What is your personal head canon?

[Oddish]

Alexander Siddig has said he played Julian as somewhat attracted to Garak, and he and Andrew J. Robinson have recorded audio stories over Zoom and posted on Siddig's YouTube channel where Julian and Garak become romantically involved.

If I remember correctly, part of the pretext was that Ezri had died relatively young, and Dax's new host was male. And Bashir realized that he still had feelings for him*. It didn't go anywhere due to the taboo, but the experience made Julian wonder about him and Garak. So it's possible that Julian hadn't discovered this aspect of himself yet.

*Dax's gender identity typically changes with the sex of its host, ergo the male pronoun is appropriate.

 

[Sci]

If I remember correctly, part of the pretext was that Ezri had died relatively young, and Dax's new host was male. And Bashir realized that he still had feelings for him*. It didn't go anywhere due to the taboo, but the experience made Julian wonder about him and Garak. So it's possible that Julian hadn't discovered this aspect of himself yet.

*Dax's gender identity typically changes with the sex of its host, ergo the male pronoun is appropriate.

I forgot that part -- thanks!

Yeah, basically Alexander Siddig agrees that Julian is queer.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Bashir was offered the opportunity to play spy for real and he wasn't interested in that... who knows?

Well, it sure didn't help that it was Section 31 who was asking him to spy for them.

If it had actually been a legitimate organization, like Starfleet Intelligence, Julian would probably have jumped at the chance.

He sure enjoyed the 007-style holodeck program, didn't he?

 

[Verteron]

JJ's movies and everything after never happened.

Picard has been in the Nexus since 2371 and everything after that we've seen is just his Nexus dream.

Let's see, since he entered the Nexus, he:

Spoiler: Up to S03E04 of Picard

Met one of his heroes, James T Kirk, and fought alongside him to save a world.
Saved his crew from annihilation on Veridian III.
Somehow became an action hero in his 70s.
Travelled through time to meet another of his heros, hero, Zephram Cochrane.
Saved Earth by settling an old score with the Borg.
Had a fling with a beautiful intelligent woman (Anij).
Finally got together with Beverly Crusher (but his own psychosis pushed them apart).
Confronted the choices he made in his youth (via Shinzon)
Saved Earth again, by defeating a dreadnaught 5x the Enterprise's size and power, by personally beaming over and beating up a bunch of monster strong Reman shock troops
Saved Romulan civilisation from complete destruction, brought them to the negotiating table.
Saved the galaxy from a Synth genocide.
Magically got a new body free from Irumodic syndrome.
Began the first meaningful romantic relationship of his life despite pushing 100 years old.
Got closure on his relationship with his mother and father.
Made peace with The Borg.
Finally found out he has the son he always secretly wanted.

And perhaps most damningly, Guinan's ghost has been dropping hints for 30 years, trying to snap him back to reality. Her bar is called 10-Forward. It's full of little models of 'the fat one' ferchrissakes! The walls are covered with photos of his 'real' friends (former crewmates). She's desperately trying to jog his mind, wake him up from his dream. Could not be more obvious!

Yes there were some bad times too, but all dreams occasionally turn bad.

He never left the Nexus.

(I don't really believe this!)

 

[FederationHistorian]

- The events of IAMD is the true pre-Federation history, before the events of FC changed everything and resulted in the events of ENT overwriting the original history. With the universe were mirror Archer lives leading to the creation of the Federation in 2161 and the universe where he doesn’t leading to the Terran Empire as seen in TOS being re-founded in 2161 after the Terrans pushback a Romulan conquest of Earth. It does also mean that the universe where the Federation is founded, the schematics of the Defiant were keep in a vault for 90 years along with the historical database, and the Defiant was blown out of the sky in response to mirror Sato’s coup attempt, with the Daedalus class being created out of the wreckage. It also explains Bones’s comment about Vulcan needed to be conquered, it’s a reference to Earth’s Terran Empire past that the Federation tries to forget about. And also explains why Daniels was dismissive of Sato’s importance when Archer was about to board the Xindi weapon; history in Daniels’s time only records Archer’s importance, though it may not have been specifically clear as to how as records are fragmented (the Burn being to blame for fragmented records, maybe?).

