What is your personal head canon?
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My head-canon:
When Ilia and Decker merged into one new being with V'Ger in TMP, the "baby", or resulting life form, was the Borg Queen, albeit time displaced ten-thousand years previous.
This one is kinda silly, but the Enterprise-D was in First Contact, it's just the visual effects are wrong and the dialogue was just misspoke (they meant "D" instead of "E", and Geordi says "We've been out in space for nearly ten years now"). The Enterprise-E wasn't launched until sometime later (possibly the Enterprise-D was destroyed off screen in a battle with the Dominion, and the Enterprise-E was launched just before Insurrection), but the Enterprise-D did survive the trip to 2063 and returned to her rightful time intact.
Delta Vega is ONE planet, and Spock Prime in the 2009 film was marooned at the same place in that reality that Gary Mitchell was in the Prime Timeline. He didn't literally "see" Vulcan die, he telepathically felt it die much like the deaths of the crew of the Intrepid in "The Immunity Syndrome".
More to come later.
When Ilia and Decker merged into one new being with V'Ger in TMP, the "baby", or resulting life form, was the Borg Queen, albeit time displaced ten-thousand years previous.
This one is kinda silly, but the Enterprise-D was in First Contact, it's just the visual effects are wrong and the dialogue was just misspoke (they meant "D" instead of "E", and Geordi says "We've been out in space for nearly ten years now"). The Enterprise-E wasn't launched until sometime later (possibly the Enterprise-D was destroyed off screen in a battle with the Dominion, and the Enterprise-E was launched just before Insurrection), but the Enterprise-D did survive the trip to 2063 and returned to her rightful time intact.
Delta Vega is ONE planet, and Spock Prime in the 2009 film was marooned at the same place in that reality that Gary Mitchell was in the Prime Timeline. He didn't literally "see" Vulcan die, he telepathically felt it die much like the deaths of the crew of the Intrepid in "The Immunity Syndrome".
More to come later.
My biggest headcanon is that there was a Federation presidential election in 2400, the year after PIC S1 that S2 skipped, and Nanietta Bacco, from the novel Articles of the Federation (originally set in 2380), was elected President on a ticket of continuing reforms after the revelation of Zhat Vash manipulation and the decision to protect the Coppellian Androids.
After VI and before TNG Klingons (edit: I mean the Klingon Homeworld) incongruoulsly exist.
My headcanon is they shot a Genesis torpedo into Kronos
My headcanon is they shot a Genesis torpedo into Kronos
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And about the Zhat Vash: It's in MY headcanon that there is no such thing as the Zhat Vash and that it's all disinformation deliberately spread by the Tal Shiar to frighten the Romulan public.
Oh, and the "Romulan Free State" is anything but.
(Hey, the RFS does have the backing of the Tal Shiar, so how free could it really be?
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Oh, and the "Romulan Free State" is anything but.
(Hey, the RFS does have the backing of the Tal Shiar, so how free could it really be?
)In, well, "Romulan Years"? How about some spatial anomaly that pre-maturely aged Saavik?
My head canon it's all a Tommy Westphall conspiracy
Surely we need less section 31 not more?
"Alexander Years".In, well, "Romulan Years"? How about some spatial anomaly that pre-maturely aged Saavik?
I can get on-board with this.
Except the Enterprise drops off Kirk at DV on the way to...?
Laruentine system.
Surely we need less section 31 not more?
This was thread about head cannon . Your attempt to somehow pretend we have some shared consensus about Sec31 is apparently yours.
I know Ron Moore's and Ira Steven Behr's imagined "season 8" of DS9 would have still had the Bajorans not yet members of the Federation.
My head cannon ... they eventually join, but do so together with the Cardassians, both having rebuilt their societies with help from the Federation after being under foreign authoritarian rule.
I always thought that after the Dominion surrenders and retreats to the Gamma Quadrant, the Romulans, Klingons, and Federation carved up control of the Cardassian Union the same way the Allies did Germany after World War II. The Federation administered area basically underwent the same assistance package that Bajor got in season 1, possibly setting up a path for a new Cardassian government to join the Federation eventually.
My head cannon ... they eventually join, but do so together with the Cardassians, both having rebuilt their societies with help from the Federation after being under foreign authoritarian rule.
