On soulève souvent l'épineuse question de ce qui est canon, ou pas, dans la franchise.
Je sais que beaucoup de débats ont justement lieu sur faut-il tenir compte de ceci, celà, etc.
Dans un article de Gateworld paru ce jour (Article sur Gateworld, en Anglais), cette question est posée concernant SGO.
Bon, outre le fait qu'ils disent que oui, c'est canon, machin, on va pas rentrer dans le détail ici, ce n'est pas le but (bien que personnellement, quand je vois la tronche de la Porte, je peux dire c'est canon avec le film, pas la série, car de la série, on ne retrouve que le DHD... mais passons...), ce passage plus général permet quelques éclairages :
CITATION WHAT COUNTS AS ‘CANON’?
The question of what material counts as canonical differs from one franchise to the next — especially in the era of new media, where stories are told far beyond the confines of a television screen. Gene Roddenberry reputedly restricted Star Trek canon only to what happens on screen in a TV show or film; J. Michael Straczynski opened up Babylon 5 canon a bit wider to also include a select number of tie-in novels (though not all of them).
With Stargate the question of canonicity is a bit more tricky. The TV series departed from the film’s source material in some significant ways (was Ra a Roswell grey-type alien? or a snake-like parasite? Which galaxy is Abydos in, again?). This already requires a bit of speculation and fuzzy logic to place the movie and the TV shows in the same universe.
Atlantis ended its final episode on Earth. So who gets to decide where the story goes next?
There’s also the fact that neither the Devlin-Emmerich team nor the Wright-Glassner-Cooper team have ongoing involvement with the franchise today, including Stargate Origins. MGM (the studio that owns the rights to Stargate) does put tie-in material through a rigorous vetting process — but this is more for legalities and major flaws than for the more particular bits of story continuity. (Going forward the studio could certainly benefit from something akin to Lucasfilm’s Story Group. That MGM could be thinking along these lines might be signaled by the hiring of Kieran Dickson last year as Editorial Director.)
Take for example the events that reputedly take place after the series finale of Stargate Atlantis. Does the city ever return to the Pegasus Galaxy? How, and under what conditions? Three different versions of that story actually exist: Fandemonium’s official licensed Stargate Atlantis: Legacy novel series, American Mythology’s equally licensed “Back to Pegasus” comic series, and the complete screenplay for the unproduced film Stargate: Extinction.
Which of the three versions of these events is canon? With contradicting media tie-ins and a movie script that never made it to screen, the answer is none of them. In theory, another writer could come along and create a new, live-action Atlantis project with MGM, filling in the story in ways that disregard all previous efforts.
What’s clear is that, at this stage, licensed tie-ins should not be considered canon — if for no other reason than the fact that they can contradict one another, as there is no central clearing house to ensure that they do not. This would apply also to Alderac’s Stargate role-playing game (which evidently makes internal claims to being canon), and the animated series Stargate Infinity.
(Historical footnote: The big-budget MMO video game Stargate Worlds was intended to be canon, with Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper hired as story consultants. The game never made it to market, and so future writers will of course be free to ignore its surviving materials.)
On y apprend donc (pour les non-anglicisants), que le jeu SG World aurait dû être canon, tandis que le JDR SG1 sur plateau ne l'est pas (contrairement à ce que pas mal de monde pense). Aussi, ni la série Legacy, ni les nouveaux comics ne sont canon vis-à-vis de SGA.
Et comble de bonheur, SGI ne l'est pas, ouf, on est sauvés XD
Donc voilà, une petite mise au point, pas officielle, mais assez sérieuse, pour aider à répondre à cette question
(si jamais un modo a une meilleure idée de classement du topic, je suis pas contre le déplacer ^^)