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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
And, of course, that's assuming there even is some definable "era" and some definable "original". Take, say, Star Trek. Over the past forty-odd years, official Star Trek canon has encompassed four TV series of varying quality, eleven movies, many dozens of books, assorted comic book series, some random number of computer games, and more. Not only can't you say that fan fiction is necessarily worse than the original (given the execrable quality of most of those books, not to mention odd-numbered movies, it's hard to say anything is worse) but it's not easy even defining what the original is. Do all the movies count? Even the bad ones? Even Star Trek V? How about the books? I had the misfortune to read some of the "engineering" series a couple of years ago, and not only have I read better fanfic, I've criticized better fanfic ... for sucking. Do you count all the TV series, even the ones you dislike? Even when they contradict each other? Do we have to include Q?
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Most Star Trek FF is broken down easiest by series. So the "Original" would be TOS (The Original Series) which will encompass the tv show & the movies. Next would be TNG both series & movies and Q can/is a part of both TNG & Voyager. Next is Voyager, then DS9 and finally Enterprise.
I still have copies of some TOS FF that I paid for at conventions. One of the authors went on to actually write some of the TOS novels years later.
