What is your personal head canon?

[Denise]

The James T. Kirk who died was a reformed Mirror Kirk. That's why we don't know who Antonia is and why Kirk is so surprised that Spock is an ambassador*. Spock actually rescued Kirk from the Nexus not long after he went into it (as we would expect).

Although some might be surprised that someone who said "we can now finally admit that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crises" entered the diplomatic corps. Doubtless he did so to change things.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Spock actually rescued Kirk from the Nexus not long after he went into it (as we would expect).

This is in my headcanon. The guy that Picard met in the Nexus was Kirk's echo.

 

[Set Harth]

Kirk is so surprised that Spock is an ambassador*.

He wasn't told anything about Spock, though?

 

[Henoch]

This is in my headcanon. The guy that Picard met in the Nexus was Kirk's echo.

Picard never left the Nexus; he only fantasized the adventure to save the world with a fantasize Kirk...then he defeats the Borg and saves history...and then...

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Future Pike visits present day Pike in the season 1 finale because he was at some point in time recruited by the Klingons to ensure history doesn't change.

That's my head canon explanation for the episode

 

[Ceridwen]

Picard never left the Nexus; he only fantasized the adventure to save the world with a fantasize Kirk...then he defeats the Borg and saves history...and then...

Ah, you've read my rejected short fiction I see.

 

[knightgrace]

Picard never left the Nexus; he only fantasized the adventure to save the world with a fantasize Kirk...then he defeats the Borg and saves history...and then...

Completely true. Once in, never out.

 

[Sketcher]

If Picard never left the Nexus, doesn't that mean the crashed Enterprise was still destroyed along with the Veridian system? Which couldn't have happened because we see Worf and Troi appear later on DS9 and VOY.

 

[Yistaan]

Some Trek inconsistencies NEED a headcanon explanation short of an official one. One major one is TOS speed dialogues saying the Enterprise can do 1,000 light years in 12 hours (That Which Survives) compared to 70 years for 70,000 light years in Voyager.

This goes beyond your standard technobabble inconsistencies because TAS and Star Trek 5 showed the 1701 going to the center of the galaxy, which is only realistic under TOS speeds. Even the galactic perimeter is only realistic under TOS speeds, since Earth isn't really at the perimeter of the galaxy.

I'm not sure what a good headcanon explanation would be. Maybe that explosion at the end of the Section 31 movie caused a massive subspace distortion that slowed speeds throughout the galaxy? By the time of Prodigy/Picard these speed issues were then fixed (as seen by the Dauntless going to the Delta quadrant etc.)

 

[Set Harth]

I'm not sure what a good headcanon explanation would be.

Decanonize Voyager.

 

[Citiprime]

Surak was wrong about logic being the only path to a functioning society for the Vulcans.

Although they were authoritarian, the fact the Romulans had a functioning society for centuries while allowing themselves to feel emotions hints Vulcan fundamentalism towards logic may have overblown the "need" for strict adherence in order to keep themselves from being savages. In fact, there might be a bit of propaganda mixed into their beliefs which was written by the victors who forced the other side off the planet.

Also, the fact there are no surviving non-logic adherents/Romulan communities left on Vulcan in the 23rd/24th centuries is somewhat disturbing. In our own history, whenever we've had partitions of a population (e.g., India and Pakistan, Ireland and Northern Ireland, etc.), communities didn't cleanly break off where every group member separated totally. There's still Catholics in Northern Ireland and Muslims in India. For nothing similar to exist on Vulcan either means they exist in secret to the point of escaping detection, or the Vulcans may have committed genocide to eliminate them at some point in the past.

 

[Soong-type Android]

Picard never left the Nexus; he only fantasized the adventure to save the world with a fantasize Kirk...then he defeats the Borg and saves history...and then...

...turns into an android

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

...turns into an android

But I want to be a real boy Q

 

[FredH]

Some Trek inconsistencies NEED a headcanon explanation short of an official one. One major one is TOS speed dialogues saying the Enterprise can do 1,000 light years in 12 hours (That Which Survives) compared to 70 years for 70,000 light years in Voyager.

This goes beyond your standard technobabble inconsistencies because TAS and Star Trek 5 showed the 1701 going to the center of the galaxy, which is only realistic under TOS speeds. Even the galactic perimeter is only realistic under TOS speeds, since Earth isn't really at the perimeter of the galaxy.

