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Re: My Comprehensive-ish Argument With Narcogen
Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com>	Date: 5/30/11 8:15 p.m.
: As for dates, you're absolutely correct. The conflicting dates between Halo: : Reach and TFoR are not just minor discrepancies. They are beyond : reconciliation. If Reach is canon, then the last third of TFOR is rendered : non-canonical. It's also been pointed out that if the events of the : Battle of Reach as shown in TFoR are wiped away, then we may also have : reject all chronologically subsequent novels. : As for ship designs, don't forget that the incarnation of the Enterprise in : the first three films does have an origin that makes sense. TMP is : supposed take place a couple of years after the events of the TOS finale. : So, we have events of the TOS ending in 2269 and the Enterprise being : refit in 2272 in time to deal with V'ger (then it gets blown up several : years later at the Genesis planet and replaced with the NCC-1701-A). The : Pillar of Autumn doesn't have that luxury, as the end of Reach coincides : with the beginning of Halo 1 ("Did we lose them?"). Having a : different model of the PoA is as you say a contradiction, while having the : new Constitution-class refit model of the Enterpise in the films is not. I wan't meaning to point out the Enterprise as an inconsistency, just that within the Trek story there's a reason why the TOS enterprise and the Movie Enterprise are very similar at a casual glance but they are really different ships with different lengths, widths, deck counts, exterior features, etc. We're being asked to accept the Reach Autumn as the same ship as in Halo 1 but the same types of things have been changed but there's no such backstory to help us swallow that pill. By the way, I actually know more about Trek than I do Halo.

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