- The reason the Borg changed the timeline was twofold:1) the Sphere Builders were a significant threat to them by the 26th century (they were somehow notified by future Borg through temporal transmitters they have as shown in “Timeless”) and the Borg needed the Sphere Builders pre-emptively taken out. 2) there was an individual of significant that leads to the rise of the Terran Empire (the one that tell everyone to board the Vulcan ship and take everything), and without him in the picture, Starfleet’s growth with be less aggressive and would pose less of a threat to the Borg. It had nothing to do with humanity’s first contact with Vulcans at all, though the Borg Queen might have changed her mind within the day and went after the Phoenix because she could.

- The Federation made first contact with an important species that happens to suffers from light sensitivity, ranging from needing eyedrops like Lorca to full on allergic reactions. That why the ships are so dark in DIS and PIC.

- Despite what the PIC Instagram logs say, the Ent-B was the flagship of the Federation during Harriman’s command, not the Titan; the Enterprise was the flagship of the Federation until at least the Ent-F. And Saavik’s command of the Titan was ten years later in the 2400, though the Titan was indeed launched in 2290. Saavik’s absence in the leadup to her command is explained best as her looking after her child, with the father of that child either being David Marcus or Spock. It also explains why she was not present on either the Enterprise or the Bozeman as intended.

Geordi was a type of sexual orientation not invented yet. When it was not a hologram, it was an android.

So Geordi was a robosexual or synthsexual, then.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Spock was not suicididal. Spock was courageous.

Sacrificial. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

 

[Oddish]

So Geordi was a robosexual or synthsexual, then.

Geordi suffered from a problem that's prevalent today among some men: women just weren't that into him.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Miramanee and "Kirok"'s unborn baby was a daughter.

 

[cooleddie74]

The Tholians were a much bigger menace in the 24th century than the franchise lets on.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

Picard has been in the Nexus since 2371 and everything after that we've seen is just his Nexus dream.

Let's see, since he entered the Nexus, he:

Spoiler: Up to S03E04 of Picard

Met one of his heroes, James T Kirk, and fought alongside him to save a world.
Saved his crew from annihilation on Veridian III.
Somehow became an action hero in his 70s.
Travelled through time to meet another of his heros, hero, Zephram Cochrane.
Saved Earth by settling an old score with the Borg.
Had a fling with a beautiful intelligent woman (Anij).
Finally got together with Beverly Crusher (but his own psychosis pushed them apart).
Confronted the choices he made in his youth (via Shinzon)
Saved Earth again, by defeating a dreadnaught 5x the Enterprise's size and power, by personally beaming over and beating up a bunch of monster strong Reman shock troops
Saved Romulan civilisation from complete destruction, brought them to the negotiating table.
Saved the galaxy from a Synth genocide.
Magically got a new body free from Irumodic syndrome.
Began the first meaningful romantic relationship of his life despite pushing 100 years old.
Got closure on his relationship with his mother and father.
Made peace with The Borg.
Finally found out he has the son he always secretly wanted.

And perhaps most damningly, Guinan's ghost has been dropping hints for 30 years, trying to snap him back to reality. Her bar is called 10-Forward. It's full of little models of 'the fat one' ferchrissakes! The walls are covered with photos of his 'real' friends (former crewmates). She's desperately trying to jog his mind, wake him up from his dream. Could not be more obvious!

Yes there were some bad times too, but all dreams occasionally turn bad.

He never left the Nexus.

(I don't really believe this!)

Ok, but Guinan described being inside the Nexus like being on drugs 24/7. And years of misery after the romulan nova doesn't really match with its modus operandi. According to everything we know, there shouldn't be any bad experiences inside the Nexus

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

According to everything we know, there shouldn't be any bad experiences inside the Nexus

Just "be careful what you wish for, you might not actually want it"s.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Wow, I could have so much fun with this thread.... multiple posts with an elaborate timeline that would bore everyone to death before they got even a third of the way through it, so I'll boil it down to the basics. I warn you, my personal 'head-canon' is all over the place.

1. The events of the Reeves-Stevens's novel Federation are canon, and the 'true' crossover between TOS and TNG. The Generations movie is de-canonized.

2. The events of John M. Ford's The Final Reflection are canonized, and Klingon culture is as he represents it. This includes the appearance of Carter Winston and the infamous events of the Dissolution Babel Conference, the timeline of Klingon first contact, the practice of Tharavul, and the existence of Imperial Klingons (ridges), Human Fusion Klingons (TOS), and Romulan-fusion Klingons (only seen in the novel).

