon shouldn't be taken 
seriously either.

> 
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>  30. WHAT DOES THE "T" IN JAMES T. KIRK STAND FOR?
>  Tiberius. This was never mentioned during the original series. It was
>  first mentioned in the Animated Episode Bem, but fell back out of
>  canon when the Animated Series was de-canonised. It re-entered canon
>  in 1991 when it was mentioned in the movie Star Trek VI. 
> 
> Where does it come from? Some might think it comes from the Roman
> Emperor who ruled from 14 AD - 37 AD. Yes, but only indirectly.
> Really, the name comes from William Tiberius Rice, the lead character
> in Gene Roddenberry's earlier series, The Lieutenant. 

Which is where Gene Roddenberry got the name not who Kirk was named after.
I hardly think Kirk was named after a character in a 1960s TV show.
 
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>  34. WHAT EXACTLY IS AND ISN'T INCLUDED IN STAR TREK "CANON"?
>  Well, as mentioned, a good general rule is "Onscreen = canon, not
>  onscreen = not canon". Paramount's website, startrek.com, has the
>  following, more precise, but still a bit rough around the edges
>  definition: 
> 
> 
>  As a rule of thumb, the events that take place within the live action
>  episodes and movies are canon, or official Star Trek facts. Story
>  lines, characters, events, stardates, etc. that take place within the
>  fictional novels, the Animated Adventures, and the various comic
>  lines are not canon. 
> 
>  There are a couple of exceptions to this rule: the Jeri Taylor penned
>  novels Mosaic and Pathways. Many of the events in these two novels
>  feature background details of the main Star Trek: Voyager characters.
>  (Note: There are a few details from an episode of the Animated
>  Adventures that have entered into the Star Trek canon. The episode
>  Yesteryear, written by D.C. Fontana, features some biographical
>  background on Spock.) 
> 

You can't pick and choose.  If details from one broadcast episode of the 
animated series are canon, then all the episodes are.
 
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>  40. WERE STAR TREK EPISODES BROADCAST IN THE ORDER THAT THEY WERE
>  FILMED? No, but there have been two orders floating around since the
>  early days, as the production order of episodes was listed in a few
>  early books. One book even listed the first two seasons in Production
>  Order, and the Third Season in Broadcast Order, leading to an early
>  myth to the effect that the Third Season was broadcast in Production
>  Order. In syndication, the episodes have often been broadcast in
>  production order, rather than the original broadcast order. Here is a
>  list of the episodes in Production Order, with the Broadcast Order
>  listed afterwards in parentheses. 
> 
> 
> SEASON 1
>  01. The Cage (-)
>  02. Where No Man Has Gone Before (3)
>  03. The Corbomite Maneuver (10)
>  04. Mudd's Women (6)
>  05. The Enemy Within (5)
>  06. The Man Trap (1)
>  07. The Naked Time (4)
>  08. Charlie X (2)
>  09. Balance of Terror (14)
>  10. What Are Little Girls Made Of? (7) 
>  11. Dagger of the Mind (9)
>  12. Miri (8)
>  13. The Conscience of the King (13)
>  14. The Galileo Seven (16)
>  15. Court-Martial (20)
>  16. The Menagerie, Part 1 (11)
>  17. The Menagerie, Part 2 (12)
>  18. Shore Leave (15)
>  19. The Squire of Gothos (17)
>  20. Arena (18)
>  21. The Alternative Factor (27)
>  22. Tomorrow is Yesterday (19)
>  23. The Return of the Archons (21)
>  24. A Taste of Armageddon (23)
>  25. Space Seed (22)
>  26. This Side of Paradise (24)
>  27. The Devil in the Dark (25)
>  28. Errand of Mercy (26)
>  29. The City on the Edge of Forever (28)
>  30. Operation - Annihilate! (29)
> 
> 
> SEASON 2
>  31. Catspaw (36)
>  32. Metamorphosis (38)
>  33. Friday's Child (40)
>  34. Who Mourns For Adonais? (31)
>  35. Amok Time (30)
>  36. The Doomsday Machine (35)
>  37. Wolf in the Fold (43)
>  38. The Changeling (32)
>  39. The Apple (34)
>  40. Mirror, Mirror (33)
>  41. The Deadly Years (41)
>  42. I, Mudd (37)
>  43. The Trouble With Tribbles (44)
>  44. Bread and Circuses (54)
>  45. Journey to Babel (39)
>  46. A Private Little War (48)
>  47. The Gamesters of Triskelion (45)
>  48. Obsession (42)
>  49. The Immunity Syndrome (47)
>  50. A Piece of the Action (46)
>  51. By Any Other Name (51)
>  52. Return to Tomorrow (49)
>  53. Patterns of Force (50)
>  54. The Ultimate Computer (53)
>  55. The Omega Glory (52)
>  56. Assignment: Earth (55)
> 
> 
> SEASON 3
>  57. Spectre of the Gun (61)
>  58. Elaan of Troyius (68)
>  59. The Paradise Syndrome (58)
>  60. The Enterprise Incident (57)
>  61. And the Children Shall Lead (59)
>  62. Spock's Brain (56)
>  63. Is There In Truth No Beauty? (60)
>  64. The Empath (67)
>  65. The Tholian Web (64)
>  66. For the World is Hollow And I Have Touched the Sky (63)
>  67. Day of the Dove (62)
>  68. Plato's Stepchildren (65)
>  69. Wink of an Eye (66)
>  70. That Which Survives (72)
>  71. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (70)
>  72. Whom Gods Destroy (69)
>  73. The Mark of Gideon (71)
>  74. The Lights of Zetar (73)
>  75. The Cloud Minders (76)
>  76. The Way to Eden (75)
>  77. Requiem for Methuselah (74)
>  78. The Savage Curtain (77)
>  79. All Our Yesterdays (78)
>  80. Turnabout Intruder (79)
> 
> 
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> 
>  41. WHAT IS THE CORRECT ORDER OF THE ANIMATED SERIES EPISODES?
>  Production Order is unknown, but here is the original Broadcast
>  Order. This order has sometimes been muddied by the fact that Trek
>  Magazine in the 70's mistakenly put Beyond the Farthest Star at the
>  end of the first season (counting the first rerun as an initial
>  showing), when it was, in fact, the premier episode. 
> 

Premiere is generally the spelling used when the meaning is chronologically 
"the first." The problem was that the first episode did not air in Los 
Angeles and apparently Los Angeles airdates were sometimes used for the 
source of airdates for the whole country.

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