Okay - moment of truth

After yet another post that made me realize my various fails when it comes to trek philosophy and timeline details before TOS, I've got to admit that that was never my strong side but I also never really tackled it in my 8 years of writing *cough* What can I say, I can be persistently ignorant at times.

So, in the quest of growing, some navel-gazing for you and me.

("Canon" for the sake of the poll is what you for yourself have declared to canon. The classic definition is that canon is only actor-based material that was broadcast; no TAS, no outtakes, no lost scenes, no books, etcpp. but I don't know anyone who doesn't have an extended version of "canon" in hir mind.)
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Ooooh!

The Prime Directive, applied (comic)

Which actually raises philosophical questions... :)