Arcadia:Canon
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What is "canon"?
from Wikipedia
| “ | Canon (fiction), material that is considered to be "genuine", "something that actually happened", or can be directly referenced as material produced by the original author or creator.[1] | ” |
| “ | In terms of a fictional universe, canon is material considered "genuine" or "official", produced by the original author or creator of a series. New works in that universe are constrained to be consistent with pre-existing canon, though the issue is somewhat complicated: Pre-existing canon may also be subject to retcon, and some licensed works, such as movie or television novelizations or spin-off novels, may not be considered "canonical" by some. Adaptations of a work into other formats, such as feature film or television, may be considered non-canonical, or forming a separate canon, and consistency with prior canon is not sufficient to make a work "canonical" – fan fiction, for instance, often follows the original pre-existing canon but is not part of the canon.[2] | ” |
from Memory Alpha
| “ | \'ka-nen\ (n.) — a sanctioned or accepted group or body of related works
Star Trek canon is generally defined as all live-action television series and feature films released by Paramount Pictures. With the release of The Animated Series on DVD, the studio [apparently] lists the cartoons as canon.[3] Various "official" references (such as the Star Trek Encyclopedia or Star Trek Chronology) may be used as guides to canon information but are not canon themselves. The definition of Star Trek canon may vary for different fans. "Fanon" refers to "fan canon". It applies certain "facts" that may be accepted as truth by a large number of fans, and replaces established canonical facts in the minds of those fans or fills a plot-hole.[4] | ” |