3. The events of Margaret Bonnano's Strangers from the Sky are canonized, and tell the true story of Vulcan first contact before the 'official' first contact takes place. Furthermore, her version of official first contact is the one that happens in the Prime Timeline, not the one altered by the events of the movie First Contact.

4. In the Prime Timeline, the events of Enterprise are somewhat different. The biggest difference is that there is no Starfleet, only UESPA, and the Enterprise herself is named Discovery. This is changed to what we see in the Enterprise TV show by the events of the movie First Contact. For an expanded timeline of this period, see: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-long-sleep-alternate-enterprise-era.283132/

5. The events of TUC are as I depict them in my fanfic here, which uses John Ford Klingons and his version of Klingon culture: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/star-trek-vi-tuc-redeux-with-john-m-ford-klingons-v2-0.311884/

6. Star Trek Vanguard is totally canon.

So, the timeline and continuity looks something like this:

Prime
Strangers from the Sky
Federation
The Final Reflection
UESPA
Vanguard
TOS
TMP
TWOK --> TVH
(ST V is erased- never happened, no Sybok)
TUC (my version)
TNG / DS9 / VOY
ST: First Contact (Generations does not happen). This event results in a split timeline leading to:

Separate Timeline (Slightly accelerated technological development)
ST: First Contact (Catalyst event)
Altered Initial Warp Flight
Altered First Contact with Vulcan
Enterprise
SNW (Disco is erased- never happened)
???

Kelvin Timeline? Nah. Never happened. F--k JJ-Trek- I cannot accept any timeline in which a cadet leapfrogs his way into the captain's chair, the destruction of Vulcan, the light-year spanning transporter, or any of the other nonsense we were saddled with in that dreck.

I have no real head canon going beyond STFC. I don't really like the remainder of the TNG movies and the Picard series was mostly a disappointment, so the late 24th / early 25th centuries are sort of wide open. Some of the novel-verse stuff was really good.

Bear in mind, this is scratching the surface.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Here's my personal headcanon (in chronological order):

• Zephram Cochrane discovered a natural phenomenon that enabled ships to travel at warp (similar to what we see in the DS9 episode "Explorers"). This enabled him to eventually devise warp drive. This is why Kirk refers to Cochrane as "the discoverer of the space warp" instead of "the inventor of warp drive" in "Metamorphosis."
  
  
• Spock served on three other ships, the Sirius, the Phardos, and the Artemis, before being assigned to the USS Enterprise. (This is drawn from the background information D.C. Fontana gives for Spock in her novel Vulcan's Glory, as well as Spock's service record as given in William Rotsler's Star Trek II Biographies.)
  
  
• Kirk and Gary Mitchell were involved in the incident where five Starfleet Academy cadets died while attempting the Kolvoord Starburst maneuver, barely escaping with their lives. This event helped cement their friendship. (This is from David Goodman's novel The Autobiography of James T. Kirk.)
  
  
• SNW is a alternate timeline to that of TOS, although some similar events happened in the original TOS timeline.
  
  
• Gary Mitchell served on the Enterprise as helmsman under Captain Pike before James T. Kirk took command. This is why Dr. Dehner says Spock has served next to Mitchell "for years" in "Where No Man Has Gone Before." In fact, at the time of WNMHGB, Mitchell actually knew Spock better than Kirk did.
  
  
• The events of several Trek novels and comics happened, including Strangers from the Sky, Federation, the first two annuals from DC Comics detailing the beginning and end of Kirk's five-year mission aboard the Enterprise, John Byrne's photoplay stories "Strange New Worlds" and "Mister Chekov" and his comic Romulans: Pawns of War.
  
  
• Uhura was more of a technical specialist than a linguist, with a partial background in engineering. That's why she's repairing her own station and taking over navigation in various episodes of TOS.
  
  
• The events of "Journey to Babel" prompted McCoy to request a specialist in Vulcan medicine aboard the Enterprise, which is what led to Dr. M'Benga being transferred to the ship.
  
  
• The smooth-headed Klingons were discommoded as a race sometime between TOS and TMP. (This basic idea is from the Chris Claremont/Adam Hughes graphic novel Debt of Honor.)
  
  
• Starfleet had a war sometime between TMP and TWOK, leading to their more military bearing in the latter film.
  
  
• Sybok was not Spock's biological brother, but simply a fellow initiate he met while studying for the Kolinahr ritual between TOS and TMP.
  
