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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x07 - "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"

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marsh8472 said:
The canon database is an unreliable source of information. The statement stands, no conclusive evidence. A stronger statement of authority on the matter is needed. Referencing licensed material into an episode does not make everything in that licensed material canon.
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Um CBS and Paramount are the ultimate arbiters of 'what's canon'in the Star Trek Universe. They can decanonize or reconanize whatever they like (Much like Disney did with the Star Wars EU.)

Also, realize that the ONLY reason TAS was decanonized (in 1987 as TNG was in production) at the time was because Filmation was claiming anything they created for TAS was owned by them and if (at the time) Paramount used anything from TAS - they were owed a royalty.

So, instead of having some writer possibly add something from TAS that Filmation might make a claim/court case on - Paramount said TAS is no canon - and writers should use NOTHING from it whatsoever in making future Star Trek scripts.

Once Filmation went belly up and the rights reverted to CBS/Paramount - bang...TAS is canon again.
 
When startrek.com redesigned their website I was the first to create a post and ask whether adding the animated series to the database and labeling the database as "canon database" meant that the series was officially canon. I don't remember seeing any convincing answers. They just said that they would like to think it was canon. Is it so hard for people to make their points without referring to questionable sources?
 
marsh8472 said:
When startrek.com redesigned their website I was the first to create a post and ask whether adding the animated series to the database and labeling the database as "canon database" meant that the series was officially canon. I don't remember seeing any convincing answers. They just said that they would like to think it was canon. Is it so hard for people to make their points without referring to questionable sources?
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How is the Official Star Trek website (run by CBS who OWNS Star Trek) now a 'questionable source'? Seriously?
 
Noname Given said:
How is the Official Star Trek website (run by CBS who OWNS Star Trek) now a 'questionable source'? Seriously?
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http://www.startrek.com/sitemap refers to the database as "The Offical Star Trek Canon." where Official is misspelled. A bunch of the pictures are not linked correctly. There's very little articles about discovery in the database. The people who wrote that database were part of an external company.
 
marsh8472 said:
http://www.startrek.com/sitemap refers to the database as "The Offical Star Trek Canon." where Official is misspelled. A bunch of the pictures are not linked correctly. There's very little articles about discovery in the database. The people who wrote that database were part of an external company.
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How about a better question? What point would be served today for TAS to not be considered canon by CBS? There is no point in having it be non-canon these days. However there is plenty of benefit to having it be canon again after a spell of it being forbidden due to legal concerns that are no longer an issue.
 
Canon is not determined by CBS.

Sure they can try, swing their dicks around, but the only reason that CBS would have to defy the canon of canon, is if they are mad with power and trying to destroy the universe.

I tried watching another episode of TAS, seriously I just can't do it... Shatner talks faster when reading a Script. It's less Kirk. Less real. Might as well be someone else.
 
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<-- look at this clip (at 3:23). A reporter asked a writer for star trek about canon and mentions the animated series as a non-canon source. Obviously it's not widely accepted that star trek the animated series is canon. So why pretend?
 
Zombie Cheerleader said:
Huh? He stole the tech he used. A very Harry thing to do.
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Tech that doesn't exist outside of a Time Lord or that weird baby alien from TOS. No one has time loop or Starship computer hacking tech outside of the odd super race that Mudd sure as hell couldn't steal from. I'll be honestly, I didn't watch the show all that closely after Mudd was revealed to have hacked the computer. But unless he stole that tech from a group like the First Federation of the Borg, I'm calling BS.
 
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