What is your personal head canon?

[AmandaSmith]

This is kind of piggy backing off the post of what would you remove from Canon. What, despite it being in the TV shows or movies do you decide, nah... I have a better idea. A few for me are:

- Savvak was actually the traitor. I know this was the original plan but it's not canon. Also their relationship was like father/adoptive daughter.

-Money may not exist but assists do. It was the wealthy people of the past that we see in the shows now who own things. Picard vineyard , Kirk's family farm. They were the rich people of the past.

-Characters of two worlds (Spock, B'elanna) can not / should not be able have children do to this fact. I know she does and it bugs me.

-Kirk (TOS) has a speech impediment causing him to pause after several words.

-In Kelven Universe there was at least a year after getting back to earth that we didn't see where everyone either caught up on classes or got more experience.

So what are yours??

 

[Lord Garth]

EDITED to organize these into Chronological Order to make it neater:

The Disco Klingons were one of the Klingons' attempts to fix the Augment Virus, and they went too far. Eventually, they found a proper way to cure it.

Saavik is half-Romulan.

Kirk knew McCoy before TOS, and they served somewhere else together previously.

Phase II happened (in modified form) shortly after TMP.

Planet of the Titans, the unmade Star Trek movie, takes place between TMP and TWOK and explains why Kirk is no longer commanding the Enterprise at the beginning of TWOK. Otherwise, after working so hard to get the Enterprise back in TMP, I can't imagine him giving it up again.

There was no Enterprise for 20 years between the C and D out of respect for the crew being lost with all hands. The ship can be replaced, the crew can't.

The uniform change from the TWOK variants to the TNG variants was Starfleet's attempt to change its image to appear less militaristic.

Alexander was actually conceived six years before "The Emissary", not during the episode itself. That would make him 8-10 when he stayed with Worf in TNG and 14 when we see him in DS9. That lines up much better IMO.

Old Head Canon before SNW was a thing: I thought the crew Kirk had in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was the crew he inherited from Pike. Anyone introduced from "The Corbomite Manuever" on were people he brought on.

 

[Paul755]

Get thing big obvious one out of the way first…

almost all Kurtzman Trek from Disco to SNW is an alternate timeline. The only outliers are Lower Decks and Prodigy. LD depends on the crossover with SNW. But Prodigy appears to be firmly in the Roddenberry/Berman timeline.

Now the little ones…

The 1701-A was a brand new ship. Not the Yorktown or something else re-christened as the Enterprise.

Kirk commanded the 1701 on a full 5 year mission after TMP and the 1701-A for a full 5 year mission after Final Frontier.

The 1701-B was quietly retired to the fleet museum after an uneventful and quiet career. It was always seen as a cursed ship after the death of Kirk.

Saavik stayed behind on Vulcan in Trek 4 not because she was pregnant with Spock’s Pon Farr child but because she was pregnant with David Marcus’s child.

Ro Laren and Tom Riker…both dead. Riker when the Klingons invaded Cardassia (was offered a chance at freedom in exchange for duty as a soldier…Dirty Dozen style). Ro died when the Dominion wiped out the Maquis.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Saavik stayed behind on Vulcan in Trek 4 not because she was pregnant with Spock’s Pon Farr child but because she was pregnant with David Marcus’s child.

Interesting. What becomes of the child?

 

[1001001]

Picard is Wesley’s real father.

That’s really the only thing I’ve settled on in my own mind.

 

[Dukhat]

Each of the five Paramount+ shows take place in their own separate universes (and that means DSC and SNW are also separate universes), and it’s up to the viewer which show actually takes place in the ‘Prime’ universe (or, alternately, they can choose to believe that none of them do.)

 

[somebuddyX]

I made this one up around 2006 so it's not related to anything in Online but I imagined the Enterprise-E was still in service in 2408 and at the time was commanded by Worf. I always liked the idea of starships being like aircraft carriers in having a life span of around fifty years. I absolutely loved the idea of this ship who only had 6 hours of appearances having been around for forty years in-universe having offscreen adventures.
Ro and Tom Riker hooked up at least once.
Some of the Romulans tried to reactivate the Borg transwarp network using the power of their star but it malfunctioned causing the star to begin to blow up and risked sending the nova through transwarp to a bunch of inhabited systems around the galaxy. So they got red matter to nullify it and I guess they did even though there's a whole bunch left? (Even in the real universe he had to have used red matter to cause the time hole that sent him and Nero back in time, so did he use it on the remains of the nova and that's the hole they fell into?) The Kelvin timeline spawned a bunch of it's own alternate timelines by the use of red matter in that film which amounted to nothing but a shit tonne of debris shooting out of multiple orifices and surprising a bunch of aliens.
The Romulan War was fought by forces of Earth, Vulcan, Tellar and Andor. It happened sometime in that four years but not necessarily was four years in total. There was a variety of different types of conflict, like ship to ship, drones to drones/spacefighters, limited ground warfare ala Space: Above and Beyond. Archer worked with Balthazar Edison, Tiberius Chase, Hiro Matsura, and guys from the UESN. Columbia fought in the war and didn't end up doing whatever happened in Destiny.
Kelvin-Michael Burnham didn't have the tragedy of her Prime counterpart so grew up with her parents, became a scientist, has a family and is friends with Spock.
Kelvin-Kirk has a daughter from a one night stand that now lives on the Enterprise-A with him and is like a mini-version of him.

