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No, a_*near_*-official agreement. Important distinction. The producers, writers (including novel and comic book writers), actors, and fans all agreed on a common stance of 'oh jesus, _*Threshold_*, let's not'. Paramount never said shit. It's just that _*Threshold_* was so bad that the show people involved wish it didn't exist. If MLP throws an episode that the showrunners regret that badly, the fandom might come to the same agreement.
What Hasbro says and what Hasbro does are two separate things. Star Trek's Alpha/Beta split is not an official stance from Paramount, it's a fan construction to agree how to interpret contradictory stuff. They talk a big talk about everything being canon because they want everyone to buy everything, but in practice, the show is not being required to subordinate itself to any other media, and all other media may be invalidated by the show at any moment. That is a two-tiered canon structure.
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What Hasbro says and what Hasbro does are two separate things. Star Trek's Alpha/Beta split is not an official stance from Paramount, it's a fan construction to agree how to interpret contradictory stuff. They talk a big talk about everything being canon because they want everyone to buy everything, but in practice, the show is not being required to subordinate itself to any other media, and all other media may be invalidated by the show at any moment. That is a two-tiered canon structure.