Glad someone did.
What is your personal head canon?
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Since it's not a Blackadder reference I don't think you did.
Oh, it was only you didn't realize it. 
Oh, it was only you didn't realize it.
Perhaps you'd prefer "Goodbyeee" then.
I have several friends with kids like that. One even remarked to a teacher, "It doesn't matter where you move them; they talk to everyone."For some reason I'm remembering two girls in junior social studies class who wouldn't stop chatting, so Mr. Jassler made them sit at opposite corners of the room, and they STILL kept talking.
Head canon: this video is what really happened and what those screens looked like.
Pretty cool.
I actually prefer the original. The new one just looks so generic.
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/ds9-episode-pitch-game.316271/page-5#post-14758743
Inspired by an idea I posted here, Worf plants his own plum orchard and (inspired by Picard) sells "Chateau Mogh" (or whatever he calls it) prune juice.
Inspired by an idea I posted here, Worf plants his own plum orchard and (inspired by Picard) sells "Chateau Mogh" (or whatever he calls it) prune juice.
No we fucking don't. Once again, the end of "Space Seed" shows us that there wasn't any kind of coverup. It's an official hearing that Uhura is recording. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty are all in their dress uniforms. There's no reason to do any of that if Kirk wasn't giving a full report to Starfleet.
The ONLY times that we know Kirk falsified something in his log are when he didn't mention discovering Zephram Cochrane in the episode "Metamorphosis" and noting that Gary Mitchell died in performance of his duty in WNMHGB. (And that one is arguable, as Mitchell was undeniably transformed while in performance of his duty.)
Really, at this point I wonder why so many people believe a thing that is obviously disproven by even a casual viewing of the episode.
Exactly, which is why it's silly to believe that one occurred. It's much easier to just assume that a combination of bureaucracy and incompetence on Starfleet's part led to Ceti Alpha V's significance being forgotten.
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Incompetence for sure, since a planet exploding is a kind of big deal.
If you want to believe that, it's fine. I don't know if I subscribe to Section 31 being behind every nefarious thing in the ST Universe (It's a bit too easy, IMO), but sure, that's a valid headcanon that doesn't contradict anything we're shown. I'm more of the "Never attribute anything to malice that can instead be attributed to incompetence" school of thought. And considering how incompetent the other members of Starfleet we saw in STIII were, I can easily believe they lost track of the significance of Ceti Alpha V.
Is it though? I mean, sure, it's a big deal when it's your planet or in your solar system, but does it cause that much effect outside said solar system?
Are there enough astronomers in the Federation to monitor every star and every planet known? There are roughly 25-100 billion stars in the Alpha Quadrant. Ceti Alpha may have been just too remote of a backwater for anyone to care about.
Sure, I can go along with Incompetence, but it might be just as easy to ascribe indifference.
STARFLEET: Jim Kirk, under his authority as Starship Captain operating beyond Federation space, has exiled 72 criminals on some planet in the Ceti Alpha system. So noted. What's next on the agenda?
Keep in mind the narrative parallel was to 18th century British sailing ships whose captains might exile a criminal to some desert island.
Yes, it is. It's observable and the system was charted. Any changed should have been noted, orbital mechanics observed, etc.
i thought the Vanguard series of novels squared the circle well enough for its own continuity.. while testing an alien device which involved the transfer of energy and signals across interstellar distances on a massive scale, they accidentally blew up Ceti Alpha 6. said system being chosen for the test because it was out of the way, had another of the device already on it, and by the records they had, uninhabited. they didn't know that Kirk had dropped off a load of rescued augments months earlier on a neighboring world. since the project was classified, and tensions were rising with the klingons (and if word got out the klingons would view it as a planet killing weapon), the incident was covered up and data on the ceti alpha system edited to hide the destruction. while it wasn't specifically said, it was heavily implied that whatever report kirk made fell afoul of this editing process, accidentally erasing info on Khan's colony.
(also.. i highly suspect the script writer had meant for the planet that was destroyed to be Ceti Alpha four, and just typed VI instead of IV by mistake. that sort of typo happens easily, and it would help explain why Ceti Alpha five got mistaken for its neighbor.)
My point is did anyone feel it worth observing compared to the billions of other stars?
Nobody bothering to keep an eye on Ceti Alpha doesn't necessarily mean Incompetence. A limited number of astronomers requires them to be selective.
Why should they keep an eye on Ceti Alpha? The fact 72 criminals who attempted to hijack the Enterprise were exiled there simply may not be a good enough reason.
Part of it is magic sensors. They pickup whatever the plot requires them to pickup.
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