Do you think of your pro Who stuff as canonical, out of interest?
I've been pondering this over the last couple of days and I came to the conclusion that I just don't naturally think in terms of canon/canonicity. The aim is to write something that doesn't (to the best of my ability) contradict anything seen on screen, because that makes the process an intellectual pleasure of teasing the story out of the gaps, rather than 'playing by the rules'. Which of course I'm going to prefer to imagine myself doing!
Having said that, the moment I saw the word I'd established for the postwar Cardassian head-of-state used by another writer in one of the Trek books, I got a massive thrill: "I HAZ MADE TREKZ! LIKE - PROPER TREKZ!"
I don't know if the DW Big Finish productions are generally seen as canon, btw. The debate about the canonicity or otherwise of the Star Trek books is raging at the moment - again - over at the Trek BBS. I just read in that thread that the Star Wars books talk in terms of an "Expanded Universe", which I think means, "Canon until George Lucas decides to contradict it on screen."
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Date: 2008-07-18 08:26 pm (UTC)I've been pondering this over the last couple of days and I came to the conclusion that I just don't naturally think in terms of canon/canonicity. The aim is to write something that doesn't (to the best of my ability) contradict anything seen on screen, because that makes the process an intellectual pleasure of teasing the story out of the gaps, rather than 'playing by the rules'. Which of course I'm going to prefer to imagine myself doing!
Having said that, the moment I saw the word I'd established for the postwar Cardassian head-of-state used by another writer in one of the Trek books, I got a massive thrill: "I HAZ MADE TREKZ! LIKE - PROPER TREKZ!"
I don't know if the DW Big Finish productions are generally seen as canon, btw. The debate about the canonicity or otherwise of the Star Trek books is raging at the moment - again - over at the Trek BBS. I just read in that thread that the Star Wars books talk in terms of an "Expanded Universe", which I think means, "Canon until George Lucas decides to contradict it on screen."
Hmm, not sure I answered your question.