Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 3x10 - "The Stars at Night"

[The Wormhole]

We need to stop with this 'on screen only' canon nonsense.

But that's literally what canon means.

With production personell now directly dropping factoids on social media, etc, it's time to grow up and accept official word as canon.

The only new thing is the format. Obviously no one posted things on social media back in the day because social media didn't exist. Facebook and Twitter weren't mainstream until a few years after Enterprise ended. However we still had people involved in production establishing stuff in other sources, reference books, interviews and the like. Hell, the head writer and co-creator of Voyager even wrote two Voyager novels. But they were never considered canon because they were not on screen. The same applies today in regards to whatever someone in production has tweeted.

Besides, even production personnel posting things on social media can still be wrong, like John Eaves and the infamous 25% thing. Best not to take anything at face value just because it comes from someone who works on the show.

 

[Tuskin38]

But they were never considered canon because they were not on screen. The same applies today in regards to whatever someone in production has tweeted.

Apparently they were considered canon in the writers room, until she left the show. I guess without her there to make sure they were followed they just ignored them.

 

[IRW Bloodwing]

But that's literally what canon means.

The only new thing is the format. Obviously no one posted things on social media back in the day because social media didn't exist. Facebook and Twitter weren't mainstream until a few years after Enterprise ended. However we still had people involved in production establishing stuff in other sources, reference books, interviews and the like. Hell, the head writer and co-creator of Voyager even wrote two Voyager novels. But they were never considered canon because they were not on screen. The same applies today in regards to whatever someone in production has tweeted.

Besides, even production personnel posting things on social media can still be wrong, like John Eaves and the infamous 25% thing. Best not to take anything at face value just because it comes from someone who works on the show.

Canon is what the IP rights holder says it is. Period. Whether we like it or not. On-duty Production staff (especially showrunners) and Paramount are the ultimate authority.

 

[The Wormhole]

Canon is what the IP rights holder says it is. Period. Whether we like it or not.

No one has claimed otherwise.

On-duty Production staff (especially showrunners) and Paramount are the ultimate authority.

On-duty production staff and Paramount are the ones who tell us that if it ain't onscreen it ain't canon.

 

[Tuesday]

AFAIK, as of LD's current time frame, the Romulan disaster isn't due to happen for a few years yet.

Haha yeah it's cool the way they connect everything...

 

[Paul Weaver]

Facebook and Twitter weren't mainstream until a few years after Enterprise ended.

Rick Sternbach posted a hell of a lot on usenet in the 90s, and I believe he posted here back in the enterprise days.

what he (and others) wrote isn’t “canon”, and not something that later authors are beholden to

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Wow. This one gets a 10 even out of ME!

Sure, it's a little bit derivative. Buenamigo (Amigodenadie? Nadieamigo? Definitely nobody's friend, in any language) has shades of Diane Carey's Rittenhouse, Insurrection's Dougherty, and the Abramsverse Marcus. And the Aledo (is it at all significant that the ship name is roughly homophonous with a certain George W. Bush-appointee Supreme Court Justice?) is (as I'd predicted) M-5 all over again (and on steroids).

Loved the Horner-paraphrase score.

The "Brigadoon-type planet" turning out to be literally that (and I've seen neither the movie nor any stage productions) was priceless.

Loved the unnamed ship bridge with the insectoid version of Boimler, the yellow-eyed Mariner lookalike, the male human T'Ana lookalike, the male Freeman lookalike, and the female Shaxs lookalike (not sure what to make of the Ransom-lookalike)

Not quite sure what to make of the stinger, either, given that Rutherford still has his implant. Is there an episode I've forgotten?

 

[Tuskin38]

given that Rutherford still has his implant.

He got a new one. The one at the end is the one he lost in the Season 1 finale.