Comment on Annotations for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 4x04: “A Case of Chiaroscuro”
rogermccoy@startrek.website 13 hours ago
The Final Reflection which, although rendered non-canon by events
I don’t think it was ever “canon,” though maybe in the early eighties the novels were viewed as canon by some before TNG? I was too young at that point to really be confident. Mainly mentioning it in case you meant something closer to “incompatible with canon.”
Curious what “events” you’re referring to in any case. Not familiar enough with the novel to say for sure.
khaosworks@startrek.website 11 hours ago
The events being TNG’s portrayal of Klingon culture being at odds with the way it was depicted in the novel, with its language, klingonaase, customs, ranks, social structure and so on.
But until that came along, a lot of it was taken as if not official canon, then fan headcanon, like the existence of human-Klingon fusions to explain the ridgeless Klingons, the history of Klingon-Federation relations and so forth. Ford wrote material expanding on the novel for the FASA role playing game and it became part of the fan lore for quite a while.