Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20160617033225/@comment-24674051-20160620034055

Well, here's to hoping that the short is decent, and is canon.

I do think the fact that it will appear on the DVD, and is using the correct casting, lends some credibility to making it canon. I would be interesed to know who the writer(s) of the short are, as that might add even more credibility. Although, it ultimately will come down to the discretion of A & E, since that will be the only real measure that we can apply.

but, just to take the other side, we've had some deleted scenes (some rather good deleted scenes I might add) that were released on the DVD, and these scenes are not (so far as I know) canon. So just appearing on the DVD is not a valid determination for the canonicity of the material.