I recall things quite differently. Back when the only thing on screen were TOS reruns and the occasional TOS film, there were things like the early novels, comics, RPGs like FASA and Star Fleet Battles, and of course Franz Joseph’s Tech Manual that fleshed out the Star Trek universe in a myriad of ways. And no one was yelling on some internet bulletin board (because there was no internet) that such-and-such was violating 'canon' because canon wasn't even in the Star Trek public lexicon at the time. No novel or role-playing game contradicted anything, because there was little to nothing to contradict. The only thing 'canon' at the time was a movie every two years in the early '80's. And many fans were accepting the information from the novels, RPGs and such as official before TNG premiered, because they were licensed by Paramount, and no one in authority was telling them otherwise. All that changed when Gene Roddenberry became executive producer of TNG.
Was Bacco a character that Duane and Ford created in one of their novels circa 1980?
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