Talk:Babylon 5 novels, short stories and comic books

Latest comment: 14 years ago by Aladdin Sane in topic Secondary canon

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BetacommandBot 10:18, 27 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Secondary canon

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Here's an attempt to define secondary canon: Secondary canon is all that within the B5 universe which is otherwise sanctioned by JMS in some official capacity (i.e. published somehow (including online) so we can quote him on it), but not first broadcast on television or published on DVD.

Secondary canon can also include things like dolls and toys, but only if we can prove a link to JMS, as opposed to the uninteresting link to a studio franchise marketing department.

The reason I'm bringing up the point is: I just stumbled across the Neil Gaiman-published script for "Day of the Dead" at Amazon as ISBN 1892058022, Day of the Dead: A Babylon5 Scriptbook (Paperback). Now, published episode scripts seem to be canon, but none of them are listed in the article. Novelizations are listed, however.

It seems to me the published script, currently on sale, belongs in this article. But we need a whole Scripts section if we do that, and there's a problem with the article title. —Aladdin Sane (talk) 16:30, 25 December 2009 (UTC)Reply