Strictly speaking, there’s no formal rule - you won’t find a CBS/Paramount definition of “canon” anywhere that I’m aware of.

In practice, they stick with the tv shows and films.

But they’ve also worked very hard over the last few years to keep the tie-in novels and things like that “canon-ish,” in that they flesh out backstories from the shows, and the shows mostly don’t step on their efforts.

It sounds like the podcast is getting that treatment - as far as they’re concerned, this is what happened, and they have no plans to contradict it (and, considering the nature of the story, it’s not likely to come up one way or another).

Not a big shock - there have been allegations surrounding the guy for years.

Luv 2 barge into threads with barely-related rants…

They’re related to the Silurians, aka homo reptilia, so I would suggest that ship sailed quite some time ago.

He’s very obviously being cheeky…

It was certainly the case when I was in school, and that was decades ago.

I think that’s pretty universal, and it’s been the case for decades.

It’s the perfect crime! The feds create a problem with a solution that’s under provincial jurisdiction…

Honestly, I’d take this with a small grain of salt.

I don’t doubt Variety’s reporting, but this amounts to a bullet point in a larger article, and while I’m sure they’ve “moved on” from whatever they had cooking, I think it’s also possible that they could develop another project with that crew, if they have a script that they like well enough.

We’ll see what happens - it’s been years of them being unable to get a project going, and I don’t expect that to change any time soon.

I don’t think it’s that straightforward. They just gave the South Park guys half a billion dollars, and re-upped Jon Stewart for another year.

The CBS News division is a tire fire right now, but I don’t think there have been signs of creative interference in the studios.

You know, yet.

I wonder is Lear ever tried to meet up with her Noonien Singh relatives?

With Tuvok’s comment about using his position to advocate for augments, I wonder if they’re considering a Tim Russ/Christina Chong spinoff.

I think I agree with your overall sentiment - not the greatest thing I’ve ever heard, but I’m glad they made it.

The highlights for me were the semi-rehabilitation of McGivers, and the fleshing out of Khan’s cult followers. And I’m glad they didn’t go down the “Khan wasn’t so bad” road, instead going with, “Khan was a pretty bad guy who maybe could have turned it around under different circumstances,” which…is a pretty Star Trek message, even if it’s not one I was very interested in exploring.

They should be assaulted, and possibly murdered, by the other inmates. Because that’s a feature of the system, I guess.

Nothing to see here, just a provincial premier advocating for prisoner violence as a core component of the corrections system…

Yeah, I agree - I think he did plenty of promotion.

The official announcement contains this gem:

The series is produced by Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for the BBC and Disney Branded Television and will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK in December, and exclusively on Disney+ outside of the UK (where available) in 2026.

I thought the Disney deal was unquestionably a good thing at the time, too - it looks like it went as badly as it possibly could have, though.

As for RTD…I honestly thought he delivered two typical RTD seasons. A few absolutely terrific episodes, a bunch of silly camp, and unbelievably messy finales. Not too different from his original run, IMO.

That’s what he does best!

Yeah, I lucked out in having nothing better to do at the time. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to catch all of the rest of the series, but I’m definitely going to keep an eye on it!

I don’t really follow baseball at all, and haven’t watched any of the playoffs to date. But I did watch this.

“As the labour movement in this province, our leaders have made a commitment to rise to that challenge, defend the teachers and their rights, defend worker rights more broadly, and to defend our democracy. We have no choice.”

[Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour] stopped short of confirming whether that response would include a provincewide strike, but said, “it’s one of the things that’s actively under consideration."