I never actually reda the novel completely but in hindsight I'd have preferred a different approach for Star Trek 'beginnings' than what we got.
What is your personal head canon?
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i guess it makes more sense that we settled there first, and thats why they look human, rather than the randomness of finding humans so close to Sol, even though now we have both the progenitors and the preservers that could be responsible.
I sorry, it seems you perhaps misunderstood me. I'm the novel humans did not colonize Alpha Centauri first. The natives of Alpha Centauri just so happened to be (nearly) identical to Earthlings.
TOS consists of three seasons, an animated series, and six films. GEN is not in my head canon.
Spock becomes an ambassador and McCoy an admiral, but Scotty and Kirk don't go into limbo for decades. "Relics," therefore, is a dream that Geordi has after consulting a holodeck version of Scotty for help with an engineering problem.
None of the TNG films happened, nor the Abrams films. I consider all of these bad fanfiction at best and deconstruction at worst.
This means Romulus isn't destroyed and Spock doesn't get trapped in a crappy alternate universe.
None of the Kurtz Trek shows are canon to me. They're reboots that exist in other crappy universes.
The true "Prime Timeline" hasn't been seen since the end of Voyager.
Spock becomes an ambassador and McCoy an admiral, but Scotty and Kirk don't go into limbo for decades. "Relics," therefore, is a dream that Geordi has after consulting a holodeck version of Scotty for help with an engineering problem.
None of the TNG films happened, nor the Abrams films. I consider all of these bad fanfiction at best and deconstruction at worst.
This means Romulus isn't destroyed and Spock doesn't get trapped in a crappy alternate universe.
None of the Kurtz Trek shows are canon to me. They're reboots that exist in other crappy universes.
The true "Prime Timeline" hasn't been seen since the end of Voyager.
There is nothing so binding as a fan's own headcanon. It can be tough to let go of it when aired Trek contradicts it.
In my head canon the Optimum Movement of Colonel Green still happened prior to World War III and that's the official name of the organization to which the Postatomic Horror drugged-up soldiers seen in "Encounter at Farpoint, Part I(TNG)" belonged.
Given what happened to "Gary Mitchell", some folks will form a cult across various species lines that are willing to take the risk to travel to the Galactic Barrier and risk their bodies to become "Super Powered" by exposing their body to the "Negative Energy" field inside the 'Galactic Barrier'.
Obviously, many folks will die, but some will end up with "Psionic Super Powers" and potentially become "Problematic" individuals.
Obviously, many folks will die, but some will end up with "Psionic Super Powers" and potentially become "Problematic" individuals.
This is assuming that there wasn't something about Gary that made it more likely he'd become megalomaniacal.
I mean, he wasn't exactly the nicest guy before he got those powers, was he?
And Dr. Dehner didn't go space-crazy when she got the powers...
That's why I edited by original post, not everybody goes "Crazy Drunk on Power".
Gorn males are slow and bulky while their females are smaller, slender, and agile. It just so happened Kirk encountered a male Gorn. In my fictional Trek series (prior to SNW) I would have depicted a female Gorn as a more dangerous and more realistic character than the man in the 60s rubber suit.
Headcanon:
The Galactic Barrier is primarily composed of midi-chlorians, coalesced out of the mycelial network. Whether other large galaxies have similar such barriers is currently unknown.
Great minds think alike:Was Gary Mitchell a Force User?
I just had a wild fan theory pop into my head while I was waking up this morning: In "Where No Man Has Gone Before," Star Trek's second pilot, Captain Kirk's best friend Gary Mitchell suddenly finds himself with starling new abilities after the Enterprise attempts to cross the Galactic Barrier...
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Well, it took longer for the Barrier to affect Dr. Dehner. I feel like if she'd lived for longer, she probably would've gotten corrupted by the power too.
I honestly took it more as "We never really considered that when we were writing the show, so here's an explanation off the top of my head 30 years later that I hope you won't think about too closely." The "Ninja Vanish" GIF really adds to that feeling.
You mean like how Braga, years after the fact, said that Archer was FutureGuy even though we know for a fact that he didn't know who FutureGuy was when he was producing the show?
