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"First Generation" is meant to be my portrayal of how I imagine the animated cartoons would have continued on to be. The TV series "Voltron The Third Dimension" of computer generated images, I pretty much treat as a nonexistent happening in my stories.
Amalgamous never existed,
Lotor's accident that he had during that series where he lost his arm and damaged his face never happened,
King Zarkon never pretended to be a help to the Galaxy Alliance,
the history of Hagar never happened the way it's shown in "Voltron the Third Dimension,"
there never was five years of peace during which the boys of the Voltron force were gone,
there's no lion paw thingy,
and so much more that the series showed is simply nonexistent in my stories.
From my perspective, there is just way too much about "Voltron The Third Dimension" that directly conflicts with the previous two series of animated cartoons. Perhaps the hugest glaring problem I have with "Voltron The Third Dimension" is that it seems to tell its story as if the second season of the cartoon series never happened. The most glaring contradiction seeming to show that is the fact that the second season is the continuation after the Voltron force in the first season had thought they had defeated the forces of Doom for good. There was no period of five years of peace. Instead, in the second series, the Voltron force was assigned to patrolling areas of space having a greater focus on protecting other planets as well as Arus, with Arus still as its "home base" for Voltron and the Voltron force. And then it turned out that the forces of Doom were nowhere near defeated, and so Voltron of Arus continued on defending Arus and other planets against the attacks of Doom.
But, it's unfair to compare "Voltron The Third Dimension" with the inconsistencies it has in comparison to the second season of Voltron, if "Voltron The Third Dimension" was really meant to be a continuation of the first season as if the second season never happened. And that seems to be what the creators of "Voltron The Third Dimension" had in mind since the storyline has five years of peace. There are much fewer inconsistencies between "Voltron The Third Dimension" and the first season of Voltron. There are a whole lot of things left unexplained such as where are the space mice and how are Sven and the rest of their friends doing on Planet Pollux. How the pilots get to their lions is completely different. In the first season of Voltron in "Sleeping Princess," Lotor's dream seems to suggest that Witch Hagar is his mom (and she isn't green), which conflicts with "Voltron The Third Dimension." But I think that fact about Hagar is pretty subjective. Maybe the most glaring inconsistency is that black lion in the first season of Voltron (and second) gets its power from solar and lightning and green lion gets its power from solar and wind; whereas in "Voltron The Third Dimension" black lion gets its power from air and space (or at least it is said it's the "lion of air and space" and seems to refer to it as it's power source since it was said in context of revealing the other lions' power sources, though I don't know how power is gotten from air and space) and green lion gets its power from life -- which seems to be referring to plant life. To me that seems a bit morbid, though obviously it must not suck all of the life out of a living thing.
I think if a person chooses to write from a "Voltron The Third Dimension" perspective, the writer ends up either sticking completely to "Voltron The Third Dimension" details and adds details that don't conflict from the first or even second season of Voltron; or a person writes from the "Voltron The Third Dimension" perspective with details from the first or even second season of Voltron that do directly or somewhat conflict with the "Voltron The Third Dimension" storyline. Some great stories written from a "Voltron The Third Dimension" perspective can be found on Adele's site at http://www.alluraandkeith.homestead.com . I enjoy these stories very much even though it's obvious how much I didn't like about "Voltron The Third Dimension."
In my writings, I hold the first season of Voltron as cannon, and I hold the second season as being just as much cannon as the first season even though there seemed to be a slight change in character personalities that made them more stereotyped and the episodes more geared toward trying to be humorous which made them seem to have less depth to them as well. (Then "Voltron The Third Dimension" seemed to stereotype the character personalities even worse and add the popular technologies of today, such as e-mail and television broadcasts, which I think just took away from the feel of seeing into the future that the first season of Voltron definitely had). However, there are just a few details in my stories that were exclusively introduced in "Voltron The Third Dimension." I do use the Queen Ariella character along with very close to the same story as to how she came to Arus as what "Voltron The Third Dimension" tells. She even meets the lions before they became mechanical like its shown in "Voltron The Third Dimension." Some of this information I haven't introduced in my stories yet (there are series before "First Generation" that I have yet to type). The only other information I can think of that I use from "Voltron The Third Dimension" is that I try to incorporate the fact that green lion's power source is wind with "Voltron The Third Dimension's" portrayal that green lion's power source is life -- such as plant life and perhaps other living things on the planet. I do that by saying something like that wind is as though the breath of the planet and without the wind (circulation of air) life wouldn't exist. But I definitely DON'T imply that green lion gets it's power from the life of living things like "Voltron The Third Dimension" tells. And I think that's all information I use from "Voltron The Third Dimension." Anything else that may seem like it's from "Voltron The Third Dimension" such as Lance's mountain village being destroyed or the mechanical lions having life, is actually also found within season one or season two of the cartoon series.