What is your personal head canon?

[Admiral Archer]

It's funny cause it's true. LOL

 

[Lord Garth]

I think I'm generally Level 2.

 

[ananta]

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.

 

[Shawnster]

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.

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.

 

[ananta]

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.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

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.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

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.

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.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

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.

 

[Shawnster]

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.

I like this

 

[Etbj SMY]

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.

Or scripts written by Keyser Soze.