That's not what Orci said a few years ago. It may have been tongue in cheek when he said "I hereby declare anything that we oversee to be canon," but as long as his name was on the books it was enough to make reading the comics feel like watching episodes of a Trek tv series that bridged the movies. I miss that.They never were canon. When Orci was involved he just made sure they didn't cover material that was planned for the movies, and in return they got to work some stuff in before the movies got to it, like Cupcake's name being Hendorf.