What's in YOUR 'head canon'?
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I bet Moriarty is a real person running around the Mirrorverse's 24th century too.
It was explained that he was specifically programmed to be self-aware (or at least have the appearance of self-awareness) to make his programme more interesting. We never quite got to the bottom of him.
In my head canon, Vic is the personal creation of Felix, based on his own appearance and elements of his personality. Mirror 'Fontaine' is actually Mirror Felix.
In my personal head-canon, the TOS episode "Bread and Circuses" takes place in the Mirror universe. Some undetected space-time anomaly sent both the S.S. Beagle and the Enterprise into the Mirror universe's 20th century. This eliminates the notion of there being a "duplicate" Earth in our own universe and provides a plausible origin for the Terran Empire as the interplanetary successor of the Roman Empire.
^ If the notion of duplicate Earths bothers you, check out the "Department of Temporal Investigations" novels. They offer an alternative:
Miri's home planet, for example. It isn't a copy of Earth - it literally IS Earth, from another timeline (which had become mixed up with the main timeline for a brief interval).
As for Magna Roma: IIRC, it was originally seeded by the Preservers. (It isn't actually a duplicate Earth - it has the same proportions of land/water that Earth does, but the continents are different shapes.)
Miri's home planet, for example. It isn't a copy of Earth - it literally IS Earth, from another timeline (which had become mixed up with the main timeline for a brief interval).
As for Magna Roma: IIRC, it was originally seeded by the Preservers. (It isn't actually a duplicate Earth - it has the same proportions of land/water that Earth does, but the continents are different shapes.)
I never got the impression that Vic was 'sentient' in the way Doc was. He was just programmed to be aware he was a hologram. He never really deviated from his initial programming, he was always happy just running his casino and being a lounge entertainer.
In my headcanon, the man who bought Data's communicator in Time's Arrow actually was Dukat, stranded on Earth when he was assigned a mission to go back in time and sabotage Earth's history. He knew exactly what the communicator was and needed parts of it to try to send a signal to a space faring race, because getting off Earth was the first step in his plans to get back to his time.
Before the planned sabotage, they canceled their plans when they determined that any interference in the development of Earth would lead to Cardassia being assimilated by the Borg.
In my headcanon, the man who bought Data's communicator in Time's Arrow actually was Dukat, stranded on Earth when he was assigned a mission to go back in time and sabotage Earth's history. He knew exactly what the communicator was and needed parts of it to try to send a signal to a space faring race, because getting off Earth was the first step in his plans to get back to his time.
Before the planned sabotage, they canceled their plans when they determined that any interference in the development of Earth would lead to Cardassia being assimilated by the Borg.
I can understand why some might doubt that Vic or the EMH are sentient. The only response I can think of is, how can you prove that YOU are?
I think that the machines the show tells us are sentient, are sentient. If you're willing to suspend disbelief for any of the other things in the world you should be able to suspend it for that.
But the show never told us Vic was sentient. It just told us he was a more complex hologram.
Speaking of holograms and the MU. In Living Witness, how do we know the backup Doc didn't in fact pass over to the MU, and the historical record wasn't in fact completely accurate?
Vic sounds sentient to me. 
Vic sounds sentient to me.
How so? Just because he knows he's a hologram? He never goes outside the boundaries of his programming or develops any of his own goals. If he ever said "You know, I don't feel like singing today", or "I'm not so enamored with singing anymore, I'm thinking of becoming a chef", maybe you could argue he's sentient.
For one, I was born into a sentient species. My understanding is that the vast majority of holograms are not sentient.
The default position for holograms is non-sentience.
Plus, didn't he have his own problems to deal with in a couple episodes? Make-believe problems in his make-believe world. Even if he truly was content as a lounge singer who helped real people with their problems, then he wouldn't be worried or concerned with accounting or the mob or a new hotel or whatever.