  
• Kirk reconciled with Carol Marcus and they settled down together sometime between TFF and TUC, as per the deleted prologue in TUC.
  
  
• McCoy married Tonia Barrows sometime between TUC and TNG, as per David R. George III's novel The Provenance of Shadows.
  
  
• Something disastrous happened during the reign of Chancellor Azetbur during the "Lost Years" between TUC and TNG, leading to the ban on women serving on the high council of the Klingon Empire by the time of TNG.
  
  
• Spock devised a way to rescue James T. Kirk from the Nexus after he was lost during the launching of the Enterprise-B. The person that Picard met in the Nexus was just an echo of the reach James T. Kirk. This is why Scotty said he bet Jim Kirk brought the Enterprise out of mothballs to rescue him in the TNG episode "Relics."
  
  
• Antonia was no more real than Picard's wife was in his Nexus fantasy.
  
  There's more I could include, but that's the main thrust of it.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Sybok was not Spock's biological brother, but simply a fellow initiate he met while studying for the Kolinahr ritual between TOS and TMP.

Sybok's mother, said to be a Vulcan princess, is (in a tie-in) said to be a kohlinahr priestess.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Here's my personal headcanon (in chronological order)

Kirk and Gary Mitchell were involved in the incident where five Starfleet Academy cadets died while attempting the Kolvoord Starburst maneuver, barely escaping with their lives. This event helped cement their friendship. (This is from David Goodman's novel The Autobiography of James T. Kirk.)

Don't like this one. It's basically stealing right out of TNG.

The events of several Trek novels and comics happened, including Strangers from the Sky, Federation, the first two annuals from DC Comics detailing the beginning and end of Kirk's five-year mission aboard the Enterprise, John Byrne's photoplay stories "Strange New Worlds" and "Mister Chekov" and his comic Romulans: Pawns of War.

The first two are in my head-canon also. I need to see if I can find those annuals.

The events of "Journey to Babel" prompted McCoy to request a specialist in Vulcan medicine aboard the Enterprise, which is what led to Dr. M'Benga being transferred to the ship.

Reasonable.

Antonia was no more real than Picard's wife was in his Nexus fantasy.

I love this idea.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Don't like this one. It's basically stealing right out of TNG.

Not really, since "The First Duty" establishes that there was an accident attempting the same maneuver over 100 years before, which is what led to its banning in the first place.

PICARD: Can you tell me what maneuver this is?
WESLEY: It's a Kolvoord Starburst, sir.
PICARD: Five ships crossing within ten meters of each other and igniting their plasma trails. One of the most spectacular and difficult demonstrations of precision flying. It hasn't been performed at the Academy team in over a hundred years. Do you know why?
WESLEY: It was banned by the Academy following a training accident, sir.
PICARD: An accident in which all five cadets lost their lives.

The accident occurring over 100 years before puts it at sometime before 2268, which could very easily be during Kirk's Academy days of 2250-2254. So all Goodman did was extrapolate from that.

It's a great passage in the novel. You should read it if you haven't already.

 

[JesterFace]

My personal head canon is so personal I'm not going reveal it.

 

[Oddish]

How about impersonal head canon?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

All trek right up until the end of Enterprise, then nothing until SNW and season 3 of Picard.

 

[Lord Garth]

Starfleet had a war sometime between TMP and TWOK, leading to their more military bearing in the latter film.

I speculated the same thing about 25 years ago. Kruge says the Klingons are negotiating a Peace Treaty with the Federation in TSFS, which is brought up again by the Klingon Ambassador in TVH. So the Organian Peace Treaty must have become null and void some time between TAS and TWOK. Actually, to pin it down further, probably some time between TMP and 2278, since the Bozeman had the Monster Maroons.

IRL, I think this parallels Detente breaking down between the USA and USSR in 1979 and hostilities heating up again. So the Monster Maroons are like a symbol of Star Trek heading into the 23rd Century version of the Reagan Era.

Something disastrous happened during the reign of Chancellor Azetbur during the "Lost Years" between TUC and TNG, leading to the ban on women serving on the high council of the Klingon Empire by the time of TNG.

Unfortunately, this makes sense, and fits their general attitude.

Antonia was no more real than Picard's wife was in his Nexus fantasy.

I never thought of that until reading this post, but it makes sense. However, I'd say the truth could be in the middle. Antonia could be someone he wanted to be with, but Starfleet got in the way of that. Kirk wants true love... but he also wants the Enterprise.