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What is your personal head canon?

Everybody Loves Raymond covered this phenomenon.

 
To steal an line from Lucy Lawless "every time you notice something like that a time traveling Romulan did it" so there are no continuity mistakes just an unlimited number of universes
 
I thought it was the Comfy Chair and the Soft Cushions.
*sounds of a Neural Neutralizer whirring away in the background*
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;)
 
Personal head canon: Vulcans didn't develop Matter/Anti-matter powered warp drive, humans did. Humans were the only species reckless enough to research the technology, -and- insane enough to use it. Evidence: In Star Trek "Balance of Terror" S01E08 Scotty notes that the Romulan ship can easily be dealt with, as it's _only_ impulse powered:

SCOTT: No question. Their power is simple impulse.
KIRK: Meaning we can outrun them?
STILES: To be used in chasing them or retreating, sir?

This implies that the power source is capable of providing enough power to propel the vessel at faster-than-light speeds, but not so capable as to outrun the Enterprise, which is using Matter/Anti-matter for a power source.

Further, the Vulcan warp sled from TMP echoes that design in that the nacelles themselves seem to contain the impulse drive section.

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TNG and SNW did later establish that Romulan ships use artificial quantum singularities to power their warp engines, so that might track.
 
True, but, one of the 'old' ideas that I remember being bandied about was the "magical " nature of the matter/antimatter reaction...
You will find that this is mentioned in TMOST in the chapter named 'The USS Enterprise ' - only a matter/antimatter reaction is "strong" enough to power warp drive.

But...

Energy is Energy.

So a fusion reaction should be "good enough ".


Theoretically a gasoline internal combination engine could...

But terrible MPG...

So, simple impulse is good enough for warp factor two...

An oversized fusion reactor, with a plasma accelerator plus a symmetric warp field governor good enough for warp factor three...

An antimatter spiked version good enough for warp factor four, and with multiple plasma accelerators warp factor five...again using antimatter to spike the plasma accelerators.

This is what I see.
 
TNG and SNW did later establish that Romulan ships use artificial quantum singularities to power their warp engines, so that might track.

My head canon is this is why Romulans bought and used Klingon ships in the TOS era. Romulan resources were devoted to developing their quantum singularity propulsion system so they purchased ships to supplement the fleet until they accomplished this design goal.
 
My personal headcanon is that the whole Romulan supernova thing never actually happened. The Kelvin timeline still exists, but it was a Nero and a Spock from yet another timeline who went back and kicked it all off. The supernova happened in his timeline—not the one we know from TNG, DS9, or Voyager. That would also mean the events of Picard take place in that alternate timeline.
 
Fascinating idea, but i'm sure some will say "The Cage" is just as different from SNW as WNMHGB is.

Perhaps even more so. Unfortunately for me, a modern version of the characters and aesthetic of "The Cage" and Early Voyages was my dream series. It's even less likely to happen now, and I used to think a Pike-era show was impossible.

(I'm a Millennial who grew up watching the films, the 90s series, and occasional episodes of TOS.)
 
'The Cage', is most likely correct. In terms of ship speeds a "sudden" rapid change of status. And fortunately no mention of Duotronics. ;)

But there is mention of the illogic of data storage, by humans.

This is now 'funny', because of - even in the 1960s, ongoing research to maximize the proper data return, in a timely basis.
 
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