I don't know if I put this in here earlier, but I have a particularly dark headcanon for Trek.
We don't see alot of Asian people in Star Trek because... there aren't all that many Asian people. The Eugenics Wars had largely been fought in Asia, and then the brunt of the nuclear exchange of WW3 was also in Asia, as well as the worst and longest parts of the "Post-Atomic Horror".
Asia was just absolutely ravaged for like, a century. While western nations were sending out warp ships to colonize new stars, Asian countries were living through a Mad Max apocalypse world, probably up through the early 22nd century.
Also... while not actually my headcanon yet, more of a "that's a neat idea", the "Eastern Coalition" wasn't a Pacific power... it was a fractured part of the US. Pike claims the Second American Civil War rolled into the Eugenics Wars, which rolled into WW3. Perhaps the ECON was a faction borne of the Second Civil War and the US had not reunited yet as of 2063. Colonel Green may have been a prominent member of the ECON.
We don't see alot of Asian people in Star Trek because... there aren't all that many Asian people. The Eugenics Wars had largely been fought in Asia, and then the brunt of the nuclear exchange of WW3 was also in Asia, as well as the worst and longest parts of the "Post-Atomic Horror".
Asia was just absolutely ravaged for like, a century. While western nations were sending out warp ships to colonize new stars, Asian countries were living through a Mad Max apocalypse world, probably up through the early 22nd century.
Also... while not actually my headcanon yet, more of a "that's a neat idea", the "Eastern Coalition" wasn't a Pacific power... it was a fractured part of the US. Pike claims the Second American Civil War rolled into the Eugenics Wars, which rolled into WW3. Perhaps the ECON was a faction borne of the Second Civil War and the US had not reunited yet as of 2063. Colonel Green may have been a prominent member of the ECON.
Perhaps many of them escaped Earth in the wake of the chaos and settled such far-off colonies that in time their connections to Earth diminished, and they became more focused on their internal affairs.
But we do see a lot of Asian individuals, with familiar Asian-descended named characters in, I think, each and every series. We maybe don’t see big crowds of Asians, but I don’t think we generally see big crowds of humans in general, when it’s not a “Federation Council” type scene.
(Meanwhile, I admit I’m still waiting for a Federation Captain with a name like Myron Schwartzberg.)
Mmm.. I see what you are saying, but do the numbers really support this?
First, what people are you considering Asian? The continent includes Russia, China, Mongolia, India, Vietnam, Korea, Laos, etc... That's a large swath of humanity.
Second, that largr swath includes 1 billion Chinese as well as 1 billion Indians. Take 600 million people away from China and that still leaves the rest of Asia (China, though declines by 60%). China and India both can absorb such a combined loss and still lose only 30% population each. Spread the loss out over more of Asia and each country really doesn't lose that many total population. Of course, it's not reasonable to expect that 600 million would be spread evenly.
From "The Royale"
WORF: Commander.
DATA: Is this significant, sir?
(It's a spacesuit on a hangar)
RIKER: American.
DATA: Fifty two stars sir. Places it between 2033 and 2079 AD. It correlates with the debris we found. Colonel S. Richey. Rest in peace, Colonel.
There were 52 states in the United States of America in 2063
I guess. I didn't know that Braga said that about ENT, and I don't particularly care about ENT headcanons, anyway.John Byrne had a neat one, though: Archer and his crew did something spectacular that ultimately removed them from Federation history. That was a clever way to explain away any continuity issues ENT introduced, although I doubt many ENT fans would like it.
I think I read something like that in one of the old Best of Trek essays.
I think we'd need a Star Trek movie directed by Woody Allen for that.
See, that’s the thing. Why should we? Why is such a name taken as inherently funny? (I know it generally is; I would argue that there’s no reason it should be. “Attention Klingon cruiser: This is Captain Myron Schwartzberg of the starship Buster Crabbe; I’m the human who just kicked your ass.” Shouldn’t be different from any other.)I think we'd need a Star Trek movie directed by Woody Allen for that.
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