I always thought that after the Dominion surrenders and retreats to the Gamma Quadrant, the Romulans, Klingons, and Federation carved up control of the Cardassian Union the same way the Allies did Germany after World War II. The Federation administered area basically underwent the same assistance package that Bajor got in season 1, possibly setting up a path for a new Cardassian government to join the Federation eventually.
This is my headcanon as well. Klingons are very good at genetic engineering and their physique is quite malleable, maybe thanks to the changes the Hur'q made to their genome when uplifting them.
In the 2250's, the Empire was in disarray and the feuding Houses tried to out-Klingon each other by shaping their bodies, gear and ships with tons of exaggerated regalia. Only when L'rell took power and her message "remain Klingon" spread, it was seen as foolish and they began striving for unity in austerity. Thanks to the newfound cooperation, the final cure to the Augment virus was soon found.
Fair. Carry on.
I'm afraid there are just too many intra-Romulan scenes confirming the Zhat Vash to just write it off like that without actively deleting parts of the canon.
Oh, and the "Romulan Free State" is anything but.
(Hey, the RFS does have the backing of the Tal Shiar, so how free could it really be?
I figure the Romulan Free State probably represents a transitional state between the oligarchical repression of the Star Empire and the genuinely democratic culture the Romulans had evolved into when they reunified with the Vulcans. They're clearly a freer society than the Star Empire, since they allowed Federation citizens to serve aboard the Artifact and to treat recovering XBs, there's no more Neutral Zone, and the Tal Shiar is said not to have the legal right to just unilaterally seize control of the Artifact and/or execute people. But the Tal Shiar is the Tal Shiar, and the actual implementation of that new legal system certainly seems to fall short of the ideal. The Free State was also known to arbitrarily mess with Federation citizens' visas.
My other bit of headcanon is that the Free State is a genuinely elected government whose leader is an honest-to-God reformer, but who doesn't have sufficient political capital to get rid of the Tal Shiar and sometimes has to compromise with them or let them win in order to stay in office.
If the Federation has a Section 31, then a free Romulan state could still have the Tal Shiar. I expect the Cardassians will still have an Obsidian Order (or something similar), even after their society (hopefully) reforms post Dominion war. S31 and its equivalents are like your... ah, digestive terminus. You don't talk about them in polite company, but they serve an essential function.
I have always felt the Progenitors from TNG's "The Chase" never died out... they eventually evolved into the Changelings.
Salome Jens played both the Progenitor and the Female Changeling, plus they look VERY similar. She told Odo that Changelings used to be humanoid eons ago. Changelings are very adept at genetic engineering, which was knowledge needed to seed all those worlds.
I also like this idea because it not only ties those things together, but it goes against the trope of the ancient civilization dying out, like the T'Kon Empire or the Iconians.
Salome Jens played both the Progenitor and the Female Changeling, plus they look VERY similar. She told Odo that Changelings used to be humanoid eons ago. Changelings are very adept at genetic engineering, which was knowledge needed to seed all those worlds.
I also like this idea because it not only ties those things together, but it goes against the trope of the ancient civilization dying out, like the T'Kon Empire or the Iconians.
I mean, there's a very big difference between having an intelligence agency/domestic security agency (e.g., Starfleet Intelligence and Federation Security); having a lawless secret police agency that does whatever it wants with the support of the state (the Tal Shiar); and having a lawless conspiracy within the state that acts without legal authority to even exist (Section 31).
Right now, the Tal Shiar is the Tal Shiar. One day, the Tal Shiar might evolve into something more akin to Starfleet Intelligence or Federation Security, but it's not there yet, and that level of abuse will undermine popular legitimacy for the Free State government. Ungovernable, abusive security agencies always do.
DS9 established that after the Obsidian Order was destroyed, it was replaced by an agency called the Cardassian Intelligence Bureau. I would certainly hope that a democratic Cardassian Union would have a CIB that is more along the lines of Starfleet Intelligence than the Obsidian Order.
For whatever it's worth, the novel The Fall: The Crimson Shadow is all about the attempted resurgence of Cardassian fascism on the eve of the end of Starfleet's occupation of Cardassia, and in particular focuses on the battle between democrats and fascists for control of Cardassian security services, including the municipal constabularies and the CIB.
If you don't talk about them in polite company, then they don't serve an essential function, they serve an abusive function. In a democratic society, security agencies actions should not be taboo.
One would imagine that Starfleet Intelligence could do what Section 31 does. Section 31 lacks the moral compass and is far more pragmatic in it's approach.If you can't talk about it it's not worth doing.
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