ValueSubtracted comments on Why does Admiral Paris have a picture of Nick Locarno instead of his own son? Is he stupid?

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 14 points 2 months ago (9 children)

the characters are legally distinct so that the writers of that episode don’t get royalties for the entire run of Voyager

This is a very common claim, but I find it very dubious. You never hear about this sort of contract in American television. I don't think anyone made a lot of bank when Chief O'Brien joined DS9.

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[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Kirsten Beyer actually is on the record saying that this was confirmed to her when she was writing the Voyager Full Circle novels.

In those books, she has the incident and the consequences as part of Paris’ backstory that gets thrown in his face in a legal proceeding back on Earth.

My recollection is that she printed this in an author’s note in the specific book so it must have had legal clearance for the tie-in literature.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

arnt fan novels mostly non-canon,

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[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

It’s not a fan novel.

The Full Circle Voyager series is official tie-in fiction published by Pocketbooks and CBS. Official tie-in fiction is beta-canon. That is, canon until overwritten by something onscreen.

The key thing in this is that the tie-in writer for this series Kirsten Beyer has significant credibility and authority within the franchise. Her research and statements on the legal situation around this are credible and official.

Kirsten Beyer was in the middle of writing the Voyager books when she joined the television writers as of the first season of Discovery. She’s officially got the mandate as the expert keeper of canon in the writers room — even if she’s not always listened too. More, she was made the liaison for the tie-in writers to the shows as of 2017. She’s now a CoExecutive Producer and cocreator of SNW.

When that book was published, and she chased down the history on Locarno/Paris, she had the greatest access to past Executive Producers and internal legal advice and archives. She wouldn’t have claimed that without solid evidence.