Not necessarily a holodeck program, but one could argue that what we’re watching is a recreation of events based on logs/reports that are rife with bias and exaggeration.
you know what, i’ve just decided my favorite bullshit explanation for a season or series existing is now “it was all Q fucking with [Picard/the timeline/Janeway/Picard again/humanity/punched in the face]”
The Great Bird’s introduction to the TMP novelization makes it clear that the original show, and presumably all the later ones, are just dramatizations of real events. Jim Kirk signed off on the novelization, so it’s a much more accurate depiction.
So the popular conception that live action is canon and novels are apocryphal is backwards.
Not necessarily a holodeck program, but one could argue that what we’re watching is a recreation of events based on logs/reports that are rife with bias and exaggeration.
Does ENT imply that in any way?
Not that I had considered, just extrapolating from the top comment an idea I’d previously run across.
you know what, i’ve just decided my favorite bullshit explanation for a season or series existing is now “it was all Q fucking with [Picard/the timeline/Janeway/Picard again/humanity/punched in the face]”
The Great Bird’s introduction to the TMP novelization makes it clear that the original show, and presumably all the later ones, are just dramatizations of real events. Jim Kirk signed off on the novelization, so it’s a much more accurate depiction.
So the popular conception that live action is canon and novels are apocryphal is backwards.