Had no idea the English word implies that. Thx for the correction.
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What is your personal head canon?
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Had no idea the English word implies that. Thx for the correction.
The Q Continuum undoes Amanda Rogers' intervention on Tagra IV after the Enterprise departs, leaving the planet's inhabitants to die. She herself is unaware of this.
In Ship In A Bottle, Barclay is called to troubleshoot a glitch in the holodeck, specifically in Data's Sherlock Holmes program (characters using wrong dominant hands) When he starts looking into it, he traces the issue to the protected memory of the Moriarty character, that's been left in storage there, untouched for over 4 years.
Now, the glitch, which is never explained, could be unintentionally due to the prolonged storage of an unused character, that's presumably of a large byte size, because of its complexity, causing running issues.
OR! It could be used to explain away the one major plot hole in the story. How is it that when Barclay closes out Moriarty's program, & leaves, Moriarty is shown reappearing of his own choosing? This demonstrates he already has some degree of control over if not the whole holodeck, at least a portion of his program, already.
He claims, to everyone's surprise, that he'd in fact been sporadically conscious, in his saved state. My theory is that even though he was shut down, but never purged, erased, or even isolated, whatever part of that program, that continued to exist & be used, he still had some kind of semi-conscious access to.
So he spent whatever times he was partially aware methodically worming his way into the program to deliberately cause a glitch that would manifest something like the handedness malfunction, knowing that eventually it would cause an issue in the program execution, which would hopefully send them to investigate the glitch, and force them to reactivate his program, at the source of it. This way, he could then somehow have enough running time to covertly cement his foothold over himself not getting stored again, while Barclay sat there dumbfounded. Once he had that advantage, he would have access to the whole holodeck again thereafter, to lay his trap for them, upon return.
In short, he didn't come back by accident. He was in there all along, hatching a scheme with the limited function at his disposal, & outwitted everyone without even being fully active. He maintained some degree of tangible control over the hardware, not unlike he'd had back when he'd been able to rock the ship
Now, the glitch, which is never explained, could be unintentionally due to the prolonged storage of an unused character, that's presumably of a large byte size, because of its complexity, causing running issues.
OR! It could be used to explain away the one major plot hole in the story. How is it that when Barclay closes out Moriarty's program, & leaves, Moriarty is shown reappearing of his own choosing? This demonstrates he already has some degree of control over if not the whole holodeck, at least a portion of his program, already.
He claims, to everyone's surprise, that he'd in fact been sporadically conscious, in his saved state. My theory is that even though he was shut down, but never purged, erased, or even isolated, whatever part of that program, that continued to exist & be used, he still had some kind of semi-conscious access to.
So he spent whatever times he was partially aware methodically worming his way into the program to deliberately cause a glitch that would manifest something like the handedness malfunction, knowing that eventually it would cause an issue in the program execution, which would hopefully send them to investigate the glitch, and force them to reactivate his program, at the source of it. This way, he could then somehow have enough running time to covertly cement his foothold over himself not getting stored again, while Barclay sat there dumbfounded. Once he had that advantage, he would have access to the whole holodeck again thereafter, to lay his trap for them, upon return.
In short, he didn't come back by accident. He was in there all along, hatching a scheme with the limited function at his disposal, & outwitted everyone without even being fully active. He maintained some degree of tangible control over the hardware, not unlike he'd had back when he'd been able to rock the ship
The 'Suppose you had all of
to choose from, and this was only one small sample.' guy?
It HAS to be.
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My head canon is that post-temporal cold war the eugenics wars took place from the years 2049-2053. That retains the four-year length of the pre-temporal Cold war timeline and lines up with first contact taking place approximately 10 years after the last world war and the world war III events that we saw in Terralysium happening in 2053.
Also, I retcon the 2079 date stated by Q in Encounter at Farpoint for the post atomic horror to 2059 because it doesn't make sense that there would still be those kind of courts on Earth 16 years after first contact. I put Qs mentioning the year 2079 on the same shelf that I put James R Kirk.
Also, I retcon the 2079 date stated by Q in Encounter at Farpoint for the post atomic horror to 2059 because it doesn't make sense that there would still be those kind of courts on Earth 16 years after first contact. I put Qs mentioning the year 2079 on the same shelf that I put James R Kirk.
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Once again noting how dumb it is that the powers that be treat the 2079 date and McCoy's age of 137 from "Encounter at Farpoint" as canonical when they discount Data's "Class of '78" comment. Either all of the dates in that episode should be accurate, or none of them should be.
I suppose it depends on who says it - who's more likely to misspeak, with no obvious reason why beyond that's just what people do sometimes.
Class of seventy eight. He didn’t say the apostrophe.
He was in a graduating class of 78 people.
At least McCoy's age makes sense once "The Neutral Zone" establishes that year as 2364, and TUC shows McCoy about to retire (retirement would mean he would be in his 60s at least). So there are other things to help back that up.
Nothing else helps the 'class of 78' or the 2079 court dates, so they can be dismissed at errors.
It's the weakest head canon possible, but one could see it as Data saying he graduated in a class that had 78 very accomplished and top-scoring Cadets in it, but yeah, after "The Neutral Zone" aired the early episode quirks of TNG are often best ignored completely or head-retconned.
Talk about personal head canon! 
Before leaving station K-7, Dr McCoy treated all the poisoned grain with an antidote, rendering it safe for consumption on Sherman's Planet.
Before leaving station K-7, Dr McCoy treated all the poisoned grain with an antidote, rendering it safe for consumption on Sherman's Planet.
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Could be worse. Could be Dennis from Head of the Class.
No it doesn't, because it makes McCoy all of 39 years old during the first season of TOS. DeForest Kelley was 46 and looked every year of it. There's no way he's plausible as a 39 year old.
That's just seven years' difference, though. And Kelley was a Greatest Generation individual, and hell, probably more than half of those folks looked way older than they often portrayed themselves in film and on television.
Given what space, radiation, transporters, and stress combined can do to a man...
I mean, canonically, Kirk is barely 40 in TMP. Shatner was 47 when he filmed the movie and 48 when it was released.
That "class of '78" line always pops me because I think it's from the FASA Star Trek timeline, and the early TNG books which were the end of the FASA/Trek relationship due to the TNG Officer's Manual being published without clearences from Paramount and thus being completely insane (in a good way, IMHO)
Samer with James Doohan. Heck, he had fingers shot off during the War. But drinking and smoking will age you, even if they're not what kills you - and everyone did those back then.
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