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Spoilers How literal is LD in your headcanon?

How literal is LD in your headcanon?

  • Completely, like a lost Doctor Who tape saved with animation

    Votes: 32 28.6%
  • Mostly, though some bits are over the top for fun

    Votes: 47 42.0%
  • Only in general terms, though the building blocks are set

    Votes: 16 14.3%
  • I don’t think about it

    Votes: 17 15.2%

  • Total voters
    112
And they'll just visually retcon Peanut Hamper to be twice as big and a different color.
 
One of these days someone is going to have to explain 'headcanon' to me.

Despite the common belief to the contrary, the entire concept of canon is a transitory artificial construct that has no practical application beyond its immediate necessity, save to serve as interpretive background decoration. It is literally fictive ornamentation for the brain. So the whole concept of "head canon" is kind of redundant, especially considering said interpretation exists solely on the viewer's end.

The entire concept of 'adhering to canon' is very new, only really surfacing within the last decade and a half or so. And is really just a marketing tactic used to placate and pander to a small few.

The reality, however, is that "canon violation" is a misnomer. The only continuity any story plot is beholden to is that of its own creation. Everything else is spice. Therefore talking dogs with JenShep's voice or talking Deltas with Jack McBrayer's are every bit as 'canon' as singing space hippies and alien visages of Abraham Lincoln.
 
I treat head canon as stuff I take seriously. Ultimately, it's all canon and I have no say over it; only what I watch.
he entire concept of 'adhering to canon' is very new, only really surfacing within the last decade and a half or so. And is really just a marketing tactic used to placate and pander to a small few.
I have still yet to parse exactly where the importance of canon came from but it is something that makes very little sense to me. No one has been able to answer to me what canon status means in terms of enjoyment,
 
I have still yet to parse exactly where the importance of canon came from but it is something that makes very little sense to me. No one has been able to answer to me what canon status means in terms of enjoyment,

The only folks canon applies to is the folks working on the shows and licensed material. It is as applicable to me as the employment rules at Walmart, which I do not work for.
 
One of these days someone is going to have to explain 'headcanon' to me.
I only use headcanon to fill in gaps. And, even then, there are very few that I actually adopt.

One time I heard on here someone's theory that the reason there was a 20-year-gap between the Enterprise-C and the Enterprise-D was out of respect for the crew of the Enterprise-C, which was lost with all hands. The ship can be replaced, but the crew can't be. So there wasn't another ship and crew until there would've been another ship or crew anyway, even if the C hadn't been destroyed.

I liked that explanation. A lot. So that headcanon worked for me.
 
According the the novelization of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, James Kirk flat out stated that the missions set in "TOS" were exaggerated on purpose for public consumption. I am going to take that approach when addressing LD's canon status.
 
According the the novelization of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, James Kirk flat out stated that the missions set in "TOS" were exaggerated on purpose for public consumption. I am going to take that approach when addressing LD's canon status.
Which is why I have no issues with DSC and TOS existing together.
 
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