{"id":1280,"date":"2026-05-23T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:30:21","slug":"one-star-trek-the-original-series-episode-shouldnt-be-considered-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"One Star Trek: The Original Series Episode Shouldn&#8217;t Be Considered Canon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting aside that it launched a popular franchise, <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/star-trek-the-original-series\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Star Trek: The Original Series<\/em><\/strong><\/a> remains an enjoyable watch on its own. Episodes like \u201cThe City on the Edge of Forever,\u201d \u201cBalance of Terror,\u201d and \u201cMirror, Mirror\u201d are still well regarded decades later, and the series\u2019 standing within the sci-fi genre and influence on pop culture can\u2019t be understated.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting aside that it launched a popular franchise, Star Trek: The Original Series remains an enjoyable watch on its own. Episodes like \u201cThe City on the Edge of Forever,\u201d \u201cBalance of Terror,\u201d and \u201cMirror, Mirror\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}