He seemed to take particular offense to my attempts at deck plans for the Enterprise, and how I specifically decided to not kowtow to the Franz Joseph blueprints. I guess my general agreement with the Okuda chronology only fueled the fire.
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Dude, compared to him, you ARE Mike Okuda.
^ True.
Sweet...the "Find all posts by" link on his member page is bringing back a couple of pages worth. Got some good reading ahead of me..haha.
"James Dixon has not made any friends"
yeah, and with his attitude, he wouldn't...
yeah, and with his attitude, he wouldn't...
^So don't be a James Dixon and document Star Trek 2009 in the new version of the Star Trek Concordance, Captain Robert April. 
As for James Dixon, he also took offense that in addition to Franz Joseph materials, fandom materials were not used in the creation of the Star Trek Chronology or the Star Trek Encyclopedia. He seemed to presume that Michael and Denise Okuda could steal fandom material and put it into their books. That the Okudas were obliged to use and build on the Chuck Graham Timeline because earlier licensee and fandom materials were built on this timeline.
As for James Dixon, he also took offense that in addition to Franz Joseph materials, fandom materials were not used in the creation of the Star Trek Chronology or the Star Trek Encyclopedia. He seemed to presume that Michael and Denise Okuda could steal fandom material and put it into their books. That the Okudas were obliged to use and build on the Chuck Graham Timeline because earlier licensee and fandom materials were built on this timeline.
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Looking at Chuck Graham's original ST timeline, I'm suprised how very, very close it is to the later 'official' one. I must admit, I fail to see what all the fuss is about.
People did try to (politely) explain to James Dixon that fictional universes can be and are reinterpreted all the time? Wheeled out the old Batman/random other franchise comparison?
I had a quick look though some of his old posts, and don't really see anything worse then what (*ahem*) "Unnamed other poster(s)" come up with, albeit more long-winded and self-righteous. I take it all his most offensive stuff was deleted? Or was "Thank god Enterprise was cancelled" as bad as it got?
Btw, I just noticed his chronology has a special anti-TBBS dedication near the start. He loves you all too.
People did try to (politely) explain to James Dixon that fictional universes can be and are reinterpreted all the time? Wheeled out the old Batman/random other franchise comparison?
I had a quick look though some of his old posts, and don't really see anything worse then what (*ahem*) "Unnamed other poster(s)" come up with, albeit more long-winded and self-righteous. I take it all his most offensive stuff was deleted? Or was "Thank god Enterprise was cancelled" as bad as it got?
Btw, I just noticed his chronology has a special anti-TBBS dedication near the start. He loves you all too.
That's just it... I'm not sure he realized it was fictional. He was (or is, I guess) passionately invested in the reality and integrity of the ST universe as he knew it from the show and the various tie-ins and reference works of the '70s. Once new material like TNG and its successors came along and began to contradict what he "knew" to be real, he reacted to it as badly as the Catholic Church reacted to Martin Luther nailing up his theses. To him, it was pure heresy.
^So don't be a James Dixon and document Star Trek 2009 in the new version of the Star Trek Concordance, Captain Robert April.
And override Bjo in her own book? I don't think so. I'll go so far as to point out that what Scotty found in the armory was, in fact, a Claymore and not a cutlass, but let's not get carried away.
A pity my earliest blueprint threads didn't survive. His offense that I dared to put Engineering, and the main power generation machinery, down in the "Engineering hull" and pretty much made the technical aspects line up with TNG and ENT sent him into an apoplectic fit.
I think that's how he sees himself, a defender of the true faith against the corrupt rulers and the heathens who follow them.
Who is "James Dixon"?
^ It's all right here in this very thread, dude. We're not talking in code or anything. 
^ It's all right here in this very thread, dude. We're not talking in code or anything.
So, who is he?
I guess he's not very popular on this thread, lol.
Awww, this line from his profile is poignant:
"James Dixon has not made any friends yet."
Yeah, I remember his fury of the "Maps" and "Charts" modifications. If the canonical shows had already deviated from "ST Maps", was the author supposed to ignore the obvious?
James Dixon's Geocities site is still out there, somewhere, despite the fall of Geocities. I found it yesterday browsing on my phone but can't find it again.
It's got a file listing the entire 430 TOS Enterprise crew (!) by name and rank, taken from TOS, TAS and all the novels up until 1994. A few notes at the end are amusing: He says Enterprise - the First Adventure is not "authorized" by Gene Rodenberry as the book says, and GR mustn't have even read it because "it's That bad as far as continuity goes".
One of the files is an ASCII map of the Star Trek galaxy - take that, Star Trek Star Charts!
The page-by-page trashing of Mr Scott's Guide (and the TNG Manual but I didn't look at that one) is pretty much one long anti-FASA/Spaceflight Chronology tirade, and keeps refering so a mysterious set of 1701-A floorplans (which seem to be holy and true). FASA is so evil, it's name is censored as "F**A" most of the time.
Say what you will, but James Dixon left a legacy that's brought me hours of amusement.
It's got a file listing the entire 430 TOS Enterprise crew (!) by name and rank, taken from TOS, TAS and all the novels up until 1994. A few notes at the end are amusing: He says Enterprise - the First Adventure is not "authorized" by Gene Rodenberry as the book says, and GR mustn't have even read it because "it's That bad as far as continuity goes".
One of the files is an ASCII map of the Star Trek galaxy - take that, Star Trek Star Charts!
The page-by-page trashing of Mr Scott's Guide (and the TNG Manual but I didn't look at that one) is pretty much one long anti-FASA/Spaceflight Chronology tirade, and keeps refering so a mysterious set of 1701-A floorplans (which seem to be holy and true). FASA is so evil, it's name is censored as "F**A" most of the time.
Say what you will, but James Dixon left a legacy that's brought me hours of amusement.
Do you recall the name of the website? Or will a simple Google search turn it up?
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