I have only listened to the first episode. So now I am required to finish the series.
Anything humanly possible to not just have a goddamn regular post-ds9 show.
Canon is a 4 letter word to me. IDGAS what they make only the good stuff is canon to me.
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I remember hearing that they had a rule regarding on-screen being the only thing truly “canon”, with the first exception being Picard. Does this mean that whole thing is just out the window now?
Lucas would always say that the EU was canon. Not because he had supervised them, not because they were written well, but because being canon means the fans will feel they “need” to consume it.
No studio is going to outright say anything is non-canon because it’s a bad marketing technique.
Strictly speaking, there’s no formal rule - you won’t find a CBS/Paramount definition of “canon” anywhere that I’m aware of.
In practice, they stick with the tv shows and films.
But they’ve also worked very hard over the last few years to keep the tie-in novels and things like that “canon-ish,” in that they flesh out backstories from the shows, and the shows mostly don’t step on their efforts.
It sounds like the podcast is getting that treatment - as far as they’re concerned, this is what happened, and they have no plans to contradict it (and, considering the nature of the story, it’s not likely to come up one way or another).
I don’t know.
