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What's in YOUR 'head canon'?

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My head canon is that the ship commanded by Geordi's mother (the Hera) was abducted by the Caretaker. Just like Voyager and Equinox.
 
Oh, another one, but taken from ditl.org: during the Dominion War, not a single Galaxy class starship was lost. Damaged, certainly, but not destroyed. Lessons learned from the Federation's First Contact through the USS Odyssey.

Sure, there's no evidence to back it up, but there's also no evidence that says they were destroyed, either unlike almost every class seen onscreen. None were at the second battle of Chin'Toka. Plus, other, faster, more nimble allied ships would probably just inadvertently fly into enemy fire anyway :)
 
Dr. Nichols and Plexicorp kept their knowledge of transparent aluminum a closely guarded trade secret, but they never figured out how to manufacture it. The company eventually went bankrupt for unrelated mismanagement reasons and all research on the material was lost during the liquidation. Someone else invented it independently many years later.
 
Dr. Nichols and Plexicorp kept their knowledge of transparent aluminum a closely guarded trade secret, but they never figured out how to manufacture it. The company eventually went bankrupt for unrelated mismanagement reasons and all research on the material was lost during the liquidation. Someone else invented it independently many years later.

Madelaine framed Dr. Nichols, took the formula for herself, and made billions.

"How about NOW, Asshole!?!?"

:scream:
 
In my headcanon, I say that Kirk's tombstone in WNMHGB reads "James R. Kirk" because Mitchell and Kirk were buddies going way back and there was a private nickname of some sort which Gary called Kirk which started with an R.

Not a mistake, a private in-joke between friends which makes the turn Gary took all the more horrifying for Kirk, who totally got it.
This is the explanation presented by Michael Jan Friedman in one of the novels in his My Brother's Keeper trilogy; it stands for "racquetball."
Yeah. That joke ran through all three books, IIRC. It started out as "racquetball" and moved on to a few other things, always starting with an "R." So we'd get exchanges like this:

"Do you like ring-toss?"
"...Are you kidding? My middle name is ring-toss!"

A bit contrived, but kind of cute.
 
Dr. Nichols and Plexicorp kept their knowledge of transparent aluminum a closely guarded trade secret, but they never figured out how to manufacture it. The company eventually went bankrupt for unrelated mismanagement reasons and all research on the material was lost during the liquidation. Someone else invented it independently many years later.

Heh. That's actually probably how it would go in the real world. I like it!
 
The Constellation (the ship that was later commanded by Willard Decker), wasn't originally a Constitution class ship. It was refitted into that configuration.

As a collary to the above - the saucer design used in the Constitution before the 2270s refit, was an old design. Starfleet had found in the late 22nd century that it worked, and didn't change it until they wanted larger ships.

(Of course, the pre-Constitution stardrive section of the Constellation would have been different).
 
The more pronounced Romulan brow ridges in the 24th century are the result of childhood head binding (or maybe Botox), made fashionable by government leaders who wanted to differentiate their race from and make them feel superior to Vulcans, and also make it easier to identify Vulcan spies like Spock in the long term.
 
^ But if you'll notice, Spock (in Unification I and II) was able to pass as Romulan without anyone noticing, even though he doesn't have any forehead ridges.
There are those in the society who abstain from the practice but they are considered suspicious and get harassed by the authorities. More of the general populace is sympathetic to the non-modders though.
 
I've always thought that Chakotay might have been from the American Indian colony from Preemptive Strike or at least a related colony.
 
^ But if you'll notice, Spock (in Unification I and II) was able to pass as Romulan without anyone noticing, even though he doesn't have any forehead ridges.

Trust me, I noticed. (Grrrrr.)

I've always thought that Chakotay might have been from the American Indian colony from Preemptive Strike or at least a related colony.
Wasn't that stated as such in the Voyager publicity materials?
 
Man, that table of Kirk's just doesn't reflect anything, does it? ;)
it most certainly does ...

Kirk_Marcus2.jpg
 
Number One in Star Trek: Discovery is the same Number One that served under Pike, just reassigned. Bryan Fuller be damned.

Even if there's an episode that takes place at the same time as The Cage, I'll just chalk it up to another transporter accident, goddammit.
 
Number One in Star Trek: Discovery is the same Number One that served under Pike, just reassigned. Bryan Fuller be damned.

Even if there's an episode that takes place at the same time as The Cage, I'll just chalk it up to another transporter accident, goddammit.
I remember Majel Barrett telling me how she shouted, cried, and threw a fit at Gene when named Riker Number One. This was about three weeks before TNG premiered (when she told me, not when she threw the fit).
 
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