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Which is your favorite Star Wars Universe? My vote is for the Legends.

Canon. Legends is ass. The only thing better than Legends being nuked is that I get to drink the salty, salty tears of butthurt Kyle Katarn fanboys. 

Canon.

Well, one is a reasonably epic expanded universe that adds complexity and originality to a world I always enjoyed. Sure had its ups and downs but, all in all, it was a totally worth-it canon. The other one was a cancerous, unoriginal mess that thoroughly dissappointed me.

The Expanded Universe was an amazing goldmine, though the miners didn't bother to take their porta-potties back with them. The New Trilogy decided to bury that whole thing and build a massive statue of a vagina out of oatmeal and self-referential humor, creating nothing new or interesting to replace it. I'm not going to call it canon, because it will never be my canon, nor will one mediocre movie going to stack up against some truly awesome stories and concepts that were explored in the EU. It's the perfect combination of awesome shit and So-Bad-it's-Good charm... Much like the original two trilogies.

Only things I wish they didn't do away with when they buried the EU were KotOR and Shadows of the Empire (because Dash Rendarr is kickass). Pretty much everything else was shit, so I guess my vote is for canon.

KOTOR is still cannot. SWTOR is still cannon because new material is being released. Revan is in SWTOR, and it follows the timeline of KOTOR. So, that timeline is still alive at least.

It isn't; the only thing from KoTOR that's still canon is the name of a planet, Malachor V, which was renamed Malachor and appeared in Rebels.

And just because new material is being released for SWTOR doesn't mean that it's still canon; it just means that there's still content being released for it, even after it was labeled non-canon.

Only bits and pieces of KOTOR made it. I daresay only Revan would be canon, in this scenario. Only the movies and any leftover props they are canonical to the movies. Katarn-specific guns made it into "canon", but he didn't. The Outrider and Dash Rendarr are considered canonical because they were editted into the special editions before EU was made about them, IIRC, but nothing relevant that they actually did is canonical, and I just won't stand for the only extant version of Rendarr being some dude in the background of the Bespin place that looks like my drunk uncle.

Am I missing something with Dash, because his character just seemed like a fill in for Han and not all that great, but I hear people rave over him. 

Granted I only read the Shadows comic series so maybe there was more to him, but he never seemed all that interesting to follow up on.

He's a sassy, bearded Han who shoots better and beats the shit out of people. Like Geralt and the Nameless Man from the Clint Eastwood Movies. He fought Boba Fett AND HIS SHIP with a jetpack and a laser pistol- and won. He killed IG-88, opened up some cages to let wampas out, just so he could shoot them, more or less singlehandedly pushed through an entire line of AT-Walkers during the Battle of Hoth, and fought with an evil Jedi dude who was going to backstab the emperor with his caltrops-shaped death star in order to be the top honcho.

Granted, his story and purpose is remarkably similar to Han's, but the difference is that Dash doesn't give a fuck. Dash shoots first, Dash beats the fuck out of biker gangs and elbows them so hard that they spin out and blow up. Does he fall in love with a Princess and learn to care for people that aren't himself and his trusty robot sidekick? Fuck no. He's busy robbing entire garbage trains and murdering other bounty hunters. Most importantly, Dash actually uses his own ship to blow up the Death Star Equivalent that he was dealing with, rather than letting Lando do it, because fuck Lando, it's Han's ship.

See, they never showed any of that in the comic. Hell, the comic didn’t focus on Dash much at all. He was just sort of there in the background and then suddenly at some point towards the end of the series his ship got blown up and then he was dead. (And the comic never implied he escaped or anything)

There was another secondary guy they focused on slightly more in the comic and that was Wrenga Jixton (Or just Jix). And I always thought he seemed sort of interesting since he was this agent that reported directly to Vader, had a rather casual though still respectful attitude towards him, but didn’t even seem to be afraid of him (Or as he put it, “It’s not enough that you can kill me with a thought? I have to fear you too? I might as well fear death.”)

Always felt like they should have had more adventures with him, (They had a one shot comic which went into a little more back story) since they never showed him getting killed, he just sort of disappeared after the comic series and was never really mentioned again.