1) Aired Trek TV Series/Movies
2) Deleted Scenes from 1) where they do not explicitly contradict 1)
3) Printed ST Reference Materials authored by people who worked for 1) - i.e the Okuda Encyclopedia/Chronology, etc. where they do not contradict !0
4) ST References that do not fit into 3) - i.e. the original FJ Tech Manual, fan-produced manuals/blueprints where not contradicting 1) or 3)
5) ST Novels where not contradictory to 1) or 3)
6) ST Comics/Graphic Novels not contradictory to 1) or 3)
2) Deleted Scenes from 1) where they do not explicitly contradict 1)
3) Printed ST Reference Materials authored by people who worked for 1) - i.e the Okuda Encyclopedia/Chronology, etc. where they do not contradict !0
4) ST References that do not fit into 3) - i.e. the original FJ Tech Manual, fan-produced manuals/blueprints where not contradicting 1) or 3)
5) ST Novels where not contradictory to 1) or 3)
6) ST Comics/Graphic Novels not contradictory to 1) or 3)
In Generations, Lursa and B'etor's ship causes massive structural damage to the saucer section causing an evacuation to the engineering section and jettisoning the saucer section. The Enterprise destroys the Klingon ship but they manage to beam to the planet with Soran. Captain Kirk crashes the damaged saucer section into the array killing himself, Soran, Lursa, and B'etor. Then First Contact can take place on the Enterprise D, but with a new bridge.
Insurrection and Nemesis never take place, however Q appears and makes Data human for snits and giggles.
Insurrection and Nemesis never take place, however Q appears and makes Data human for snits and giggles.
So looking at Shatner's present (as of this posting) Twitter profile picture, it kinda looks like a much older Christopher McDonald to me. Which makes me wonder if Richard Castillo is a Captain Kirk lovechild.
Phase II, and some form of The God Thing and Planet of the Titans happened between TMP and TWOK.
After the Enterprise-C was destroyed there was no Enterprise for 20 years out of respect for the crew because all hands were lost.
Worf decided being an Ambassador wasn't for him and he returned to Starfleet between the end of DS9 and NEM. He wasn't visiting in Nemesis. He was part of the crew.
Eventually, the Federation becomes something like the Commonwealth on Andromeda. Horrible series in execution, but I like at least that basic idea.
After the Enterprise-C was destroyed there was no Enterprise for 20 years out of respect for the crew because all hands were lost.
Worf decided being an Ambassador wasn't for him and he returned to Starfleet between the end of DS9 and NEM. He wasn't visiting in Nemesis. He was part of the crew.
Eventually, the Federation becomes something like the Commonwealth on Andromeda. Horrible series in execution, but I like at least that basic idea.
Castillo would have to be at least 51 years old (barring a long alien pregnancy, frozen sperm, binary cloning, suspended animation, or time travel) to make that work. Given that he was played by a 34-year-old actor, I doubt that was intended to be the case. He was probably born around 2310.
Headcanon addendum: Over the course of her service, NCC-1701 went through numerous refits, as per canon. However, at least two were subsequently reversed after Starfleet decided that the systems involved needed further development before continued active deployment. One of these was the ship's upgrade shortly after the Talos IV incident giving it a more swept-back configuration, which was maintained for some time. Another design, using a similar configuration but experimenting with flatter nacelles, was adopted some time before the end of the ship's classic five-year mission; this too was reversed before the end of that mission, although elements of it were adopted yet again when the ship was permanently refit in the early 2270s.
[I'm perfectly aware this is ridiculous; I just like it anyway.]
[I'm perfectly aware this is ridiculous; I just like it anyway.]
There are emergency robot legs tucked under the captain's chair, and the whole thing can disconnect and move around the bridge and terrorize the crew if the captain wishes.
Alt-head canon: There is an amalgamized universe where Babylon 5 and Star Trek takes place. Basically, Zephram Cochrane meets the Centauri on his maiden voyage to the Alpha Centauri Star System, the Federation-Minbari War takes place, and James Kirk was a classmate with John Sheridan and Jeffrey Sinclair (though not of the same class) at the Academy. Robert April was a hero at the Battle of the Line, even though the Minbari had the tactical advantage of using "space jumps" to appear out of nowhere. Oh, and telepathy is a normal thing (thus justifies Gary Mitchell's ESP rating) in Starfleet. The Narn sides with the Romulans against the Centauri, who become allies to the Shadows. That's just stuff off the top of my head.
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