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 kronk wrote:
"*save the Voyager episode 'Threshold' which I think everyone can agree needed to be retconned. "

I stopped watching 1/2 way through season 2, and only would watch a few minutes if 7 of D-Cups had some screen time. What was the Threshold episode?

I have no idea, but I was always more attracted to Kes than to Big Boobs. Big boobs just don't do it for me. I know, I'm weird.

Midly nervous about the changes.

Star Wars currently has the best canon policy of any expanded universe that I'm aware of. Certainly blows Games Workshop's policy out of the water.

 LordofHats wrote:
I expect the most popular elements of the EU to make it into Disney's new Canon. The original Zahn books, the Thrawn Triology, Mara Jade, the Solo children, and Rogue Squadron's antics will likely survive in some form.

You have more faith than I do (you could even say that my lack of faith is somewhat disturbing! ), but I don't expect any of that to survive post Episode 7. The Solo Children won't be Jacen and Jania (and Anakin), Thrawn will never see the silver screen. And Mara Jade? No one will ever hear her name in a cinema.

Good thing then that I've made my peace with the SWEU

 Hulksmash wrote:
They literally can't make the Zahn books cannon at this point. They were pretty solidly contradicted by the prequel trilogy. At least major elements were.

Most of that has now been dealt with, though... One thing I have to give the stable of Star Wars EU writers credit for - they have a knack for coming up with ways to shoehorn retcons back in and make them work with existing storylines.

The biggest issue with the Zahn books that I can recall was the Clone Wars. While they don't go into a lot of detail, IIRC they mention at one point that the clone wars were about an army of clones fighting against the Republic, as a result of the cloning technology sending them bonkers. Once the prequels came along and told us what the Clone Wars were really about, they shoehorned in a few references here and there in the books to the 'sends them bonkers' cloning technology having been used in the later years of the Clone Wars (to try to produce in-house and not have to rely on Kamino and to speed up the process), and this having resulted in rogue troopers running about. Which leaves the original Zahn description being an incomplete one, rather than a flat-out wrong one...

 insaniak wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
They literally can't make the Zahn books cannon at this point. They were pretty solidly contradicted by the prequel trilogy. At least major elements were.

Most of that has now been dealt with, though... One thing I have to give the stable of Star Wars EU writers credit for - they have a knack for coming up with ways to shoehorn retcons back in and make them work with existing storylines.

The biggest issue with the Zahn books that I can recall was the Clone Wars. While they don't go into a lot of detail, IIRC they mention at one point that the clone wars were about an army of clones fighting against the Republic, as a result of the cloning technology sending them bonkers. Once the prequels came along and told us what the Clone Wars were really about, they shoehorned in a few references here and there in the books to the 'sends them bonkers' cloning technology having been used in the later years of the Clone Wars (to try to produce in-house and not have to rely on Kamino and to speed up the process), and this having resulted in rogue troopers running about. Which leaves the original Zahn description being an incomplete one, rather than a flat-out wrong one...

But it still doesn't quite gel with Battlefront II, where the 501st wipes out the Kaminoan cloning facilities because of an insurrection on Kamino using Kaminoan clones(and thus creating the need to create non-Kaminoan clones in the first place).

 Platuan4th wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
They literally can't make the Zahn books cannon at this point. They were pretty solidly contradicted by the prequel trilogy. At least major elements were.

Most of that has now been dealt with, though... One thing I have to give the stable of Star Wars EU writers credit for - they have a knack for coming up with ways to shoehorn retcons back in and make them work with existing storylines.

The biggest issue with the Zahn books that I can recall was the Clone Wars. While they don't go into a lot of detail, IIRC they mention at one point that the clone wars were about an army of clones fighting against the Republic, as a result of the cloning technology sending them bonkers. Once the prequels came along and told us what the Clone Wars were really about, they shoehorned in a few references here and there in the books to the 'sends them bonkers' cloning technology having been used in the later years of the Clone Wars (to try to produce in-house and not have to rely on Kamino and to speed up the process), and this having resulted in rogue troopers running about. Which leaves the original Zahn description being an incomplete one, rather than a flat-out wrong one...

But it still doesn't quite gel with Battlefront II, where the 501st wipes out the Kaminoan cloning facilities because of an insurrection on Kamino using Kaminoan clones(and thus creating the need to create non-Kaminoan clones in the first place).

I actually liked that mission. O.o

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
They literally can't make the Zahn books cannon at this point. They were pretty solidly contradicted by the prequel trilogy. At least major elements were.

Most of that has now been dealt with, though... One thing I have to give the stable of Star Wars EU writers credit for - they have a knack for coming up with ways to shoehorn retcons back in and make them work with existing storylines.

The biggest issue with the Zahn books that I can recall was the Clone Wars. While they don't go into a lot of detail, IIRC they mention at one point that the clone wars were about an army of clones fighting against the Republic, as a result of the cloning technology sending them bonkers. Once the prequels came along and told us what the Clone Wars were really about, they shoehorned in a few references here and there in the books to the 'sends them bonkers' cloning technology having been used in the later years of the Clone Wars (to try to produce in-house and not have to rely on Kamino and to speed up the process), and this having resulted in rogue troopers running about. Which leaves the original Zahn description being an incomplete one, rather than a flat-out wrong one...

But it still doesn't quite gel with Battlefront II, where the 501st wipes out the Kaminoan cloning facilities because of an insurrection on Kamino using Kaminoan clones(and thus creating the need to create non-Kaminoan clones in the first place).

I actually liked that mission. O.o

So did I, which is the whole reason I remember the dialog and monologue that took place in and around it. It's a very good reasoning as to why there's Stormies(who according to G-Canon are clones) of varying heights and builds and thus not matching the single genetic template Clone troopers.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
They literally can't make the Zahn books cannon at this point. They were pretty solidly contradicted by the prequel trilogy. At least major elements were.

Most of that has now been dealt with, though... One thing I have to give the stable of Star Wars EU writers credit for - they have a knack for coming up with ways to shoehorn retcons back in and make them work with existing storylines.

The biggest issue with the Zahn books that I can recall was the Clone Wars. While they don't go into a lot of detail, IIRC they mention at one point that the clone wars were about an army of clones fighting against the Republic, as a result of the cloning technology sending them bonkers. Once the prequels came along and told us what the Clone Wars were really about, they shoehorned in a few references here and there in the books to the 'sends them bonkers' cloning technology having been used in the later years of the Clone Wars (to try to produce in-house and not have to rely on Kamino and to speed up the process), and this having resulted in rogue troopers running about. Which leaves the original Zahn description being an incomplete one, rather than a flat-out wrong one...

But it still doesn't quite gel with Battlefront II, where the 501st wipes out the Kaminoan cloning facilities because of an insurrection on Kamino using Kaminoan clones(and thus creating the need to create non-Kaminoan clones in the first place).

I actually liked that mission. O.o

So did I, which is the whole reason I remember the dialog and monologue that took place in and around it.

That game had some interesting missions.

Like where you attack Naboo

And where you attack several jedi outposts. (which doesn't make any sense, but you know what it was awesome)

I was just thinking that EU is where they should go for their scripts. Now they just have to declare the prequels non-cannon and we could salvage the whole universe.