From hearing others talk in-game, it does not work on every map. If you are using it on the Risa Festival map, I have noticed that my bird moves rather slowly.
The phrase you're looking for here is not canon, but rather continuity. There is no such thing as "soft canon." There is canon, and there is non-canon. There is no in-between. As a licensed work, STO is not canon. Canon, by definition, is only that which is produced by the franchise owners.
I'd be interested in at least one episode focusing on how the Romulan Republic government functions. The failure of one film in a different franchise to make political machinations remotely interesting does not mean that other writers are incapable of doing so, and it seems obvious that political machinations and Romulans…
Not quite. As far as the books go, at least, CBS owns everything free and clear. They get to do whatever they want with any of it, and any of the many writers who post on the Trek BBS would tell you the same thing (and have told others there on many occasions). I highly doubt the situation is any different with any of the…