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What is your personal head canon?

Who got sober (well, mostly so, he does have a decanter of liquor in his makeshift home) and a whole lot more mature over about 150 years in isolation.
 
I always liked it growing up, but in retrospect the science and gender assumptions it makes are just plain weird in 2025/6. But I have no problem retrospectively seeing Cochrane as a rejuvenated James Cromwell.
What do you think of him in the role of Sir John Jellicoe at Jutland around the time he was filming Babe?.

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Cromwell gave us one of the top ten cinematic 20th-century-shocks when he wasted Kevin Spacey in L.A..CONFIDENTIAL. That moment was not in the novel. Imagine an entire theater of people gasping in unison on opening night.

He also was married at one point to an unlikely yeoman just before or during his BABE period.
 
The Akira class starship is in universe named for a planet. This planet is a time capsule planet like Hysperia, Caldos and Dorvan with a colony emulating traditional Japanese culture.
 
I am not a fan of head canon. However, I did try to justify the look of the NX-01 bridge controls compared to the controls on the NCC-1701. The NX-01 was an Earth ship designed to be operated by humans. The NCC-1701 was a Federation ship designed to be operated by various species, some that were not humanoid (we know we didn’t see non-humanoid aliens due to real world budget restrictions). This is why the NCC-1701 and other ships of that era had the ‘jelly bean’ buttons and controls.
 
I've decided that the "Sato Atrium" seen in Starfleet Academy is named after Delacort Sato of "The Last Starship" comic book rather than Hoshi. No disrespect meant to Hoshi at all, and she would certainly be a remembered historical figure given she essentially perfected the universal translator, but I just want some of the references to be from places other than the 22nd 23rd or 24th centuries.
 
Or perhaps just the family, in acknowledgement of their dedication to the establishment (like how donors get things named after them today, but sans money, a legacy of multigenerational service would qualify).
 
My headcanon (at least one bit of it) was that the renaming of the Titan-A to the Enterprise-G was purely temporary. In the aftermath of the Frontier Day Massacre, Starfleet Command and the Federation government desperately wanted to project confidence to a populace shaken by the apparent ease by which the 1st Fleet (I also don't buy that the entire fleet was affected, or that what we saw was the entire fleet) fell to Borg influence.

With the Enterprise-F already decommissioned, Starfleet Command decided to temporarily redesignate the Titan-A - the hero of the day - to the Enterprise-G, with orders to tour all Federation worlds and major protectorates to show the flag and inspire the population to put their faith back into Starfleet. (Informally, it also served as a long-term recruitment drive - seeing a legendary starship in the flesh at their homeworlds would eventually create the 'Enterprise generation' for a couple of decades as young people inspired by the sight joined the Academy). The Enterprise-G also got involved in several missions adhoc as starships normally do. Excitement and shenanigans tempered by the weight of the Federation and its drive to restore trust and hope in the wake of the Massacre.

Upon its return to Earth a couple of years later, it reverted to the Titan-A (because the Titan deserved its flowers too, dammit!) and was assigned to open-ended exploration missions. No new Enterprise would be commissioned until the middle of the century, by which time the 'Enterprise generation' had matured into positions of authority and influence to the point that the desire to commission a new iteration could no longer be ignored.
 
All of Berman era Trek is also Roddenberry Trek. Berman having worked with Gene Roddenberry continued "Gene"'s Vision "

From ST09 onward is when Trek moved away from Roddenberry Trek. From this point forward" Gene' s Vision " was no longer a guiding factor. While Trek may still strive to promote message, morals, and meaning, it has broadened in creative scope. Or, at least, a different vision.
 
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