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What is your personal head canon?
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It's funny cause it's true. LOL
I think I'm generally Level 2.
I think the great thing now is there’s so much Trek content (and a great deal of it contradicts itself), so we’re much freer to take a pick-n-mix approach to what we accept as canon.
Well, I know it’s still technically canon if it’s shown on screen…but we’re free to headcanon it as “that’s an alternate universe”…and nobody can reeeeally prove otherwise. I think TNG’s “Parallels” was a revelation in that respect.
Well, I know it’s still technically canon if it’s shown on screen…but we’re free to headcanon it as “that’s an alternate universe”…and nobody can reeeeally prove otherwise. I think TNG’s “Parallels” was a revelation in that respect.
Yeah, my understanding is that is the exact opposite of how it works. When there is limited information and larger gaps (such as during the 60s and 70s) there were more opportunities for fans to freely fill in the gaps because "nobody could reeeeally prove otherwise." However, now that those gaps have become fewer and smaller, it's more difficult to fill in the blanks. Plus picking and choosing what on screen to reject in favor of fan theory is more than just filling in the gaps.
The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. It's impossible to prove a negative.
But you do you. Ultimately we all, even the writers, pick and choose what to accept and what to reject.
How you interpret it is how it really works in the writer's room.
Yeah, I’m not suggesting this is in any way objectively how it works. It’s just how I choose to consume my Trek now. It works for me. There’s a faction of the fandom who get really angry, bitter and, well, triggered about things they don’t like (thinking specifically of the “death to NuTrek” crowd). If I don’t like something I just shrug and put it back down again. No skin off my nose. I’ll just stick to rewatching the shows and episodes I do like.
I guess you could say we have more lines to color in the coloring book or more panels to fill up in the comic strip, metaphorically. Freed from making up practically everything, we have the raw material to fill in details we want to.
Honestly, we've always had that freedom. I prefer to believe that episodes like "The Alternative Factor," "And The Children Shall Lead," and Star Trek V didn't happen in quite the way they were depicted on screen, and that Strange New Worlds is an alternate universe version of Trek that only sometimes lines up with TOS. And no one can really stop me from believing that. That's the beauty of headcanon.
Consider this: Cage is the pilot on which SNW is based. WNMHGB is the pilot on which TOS is based. Gene made two pilots, and they each sold a series.
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Or scripts written by Keyser Soze.
Personal headcanon: Warp drive was successfully miniaturized to the point that shuttlepods have warp capability. Evidence: The shuttlepod that took Mariner to Starbase 80 in Lower Decks "Trusted Sources" S03E09 visibly jumped to warp. Yeah it might have made more sense with a full-sized shuttle, but it is what it is.
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The shuttlepods in ENT had high sublight capacity, so I imagine that 24th century shuttlepods might be warp capable.
The tiny Type-15 ShuttlePods feel like the VW Bug equivalent of Shuttle Craft.
It's so damn tiny & cramp, yes it can go Warp, but it's sibling Shuttle Crafts are larger, better, faster, & more comfortable with it's much larger interior space.
Sadly, not every mission justifies the use of the larger Shuttle Craft, so sometimes you have to take out the smaller Shuttle Pod for your mission.
You usually don't need to take the SUV to go for a grocery run, a compact car can accomplish the same thing w/ less resources expended & put at risk.
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You do, if it is snowing very heavily...12" to 18" on the ground...
In TNG at least, shuttlepods were still sublight only. The Voltaire that Capt. Picard piloted in the Mar Oscura Nebula, ahead of the Enterprise had its Impulse Nacelle damaged when it was clipped by some dark matter in TNG "In Theory" S04E25. One would posit that the warp capable shuttlepod variant has a Impulse Powered warp drive. I am not seeing a lot of likelihood for a M/AM reactor being installed in it IMHO, but YMMV.
Agreed, it is like the sub-compact car of shuttle craft. LOL. Apparently, per Memory Alpha, the Type-18 is when the change came about, although Memory Alpha also states that Lower Decks seems to allude to the Type-15 being able to be fitted with the warp drive capable nacelles.
Remember when they had Riker in one of those that crash landed, he must've been so uncomfortable in there having to duck into the damn thing.
Especially given how tall Jonathan Frakes is currently 6' 2" & was 6' 3" when he was younger.
Everybody shrinks as you get into your older ages, it's not by much, but it does happen.He... shrunk?
Like Frakes, I have "shrunk in the wash" from 6'3" peak, now down to 6'2 1/2"..
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