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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Of course, no one expects comic books to be consistent... they never have been, whether it's about science, its own characters and their abilities, history, mortality or causality. As much as we might bash Star Trek for its soft SF, comic books make Trek look like A Brief History of Time...
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It's only been recently that comic books have started to pay attention to continuity, with all sorts of retconning going on to try to impose order on chaos.
But in everyone's defense,
maintaining continuity over a series of any length is a neat trick. I know various folks who have written tie-in novels for Star Trek, who have stories about Paramount. Like having a novel bounced by Paramount after being accepted and purchased by the book line, because "The Federation wouldn't
do that!", and the people responsible thinking for about 5 minutes and rattling off half a dozen
produced scripts from The Original Series where the Federation did
exactly that...
Simply keeping track of all the little bits that make up continuity is a Herculean task, and it's way too easy to drop balls.
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Dennis