What's in YOUR 'head canon'?

[Emperor Norton]

I don't know if this counts as head canon because I do not necessarily believe it, but, could season 2 of TNG be considered a reboot of the series? I think everything of season 1 other than the pilot episode and Tasha Yar were totally ignored, and around season 2 is when things started to cement. The Data of season 1 who used sly emotions and was comfortable with human language is gone, and the characters have developed on the whole. There is a lot about season one that feels inconsistent with what followed.

 

[Vger23]

I don't know if this counts as head canon because I do not necessarily believe it, but, could season 2 of TNG be considered a reboot of the series? I think everything of season 1 other than the pilot episode and Tasha Yar were totally ignored, and around season 2 is when things started to cement. The Data of season 1 who used sly emotions and was comfortable with human language is gone, and the characters have developed on the whole. There is a lot about season one that feels inconsistent with what followed.

Based on that logic, you would have to discount the first half of S1 of the original series as well.

 

[Nyotarules]

I also had a headcanon which real canon kinda crushed. That being that TMP took placed in 2279, for the obvious reason of 1979 and TOS just being 300 years after the actual date. It honestly does not make sense for TMP to take place in 2273, let alone 2271 or whatever they were originally thinking. People aged ten years and they look it. And there's other reasons. You could add another 5 year mission for Kirk (and I assumed TAS took place in 2273 and 2274) and everyone gets to wear the TOS uniforms instead of the horror of beige and drab blue.

There is a fix for that - working in deep space for long periods ages you. So if you are human and are 40 you look 50.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I think everything of season 1 other than the pilot episode and Tasha Yar were totally ignored, and around season 2 is when things started to cement.

They brought back Lore and the Romulans. That Ferengi from "The Battle" who was after Picard also made a return in season 7.

 

[Emperor Norton]

I do wonder if Q is not the designated protector of humans. He may be all the negative things that Q is, but he has the Enterprise encounter the Borg early for example, who were already coming anyway and thus gave the Federation time to prepare. On that note, I wonder if in 9/10 realities the Borg do not just succeed and overrun the entire known galaxy and maybe Q actively intervened behind the scenes to make sure things worked out.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe the Q continuum kidnapped Gary Seven's ancestors...:P

 

[Emperor Norton]

Maybe the Q continuum kidnapped Gary Seven's ancestors...:P

They wouldn't be that nice. Gary Seven actually cares. Q seems to care like taking care of your friend's cat over the weekend when you hate cats.

 

[Shawnster]

In my head canon Gary Seven and the people he worked for were part of the temporal cold war

 

[Emperor Norton]

Nick Locarno is Tom Paris' illegitimate half brother, or his twin who was given to another family to raise. Admiral Paris pulled some strings to get him into Starfleet Academy.

Harry Kim was not promoted because there was not enough people in the rank structure to allow another Lieutenant.

Any problems with what Janeway was doing was because she was primarily a science officer rather than a command path officer, and was not prepared for anything like the Delta Quadrant. She has some incompetence, and a lot of trying to figure out what works in the situation in terms of how to command and how to react. On the whole, she is just getting used to command, and is unprepared for the Delta Quadrant.

Delta Quadrant species, through cultural diffusion, tend to be more irrational than species found in the rest of the galaxy.

 

[Idran]

In my head canon, Sybok's "great intelligence" is responsible for filling a number of the existing plot holes in TFF

1. His enhanced intelligence and telepathic abilities are what allowed the creature at the center of the galaxy to reach out, find his mind, and plant the ideas in there that God existed on Sha Ka Ree.

2. Sybok has spent years figuring out a proper shield modulation so that the Enterprise can safely traverse the barrier. This is why he specifically requests a Federation starship when he is holding the hostages on Nimbus III. Klaa's shipis able to detect the specific shield changes while they are in pursuit of the Enterprise, also allowing them to pass through. I believe this is basically covered in the novelization in a very similar way

3. Similarly, he spent potentially decades of his life working on creating a transwarp tunnel or other similar artificial anomaly to allow the Enterprise to reach the center of the galaxy in a truncated time.

4. Sybok does not actually believe that God lives on Sha Ka Ree. Rather, he believes that God will manifest itself to anyone who is capable of breaching the barrier. The planet is a kind of shrine where the worthy (those passing the trial of the barrier) communicate with the almighty.

5. Going back to my first point, ultimately the being at the center of the galaxy has spent a fair amount of Sybok's life gradually altering his mind telepathically and putting these thoughts in there to lead to him taking these otherwise irrational actions. It is in fact why he abandoned logic and embraced emotion

In my own headcanon I just ignore the "center of the galaxy" part and assume it's near the Federation/Romulan/Klingon triborder, that Dr. Sevrin was right about Eden being in the Romulan Neutral Zone and his calculations were just somewhat off; that Sha Ka Ree was the planet Sevrin was actually looking for, not the acid-filled death planet him and his cultists ended up on.

Harry Kim was not promoted because there was not enough people in the rank structure to allow another Lieutenant.

This is essentially canon, I think; Kim said pretty much exactly that when he was talking to his parents in "Author, Author".

I think everything of season 1 other than the pilot episode and Tasha Yar were totally ignored

Nah, a lot of S1 stuff was picked up on and continued later. Daimon Bok, Wesley and the Traveler, and Lore are the big ones, but we also had the start of Data's Sherlock Holmes fascination, and the scooped-up cities on planets along the Neutral Zone from "The Neutral Zone" ended up leading into the Borg. And beyond Q's appearance in "Encounter at Farpoint", "Hide and Q" also got referenced in later Q episodes as well. Plus for minor later references, we also had Minuet. And for a really deep cut, the Talarians from "Suddenly Human" actually first came up in S1: the ship the Klingons were on in "Heart of Glory" was Talarian, and "Suddenly Human" even specifically referenced the merculite rockets that the "Heart of Glory" ship was said to carry so it wasn't just a case of pulling the same random alien name twice.

