Yeah, it's pretty clear he was meant to be a human. Even the last name Cochrane is a very Terracentric surname.
What is your personal head canon?
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Memory Alpha says he's dead, but doesn't say how. It might just be an assumption.
I had read the same statement on Memory Alpha, but it wouldn't be the first time I found a statement there that, while highly likely, couldn't strictly speaking be proven using canon material alone.
It's a great reference source, but on a few occasions it seems to contain (slight) assumptions like that.
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You're too kind. They've been known to make things up out of whole cloth, injecting pure fanon.
"Nobody dies in Star Trek" -- William Shatner
I'm open to better sources.
Possibly. I'm only speaking here of what I've seen myself.
Like Wikipedia, it's only as reliable as its contributors, and I'm sure most people mean well. Perhaps I should become a member and make such (slight) edits myself. Then again, I don't want to be drawn into conflicts that theoretically shouldn't exist in the first place (after all, in theory everyone should agree on where (canon) facts end and conjecture starts ...)
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There are no facts in the Trek universe, its all made up!
Indeed. But if the right people make it up, it's facts. If the wrong people make it up, it's head canon.There are no facts in the Trek universe, its all made up!
There are no facts in the Trek universe, its all made up!
That's precisely why I called them 'canon facts' and not just 'facts' - of course the entire canon is made up itself in the first place.
You know we're here to have fun discussing the shows, right? "It's just a show" is never a good comment.There are no facts in the Trek universe, its all made up!
Your funny bone didn't recognise a jestful comment did it?
Can't always realixze that online, sorry.
Just been thru several "it's just a show" arguments from real party poopers on Facebook.
“It’s just a show” is perfectly good (and sometimes necessary) reminder when people are actually getting angry and insulting each other over meaningless minutiae.
It truly boggles the mind.
I always take it AS an insult!“It’s just a show” is perfectly good (and sometimes necessary) reminder when people are actually getting angry and insulting each other over meaningless minutiae.
It truly boggles the mind.
It's what the mundanes always say to us Trekkies to shut us up.
Perhaps if we didn't call them mundanes they wouldn't say that...just a thought.I always take it AS an insult!
Otherwise, we're going to end up an episode of Night Court.
Holiday Inn, Shatner, 1986. It was a very brightly-lit Saturday night.
I hadn't kissed a girl yet at that time, so you can imagine my humiliation. Poor Jon Lovitz.
I always take it AS an insult!
Mundanes? Are we the Psi Corp now?
"It's just a show" ?
Maybe but for some it might mean or even be more than that.
Maybe but for some it might mean or even be more than that.
I mean, ok, but that doesn't carry any weight for some of the details that have no answers because it wasn't thought of or consistent in previous material.
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