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is STO canon?
admiralbrad77
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is STO canon?
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Different folks are going to have different definitions of what is canon and is not canon.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Canon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_canon
There was a link on the Star Trek site that once listed what was and wasn't...but even that kind of bowed out.
http://web.archive.org/web/20090302095452/http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/help/faqs/faq/676.html
No. It's just another take on what the future might be like. A lot of the novels do the same thing, and often contradict themselves. STO is just soft canon set in its own setting.
CBS could decide to do a future Star Trek series and it could have nothing in common with STO.
STO has no place in canon anyway. Romulan republic ... lol
They destroyed the homeworld, not the Empire, along with Vulcan (:mad:). Best guess may be the Empire is splintered and at war with the Klingons as foreshadowed in 'All Good Things'.
Since all the politicians were on Romulus there's a good bet that a new system of government would be put into place. It might even turn into a bunch of colony worlds all fighting each other for power, much like a feudal England.
The new Empire is actually a puppet government controlled by the Iconians; and they are allied with many Iconian controlled species. Sela was captured because she stopped following Iconian and Tal Shiar rules. There is no actual Romulan Empire. There's just the Iconian Tal Shiar puppets doing what they're told.
True, still upset they destroyed Vulcan in JJverse though.
True in STO there is no Empire but that cannot be said in canon. Just because you destroy the homeworld doesn't mean the Empire would fall. UFP wouldn't fall apart if Earth were destroyed.
Everyone flee, flee for your lives and your sanity before .....oh its to late...
Romulans aren't direct conquerors like Klingons. Romulans seem to control things through subterfuge and from behind the scenes rather then upfront like the Klingons. The Romulans tried to get control of the Klingon Empire by secretly backing Duras, not by attacking the Klingons. With the puppet masters gone many such controlled worlds could go independent very quickly.
You can destroy an empire if you destroy its core. This is the downside of centralization. And the devs know it. Therefore main target of undine invasion was Qo'nos and not the Earth.
Yes, theoretically you can but you fellas are reading too much between the lines here. That isn't the topic at hand.
The fact that it has not been placed in the TV series or movies is irrelevant, and the fact that ST books are not owned by CBS is also irrelevant when deciding whether it is canon. Sure these things help, but in the end it is up to the individual to decide for themselves whether it is canon or not. Some think of JJ trek as non canon, and dismiss the idea that Romulus was destroyed. Some dismiss the Enterprise series as canon. In the end, it will ultimately be decided by the player/person.
I am saying it is not canon. The next person to post could say it is canon. In the end IT IS UP TO YOU
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The second topic is what would happen if the Romulan homeworld was destroyed. The answer is anything. We don't have enough information about the Romulans to make any informed decision. Many cultures were lost due to the destruction of their ruling branch in our history. The Empire could collapse, it could survive, it could be taken over by Iconians. Any of it is possible in canon.
That would be an even bigger dumb decision then Marvel legally giving Fox control of its entire mutant characters and Sony control of Spiderman for the movies. That license stupidity has cost them hundreds of millions of dollars over the last 10 years. CBS isn't going to make that mistake; even though Paramount did with Abrams. CBS was smart enough to put their foot down when Abrams started making JJverse license demands on their propery.
I agree, I also think it was foolish to alienate fans by turning their back on the established lore of the IP. I also agree with your last statement, people should make up their own minds. If it's good enough, the fans will embrace it.
Wow. Rude.
The sentence could have been modified to get the point across more effectively, but that's all I was trying to do, which was get the point across. I wasn't insinuating anything along those lines.
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