canon

The canon itself is the product of centuries of scholarship also conducted by white men.

It’s an intriguing addition to the canon, but for mere mortals who haven’t survived abusive, plagiaristic and mystifying advisors to earn Oxbridge degrees — or even just bad bosses — it might be unrelatable.

In 1999, he entered the Star Wars canon: playing a politician battling corruption in Episode I: the Phantom Menace - an experience he later described as "dull".

In a recent interview with Salon, democracy expert Katherine Stewart dubbed the tactic “one of the most frequently telegraphed stunts in the authoritarian canon.”

The show adds other extraterrestrial creatures, just as eerie and lethal, to the “Alien” canon too.