 

[Lord Garth]

My take on the continuity:

TOS/TAS = Star Trek version 1.0
TMP = Star Trek version 1.1
TWOK-TUC = Star Trek version 1.2

TNG S1-S2 = Star Trek version 2.0
TNG S3 to FC = Star Trek version 2.1
Post-FC to ENT = Star Trek version 2.11
PIC = Star Trek version 2.2

I don't know if LD or PRO are version 2.1 or 2.2.

DSC = Star Trek version 3.0
SNW = Star Trek version 3.1

The head-canon in my previous post is all agnostic. It's what I think regardless of version.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's all Canon. Continuity is mutable

 

[Dukhat]

It's all Canon. Continuity is mutable

Exactly. Many, many people confuse the two.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I'm of the opinion that all Trek is canon.

But, I also include the events of Paul Anderson's Event Horizon as part of Trek history also. It takes place in 2047, a few years before WWIII (and 16 years before Cochrane's Phoenix flight), so the canon is airtight. Plus, it also makes Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Sean Pertwee and Joely Richardson part of Trek

Edit: Jason Isaacs' DJ (Trauma) could be a relative of Captain Gabriel Lorca also

 

[Paul755]

Interesting. What becomes of the child?

never really thought that out. I suppose the child would travel with Saavik from posting to posting.

 

[gweeps]

The energy wave we see at the end of Picard, season 2 is what remains of Q de Lancie.

 

[Gul Sengosts]

Q was behind what happened in Time Squared, as originally intended by the writer. "I'm so bored... what's Picard up to? Ugh, just floating through space, how dull. Let's give him a fun little puzzle to solve! He's going to have the time of his life!"

 

[somebuddyX]

Q was behind what happened in Time Squared, as originally intended by the writer. "I'm so bored... what's Picard up to? Ugh, just floating through space, how dull. Let's give him a fun little puzzle to solve! He's going to have the time of his life!"

I watched those two the other night and was thinking about this. The only thing that confuses me about the original intent was how that was to be explored in "Q-Who?" Because Picard ends up in another shuttle in that episode but then Q just zaps them home. Was he originally just going to wind up in El-Baz and watch the ship blow up again but then Q says "Nah jokes." I actually don't mind that the episode is just some weird non-explained thing. The universe feels much weirder and dangerous in those early seasons.

 

[publiusr]

Space lanes laid down by the Slavers of Niven, consisting of cosmic strings that allow a variable speed of light…meaning even non FTL ships can use them—and making warp ships faster. Thus Kirk could get to the galactic edge or center…but no turning left or right, as Tom Paris said.

All forms of FTL allowed.

Archer commands a ship like the Lief Erickson.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/425871708482923996/

NX-01 is a top-secret design, and is replaced by SNW Pike’s ship with tech that Discovery brought back from the 32 Century …other timelines allow the ultimate Enterprise to be made that is more advanced than it looks…TOS Enterprise…but stouter than its stablemates…the real reason it trashed other Fed ships in THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER, not M-5.

 

[somebuddyX]

In regards to Cochrane and Lily, I like the idea that as much of the novel "Federation" that could be married to "First Contact" could be applicable to Cochrane's former life or pre-WW3, like that Bonaventure was the intended first warp ship and looked like the model from the first edition of the Chronology. Cochrane himself was like a Tony Stark self-absorbed genius inventor but just an employee working for someone else, perhaps Micah Brack. Lily was some kind of civilian pilot that trained Cochrane and she would have been a co-pilot on Phoenix.

 

[Citiprime]

-The Changelings are as old as the ancient humanoids that are the progenitors of humanoid life in the Milky Way Galaxy. Their vendetta against “solids” is a way of attacking the “children” of the race that they feel wronged them.

