What is your personal head canon?

[Shawnster]

I like the idea floated here a long while back that GI Joe depicted the Eugenics Wars.

Jackson Roykirk helped create KITT and worked on the Knight Rider 2000 program before building the Nomad probe

Seaquest also fits in with United Earth and becoming part of the Federation.

I dislike Squidquest, but, you know what? I like your suggestion and would like to subscribe to your magazine.

 

[Lynx]

The movie Forbidden Planet fits into the history of Starfleet and the Federation. Somehow. I don't know how, exactly. But it does.

Kor

Good suggestion!

Personally I have also spent some time trying to fit the adventures in the German seven-episode series Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol) into the Star trek timeline and no problems with that.

Raumpatrouille, which was aired in Germany three months before TOS was aired in the US is supposed to take place in year 3000. But I place the events in Raumpatrouille around 2167, some months after the Federation was created. The technology in the series looks a bit like pre-TOS.

And the Frogs who were the bad guys in Raumpatrouille (and they were really mean) was probably annihilated by the Klingons later on.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I like the idea floated here a long while back that GI Joe depicted the Eugenics Wars.

Woah.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

The movie Forbidden Planet fits into the history of Starfleet and the Federation. Somehow. I don't know how, exactly. But it does.

Kor

Some of the movies's striped uniforms look slightly like the Enterprise's leisure wear in CHARLIE X and BALANCE OF TERROR....possibly a few other early episodes as well.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

One of Sulu's ancestors was rescued from a shipwreck in the Sulu Sea, either as a small child or an amnesiac, unable to be identified, thus explaining his unusual last name.

But someone made an error by spelling it with "u"s instead of "o"s...

OMG! Does this mean that Sulu's ancestor is Napoleon Solo?

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[Nyotarules]

Starfleet attracts people with family drama

Archer - daddy worship issues
Reed - daddy issues
Pike - daddy issues
T'Pol - mummy issues
Burnham - parents murdered, foster family issues
Tilly - mummy issues
Kirk - abandoned son/trying to impress daddy
Kirk (George) - trying to impress daddy
Spock - poor parenting
McCoy - divorce
Uhura - immediate family killed
Chapel - lost fiancee, turned robot
Picard - daddy issues
Riker - daddy issues
Worf - cultural identity issues
Yar - messed up planet
Troi - mummy issues, lost her daddy
Crusher - lost her husband
Bashir - parent issues
Thomas Paris - daddy issues
B'Lanna Torres - daddy issues
Chakotay - daddy issues
Kelvin Marcus (Carol) - daddy issues

 

[cooleddie74]

And Malcolm Reed was trying to live up to and please his family by joining Starfleet, thus following in the uniformed footsteps of Reeds who'd served in the Royal Navy of Britain. Plus he didn't seem to have the warmest relationship with his parents.

 

[XCV330]

The movie Forbidden Planet fits into the history of Starfleet and the Federation. Somehow. I don't know how, exactly. But it does.

Kor

Forbidden Planet took place in the timeline where people wear more hats and saucer separation is a permanent state of affairs. (C-57D 's secondary hull and warp nacelles are still out there adrift, lamenting their lost partner)

 

[Oddish]

Starfleet attracts people with family drama

There's a reason why my summary of "Interface" is: "Well, at least there's one person on the Enterprise who hasn't had a parent get kil... oops, never mind."

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Forbidden Planet took place in the timeline where people wear more hats and saucer separation is a permanent state of affairs.

Good. People aren't wearing enough hats.

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[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Starfleet attracts people with family drama

People who have family problems may be "joiners" - looking for camaraderie and closeness of a substitute family.

 

[Oddish]

But still...
PICARD: Both parents dead.
RIKER: One parent dead.
DATA: One creator dead.
WORF: Both (biological) parents dead.
GEORDI: One parent (presumed) dead.
WESLEY: One parent dead.
BEVERLY: Both parents dead.
DEANNA: One parent dead.
YAR: Both parents dead or missing.

That's a 72% parent death rate, in a society where people regularly live to 100 or more. Clearly, being related to an Enterprise D crew member is a dangerous job!

 

[Farscape One]

But still...
PICARD: Both parents dead.
RIKER: One parent dead.
DATA: One creator dead.
WORF: Both (biological) parents dead.
GEORDI: One parent (presumed) dead.
WESLEY: One parent dead.
BEVERLY: Both parents dead.
DEANNA: One parent dead.
YAR: Both parents dead or missing.

That's a 72% parent death rate, in a society where people regularly live to 100 or more. Clearly, being related to an Enterprise D crew member is a dangerous job!

To be fair, Geordi still had both parents alive and well until the beginning of TNG season 7... long after he entered Starfleet. And both his parents are Starfleet officers, so there's already a danger you don't get to 100 years old already.

