CBS says it’s canon so it is canon. You’re free to ignore it if you want.
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Oh, come on! It's cartoonesque, it's almost Tex Avery material. I mean you don't see people flattened by falling safes or pianos, walk by in the next scene but we're not very far from that.
It could happen. It's a cartoon so there's no restraints for effects. It could happen a piano comes into existence just like that "poof" and falls on someone.
What are you talking about? The creator, McMahan, has been consistently on record saying he wants it to be a Star Trek show, existing in the same world as Picard and Data and the rest, and has worked with the producers of Picard and the overall Star Trek Universe team to maintain storyline consistency. There are zero cartoon elements in the first season that remotely resemble anything from the Looney Tunes library.
Admittedly, it’s a little before 5am where I am at the moment, but I’m struggling to come up with some examples of what you mean. Please provide a few examples of where we’re close to Tex Avery.
That makes no sense. If there is someone who decides canon they can do what they want. Like when a book is not canon
The plague that turns everyone into spewing zombies instantaneously and is cured just as fast. I mean even by Star Trek standards that's a bit outrageous don't you think?
The alien "cow" that looks like a giant spider that spends half an episode sucking Boimler's naked body...
The alien "cow" that looks like a giant spider that spends half an episode sucking Boimler's naked body...
If LD is canon then Starfleet crew sleep in bunks on corridors among other nonsense.
It's fun but any reference other than maybe Riker having a model of the Titan in his house is dumb
Yeah, it was silly when Genesis did that. And I don't see anything silly about the spider cows. We already know about land eels, sea lizards, wing-slugs, sea locusts, or condor snakes. Star Trek is full of crazy combination of alien animals, as it should be.
For all we know this was the stuff that was happening on other ships while the Enterprise-D was hosting stuffy conferences.
TNG would have been a much better show if the crew had run into zombies and spider cows every now and then,
The zombie plague is almost a shot-for-shot remake of the Polywater plague from "The Naked Time," except everyone turns into zombies instead of drunks.
The spider cows were just a random alien creature on a random alien planet, that attacks a random crewman randomly. We see this in Basics, Star Trek 2009, That Hope is You, Part 1, The Galileo Seven, The Forge, A Private Little War...
The spider cows were just a random alien creature on a random alien planet, that attacks a random crewman randomly. We see this in Basics, Star Trek 2009, That Hope is You, Part 1, The Galileo Seven, The Forge, A Private Little War...
Ok, then, how about nobody dies? I haven't watched all the episodes yet but I have yet to see anybody die and I sort of suspect that it never happens.
Not getting spoilery, but you may want to watch all of the episodes before you come to that sweeping generalization.
You’d be wrong .
CBS can decide that if they wanted to, yes. But don't hold your breath waiting for them to decanonize anything they make because they have no incentive to do that.
Cool I don't think they will or should either.
Bit the guy I was replying to said that something can not be de canonised
Given that it's CBS All-Access's flagship franchise and the linchpin of their entire online media franchise going forward, I would guess that it'd be in the low billions at best. You'd be better off getting yourself a seat on the CBS board and making decisions from there.
Become a shareholder for CBS. Then you'll be able to do proxy voting and be able to vote yes, no, or abstain on the CBS Board of Directors' proposals. 
I used to work in a call center from 2010-2013 where we would contact shareholders to ask them if they wanted to vote on board proposals. I would've loved to have called CBS Shareholders and ask them, "CBS proposes to canonize ____ from Star Trek. Do you wish to vote along with the recommendations of the Board?"
And, no, I do NOT miss working in a call center. At all.
I used to work in a call center from 2010-2013 where we would contact shareholders to ask them if they wanted to vote on board proposals. I would've loved to have called CBS Shareholders and ask them, "CBS proposes to canonize ____ from Star Trek. Do you wish to vote along with the recommendations of the Board?"
And, no, I do NOT miss working in a call center. At all.
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