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What is Star Treks policy of what is canon, official, and inadmissable?

April 26, 2017canon inadmissable official policy star trek

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What is Star Treks policy of what is canon, official, and inadmissable?

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• All the movies, all episodes of the original series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise, and the novels “Mosaic” and “Pathways” by Jeri Taylor are all considered canon (there are some details from the Animated Series “Yesteryear” that have also entered canon). • The official sources are limited to the descriptions of on screen events in certain additional works, such as the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the Next Generation Technical Manual, and the Deep Space Nine Technical Manual. Any other references within those books to events, items, or applications of that material are considered ignored. For example, the Encyclopedia states that a kiloton of gallicite could completely refit Voyager’s warp coils, which is what was stated in the Voyager episode Blood Fever and is therefore official. The fact that the Encyclopedia expands on this to say that it is part of the construction material, while a reasonable supposition, is not accepted as official fact (this fact is