What is your personal head canon?

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Why is a toilet referred to as the head?

It comes from the Age of Sail. At the bow of the ship are two timbers protruding on either side, slightly aft of the bowsprit and figurehead, known as catheads. The bow anchors are hung from them, and on an armed vessel, they can also serve as mounts for the pursuit guns. Below all of that is an open grille of wooden bars, just enough to support a human being, known as the heads. This was the most convenient place to "hang it over the side," and relieve one's bowels and/or bladder, without fouling the vessel with waste products, and with relatively minimal danger of falling overboard.

The only reason why I know that is that about 35 years ago, I was asked to assemble a large number of wargame miniature sailing warships, and felt that it was a good idea to pick up a couple of books on the subject. And so The Overlook Illustrated Dictionary of Nautical Terms and The Lore of Sail both entered my library.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

It comes from the Age of Sail. At the bow of the ship are two timbers protruding on either side, slightly aft of the bowsprit and figurehead, known as catheads. The bow anchors are hung from them, and on an armed vessel, they can also serve as mounts for the pursuit guns. Below all of that is an open grille of wooden bars, just enough to support a human being, known as the heads. This was the most convenient place to "hang it over the side," and relieve one's bowels and/or bladder, without fouling the vessel with waste products, and with relatively minimal danger of falling overboard.

The only reason why I know that is that about 35 years ago, I was asked to assemble a large number of wargame miniature sailing warships, and felt that it was a good idea to pick up a couple of books on the subject. And so The Overlook Illustrated Dictionary of Nautical Terms and The Lore of Sail both entered my library.

That's a cool bit of info

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

This was the most convenient place to "hang it over the side," and relieve one's bowels and/or bladder, without fouling the vessel with waste products, and with relatively minimal danger of falling overboard.

Ah, the Open Oceans, the worlds Largest Toilet where Humans, Animals, and miscellaneous defecate.

 

[Lord Garth]

New head-canon of mine: The "All Good Things" Future is set in 2404.

It's never said what year the AGT Future took place in, so my head-canon is that it actually takes place in 2404, not 2395. "25 years since we were all aboard the Enterprise." The last time they were on the Enterprise was 2379 in Nemesis. There was no sign that they were all leaving after "All Good Things" and their adventures would've continued whether it was the D or the E.

Then the 2404 in "All Good Things" would also more closely match the 2404 two years after Picard. The Enterprise-D is around. Data is alive and has emotions. I could see him deciding to work at a University in either version of the future. Picard and Beverly still had a romantic relationship, one led to marriage, the other didn't, and there's nothing to say they couldn't have had a son in the AGT Future either. If he's in his 20s in the AGT version, Jack could be off doing his own thing. It's never established that Geordi has a son in PIC, but nothing that outright contradicts it. So, if Brett is applying to Starfleet Academy "next year" in 2404, that would probably make him 17 in 2404 and 14 in 2401, thus probably still with his mother.

The only thing that's completely different, besides the Enterprise-D not having a third nacelle and Troi not being dead, is Worf being the governor of a Klingon moon in AGT but not in PIC.

Otherwise, none of it is exactly 1:1, but a lot of it isn't too far off the mark.

 

[B.J.]

One of the best scenes.... Perfect line delivery by Oded

I've seen DSC, but I don't remember the scene, can someone remind me?

 

[Forbin]

I even have trouble peeing in a closed stall if there's somebody else in the rest room.

This is a tad more civilized than hanging off the catheads:

Head Lines - USS Constitution Museum

When nature called, USS Constitution’s sailors had few facilities at their disposal. For the common seamen and Marines, the primitive toilet facilities of the head. . .

ussconstitutionmuseum.org

But just a tad.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I've seen DSC, but I don't remember the scene, can someone remind me?

He explains to Osyraa how everything goes through the replicators including the shit, and turned back into everything they use including food

 

[Oddish]

I even have trouble peeing in a closed stall if there's somebody else in the rest room.

That's not as uncommon as you'd think.

 

[knightgrace]

It is called the HEAD, because most of the crew's waste disposal units, were at the HEAD of the ship. The head of the ship, is just behind the bow.

Most likely for proper dispersion of the stink, before it reaches the Captain's cabin at the stern.

Oh, and a bulkhead is a structural member, used in vessels larger than a Viking Long Boat.

Exactly when one moves beyond a simple framework to ribbing, depends upon the material used.

Proper Kayaks, use framing to support the skins used in their construction. The skins by the way come from seals due to their durability in sea water.
Viking long boats use ribbing to support the planks that make up the hull. But this is wood, such that skins aren't strong enough to support the needed amount of wood.
Viking long boats, were something like the largest boats possible, with their construction techniques, but as size goes up additional bracing has to be made use of.
Greek and Roman galleys were considered to be fragile...

The Royale Navy's Ships of the line (three deckers down to two deckers) were close to the upper limit with traditional construction techniques now watch the Motion Picture, 'Master and Commander ', in there is a model "made" by one of the crewman characters that saw American built ships that used a new design of ribbing. Allowing for a stronger hull, with less wood, and therefore weight.

Steel based ships have exactly the same problem. But! Because steel is far, far stronger than wood, you are allowed more freedom of design.

 

[Shawnster]

Which brings up another issue, for which there is no canonical answer (unless it's in a DSC, SNW, LD, or PRO episode I haven't seen yet): how do Starfleet toilets work?

When not in Spacedock.

https://i.sstatic.net/95wwf.png

 

[Forbin]

I actually heard Jimmy Doohan explain it at a convention once: "Ya take a phaser, go off into a corner, and ye be verrrrry careful!"

 

[korblborp]

that one from Diamond Age.

 

[gweeps]

Tom Riker joins Section 31 and partners with Boimler's double.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Tom Riker joins Section 31 and partners with Boimler's double.

Transporter Twin Team.

 

[gweeps]

The TNG crew never going to the bathroom would explain a lot about how uptight they are.

If only they had these...

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[Danja]

Picard is Wesley’s real father.

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[Kamen Rider Blade]

My Head Canon is for Admiral Jean-Luc Picard to be happily married to his 2× wives in a Polygamous Marriage.
Both Admiral Beverly Crusher & Laris are equally happy in the Triangular Polygamous Relationship.

Their combined 3× sons come to visit them every now & then.
- Wesley Crusher is the Biological Son of Beverly Crusher, Step-Son of both Jean-Luc Picard & Laris, Half-Brother to Jack Crusher.
- Jack Crusher is the Biological Son of Beverly Crusher & Jean-Luc Picard, Step-Son of Laris, & Half-Brother to Wesley Crusher.
- Elnor is the Adopted Son of Beverly Crusher, Jean-Luc Picard, & Laris, Adopted Brother to Jack Crusher & Wesley Crusher.

Together, the 3× Brothers can go on wacky adventures through-out Time, Space, Reality thanks to Wesley's Traveler Powers & his special relation to DTI (Department of Temporal Investigations)

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

The TNG crew never going to the bathroom would explain a lot about how uptight they are.

Assuming Picard possesses actual genitalia.

 

[Shawnster]

Assuming Picard possesses actual genitalia.

What does the presence or lack of genitalia have to do with going to the restroom?

 

[cooleddie74]