Deanna and Wesley's fathers, also both Starfleet.

But yes, so many entered Starfleet with one or both parents dead or some other circumstance. (In Riker's case, dead mom and absentee dad. In Worf's, both biological parents dead but both foster parents alive.)

 

[Jedi Marso]

Glenn Corbett is what Zefram Cochrane looked like before the radiation poisoning, alcohol abuse and depression resulting from World War III made him look like James Cromwell. After all Kirk and McCoy tell one another that "he looks familiar" before they find out that he is indeed Zefram Cochrane and still alive, so my guess is that history texts in the childhoods of both have photos of Cochrane as he appears in "Metamorphosis(TOS)" and prior to 2053.

As for the height discrepancy between Corbett and Cromwell, well, that's forever a mystery and probably should remain one.

Or we just accept the fact that two different actors were cast in the same role, and try to remember that according to TOS, Zephram Cochrane was from Alpha Centauri anyway, not Earth.

 

[cooleddie74]

Heathen.

Turn in your Nerd Card. And in the Head Canon Thread, no less.

 

[Orphalesion]

But still...
PICARD: Both parents dead.
RIKER: One parent dead.
DATA: One creator dead.
WORF: Both (biological) parents dead.
GEORDI: One parent (presumed) dead.
WESLEY: One parent dead.
BEVERLY: Both parents dead.
DEANNA: One parent dead.
YAR: Both parents dead or missing.

That's a 72% parent death rate, in a society where people regularly live to 100 or more. Clearly, being related to an Enterprise D crew member is a dangerous job!

Don't forget that Troi also has a dead sister. And Worf lost both of his biological and adoptive brothers in various ways (even though they are still alive) And Data's "brother" and Yar's sister are evil/estranged. And Picard ended up losing his remaining family.

 

[cooleddie74]

Trip's sister Elizabeth dies in the Xindi probe attack.

 

[Oddish]

Trip's sister Elizabeth dies in the Xindi probe attack.

Yeah... not sure what the death percentage is for other series characters. We know Sisko's stepmom passed, and Quark's father... but I think Kira's the only full orphan. And Voyager, no way to tell since we never see most characters' families.

 

[at Quark's]

BEVERLY: Both parents dead.

How do you know her father was dead? Granted, the fact that she was raised by her grandmother is strongly suggestive of that, but I can only find her mentioning her mother died.
Anyway, dead or not he seems to have been absent from her life either way.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

...and try to remember that according to TOS, Zephram Cochrane was from Alpha Centauri anyway, not Earth.

Not necessarily. Practically the first thing that Cochrane says to Kirk & company is ask if they're from Earth.

COCHRANE: Hello! Are you real? I mean, I'm not imagining you, am I?
KIRK: We're real enough.
COCHRANE: You speak English. Earth people?
KIRK: From the Federation.
COCHRANE: The F? Well, it doesn't matter. I'm Cochrane. I've been marooned here who knows how long. If you only knew how good it is to see you. And a woman. A beautiful one at that.
KIRK: I'm Captain James T. Kirk, commanding the starship Enterprise. (they shake hands) This is my first officer Mister Spock.
COCHRANE: You're a Vulcan, aren't you?
SPOCK: Correct.

And Kirk says "Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri" not "from Alpha Centauri."

KIRK: Mister Cochrane, do you have a first name?
COCHRANE: Zefram.
KIRK: Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri, the discoverer of the space warp?
COCHRANE: That's right, Captain.
MCCOY: But that's impossible. Zefram Cochrane died a hundred and fifty years ago.

"Of" as in "He's associated with that place." Lawrence of Arabia wasn't from Arabia. I'm of the opinion that Cochrane just completed the first warp flight from Earth to Alpha Centauri, proving it was possible, and became known as "Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri" as a result.

Cochrane also quotes from the Bible, making it even more likely he's from Earth.

MCCOY: We understand how you feel, Mister Cochrane, but it has to be done.
COCHRANE: All right. You want me to contact it?
KIRK: Please. Outside.
COCHRANE: What was it they used to call it? The Judas goat? (leaves)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat

KIRK: Think it over, Mister Cochrane. There's a whole galaxy out there waiting to honor you.
COCHRANE: I have honors enough.
SPOCK: But you will age, both of you. There will be no immortality. You'll both grow old here and finally die.
COCHRANE: That's been happening to men and women for a long time. I've got the feeling it's one of the pleasanter things about being human, as long as you grow old together.
KIRK: Are you sure?
COCHRANE: There's plenty of water here. The climate's good for growing things. I might try to plant a fig tree. A man's entitled to that, isn't he? It isn't gratitude, Captain. Now that I see her, touch her, I know that I love her. We'll have a lot of years together. They'll be happy ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figs_in_the_Bible