What is your personal head canon?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Considering that Crusher had three pips on her collar, and later Deanna as well, there's no reason why the highly decorated second officer can't be a commander as well.

Indeed. And in Data's case it's easier, since he is not required to take the Bridge Officer's Test in order to make full Commander. Only 'blue-wearing' officers like scientists, doctors, counselors, etc. must do so.

So, for example, in between TOS and TMP, McCoy must have taken the test, because in TMP he is a full Commander. Scotty, OTOH, was not required to take the test, because he's an engineer (who also happens to hold qualifying ratings in command as well).

Spock, OTOH, was probably not required to take the test when he was promoted from LCDR to full Commander (sometime in TOS' first season). Spock was already the first officer; he simply chose to wear a blue uniform (since he was ALSO the science officer).

 

[Mojochi]

Spock, OTOH, was probably not required to take the test when he was promoted from LCDR to full Commander (sometime in TOS' first season). Spock was already the first officer; he simply chose to wear a blue uniform (since he was ALSO the science officer).

Spock was required to take no tests

 

[HIjol]

“How do you feel…”

 

[Henoch]

“How do you feel…”

" ...I feel fine."

<I wish I had easy tests like that in school. >

 

[Oddish]

<I wish I had easy tests like that in school. >

Well, remember the other test questions. You know, the ones Spock aced. They looked a little harder.

 

[HIjol]

I only remember one, and I have NO idea why;

“Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide"

 

[Wingcommanderdarkwolf01]

Mine is that Seven got the original Titan not Titan-A/Enterprise-G

 

[FredH]

At some point between the 25th and 31st centuries, the Prime Directive is more firmly locked down (in terms of what interpretations of it are or are not considered valid). Jean-Luc Picard’s recorded position, oversimplified by critics as “Let ‘em fry”, is not remembered favorably by history.

 

[kkt]

S
- Sometime between now and Trek's time, the Mariners have won at least ONE World Series!

Oh, come on. I'll buy transporters... warp drive... replicators... a peaceful federation of planets... but the Mariners in the World Series is just too much to swallow

 

[Oddish]

The Cubs broke the Billy Goat Curse after 71 years. The Red Sox broke the Curse of the Bambino in 86. Maybe the M's can break the Curse of Safeco Field in 300.

The curse of Safeco Field, as theorized by... well, me, suggests the following: the people voted down the construction of the baseball stadium with tax money. But it was built anyway... with tax money. Ergo, Safeco Field (its original name) was built with 400 million stolen dollars. That's a better justification for a curse than a farm animal or a player trade.

 

[somebuddyX]

Mine is that Seven got the original Titan not Titan-A/Enterprise-G

It doesn't work, because Matalas based the naming convention of the hero ship in Picard on that film that came out in 2000 "Titan A.E"

I may be lying.

 

[Oddish]

But did he include a Planet Bob?

 

[fireproof78]

Oh, come on. I'll buy transporters... warp drive... replicators... a peaceful federation of planets... but the Mariners in the World Series is just too much to swallow

Rude.

And too soon!

 

[Tuskin38]

My head canon is that the Discovery Refit uses Bigger on the inside tech. According to Enterprise it did exist in the 31st century, so it's possible.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My head canon is that the Discovery Refit uses Bigger on the inside tech. According to Enterprise it did exist in the 31st century, so it's possible.

I wonder if DSC's fifth season will shed any light on that time pod. That's kind of a big thing to leave hanging, isn't it?

I'd sure like to know where it came from, what it was doing in the past, who the pilot was, etc.

 

[The Wormhole]

I wonder if DSC's fifth season will shed any light on that time pod.

Why would they? It's from a hundred years in their past and time travel is now illegal.

 

[Finn]

I wonder if DSC's fifth season will shed any light on that time pod. That's kind of a big thing to leave hanging, isn't it?

I'd sure like to know where it came from, what it was doing in the past, who the pilot was, etc.

It's possible it's from a timeline that was altered by the events of Enterprise's season 3, so anything we saw after the 22nd Century wouldn't explain it.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I wonder if DSC's fifth season will shed any light on that time pod. That's kind of a big thing to leave hanging, isn't it?

I'd sure like to know where it came from, what it was doing in the past, who the pilot was, etc.

Wasn't it a set up for the Doctor Who crossover that never happened?

 

[Imaus]

Headcanon: Section 31 was just a bunch of Starfleet Intelligence agents getting frustrated and going rogue, and is not a official huge organization. Starfleet Intelligence IS capable, but limited, by their laws and ethics, but they do have, say, Black Fleets, Black Budgets, and far reaching connections equal to anything the Klingons or Romulans can do.

Section 31 thereof does reappear repeatedly, but discontinuous, to each other, and mostly in times of crisis - like the Dominion War, and even then they were of questionable use. Because going rogue is not actually effective, no matter how badbutt they think they are.

Eventually Starfleet Intelligence reintegrated and dissolved the rogue agents. One or two literally.

I don't mind people going rogue or splitting off at times, especially for a fictional work. In our democracy in the states, the CIA has gone 'rogue' with Project MKULTRA, so much so that the CIA director Helms went against the congressional committees and was rightfully trashed for it. The Counterintelligence Corps in ww2 ignored Roosevelt and Truman's direct orders, kept lists, watched domestic protests after the war above 20 people, and had to be curtailed. Et al, et al.

But I hate that Section 31 is so inflated to be something so big and crucial, and feeds into the 'hard men do hard things so soft men can enjoy soft things' trap/undermining democracy via doing undemocratic thing.

Even if you believe in that, that is not the spirit of Trek and its Federation, which to me is hard men doing hard things to be soft men and enjoy soft things - the frontier captains, the diplomats, the engineers, pushing science, engineering, diplomacy and conflict for a better ideal. It doesn't need a rogue org behind the scenes, we're already following the brick-layers on screen

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Wasn't it a set up for the Doctor Who crossover that never happened?

It may have been a "tip of the hat" to DW, but there was never going to be an actual crossover.