From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: fozzibear01@gmail.com   
   Subject: Re: The Way to Eden: my review   
      
      
      
   "Graeme"  wrote in message    
   news:7c7719f3-6898-446c-9bcb-354ea88553e1@s18g2000prg.googlegroups.com...   
      
   On Mar 2, 7:45 am, Wiseguy  wrote:   
   > It's only complicated because you make it complicated.  The Cage was   
   > filmed. It existed.  Whether it was broadcast is irrelevant.   
      
   By that standard, it's canon that Spock likes Tootsie Pops, and   
   watches girly videos through his viewer, because we see him indulging   
   in both those things in the blooper reel.  But if push came to shove,   
   most people would probably say no, because that was discarded footage   
   that was never released. (Although now that you mention it, I kind of   
   like both those ideas and wouldn't mind canonizing them).   
      
   Also that Spock is a smoker from an old film reel copy of the cheesy cowboy    
   ep (name escapes me for the moment) in which somehow contained two frames    
   where one could clearly see Nimoy standing in the background leaning against    
   a set screen (obviously not realising he was on camera) puffing away.   
      
   But even today, who knows what trims and unused footage might be in   
   the vaults somewhere that we never saw?  Are we really to think that   
   it's all canon, even if it later gets destroyed unseen?  That's kind   
   of a stretch.   
      
   Another grey area, is a few scenes in Star Trek:  The Motion Picture.   
   Most of the new footage they added for the special edition was new   
   footage.  But in a couple of cases, they replaced one version of a   
   scene with a different version of the same, with an extra line or two   
   added in (such as the scene between Kirk and McCoy in Kirk's   
   quarters).  For a while, the original version was hard to get hold of,   
   because the expanded edition was the one released on videotape.  But   
   when they put out the remastered version on DVD, all the discarded   
   footage from both earlier versions was included as an extra.    
      
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