What's in YOUR 'head canon'?

I'm sure there's a logical reason.

 

I doubt it.

 

Humor, it is a difficult concept.

 

In my head canon, there is a timeline where the population of Earth is much smaller, thanks to previous conflicts. As a result, when the Vulcans came, they had a lot more influence on the Terran population than Prime Universe. This would lead to humans adopting the Vulcan ways, even to the point of inter-marriages. Fast forward, Earth is a part of Vulcan's sphere of influence, which does not result in the creation of the Federation. The NX-01 Enterprise is launched under Commander Archer, with Sub-commander T'Pol as "First Officer". Meanwhile, the Romulans continue their secret influence of the Vulcans, and Humans, which one day leads to "unification", though with a more expansionist bent. Fast forward some more, you have Commander James T'Kirk of the warship Enterprise, with Sub-Commander Spock as his First Officer. Unlike in the so-called "Mirror Universe", and thanks to both human and Vulcan influences on the Romulans, the empire is a lot more pragmatic when dealing with other races. Even when the races have been conquered, much of the governance is based on the old Earth Roman Empire's governance system, in which conquered worlds are left alone, as long as they pay their tribute to the Empire. At any rate, T'Kirk prides himself more as an Explorer, in spite his stellar military record. Much of the adventures of the crew of the Enterprise is the same as in the Prime Universe, but the results of what happened are not. An example of this is how T'Kirk dealt with Khan Noonian Singh (i.e. T'Kirk's ability to be ruthless when necessary impresses Khan, to the point that the Empire gives the former dictator a job). Fast forward some more. At this point, a movement takes place, similar to Terra Prime, but on both sides: some Romulans believe that they are being diluted, while there are humans who want their own independence. An event similar to the events in TUC allows for an amicable division of the Romulan Empire, similar to how the Roman Empire split into two, with one part becoming the Federation. There is a period of stagnation, before a renaissance of sorts begins, as the Enterprise-D is launched under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Most humans have "Vulcanoid" ancestry. The Klingons are still antagonistic because of this, and the Federation is much more militarily prepared to deal with external threats than in the Prime Timeline (there is no prohibition from using cloaking technology). The events of DS9 might not take place at all, since the Bajorans are suspicious of the Federation (due to having been a part of the Romulan Empire), but the events of VOY takes place as normal.

At least, this is my own head canon...

 

In my mind everything in Star Trek takes place centuries earlier to account the incredibly pessimistic view on progress except for the Warp Drive, which was given to us by the Vulcans. It doesn't make sense, but it's better than seeing no progress on artificial human advancement over the course of centuries.

 

That reads more like an alternate reality fan fic than simple head canon.

 

If the Vulcan were holding back Earth's expansion into space for a century, what other facets of Humans advancement were also being inhibited for a similar period of time?

My head canon is different.

I ascribe to the fan theory that WWIII was in a limited area of the Earth (China/India).

The Vulcan would have been unable to endlessly send assistance,

The Vulcans had a limited ability to help Earth owing to the Vulcan not possessing a huge number of starships, and also they had other things to do beside rebuilding Earth, there was their problems with the Andorians for one. The Vulcans were not going to be shipping in food, medical supply, rebuilding materials, .

So the Vulcan concentrated their limited resources and technologically bolstered existing surviving industrial powers, those nations then would then be in a better position to employ their indigenous production capacity and natural resources to then assist and rebuilt the nations involve directly in the war and also help nations indirectly impacted by the war.

It wouldn't be a matter of the Vulcans "playing fair."

So the people who were most directly helped by the Vulcans were the Western powers, and also Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, like that.

 

Well we do see Montana was effected by the war so presumably the United States did indeed participate.

Though Africa and Eurasia probably indeed bore the brunt of the casualties.

 

Got it into my head (somehow) that a young April Wade (http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/April_Wade) might have been one of the children on Mantilles. (http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Mantilles) when it was evacuated. She would've been four at the time.

 

Because it is never explicitly stated, and because to have it otherwise is a 40 year old man's bigotry against hippies, I assume that "The One" was a larger movement that Dr. Sevrin just happened to be a Charlie Manson part in, and that you had all sorts of space hippies here and there, with other leaders and factions.

 

I've been writing fanfiction and cooking up theories for so long, I'll have to work to keep this short. But here are a few "facts" in my head-canon:

The Relaunch novels didn't happen except maybe in some distant parallel universe. Because I just don't like a lot of what they did. Especially curing Seven's Borg physiology and the Trill joining process. In my head-canon, Seven remains part Borg (physically) for the rest of her life, and Trill joinings are still irreversible.

The Klingon Empire's subjects include the Orions, the Gorn and the Nausicans: I read this on the "Star Trek: Online" website. I think in that contex, they just meant that the Klingons eventually conquered those worlds years AFTER the TNG/DS9/VOY era; but in my own head-canon, I want to think those worlds have been subjects for a longer time, maybe as far back as TOS. Because for the Klingon and Romulan "empires" we barely see or hear about subject species.