I'm not sure what a good headcanon explanation would be. Maybe that explosion at the end of the Section 31 movie caused a massive subspace distortion that slowed speeds throughout the galaxy? By the time of Prodigy/Picard these speed issues were then fixed (as seen by the Dauntless going to the Delta quadrant etc.)

In the long run, a lot of those speed issues throughout the franchise are simply unfixable. One “solution” I’ve seen suggested somewhere is that actually, any warp formula you’ve ever seen is always modified by certain, possibly ever-changing but predictable “local” metrics in whatever area of space you happen to be. So this week, it’ll take Warp 6 such-and-such hours to get your destination; next week and starting from somewhere else, the same Warp Factor may take months (or years, or days) to make another trip of the same distance, because the “Cochrane Factor” or whatever is different there.

All of which basically means that in story terms, Warp Factors are meaningless except for markers within the episode of “Faster!” or “Slower!”, and an excuse for speed-of-plot; so you can do whatever your particular drama requires — reach the galactic center in weeks or less, or take seventy years to cross the galaxy. Etc.

 

[Yistaan]

In the long run, a lot of those speed issues throughout the franchise are simply unfixable. One “solution” I’ve seen suggested somewhere is that actually, any warp formula you’ve ever seen is always modified by certain, possibly ever-changing but predictable “local” metrics in whatever area of space you happen to be. So this week, it’ll take Warp 6 such-and-such hours to get your destination; next week and starting from somewhere else, the same Warp Factor may take months (or years, or days) to make another trip of the same distance, because the “Cochrane Factor” or whatever is different there.

All of which basically means that in story terms, Warp Factors are meaningless except for markers within the episode of “Faster!” or “Slower!”, and an excuse for speed-of-plot; so you can do whatever your particular drama requires — reach the galactic center in weeks or less, or take seventy years to cross the galaxy. Etc.

That still doesn't explain Voyager's situation being portrayed as helpless as it is if there's a chance that the space "winds" might shift in their favor. Nor is Sybok's trip to the galactic center portrayed as "We've got to do this now, or the subspace turbulence won't allow us another chance" or whatever (keep in mind when time is a factor in a villain's plot, it's usually advertised i.e. Soran in Generations)

 

[FredH]

That still doesn't explain Voyager's situation being portrayed as helpless as it is if there's a chance that the space "winds" might shift in their favor. Nor is Sybok's trip to the galactic center portrayed as "We've got to do this now, or the subspace turbulence won't allow us another chance" or whatever (keep in mind when time is a factor in a villain's plot, it's usually advertised i.e. Soran in Generations)

As I said, unfixable.

 

[FredH]

The Q love to smugly declare and demonstrate their omnipotence… because the whole time, they’re studiously ignoring some other post-species — unknown to any of us “lesser species” — which is as far beyond the Q as the Q are beyond humanity. Which rather pisses off the Q, but they’ll never tell us that.

(I would have no way of imaging or describing what that would be. But it’s out there. And there’s almost certainly yet another species that’s just as far beyond that, but at this point we’re way beyond the scope of imaginable Star Trek.)

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

The Q love to smugly declare and demonstrate their omnipotence… because the whole time, they’re studiously ignoring some other post-species — unknown to any of us “lesser species” — which is as far beyond the Q as the Q are beyond humanity. Which rather pisses off the Q, but they’ll never tell us that.

(I would have no way of imaging or describing what that would be. But it’s out there. And there’s almost certainly yet another species that’s just as far beyond that, but at this point we’re way beyond the scope of imaginable Star Trek.)

Novels are not canon but supposedly Q met and talked to God, so there is one being above even Q if God is real in the novelverse

 

[FredH]

Novels are not canon but supposedly Q met and talked to God, so there is one being above even Q if God is real in the novelverse

Well, he would say that… despite having also claimed to be God.

 

[Shawnster]

If Picard never left the Nexus, doesn't that mean the crashed Enterprise was still destroyed along with the Veridian system? Which couldn't have happened because we see Worf and Troi appear later on DS9 and VOY.

Everything after Picard enters the Nexus is his fantasy, including the adventures of Worf and Troi.

OR

They are all in the Nexus. Picard entered first. The Enterprise crashes. The Nexus consumes the planet or, at least, everyone on the planet are taken into the Nexus, including all the crew who survived the crash (so, all of them). Everyone now has their own fantasy life in the Nexus