I think that has happened in general not just Trek books, lovely printed covers with nice art
What is your personal head canon?
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Keith Birdsong did a lot great covers of novels for the franchise.
He was a really talented guy, created some beautiful work. The likenesses were always superb too.
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Back to head canon...
After being forced from his home, Mullibok (the farmer in "Progress") faced an excruciatingly depressing reality. He was too old to start over on an empty plot of land, too prickly to work alongside anyone else, too independent to fit in at the Bajoran retirement community they probably stuck him at, and too pissed off to share his knowledge of farming with the government that rendered him homeless. We don't know how long it took his body to die, but when it did, it was just catching up with the rest of him. When the wheels of Progress turn, someone always winds up crushed to paste underneath the bus.
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go slit my wrists from the sheer depressing-ness of that ending. That or start up the more whimsical "If Wishes Were Horses", AKA "Sex Kitten Dax".
After being forced from his home, Mullibok (the farmer in "Progress") faced an excruciatingly depressing reality. He was too old to start over on an empty plot of land, too prickly to work alongside anyone else, too independent to fit in at the Bajoran retirement community they probably stuck him at, and too pissed off to share his knowledge of farming with the government that rendered him homeless. We don't know how long it took his body to die, but when it did, it was just catching up with the rest of him. When the wheels of Progress turn, someone always winds up crushed to paste underneath the bus.
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go slit my wrists from the sheer depressing-ness of that ending. That or start up the more whimsical "If Wishes Were Horses", AKA "Sex Kitten Dax".
Oh my Prophets, Oddish. I’m glad you weren’t writing the episodes 
My Mullibok head canon is much more optimistic. Kira managed to find a small cottage for him on Bajor with a little land and neighbours who would check in on him. He remained a crotchety old git, but didn’t stay mad at Kira for too long and she would visit him whenever she was on Bajor and saw him as a surrogate grandfather.
Don’t take away my hope!
My Mullibok head canon is much more optimistic. Kira managed to find a small cottage for him on Bajor with a little land and neighbours who would check in on him. He remained a crotchety old git, but didn’t stay mad at Kira for too long and she would visit him whenever she was on Bajor and saw him as a surrogate grandfather.
Don’t take away my hope!
I've got something wild and crazy. This is wacky and I know it.
When Picard is talking about the time he was stabbed on Starbase Earhart, Wesley asks, "Was this before the Klingons joined the Federation?" and Picard says, "That's right."
Obviously they hadn't yet finalized the state of Klingon/Federation relations in TNG yet. They were still ironing out the kinks. I know that. But bear with me. And let's have some fun.
Picard graduated from the Academy in 2327. What if in the 2330s, the Klingons actually join the Federation? The Federation's been helping them out for the past 40 years. They trust each other now. They both hate Romulans at this point. The Klingons join. It's a very awkward adjustment. A large minority of Klingons are against it. It eventually spills into a majority. Then the Klingons leave the Federation. Anti-Federation sentiment rises, and have a brief war or conflict that eventually gets resolved. This happens by 2344. When, as Lieutenant Castille in "Yesterday's Enterprise" says the Federation was working on a Peace Treaty the Klingons. This isn't the same peace treaty as the one from TUC and why, on DS9, in "The Way of the Warrior", they're talking about there having been two decades of peace between the Klingons and the Federation.
This ties up every inconsistency about KIingon/Federation relations during the first half of the 24th Century. Did they have any of this in mind? Nope! But I think it works.
When Picard is talking about the time he was stabbed on Starbase Earhart, Wesley asks, "Was this before the Klingons joined the Federation?" and Picard says, "That's right."
Obviously they hadn't yet finalized the state of Klingon/Federation relations in TNG yet. They were still ironing out the kinks. I know that. But bear with me. And let's have some fun.
Picard graduated from the Academy in 2327. What if in the 2330s, the Klingons actually join the Federation? The Federation's been helping them out for the past 40 years. They trust each other now. They both hate Romulans at this point. The Klingons join. It's a very awkward adjustment. A large minority of Klingons are against it. It eventually spills into a majority. Then the Klingons leave the Federation. Anti-Federation sentiment rises, and have a brief war or conflict that eventually gets resolved. This happens by 2344. When, as Lieutenant Castille in "Yesterday's Enterprise" says the Federation was working on a Peace Treaty the Klingons. This isn't the same peace treaty as the one from TUC and why, on DS9, in "The Way of the Warrior", they're talking about there having been two decades of peace between the Klingons and the Federation.
This ties up every inconsistency about KIingon/Federation relations during the first half of the 24th Century. Did they have any of this in mind? Nope! But I think it works.
Here's a happier one from me...
Freed of the toxic influence of Alixus and her son/enforcer, the colonists in "Paradise" soon came to their senses. While they remained on the planet (it did seem pretty nice there), they deactivated the duonetic field and adopted a lifestyle that made sensible use of technology.
Freed of the toxic influence of Alixus and her son/enforcer, the colonists in "Paradise" soon came to their senses. While they remained on the planet (it did seem pretty nice there), they deactivated the duonetic field and adopted a lifestyle that made sensible use of technology.
Until they were ground to paste by the Dominion.
