Lucasfilm announces a new direction for the Star Wars EU
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The difference being because of the new sequels the Star Wars EU is being 'retired' and subsequent novels will take place in the new established universe from the movies.
The Star Trek EU continues on as it's "own thing". If anything the fact that they always existed side by side probably made it easier to keep it since it never mattered.
Up until the first sequel comes out it will have been decades where Star Wars fans who read the EU only had that to fill in the blanks as to what happened after ROTJ. The Star Trek world kept coming up with new things thru TV and movies.
The post-Return of the Jedi continuity is overwritten. Thus, rebooted.
The novel implied that it was the Force.
Did I somehow miss a whole slew of SW films that took place after Return of the Jedi?
Oh, only the visuals count?
Neither the Star Wars films nor the Star Trek films are reboots. Battlestar Galactica is a reboot. The new Spiderman films are reboots.
Trek is only effectively a reboot, since the existence of an altered timeline within that fictional universe gives the writers a chance to rewrite TOS and subsequent history while leaving the original timeline we're familiar with intact in a parallel reality. From Paramount's point of view the two most recent Trek films constitute a very profitable franchise reboot, but not from any internal storytelling (i.e. nerdcentric) standpoint.
Episode VII isn't a reboot. It's a direct follow-up and continuation of a film series that's been in existence for almost 40 years. The first six episodes in the Saga are still canon.
Episode VII isn't a reboot. It's a direct follow-up and continuation of a film series that's been in existence for almost 40 years. The first six episodes in the Saga are still canon.
I'd say the Trek movies are fundamentally reboots. Yeah Old Spock is running around but really for all practical purposes it's a new animal.
EDIT: Beat to the punch...
I like to look at the positives.
Vergere and all her bullshit: GONE.
Admiral Daala: NEVER EXISTED.
Plagueis creating Anakin: BACK ON THE TABLE.
WOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!
It might be "realistic" but I always thought it was shitty Han and Leia lost two kids.
I'm only disappointed they cancelled the upcoming Sword of the Jedi series. It looked interesting.
Nah, one sheets don't count either.
If you choose to put it in the most simplistic way possible, yes. The thing is that this has ALWAYS been Lucasfilms' policy. EU is canon until it's contradicted by a film (or a TV series, or literally anything Lucas decided to elevate to "official" canon status). People are trying to lay this at Disney's or JJ's door, but if Lucas had not sold the franchise and had decided that he himself was going to make Episode VII, we would still be where we are RIGHT NOW. At least where post-ROTJ EU is concerned. Lucas was never going to let himself be constrained by it, so why should Disney or JJ?
I stumbled upon a very interesting and well-researched and cited website regarding the level of canon in the Star Wars expanded universe. They've come to the conclusion based upon quotes from Lucas and other higher ups at Lucasfilm and it's affiliates that novels? Never really has been the real Star Wars universe. I mean, that'll happen when only about a million people read each of these. And that was back during the NJO days. Those numbers surely dwindled as the series continued.
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