-The events of TOS’s “Errand of Mercy” and the real reason the Organians stopped a Klingon-Federation war is that they knew the Dominion War would come one day and that both sides needed to be “friends” to save that part of the galaxy.

-By teaching the Prophets about linear time, Sisko caused his own creation, the creation of the Bajoran religion and the division between the Prophets and Pah Wraiths. As DS9 progresses, the Prophets go from being confused aliens trying to understand life outside their wormhole to taking on the role of “gods” manipulating events and watching over Bajor. I think, in a way, that once Sisko gets them to understand how time works outside the wormhole, it puts in motion their manipulations of time and Bajor.

-The Federation is a federal republic similar to the United States that gives its members a tad bit more autonomy, but requires supremacy of Federation law for certain fundamental values. Ambassadors, like Sarek, are the equivalent of senators and the global representative for a population in the Federation Council.

-The antipathy towards helping the Romulans in “Picard” and the overall shift of Starfleet away from getting involved in matters beyond the Federation’s borders is a backlash after the Dominion War to a proactive Starfleet and a feeling that the Federation should not be “the galaxy’s policeman.”

 

[Oddish]

I'll be back to this one, I expect.

Characters of two worlds (Spock, B'elanna) can not / should not be able have children do to this fact. I know she does and it bugs me.

My head canon is that it's usually difficult for two species to reproduce, and generally requires medical assistance. Cardassians are, for whatever reason, the exception.

Ro Laren and Tom Riker…both dead. Riker when the Klingons invaded Cardassia (was offered a chance at freedom in exchange for duty as a soldier…Dirty Dozen style). Ro died when the Dominion wiped out the Maquis.

I still like the idea of those two meeting up at the labor camp, and coming to an understanding because of their respective dislike of Will Riker. They escape together in the chaos of the Dominion war, then drift for awhile, making a living from Tom's dabo skills. Eventually, they gain enough latinum to buy a moon and retire to it, where they raise a bunch of scrappy offspring and live happily ever after. Don't know if it's head canon, but it's fun.

I have a couple of my own...

1. The reason O'Brien isn't WAY more screwed up after "Hard Time". Sisko is enraged by what was done to his officer. He sends a threatening communique to the Agrathi that intimidates them into sharing all relevant info on their fake prison system. Bashir is soon able to use this info to target the prison memories. They're not gone, but they're a blur, like you would remember a week-long tequila bender. With this done, Miles is able to move on with his life.

2. The reason no one had left, been promoted, or changed in "These are the Voyages". Riker wanted to speak to specific people about their experiences with Capt. Archer, so he included them in the sim, in the form they had been in 2155, with the understanding that it would not be historically accurate. By 2161, Phlox had returned to his practice (and extended family) on Denobula, T'Pol was commanding her own ship, Reed and Hoshi had both been promoted and were serving in specialist roles on Earth, and Mayweather was the first officer on the first warp six NX class.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

In my "personal headcanon" (I despise phrases like that, because they imply that fans have a choice in the matter. But since that's what this thread is about, I'll roll with it), despite what Terry Matalas said, Season 2 of PIC did NOT move the Eugenics Wars forward in time. There were simply two sets of wars (indeed, there must have been, since it's "wars", as in a PLURAL sense): One from 1992-96, and the other in the late 21st century.

It has the added advantage of, you know, not decanonizing "Space Seed" and TWOK and all that.

Sisko is enraged by what was done to his officer. He sends a threatening communique to the Agrathi that intimidates them into sharing all relevant info on their fake prison system.

Communique? I'd send a FLEET.

Ideally, it would go down like this:

- Argrathi listening post reports a fleet dropping out of warp near the system.

- The commander of that fleet hails Argratha, resulting in this exchange:

-- "Hello, Mr. President. This is the commander of the Starfleet task force currently surrounding your planet. You will answer us."
-- "What do you want?"
-- "Does the name Miles O'Brien mean anything to you?"
-- "He was a prisoner, convicted of espionage! We had every right to..."
-- "YOU. HAVE. NO. RIGHTS. Your treatment of Mr. O'Brien was a war crime, committed against a Federation citizen. We do not tolerate war crimes. Indeed, would you like to know what we do to those who commit them?"

- The fleet targets an uninhabited moon in the Argrathi system and destroys it. There is a VERY uncomfortable silence.

- The Argrathi government hails the Starfleet commander.
-- "All right, all right! We surrender! WE SURRENDER!"

- Another uncomfortable silence.

-- "I said we don't tolerate war crimes, Mr. President. But neither do we commit them...all you need to know is this: That could have been you. Do you understand us?"

- The Starfleet task force warps away...