It's definitely possible. Though Alixus was careful to choose a planet in an obscure location. As long as there was limited traffic and subspace activity, they'd have at least a chance of going unnoticed. Remember that guy who built that colony of holograms... the Dominion didn't notice him for 30 years.
One thing I’ve wondered about is that, in The Undiscovered Country, it’s implied part of the Khitomer Accords entails helping in the relocation of the Klingons possibly to inside Federation space. The speech of the Federation president indicates plans for the evacuation of the Klingon homeworld, and Admiral Cartwright denounces any possible peace plan along the lines of objecting to the Klingons being given safe haven inside Federation space by likening them to “trash” migrating across the galaxy.I've got something wild and crazy. This is wacky and I know it.
When Picard is talking about the time he was stabbed on Starbase Earhart, Wesley asks, "Was this before the Klingons joined the Federation?" and Picard says, "That's right."
Obviously they hadn't yet finalized the state of Klingon/Federation relations in TNG yet. They were still ironing out the kinks. I know that. But bear with me. And let's have some fun.
Picard graduated from the Academy in 2327. What if in the 2330s, the Klingons actually join the Federation? The Federation's been helping them out for the past 40 years. They trust each other now. They both hate Romulans at this point. The Klingons join. It's a very awkward adjustment. A large minority of Klingons are against it. It eventually spills into a majority. Then the Klingons leave the Federation. Anti-Federation sentiment rises, and have a brief war or conflict that eventually gets resolved. This happens by 2344. When, as Lieutenant Castille in "Yesterday's Enterprise" says the Federation was working on a Peace Treaty the Klingons. This isn't the same peace treaty as the one from TUC and why, on DS9, in "The Way of the Warrior", they're talking about there having been two decades of peace between the Klingons and the Federation.
This ties up every inconsistency about KIingon/Federation relations during the first half of the 24th Century. Did they have any of this in mind? Nope! But I think it works.
There’s been no indication that the Qo’Nos in TNG and beyond is a different planet. Or that there are multiple Klingon homeworlds.
So I wonder if you could reconcile things along the lines of your idea, but maybe their joining the Federation was tied to the idea of relocating to inside Federation space. And maybe at some point they realized the damage to Qo’Nos wasn’t as bad as they thought and conservative elements within the Empire forced the powers that be to reconsider whether they actually needed and wanted to give up sovereignty.
Not an unreasonable idea
I think that Tosk were created by the same people who made the Jem'Hadar.
Also, I think that the Ennis/Nol-Ennis planet where Opaka ended up was a Dominion punishment, like the "Quickening" planet.
Wasn't the original intent for Tosk and his hunters to later be revealed as being part of the Dominion, or is that just some internet theory floating around whose origins I happen to misremember?
That is not clear, though MA states that Wolffe speculated the Vorta gave the Hunters the Tosk frim.the Deep Space Nine companion book.
I'd say that's not impossible. Dominion punishments seem to have an excessively sadistic streak to them, and this one certainly fits that mold.
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I've always thought, as far back as 1991 actually (!!!) that the Federation, Klingons, and allies were able to restore Qo'noS back to a habitable state between TUC and TNG.
I think having the Klingons relocate and then return would've been perfect. I hadn't thought about that little part. So thank you for the suggestion!
It wasn't a rumor. They were actually going to do it, but ultimately decided not to.
For instance, the Jem'Hadar who takes the helm of the Defiant in "Broken Link" was originally supposed to be a Hunter.
And yeah, the Jem'Hadar and Tosk were created from the same "original" race. The Tosk were given to the Hunters as gifts, to hone their tracking abilities (the Hunters are the designated navigators/trackers of the Dominion).
As for the Klingons, I'm liking the idea that the fallout from the destruction of Praxis just wasn't as hazardous as was originally thought, and that the allies were able to save Qo'noS from destruction without having to evacuate it. It would take ages to evacuate the entire population, anyway.
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been thinking about this one for a bit…it’s another kinda sad one…
The Enterprise B.
After the Nexus incident it became the black sheep of the Enterprise family. Officers and crew fleet wide thought the ship was cursed due to the death of Captain Kirk.
It was quietly retired after a short (relatively) and uneventful career. Instead of joining the NX-01 and 1701-A in the fleet museum it was sent to a ship yard to be stripped for parts to keep other Excelsior class ships in service.
Several Excelsior Class ships that served in the Dominion War carried parts of the Enterprise B with them. However in breaking with tradition, nothing from the Enterprise B was carried over to the Enterprise C.
Privately and unfairly Harriman was blamed (and blamed himself) for the death of Kirk and for the ships reputation, despite being exonerated of any wrong doing by command.
The Enterprise B.
After the Nexus incident it became the black sheep of the Enterprise family. Officers and crew fleet wide thought the ship was cursed due to the death of Captain Kirk.
It was quietly retired after a short (relatively) and uneventful career. Instead of joining the NX-01 and 1701-A in the fleet museum it was sent to a ship yard to be stripped for parts to keep other Excelsior class ships in service.
Several Excelsior Class ships that served in the Dominion War carried parts of the Enterprise B with them. However in breaking with tradition, nothing from the Enterprise B was carried over to the Enterprise C.
Privately and unfairly Harriman was blamed (and blamed himself) for the death of Kirk and for the ships reputation, despite being exonerated of any wrong doing by command.
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