They didn't say it was, they said they think it should be.
Rare Treks: Official but Obscure
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I hope so too. Breaking it up in smaller chunks makes for easier replies. (And we can elaborate on the source material for these... like what makes it offcial and where to find it)
Yes, and it can be, since it doesn't contradict anything onscreen.
Only if CBS/Paramount says so. But that seems unlikely.
The official policy is that everything onscreen is canonical, so it counts, technically.
That policy is for TV shows and movies.
I've never seen "movies and TV shows" specified, just "anything onscreen." Also, an interactive movie is still a movie and a short episode is still an episode.
No, @Tuskin38 is correct. Just because you see something on a computer screen does not make it canon. Nothing from video games are considered canon unless it shows up in a show or movie, like the six or so STO ship designs they used in PIC. And even then, only those ships are canon, not the entire video game. ‘Interactive movie’ and ‘short episode’ are just buzzwords for a video game, in this case. Not knocking what you’re posting, just making it clear about CBS’s policy on Star Trek canon.
Most of these aren't from videogames.
Doesn't matter. They're still not canon. Only the films and television episodes are canon. That's it.
Where has that been officially stated? I've seen only references to "anything onscreen." Also, short films are films.
I don't understand the obsession with canon. It's never been a barometer of quality and the powers that be have always freely ignored things to benefit the story they're telling right now. Strange New Worlds ignores the look of the Klingons in Discovery, even when their lack of hair was a minor plot point. Cloaking devices are old hat across the cosmos even though nobody had ever seen the like in "Balance of Terror"
Very Short Treks is explicitly said to be non-canon in the trailer, yet Spock saying T'Pring cheated on him with many men is one of my favourite lines in Trek and one I personally consider 100% accurate
Very Short Treks is explicitly said to be non-canon in the trailer, yet Spock saying T'Pring cheated on him with many men is one of my favourite lines in Trek and one I personally consider 100% accurate
Aren't those Klingons a subspecies?
Nope. In season 2, they handwave it by saying "now the war is over, the Klingons are growing back their hair" and we see sort of halfway Klingons. In SNW, they flash back to the war and the Klingons have their TNG perms and armour.
"Canon is Star Trek continuity as presented on TV and movie screens. Licensed products like books and comics aren't part of that continuity, so they aren't canon."
The themepark short films were all presented on movie screens.
Maybe only some Klingon factions shaved their heads during the war?
I'm pretty sure they meant theatrical movie screens.
They didn't shave their heads for the war. The flashback to T'Kuvma's childhood clearly showed that the hairless thing was supposed to be the new norm for the Fuller Klingons. The hair in season 2 was a retcon.
Use some common sense. They meant movie theatres
I see all TBBS posts on a screen, therefore this entire place is CANON.
Also all games that I played my way are canon, because they were on my screen.
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