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Is the STO storyline officially considered canon?
therealfluffy
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I've noticed for a long time that memory-alpha have a lot of references to the STO storyline. Since memory-alpha are focused on Star Trek canon, can someone from Cryptic or CBS confirm that the storyline in STO is to be officially considered canon and something any future movie or television series would have to take into account?
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No STO isn't canon. Parts of it may be concidered canon in the future if and when CBS decides to make another series, but until then it's not all canon, and what they may concider canon today can change at CBS's whim, if and when they decide to make a new series.
heck, to prove my point, what was canon in TOS and TNG became non-canonical in Enterprise.
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The plot of the show promises to be action-packed.
The pilot script is titled "Tokens, Grow!" with a follow-up of "Transaction at Farpoint."
Sorry......
You serious? :P
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I need to go out an grab some fresh air now.
Generally speaking Memory-Alpha has two section, the cannon section which is built from on screen events and only on screen events, and then the Apocrypha section that sites non cannon sources.
THIS.
Apparently the OP has no idea what apocrypha means to even post this thread.
"There is no problem in the universe that can't be solved with a bribe, a paid assassin, or an overpowered fighter." - Chubain from Jumpgate Evolution
If CBS did make another Trek series it would follow JJs Trek.I would prefer after ST6.
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Don't you mean "transaction packed?"
(I feel obligated to mention that I actually don't mind. They give a lot of free content--including ALL missions, regions and skirmishes/raids/whatever you call them, which is more than I can say about any of the other MMOs I've played. Cryptic has its flaws, but Scroogery is not one of them.)
Not necessarily. The Star Trek rights were split between CBS and Paramount. CBS owns everything that came before ST09, while Paramount owns ST09 and any future films. So CBS only has the rights to make a TV series set in the "prime" timeline. Thats not to say they could not negotiate a deal with Paramount to set it in the JJ-verse, but it would probably cut a huge chunk out of their profits.
Apocrypha: "Apocrypha are statements or claims that are of dubious authenticity... It is commonly applied in Christian religious contexts involving certain disagreements about biblical canonicity."
(Wait, it's canonicity and not canoninity? Huh.)
BAD FLUFFY! /swats with rolled up newspaper
We know that STO isn't canon! Now go back to accolade grinding on your alts!
Do we REALLY want to care what's "canon" or not...?
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A silly question with an obvious answer: the OP obviously does, or else he would not have asked.
He also disavowed a good chunk of TOS and all of TAS except certain elements of Yesteryear, too. He flip flopped on STV, since he'd pushed so long to get Kirk and God face to face (all the way back to TOS itself) that he really didn't want to write it out of existence, but he was always solid on Sybok not existing.
Honestly, Roddenberry did more off-screen retconning with Star Trek than DC did with Hal Jordan in the 90's. Regardless of where you draw the line between canon and apocrypha, Roddenberry makes a poor authority to cite.
All due respect and all, but I dont really care about what he said. All that matters as far as canon goes is what was actually filmed and put on TV or in theaters. Those things are Trek, not what people say in interviews in the "real world".
Books have more canon status than sto.....
To quote Captain Kirk: "... How do I feel? Old... worn out."
- Judge Aaron Satie
Of course, the only universe that is considered as Official Canon is the Prime Universe.
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- Judge Aaron Satie
There are millions of different realities so obviously there is a universe with beings with various powers that are fighting with energy swords. There is also a universe somewhere that has a couple of ancient races fighting a battle for millions of years by using younger races as pawns. There is also a universe somewhere that has a guy that lives for thousands of years that rides around in a blue box across space and time that always picks up people from a specific race. Star Trek allows countless different stories from countless different realities possible.
Maybe he resides in a Mirror Universe where this is true. You never know.
Still a better pilot than one set in the JJverse.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
I would watch it, that is the sad thing
Actually in the Mirror Universe, Hello Kitty and Survivor are canon for Star Trek. This actually causes the Mirror Universe of the 21st Century to turn into the Mirror Universe of the 22nd Century.
Why would they start now?