And it makes perfect sense for more aggressive species like the Gorn, Orions and Nausicans to be targets for conquering; honor-obsessed Klingons would want a fair fight when they conquer, they probably won't make a target out of peace-loving hippies too much. And even if they did, the influence of living under Klingons could *make* a world more war-like.

Finally, it's canon that the Klingon Empire allows its subject worlds some freedom to govern themselves, hence why the Orions, Gorn, and Nasuicans still have their own governments, politics and customs.

Seven of Nine made some new friends after returning home; Data (whose death soon after was a sad blow to her); Sarina Douglass (the two are so similar it's uncanny, Sarina being the more soft feminine of the two); and Ezri Dax, who counseled her on how to come to terms with her new life (as Ezri knows a thing or two about changing lives and identities, and her guilt over Joran Dax is comparable to Seven's guilt for her actions as a drone)

Naomi and Samantha Wildman were in the "Killing Game" program playing Jews, hiding in Neelix's characters' home.

Chakotay's tribe are a New Age creation: This idea is used so much in fiction, espeically by Native American fanfic writer Teya (whose work is amazing), that I often forget it wasn't the canon intention of the writers. But basically, the idea is that some time between now and the 24th century, some Native Americans who were culturally assimilated decided to get back to their native roots and created a new culture drawing from several extinct ones. This is why Chak's tribe seems to resemble a weird stereotypical mesh of various tribes, with a few traits that don't exist in any (like animal spirit guides).

I personally head-canon that Chak's *father* was from this New Age tribe, while his mother was a "real" Indian with U.S. plains tribes in her heritage (explaining why Chak sometimes talks like he's from that area, rather than South of the Boarder like he usually is).

Marla Gilmore adopted the Borg Baby: NOT my own theory; a couple different fanfic authors did this before me, and I loved the idea. Marla Gilmore, for those who don't recall, was the most prominent character from the Equinox crew who later was integrated into Voyager. I like the idea of her adopting the Borg baby, because I think more people than just the senior staff were having life-changing experiences over those seven years.

The Trill are marsupials, as stated in the books. And in my own mind, they are as culturally diverse as Earth, with various groups disagreeing strongly on who if anyone should be joined (but obviously the Planetary Symbiosis Commission has the final word on that).

A lot of novels and fan-fictions also feature improperly joined Trill, like Ezri's situation, despite Ezri supposedly being the only Trill not to undergo training for being joined. But I think this makes perfect sense. I think improper joining are a lot more common than the Trill government wants to admit, and it is not a coincidence that most of those improperly joined Trill wind up on Starfleet ships, or in the Maquis, or otherwise far away from their homeworld.

Ocampans telepathically affect the minds of their mates: Kes says that on Ocampa they mate for life and there is no jealousy; we know Vulcans have telepathic mating bonds, so Ocampa likely do as well. If such a bond has unpredictable effects on non-Ocampa, it could explain why Neelix's personality changed so radically after they broke up, and even more after she left the ship; his insane jealously and paranoia about losing her to someone else, and then suddenly being cured of Kes fever when she left, would be explained by a telepathic bond affecting him badly and then suddenly being broken off. Such a bond could also explain why Tom was so obnoxiously out of character when married to Kes in "Before and After."

 

Oh my god, I LOVE that McCoy theory! An overly emotional guy like Bones, I could see ending up cheating and ruining his own marriage (not cheating in a malicious sense, but in the sense of he'd let his emotions get the better of him when his marriage was already having problems and then he met this new intriguing woman...) This is now my head-canon too. (Head canon is contagious you know.)

 

Mars and Earth had a rivalry in the early days of space travel that never really went away, even after the Federation. Part of the lingering tension is that Mars feels undercut by history, as the Federation is very Earth-centric. Terrans think Martians are ridiculous because not only is Mars next to the most protected planet in the galaxy, so what do they have to be in a snit about.

For some reason I just really want more Mars in Star Trek. Especially because of all the ballyhooing we're doing about it now. Someone's gotta be from Musktown, Mars.

 

My head canon isn't defined by what's in it so much as what isn't. Some prominent examples:

TOS Spock's Brain
TOS Turnabout Intruder
TNG Lonely Among Us
TNG Genesis
VOY Threshold (really, anything involving "de-evolution")
ENT These are the Voyages
JJTrek
Anything written by Peter David

Stuff that is not only insipid by itself (if that was the only critera, stuff like Sub Rosa would make the list), but if taken to it's logical extent, makes the rest of the franchise dumber as well.

 

Glad you like it! Happy to spread the madness!

 

Mars is Scotland to Earths England. I can see that.

 

I think I have missed some good fanfiction. I like pretty much all of these.

 

The Orville is Star Trek, 5 or 6 universes over. Mirror Universe is #2, Kelvin timeline is #3 and Renegades is #4. Doctor Who is something like #156.