Mark Lenard's Romulan commander from "Balance of Terror" is an ancestor of Nero. His comment to prime reality Kirk "In a different reality, I could have called you friend," now seems rather ironic...
What's in YOUR 'head canon'?
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An additional, never-acknowledged impetus for Spock's work towards Vulcan-Romulan reunification: irrational guilt. When the Romulans tested Federation defenses a century after the war, Spock successfully urged his Captain to attack and destroy the intruder, resulting in the death of its crew and the renewal of hostilities for another century. Logically, his recommendation was entirely correct and unavoidable; but his human side deeply regretted the death that inevitably followed, for all that the Romulans had started it. Whatever else they also were, Spock's later rescue of a half-Romulan outcast from the planet Hellguard, his subsequent lifelong efforts toward Reunification, and his ultimately unsuccessful bid to save Romulus from the Hobus supernova were not-entirely-conscious acts of atonement.
In any version of the Star Trek universe where Khan knew there was a living baby on the ship when he decided to blow it up with the Genesis Torpedo he would have been Khan "Midnightian" Singh indeed.
In a better alternate universe Khan would not blow up the ship because he knew that baby was still alive. And there could be a story where the baby gre up to be very talented and reasonably good. And every time that Kirk heard about the positive contributions the surviving super person made Kirk would feel guilty for wasting the talents of the super persons by sending them to Ceti Alpha instead of a rehab colony.
I swear I thought this was in the canon but apparently I made it up:
During WW3, masses of British soldiers who had fought on the continent decided to settle in France, assimilating and integrating with French culture, leaving behind a decidedly Anglo French population. And hence a British accented French cultured, speaking, mannered starship captain of the Enterprise-D.
During WW3, masses of British soldiers who had fought on the continent decided to settle in France, assimilating and integrating with French culture, leaving behind a decidedly Anglo French population. And hence a British accented French cultured, speaking, mannered starship captain of the Enterprise-D.
But Robert and his family sound just as British....
It could be even easier: the local English teacher was, in fact, English. So everyone in town has the accent because they learned the language from an English person.
(Should I have put a "Yo dawg" in there somewhere?)
(Should I have put a "Yo dawg" in there somewhere?)
Yeah, one can rationalise that all the English accents we hear French people speaking is actually the work of the universal translator. But Jean Luc's other Anglophile quirks might have another explanation.
How do you figure that?
Irony, mostly. It's not set in stone for me, just a conjecture...
Indeed, every French person we see in "Family" has a British accent, and is a British person as a Frenchman/woman.
Except French is an archaic language by the 24th century, and we hear French spoken specifically and intentionally when it is spoken, meaning they're speaking English the rest of the time.
Americans are not all Hispanic or Chinese, but eat Mexican and Chinese food. They're not all Irish, but celebrate St. Patrick's Day. It's cultural infusion. Throw enough Britons into the gene pool, and you get a man who drinks Earl Grey and champagne, and quotes Shakespeare and Voltaire.
PS: Earl Grey and champagne would make a good rap song.
This makes me wonder what French speaking Star Trek fans might have thought about French being considered an archaic language in the fictional future.
^ Perhaps in the French-dubbed version, that line came out as something else.
I mean, would you expect that French writers would leave that line intact when translating the episode into their language?
I mean, would you expect that French writers would leave that line intact when translating the episode into their language?
^ Perhaps in the French-dubbed version, that line came out as something else.
I mean, would you expect that French writers would leave that line intact when translating the episode into their language?
The British are the French Borg.
"We are the British. You will be assimilated. You will adapt to noon tea and an admiration for Stephen Fry. Resistance is quite unnecessary, and honestly rather improper. Shame on you."
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I figure in Family everyone at chateau Picard (and Jean Luc's friend) is speaking French.
Just as in DS9, when there's just Bajorans around they're not speaking English.
The difference being it would have been possible to cast French actors compared to Bajoran actors, or at least to have them speak in French accents. Everyone alien has an American accent.
The New United Kingdom is made of France, England and Wales. Scotland got their Independence after First Contact with Denobula, They liked the idea of legally having 3 spouses to boost the population.
Two more pieces of headcanon:
I assumed that the Excelsior did not fail in it's experiment, but because Scotty sabotaged the ship, they all thought their transwarp experiments failed and gave up.
In order to make ENT more likeable, I have the fan theory that the Temporal Cold War future presented in that series is not the actual future of Star Trek and the future people are not actually from the mainstream Star Trek future. Instead, they are from an alternate/the original future, and by interfering in the past, they erased their history and created the timeline of the mainstream Star Trek universe. That way, they are not screwing up Star Trek history and changing things in all the convoluted ways time travel does, and ENT does not exist just in the context of the TNG era.
I assumed that the Excelsior did not fail in it's experiment, but because Scotty sabotaged the ship, they all thought their transwarp experiments failed and gave up.
In order to make ENT more likeable, I have the fan theory that the Temporal Cold War future presented in that series is not the actual future of Star Trek and the future people are not actually from the mainstream Star Trek future. Instead, they are from an alternate/the original future, and by interfering in the past, they erased their history and created the timeline of the mainstream Star Trek universe. That way, they are not screwing up Star Trek history and changing things in all the convoluted ways time travel does, and ENT does not exist just in the context of the TNG era.
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