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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Elfwreck, I actually like "what if" stories. AKA, those "alternate universe" kind of envisionings. Those are really good and lots of fun to read. But there is still a certain degree of cannon that applies even to those kind of stories. Like the Kirk and Spock example. Starfleet would still exist and be pretty much the same way we'd remember it, even if those two weren't part of it.
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Is that true though? Can you say with absolute certainty that if one thing was different that it wouldn't change it entirely. I know next to nothing about Star Trek, so I can't even begin to fathom that particular example, but isn't part of a "what if" story that if something was different it has a certain effect?
I'm not saying your wrong in any sort, but I'm just suggesting that part of a fanfic's idea of "what if" is that they are writing an interpretation that is, well, not yours or whatever author's work they are writing on.
I get this canon thing you are trying to stress. You are saying that there are certain facets of the world a writer has created that no matter the circumstances, should very well exist in that universe. And that in altering those things it becomes something that isn't what was originally envisioned. But part of the appeal of fanfiction is that a different writer is taking another's work under their reins. If they decide that a certain change does indeed change that, then that is their decision.
I myself just dislike when that change isn't backed up with a concrete reasoning.