Subject: OTOH, sometimes there just isn't an easy answer.
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Posted on: 2014-08-16 15:50:00 UTC

Sometimes this is because people have tackled a question in different ways over the years, leading to apparent contradictions. Appropriate response: Pick the one you like best, or make up something new! Knowing and respecting what came before you is a very good idea, but your spin-off is not 100% obligated to acknowledge anything except the Original Series as canon.

Or, in some cases, because the question doesn't need an answer. Appropriate response: HQ is weird like that. Move on!

Often, though, it's simply because no one's written about that particular scenario yet. It's a big multiverse out there, y'know? Appropriate response: Be creative! Come up with your own answer, and make it fun!

'Course, you can't know which is the case without doing a lot of reading. I dunno how many spinoffs are out there, let alone individual missions, and we keep managing to turn up more hidden away in old message boards and obscure personal sites. Not even us oldbies know everything there is to know. So really, if you want all the details about all the things, the only way to get there is to read, and keep reading, and never think you'll ever be done reading. 'Cause the minute you do, someone like me, or doctorlit, or hS will dig up a story none of us has ever heard of, like this and this. In my opinion, this is a good thing. {= )

~Neshomeh, devil's advocate except not really.

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