According to IDW, their comics are canon?

[Freman]

Everything Star Trek can be considered canon.

Because....alternate realities, different timelines.

Everything is canon. Just not Prime timeline canon.

 

[Kor]

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Numerous episodes of various later Treks mentioned concepts such as hive minds, beings going beyond the need for physical bodies, and the possible futures of evolving humanity.
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Though for the most part, when we saw Earth itself in the later Trek series, we didn't see any of Roddenberry's more, uh, unconventional ideas for humanity that were described in the TMP novelization. Where have all the love instructors gone?

Kor

 

[BillJ]

Everything is canon. Just not Prime timeline canon.

Even the Prime timeline is all over the place.

 

[Dukhat]

Everything Star Trek can be considered canon.

Because....alternate realities, different timelines.

Everything is canon. Just not Prime timeline canon.

Canon is what is shown on screen. This has been dictated by the people who have the right to determine what Star Trek canon is. The people who hold the rights to the Star Trek intellectual property. Those people are CBS.

Now with that said…Ricky Spanish is correct. Canon is indeed all over the place.

 

[BillJ]

Canon is what is shown on screen. This has been dictated by the people who have the right to determine what Star Trek canon is. The people who hold the rights to the Star Trek intellectual property. Those people are CBS.

And the only people canon applies to are people working for CBS and the licensees'.

 

[fireproof78]

Even the Prime timeline is all over the place.

A place for everything and everything all over the place.

 

[Greg Cox]

Where have all the love instructors gone?

Long time passing . . . .