 

[Paradise City]

I've idly daydreamed whether the Henry Starling Memorial Fund contributed to the First Augment program.

 

[marsh8472]

At the bedrock level I accept what CBS and Paramount says is canon because they own the rights to it and can enforce their canon as true in a court of law if people tried to change that. This means, last time I checked anyway, that the events of ENT, TNG, DS9, VOY, and TOS are canon. While the events of TAS, fan movies, and events in star trek games are not canon.

There's so many inconsistencies in Star Trek that canon is too diluted to reach conclusions. I can reconcile inconsistencies by suggesting the events are in separate in-canon timelines but when doing that, there is no longer a guarantee that any given episode exists in the same timeline as another. Like two separate timelines whose only difference is what type of birthday cake Worf had in episode "Parallels".

At best I treat star trek canon like reality where I make the best guesses I can following rules like these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criteria_of_truth with as much evidence as I can.

 

[Nerys Myk]

There is a fix for that - working in deep space for long periods ages you. So if you are human and are 40 you look 50.

That's why transporters gained those transparent walls and engineers wear protective gear in TMP. The radiation leaks were hell on the body.

 

[F. King Daniel]

That's transporters gained those transparent walls and engineers wear protective gear in TMP. The radiation leaks were hell on the body.

Good luck to all the saps who worked in Starfleet before the TMP refit. So wonder poor Scotty aged so quickly.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I've idly daydreamed whether the Henry Starling Memorial Fund contributed to the First Augment program.

In one of the TNG novels it's suggested that Ralph Offenhouse helped finance the Augment program. He feels great guilt over this because of all the death and destruction the Augments caused (also his son died in the war against them).

Nick Locarno is Tom Paris' illegitimate half brother, or his twin who was given to another family to raise. Admiral Paris pulled some strings to get him into Starfleet Academy.

Seems easier just to make them cousins.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Seems easier just to make them cousins.

Transporter clone. This is Star Trek, DAMN IT!!!

 

[Idran]

At the bedrock level I accept what CBS and Paramount says is canon because they own the rights to it and can enforce their canon as true in a court of law if people tried to change that. This means, last time I checked anyway, that the events of ENT, TNG, DS9, VOY, and TOS are canon. While the events of TAS, fan movies, and events in star trek games are not canon.

TAS was never actually noncanon; Roddenberry said it was at one point because he felt embarrassed about it, but he also said TFF and parts of TUC weren't canon. What he considered "real" and what he didn't varied over time, but he didn't have any level of authority beyond a figurehead position by the time he said TAS wasn't canon, and it was never an official position of CBS or Paramount that it wasn't. In fact, it was even referenced occasionally in DS9 and Voyager, and somewhat regularly in ENT; Manny Coto even planned at one point to jump off of "Slaver Weapon" and include the Kzinti in ENT S5.

Also I don't know what you mean by "enforce their canon as true in a court of law". Are you talking about fanworks and IP rights? Because that has nothing at all to do with canon.

 

[marsh8472]

TAS was never actually noncanon; Roddenberry said it was at one point because he felt embarrassed about it, but he also said TFF and parts of TUC weren't canon. What he considered "real" and what he didn't varied over time, but he didn't have any level of authority beyond a figurehead position by the time he said TAS wasn't canon, and it was never an official position of CBS or Paramount that it wasn't. In fact, it was even referenced occasionally in DS9 and Voyager, and somewhat regularly in ENT; Manny Coto even planned at one point to jump off of "Slaver Weapon" and include the Kzinti in ENT S5.

Also I don't know what you mean by "enforce their canon as true in a court of law". Are you talking about fanworks and IP rights? Because that has nothing at all to do with canon.

the former official startrek.com website said the animated series was not canon https://web.archive.org/web/2010062...trek.com/startrek/view/help/faqs/faq/676.html

Correct about the IP rights thing, that's what determines what is considered official star trek. Just like how Disney was given the power to remove most of star wars books and other non-movie sources from official canon. Once Disney purchased the property rights off of George Lucas they did it. Legal authority what keeps other people from uniting around another company or entity and declaring what's considered official star trek.

 

[Nyotarules]

In universe - The Denobulans did not join the Federation because they objected to Earth's insistence that genetic engineering be made illegal.
However in my fanfic canon all humans after WW3 are augmented for longer lifespan and resistance to certain diseases but not increased strength or intelligence e.g Admiral McCoy, but Khans ilk were genetic anomalies that went haywire.

 

[MAGolding]

That kind of education doesn't prevent misspeaking, nor does it change the fact that human memory is fallible and the human mind can only hold so much information. In the real world, experts in their field are not usually walking, talking fact machines, even in that field. Rather they are the people who have been trained to think like historians, lawyers, doctors, etc., thus know how to look up, find and process the information they don't know when they need that information for a specific task.

My point is that every real person has vast amounts of correct and incorrect information about the real world, but only a tiny amount of information about any fictional universe to base his image of it on. Thus to be fair to the readers or viewers almost all the information given by fictional characters in any fictional setting must be correct in order for the viewers or readers to gain even the most rudimentary picture of the fictional setting. Therefore a rule of writing and of interpreting fiction should be that unless there is an important plot requirement for specific characters to lie or be mistaken, almost every thing said by characters must be correct.