What's in YOUR 'head canon'?

[DarKush]

OP, this is a really great question. I do consider all live-action Trek canon. Beyond that, some things that come to mind:

From Trek Lit.
(The novel Ashes of Eden, Lost Era, Astrid Kemal, Commander Quinton Stone, Elias Vaughn, Ethan Locke, Afsarah Eden, Captain Harriman's depiction, Andorian biology/culture, Breen biology/culture, Romulan language/culture, QuchHa/HemQuch Klingons, The Hive, Herans, Thallonians, Danteri, Admirals Cartwright and Dougherty in Section 31, Tomed Incident in Serpents Among the Ruins, Betreka Nebula Incident/Cold War in Art of the Impossible, the Borg incursion in Destiny trilogy (though I'm not that cool with the fate of the SS Columbia in that series), Bodai Shin, Captain Geordi LaForge, Tryla Scott survived "Conspiracy", Va'Kel Shon and the Enterprise-F, Typhon Pact).

From comics
Khan miniseries, Star Trek Countdown, Star Trek: Early Voyages, Star Trek Academy, Klingons: Blood Will Tell, Star Trek: Crew, Captains Logs series,

From video games:
The appearance of the extradimensional Gorn from the last video game, though I'm not cool with the idea of them being outside the galaxy.
Star Trek Borg and Star Trek Klingon and Klingon Academy

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Isn't that what head canon means, fudging things around in one's head until they fit?

It does. I just found it funny that you said you accepted everything, and then immediately contradicted it by throwing out ENT.

 

[Kemaiku]

Just a new thought on Star Trey Beyond.

Spoiler

That maybe more ships of the class are being built so they're half a step behind the construction of the previous one, with incremental changes to the design.

When the Enterprise 1701 was relaunched after Into Darkness, a stardrive section (the way they seem to build them in the new universe, from there up) was nearing completion. As Starfleet wanted one closer to home, with the Enterprise being out in deep space.

But the new ship had the swept back nacelles and advanced warp system, bit of a waste staying nearer home and the Enterprise needed to go faster, so they ordered her home, made the phaser upgrades to the saucer while bolting it to the new stardrive she has in Beyond.

Uses it to nip over to Andromeda where Yorktown is nearing completion (her new base of operations) and the Mark 3 Constitution is being constructed. Enterprise goes boom, Paris renames her the Enterprise-A.

Which means she could at some point in Star Trek 4 come home, see an Into Darkness Constitution model and have Scotty make a joke about it running around with their old engineering section?

It also means that somewhere there could be a fourth hull being built that's about two thirds done by the new movie and could be shown too.

 

[maneth]

It does. I just found it funny that you said you accepted everything, and then immediately contradicted it by throwing out ENT.

Don't get me wrong, I love ENT (with the exception of TATV), it's my second-favorite Trek show after DS9. It's just that some events on the show contradict what we've seen before, and it's easier for me to reconcile that if I think of ENT as occurring in a different timeline from TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9 and VOY. It also ensures that the events in FC make more sense.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

A chilling interpretation of some throwaway lines from "The Squire of Gothos"

If you cannot take proper care of your pets, you cannot have them at all.

Eek, when you consider all the animal heads and taxidermied creatures on his walls...is Trelane a sociopath?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Depends on how those animals died. Perhaps Trelane teleported those animals to his world and then hunted them for sport. Do you believe all hunters are sociopaths?

Or maybe his mother was just referring to the Enterprise crew that Trelane had just captured.

Another bit for my head canon:

The Starfleet Marine Corps exists, and is called by that exact name, so let's just get over it already.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

^ Depends on how those animals died. Perhaps Trelane teleported those animals to his world and then hunted them for sport. Do you believe all hunters are sociopaths?

No. But it makes you wonder how the animals died.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ OTOH, those animals could have already been dead when Trelane got ahold of them. Maybe he stole the trophies from passing ships.

Or Trelane could have even created them out of thin air. He managed to conjure up a living biosphere, didn't he? Perhaps he just likes to look at trophies, so he made them from scratch, thus the animals were never alive to begin with.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Guess so.

 

[B.J.]

All canon, but in broad strokes.

But one specific point for me is that the USS Constitution, the class ship for the Prime Universe's Enterprise, is NOT NCC-1700, but a much lower number like NCC-700. That way it can include the Constellation and other lower numbered ships, just skipping many numbers along the way that are used by other classes. There's nothing in canon that would preclude this notion, just a long-standing behind-the-scenes assumption.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Just a new thought on Star Trey Beyond.

Here's a thought:

Spoiler

That maybe more ships of the class are being built so they're half a step behind the construction of the previous one, with incremental changes to the design.

When the Enterprise 1701 was relaunched after Into Darkness, a stardrive section (the way they seem to build them in the new universe, from there up) was nearing completion. As Starfleet wanted one closer to home, with the Enterprise being out in deep space.

But the new ship had the swept back nacelles and advanced warp system, bit of a waste staying nearer home and the Enterprise needed to go faster, so they ordered her home, made the phaser upgrades to the saucer while bolting it to the new stardrive she has in Beyond.

Uses it to nip over to Andromeda where Yorktown is nearing completion (her new base of operations) and the Mark 3 Constitution is being constructed. Enterprise goes boom, Paris renames her the Enterprise-A.

Which means she could at some point in Star Trek 4 come home, see an Into Darkness Constitution model and have Scotty make a joke about it running around with their old engineering section?

It also means that somewhere there could be a fourth hull being built that's about two thirds done by the new movie and could be shown too.

Spoiler protocols are in effect at least until the film has been on home video for a bit. Assume there are people in this forum who aren't seeing it until then and don't want to know anything.

 

[Tracy Trek]

My head canon for Latent Image is Kes was off on another shuttle, some sort of trading mission.

 

[Nerys Myk]

James West is an ancestor of James Kirk.

 

[Tenacity]

Spock's ancestors include every character Jane Wyatt ever played.

 

[Albertese]

^^^ In a similar vein, in my head canon, Spock's mother, Amanda, was a descendant of Arthur Conan Doyle. This is the only way I can take seriously the line in TUC where Spock quotes one of his ancestors and it's a line from Sherlock Holmes.

--Alex

 

[JonnyQuest037]

^^^ In a similar vein, in my head canon, Spock's mother, Amanda, was a descendant of Arthur Conan Doyle. This is the only way I can take seriously the line in TUC where Spock quotes one of his ancestors and it's a line from Sherlock Holmes.

You can buy the hybrid alien who looks just like a human with pointy ears, but him being descended from a consulting detective living in 1890s London is where your suspension of disbelief breaks down?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Doesn't the book Ishmael imply that Aaron Stemple is an ancestor of Spock? Odd that one of Spock's human ancestors should resemble his Vulcan father.

 

[Shawnster]

Then something must have happened, to turn him into the arrogant jackass we actually SAW.

One can be an arrogant jackass and an effective ship's captain.

For example, Jellico has a similar lable, yet I found him to be a very competent commander.

 

[Nerys Myk]

One can be an arrogant jackass and an effective ship's captain.

The crews of the USS Caine and the USS Reluctant disagree.

 

[Zonker]

Vulcans make puns all the time. Not because of they find them funny but because they take satisfaction from communicating multiple things at once. They also find it a useful language exercise. Being able to make puns demonstrates a strong understanding of whatever language the pun is being made in.