In the omniverse everything is canon
Comic series have a multiverse for precisely that reason - wide distribution and high content output dont usually happen with just one author, and keeping the story details consistent and simultaneously fresh isn’t practical.
Yeah there’s a lot of benefits to multiverse with regards to sci-fi and fantasy. Most obvious is allowing multiple writers to work on the same series yet take it in multiple directions and not need to be perfectly synced or needing to care about contradictions.
Also allowing a 3rd author to basically do a best of taking elements from both incompatible universes (either via universal travel, or just make a different universe where things happened in a way to allow the events/characters they wanted from both other plots), and lastly a “what if things went wrong”. IE the common plot point of the characters getting to see a universe where, they did things differently or didn’t exist, and allow them to compare their world with that world. Which admitted is a fantasy we all have in our own rights, both on small level (What if I didn’t break up with my first crush) or global level (“what if japan didn’t bomb the US in WW2”).
Not really, there’s sort of two types of multiverses. There are multiverses where the universes are separate but similar things and multiverses where branching timelines create new universes (and disgustingly ones that intermingle the two and muddy the concepts). If you’re writing about a specific universe in a multiverse that doesn’t strictly use the timeline branching model and you change things then you’re no longer “canon”.
Big quotes around canon because obviously fan made stuff isn’t canon, I just mean in the shower thought sense.
I didn’t say canon, I said canon compliant. Canon compliant refers to fan fiction that doesn’t contradict canon and can theoretically fit into the canon
Star Trek fanfic writers of a certain flavor:
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Fanfic writets now write for the shows thats why both universes feel so small you could put them in your pocket.
