Whenever someone has trouble sleeping in TNG, they just ask Data to visit them ask them about nuclear fysica or something to fall asleep
What is your personal head canon?
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Hmmm.
Colonel Green's red uniform from the early 21st century looks that way because Green was originally a U.S. Air Force officer (hence the Colonel rank) and he modified his zippered, collared flight suit with red, aggressive coloring and shiny detailing for a more regal, totalitarian appearance.
Because absolutely everything, everywhere, at any time in Trek history, has to be either Borg or a Q. :/
And involve legacy characters.
You mean that there is more than the Borg out there?? How Borging.
New personal head canon!
The destruction of the Enterprise-D Stardrive Section in Generations was NOT the first time it had happened - in fact it possibly could have happened a couple times. The differentiating factor was that previously, the saucer section had been recovered each time. I actually have a list of times the Enterprise-D Stardrive needed to be replaced, per my head canon.
-Sometime in between Seasons 1 and 2, during an unknown incident
-During Season 4 at some point, per my story idea "Honor in Defeat" in the TNG Episode Pitch thread*
-During Season 7 at some point, per my story idea "Earthbound" in the TNG Episode Pitch thread**
*This episode describes a damaged Enterprise-D being towed back to Earth after a huge battle, but I think it works even better if it's just the saucer being towed back.
**This one probably doesn't count, as the timeline is restored at the end, and the Enterprise is returned to her original condition.
The destruction of the Enterprise-D Stardrive Section in Generations was NOT the first time it had happened - in fact it possibly could have happened a couple times. The differentiating factor was that previously, the saucer section had been recovered each time. I actually have a list of times the Enterprise-D Stardrive needed to be replaced, per my head canon.
-Sometime in between Seasons 1 and 2, during an unknown incident
-During Season 4 at some point, per my story idea "Honor in Defeat" in the TNG Episode Pitch thread*
-During Season 7 at some point, per my story idea "Earthbound" in the TNG Episode Pitch thread**
*This episode describes a damaged Enterprise-D being towed back to Earth after a huge battle, but I think it works even better if it's just the saucer being towed back.
**This one probably doesn't count, as the timeline is restored at the end, and the Enterprise is returned to her original condition.
Augment-virus Klingons (I.e. smoothheads) are generally kept segregated from the dominant, unaffected “ridgehead” Klingons. In the military, they largely crew separate ships, and tend to be assigned missions considered less “honorable”, or requiring a disdainful amount of bureaucracy. Both because of this, and because of the difficulty (for them) of advancement within mainstream Klingon society, the virus-Klingons have developed a “subculture” that all but reverses traditional Klingon values: personal honor is strongly subordinated to advancement; active treachery in one’s own interest, surveillance of one’s subordinates and rivals, and actively demonstrative cruelty are considered as active tools to be used. The mainstream Klingon establishment despises this, but quietly finds it quite useful.
The “Koala” is the superadvanced higher-dimensional alien scientist assigned to monitor our universe (which is sitting on a shelf in his lab — probably having been “captured” and brought there, rather than the Koala creating it). A subroutine of that lab’s systems examines the nearly-infinite minds within that universe; if that mind happens to die while being monitored, this causes a “glitch” in the state of that mind — rather than blinking out, it “sort of” exists within the Koala’s lab systems.
The Black Mountain, like the Koala’s shape, is an interpretive mental representation like those we saw in the Q Continuum; the Mountain (and whatever “guardian forms” one’s own brain comes up with, such as the three faceless shades of Shax’s father) represent a path that, if fully climbed, is the process of “translating” a mind from our universe into being able to manifest in the higher-dimensional one in which the Koala lives.
In practice, anyone climbing the Mountain will be detected by the Koala’s equipment. Being higher-dimensional, the Koala sees our entire timeline as a single object; so if a climber isn’t from the endpoint of that timeline, the Koala scoops them up and returns them to their proper place in their timeline. (Whether the Koala allows a climber who has reached the end of their timeline to reach the Mountain’s summit — and thus somehow manifest into an appropriate container in the Koala’s lab — cannot currently be known.)
The Black Mountain, like the Koala’s shape, is an interpretive mental representation like those we saw in the Q Continuum; the Mountain (and whatever “guardian forms” one’s own brain comes up with, such as the three faceless shades of Shax’s father) represent a path that, if fully climbed, is the process of “translating” a mind from our universe into being able to manifest in the higher-dimensional one in which the Koala lives.
In practice, anyone climbing the Mountain will be detected by the Koala’s equipment. Being higher-dimensional, the Koala sees our entire timeline as a single object; so if a climber isn’t from the endpoint of that timeline, the Koala scoops them up and returns them to their proper place in their timeline. (Whether the Koala allows a climber who has reached the end of their timeline to reach the Mountain’s summit — and thus somehow manifest into an appropriate container in the Koala’s lab — cannot currently be known.)
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That Forever Ensigns like Harry Kim and, earlier in Starfleet's history, Travis Mayweather weren't the random exceptions to the rules of promotion and length of service. It was more common than VOY and ENT let on.
Or {for some reason} section thirty-one.
This would explain why the Enterprise-D was so easily destroyed in 'Generations'...
She didn't have all twelve primary deflector shield generators, nor the eight backups...
Newly minted headcanon
This character in "The Cage" is Cadet Erica Ortegas
Ortegas was 21 in 2254, this is her cadet cruise and where she met Pike. She would later transfer to the USS Palenque where she served on the frontlines during the Klingon War.
And while I'm at it.
This is Lt. Commander La'An Noonien Singh attending Kirk's memorial in "The Tholian Web"
La'An had recently returned to the Enterprise to serve as Chief Security Officer.
This character in "The Cage" is Cadet Erica Ortegas
Ortegas was 21 in 2254, this is her cadet cruise and where she met Pike. She would later transfer to the USS Palenque where she served on the frontlines during the Klingon War.
And while I'm at it.
This is Lt. Commander La'An Noonien Singh attending Kirk's memorial in "The Tholian Web"
La'An had recently returned to the Enterprise to serve as Chief Security Officer.
And the blueshirt in the back is Rodriguez from Season 1's "Shore Leave." Looks like the exact same actor, anyways, and Rodriguez wore science blue in that episode.
Since you're on the subject:
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(The freeze frame you chose makes it look like yellowshirt has a nose and mouth growing out of the side of his face, or turned his head really quickly.
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Jenna Mitchell
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(The freeze frame you chose makes it look like yellowshirt has a nose and mouth growing out of the side of his face, or turned his head really quickly.
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How do you explain TNG Eye of the Beholder, in which bodies of Utopia Planitia personnel murdered while the Enterprise was under construction eight years earlier are found in the stardrive section?
UESPA still continues to exist after Season 1 of TOS, but is in charge of local Sector 001/Earth-based launches and construction efforts and mission assignments, so it's rarely if never mentioned again and Starfleet just becomes the overarching name for everything that both the interstellar agency as well as local organizations do with starships, other vessels and probes.
As with everything, there's the real world answer, and the In-Universe answer.
Real World? I had forgotten that episode. Honestly it's not that great, IMO.
In-Universe? IDK, I guess I don't consider it canon? Like I said, it's not a great episode.
I strongly feel people have a right to call whatever they want canon or non-canon in Star Trek (I myself consider whole swaths of DS9 and Voyager to be non-canon) because it's all, at the end of the day, FICTION. Not a drop of it is real.
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