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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] Firstly, it's [i]canon[/i], with a singular 'n.' Secondly, the only thing that can really be said to be absolute canon are the shows and films themselves. (Paramount has never been quite clear on whether TAS is included, but personally I see no justifiable reason for it not to be.) Ranking just below this are official published reference materials including the TNG and DS9 Technical Manuals, (which have the virtue of being compiled by Rick Sternbach and Mike Okuda, who were for a long time the keepers of the technical flame within Star Trek production circles) and to a somewhat lesser extent the ST Chronology and ST Magazine/Fact Files. The important thing to remember though is that while information from these sources is often utilized and is generally adhered to by writers and producers on the shows, there is always a chance that it may be modified or re-defined by future filmed productions. (Especially where the information was based largely on conjecture in the first place.) So essentially they are considered (by most) to be "canon except where contradicted by onscreen material." There is also stuff like production notes, series bibles, and interviews given by production staff. This type of information---that may come from official paramount sources but has never been explicitly stated onscreen or published in a reference source---is often considered to be authoritative (especially if it has been upheld by onscreen or printed sources) but may not always hold true as things progress and develop on a show. So it kind of falls in a gray area of "not really true canon, but fairly reliable." As to novels, it is generally accepted that no novels are canon. Of course, there can get to be some debate about whether some of the background information given in sources such as Jeri Taylor's [i]Mosaic[/i] and [i]Pathways[/i] might be considered to fall in the above category, but that always seems to get a little too iffy for my tastes. And there you have it, in a nutshell. For the record, [URL=http://www.cdeath.net/monkeyofmim/Shiplist/Introduction.htm]My Starship List[/URL] site utilizes only canonical material in its main body, (though non-canon and fandom stuff is included in the annotations) with a few possible exceptions that are clarified on the introduction page. -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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