Procrustes is your chiropractor. Good thing you're not too tall
What is your personal head canon?
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I thought maybe, at the time of the release of Star Trek III, the "anti-matter inducer" could be something "different" than the warp drive the Federation uses, but Star Trek IV more or less nixed that idea.
if those ones CAN'T go to warp, even a limited, low-factor, ten there is essentially no point in them existing. and iirc they were used in episodes where they *had* to have gone to warp in order for the story to have worked.
i never liked the retcon that they always used the singularities and it only read as
i prefer that they just went along the branches of the "tech trees" differently
iirc wasn't the phoenix essentially implied to have used the fissile materials from the former warhead as reactor elements?
It certainly didn't use dilithium, not in the year 2063 and on Earth!
The Hydrogen bomb, atop the Titan missile, was the source of power for the Phoenix. But it is also implied to be short term only.
But! It was only a small supply...
But! It was only a small supply...
Yep. I was 6'2" most of my life, but at age 64, I'm now 6'1".
You're still significantly taller than the US Male Average, you have nothing to worry about.
For a while, I went along with William Shatner's novels like Ashes of Eden and The Return as being canon in my head, since nothing explicitly contradicted the idea. I found it to be an intriguing notion that Kirk was still running around, and now often actively saving the day in the 24th Century. I never took my idea too seriously though, and PIC featuring a preserved Enterprise-A gave me reason to finally put the idea to bed.
The automated repair station from ENT Dead Stop reused the artificial intelligence from VOY Think Tank as a prop but I think theres a case to be made it is the same. A sophisticated AI would have to have been running the station one worthy of the Think Tank's interests. It was also harvesting people and when it spoke with Seven it was interested in integrating biological components into itself.
That's an interesting idea.
It's not really mine, but since it never appeared on the screen, it's still a headcanon.
Quoting an article in Memory Alpha that recently caught my eye, "In a potential season five episode, writer/producer Michael Sussman hoped to have T'Pol finally meet her father, planning to reveal to the audience that T'Pol's father was instead a Romulan agent who had posed as a Vulcan officer prior to faking his own death. The suggestion that T'Pol was half-Romulan would have shed light on her affinity for Humans as well as her interest in experimenting with emotions."
So, T'Pol is a half-romulan. This would explain a lot — the abnormal sensitivity to odors even for a Vulcan, which was later mentioned in "Mirror Eyes" novel as a problem that arose for a masked Romulan agent while on Deep Space Nine, sensitivity to her emotional side and a desire to know it, even, in the end, the fact that, in fact, the Romulan, but still Vulcan High Command had sent her to the Enterprise. Not just anyone, but her.
That's it.
Quoting an article in Memory Alpha that recently caught my eye, "In a potential season five episode, writer/producer Michael Sussman hoped to have T'Pol finally meet her father, planning to reveal to the audience that T'Pol's father was instead a Romulan agent who had posed as a Vulcan officer prior to faking his own death. The suggestion that T'Pol was half-Romulan would have shed light on her affinity for Humans as well as her interest in experimenting with emotions."
So, T'Pol is a half-romulan. This would explain a lot — the abnormal sensitivity to odors even for a Vulcan, which was later mentioned in "Mirror Eyes" novel as a problem that arose for a masked Romulan agent while on Deep Space Nine, sensitivity to her emotional side and a desire to know it, even, in the end, the fact that, in fact, the Romulan, but still Vulcan High Command had sent her to the Enterprise. Not just anyone, but her.
That's it.
In my headcanon, the Sarajevo type and Arctic One type ships are United Earth or MACO vessels. They have a somewhat similar design lineage and don't share much in common at all with the actual Starfleet ships we saw throughout Enterprise.
The Arctic One type in particular feels like the Trek version of a military transport. I can easily see MACO troops deploying from such ships during the Romulan war. And when NX-01 finally made it back to Earth after the Xindi crisis, it was a ship like the Sarajevo that was first to intercept them, like a Military ship on alert sent to intercept a possible enemy.
The Arctic One type in particular feels like the Trek version of a military transport. I can easily see MACO troops deploying from such ships during the Romulan war. And when NX-01 finally made it back to Earth after the Xindi crisis, it was a ship like the Sarajevo that was first to intercept them, like a Military ship on alert sent to intercept a possible enemy.
The reason we only saw Kirk's life with the house, dog, and Antonia and not people like Edith Keeler or Kirk getting to know David Marcus as a little boy is because he'd already had his Nexus time with the other people he cared about or other fantasy folks prior to Picard's visit.
I could possibly see that as a head canon, but it doesn't track with Nexus-Guinan saying to Picard "from his point of view, he just got here too." Kirk himself said "The bulkhead in front of me disappeared, and then I found myself out there just now chopping wood right before you walked up."
He may have lived several lives and remembers only the most recent one - each one ended unhappily or unsatisfactorily, so they try another.
Could be, but my impression was that in the Nexus it’s all supposed to be one perpetually-extended dreamlike moment (which is kind of how Guinan can still be there — it’s not an echo, it’s her during her own moment of being in the Nexus).
Intervertebral disc degeneration of the spine. Backbones have shock absorbers that lose cushion, get slightly deflated, get harder, less flexible etc... It's a legit pain in the ass. lol
IMHO It's a triumph that it fights off gravity that well, for that long. A half inch of overall reduction or so, over 8-10 decades of wear, is honestly impressive. We're built well, for our function. In fact, humans have the highest longevity of all the land mammals. A century of clomping bones against dirt is gritty business. It's no wonder the dolphins & whales were like "Screw that sh*t"
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