Yeah the USS Franklin being the first warp 4 ship being a big deal? Perhaps they meant warp 6 and the first sent on a deep space mission?
What's in YOUR 'head canon'?
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I'd say that this sounds like fairly tangential stuff, but let's be careful about dropping spoilerish information about Beyond in here, guys.
Unless it doesn't take that long to rise in the ranks in Starfleet. Kirk, for example, went from "Lieutenant on his first deep space assignment" to Captaincy in 11 years, so Spock could have been just six or seven years (or less) out of the academy at the time of "The Cage."
Or my aunt, who had her first child at 19 and and then went on to teach elementary school for 42 years.
*Stella Mudd isn't quite as the android depicts her. Given that Harry was drunk most of the time, and therefore his vision and hearing were distorted, coupled with the fact that he felt her to be a killjoy and spoilsport interfering with his "fun", I wonder if she might be better looking, but firm, no-nonsense.
I can imagine Kirk and co meeting the "real" Stella, who's much better looking and nicer in person - she wants to stop Harry from committing his latest scheme and get back with him, so she and Kirk pretend to be interested in each other to make Harry jealous.
I can imagine Kirk and co meeting the "real" Stella, who's much better looking and nicer in person - she wants to stop Harry from committing his latest scheme and get back with him, so she and Kirk pretend to be interested in each other to make Harry jealous.
In my head canon, the Borg started out with a less dominant purpose. A collective consciousness of voluntary members each contributing processing power, physical labour and opinion towards problem solving, exploration, defense of the weak against the strong etc. However, the hive mind was somehow infiltrated and corrupted by intergalactic bullies to share only a single, enforced viewpoint relegating the constituents to drones.
^Or perhaps just "evolved" that way without a specific influence...a "power corrupts" sort of situation. They sacrificed their humanity and came to act inhuman.
Andorians come from the planet "Andor," as used in Trek fic for 40 years before Enterprise came up up "Andoria," which just makes me think of a sinking ocean liner.
"Vulcanian" was just a word we used for a while before "Vulcan" came into popular use. For a while the two may have been interchangeable. Perhaps, at some point, Vulcans simply let the rest of us know they preferred one over the other.
When Hoshi whined about the stars going the wrong way out her cabin window, Archer confined her to that very cabin for a week and disabled her window shades.
"Vulcanian" was just a word we used for a while before "Vulcan" came into popular use. For a while the two may have been interchangeable. Perhaps, at some point, Vulcans simply let the rest of us know they preferred one over the other.
When Hoshi whined about the stars going the wrong way out her cabin window, Archer confined her to that very cabin for a week and disabled her window shades.
I just added to my head-canon last night while watching the TNG episode, The Dauphin. It posted a longer version here: http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-dauphin-and-odo.282821/
But essentially it is that Anya and Salia from the Dauphin and Martia from Undiscovered Country are all Changelings/Founders, like Odo, sent to explore space at some undisclosed point in the past.
But essentially it is that Anya and Salia from the Dauphin and Martia from Undiscovered Country are all Changelings/Founders, like Odo, sent to explore space at some undisclosed point in the past.
As committed as it is to interspecies harmony, the Federation is still perceived by outsiders (and, unconsciously, by many insiders) as being the Earth-Human Empire, particularly by Klingons and Romulans. Federation intellectuals are aware of the problem and have worked on it for decades, but the simple fact of Earth's being both the Federation capitol and the home of Starfleet's Admiralty--along with the disproportionately heavy percentage of humans making up Starfleet personnel, and the subtle but heavy influence of Earth culture on everything from Federation constitutional tenets to starship names--have worked against them.
No. It requires all member planets to have a global government that rules the whole planet, but that global government doesn't have to be a unitary state. It can be a federal state like the USA or a feudal state like a medieval European one or a loose confederation vaguely like the European Union. And what does the number of sovereign and independent governments on a planet have to do with the number of monarchies on that planet? Do you believe that a monarchy has to be the government of an independent and sovereign realm?
Reread my post. If that does not convince you ask some history or government board whether a monarchy has to be a sovereign and independent realm or can be a dependent realm and part of a larger realm.
"A monarchy?" Why should there be only one monarchy per planet? Is that logical? You may say that it is logical to have only one sovereign and independent government on a planet, but what does that matter? Do you think that every king has to be the monarch of a sovereign and independent government?
Throughout history, most kings have been more or less subordinate to higher governments, such as higher kings, or republics, or whatever. Even today, most of the functioning kingdoms on Earth are not independent sovereign states but smaller parts of larger monarchies or republics.
Back in the 19 century and early 20th century, when a European realm declared independence, the ruler or lord of it usually took the title of king. Thus the idea of being a king and the idea of being ruler of an independent and sovereign realm became associated in European culture. But even back then, from 1971 to 1918, there were four kingdoms in the German Empire.
How can a global government rule a whole planet without being united? Isn't that what "global" means in this case?
It seems what you are describing a is a type of global or united government. Federal, European Union, Serfdom, etc... Regardless of how the government is structured, it's all a global, unified government. The Federal Government of the UAS is united. If one or a group of states rebels and secedes to form a new government, then there is no longer a unified government over the whole. To apply this on a global scale, there is no longer one global government.
The same with all your examples. As long as they recognize the sovereignty of the head global government, they are unified. That's what unified means. They can still be a loose confederacy, a union, or whatever the structure is, but they all are united in recognizing the sovereignty of the global government.
The VOY episode "Living Witness" takes place in the Mirror Universe - well, a Mirror Universe anyway - and the version of Voyager from the opening scene is real.
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11. Spock is not the only Vulcan hybrid in the universe
12 Sarek and his clan are not royalty
13. T'Pau is Spock's great-aunt
14. Amanda was not the first human to marry a Vulcan
15. Spock had friends in school
16. Kirk's shirt sleeves are made from velcro
17. Bones is a former member of Terra Prime
18. TOS Uhura missed her Klingon 101 lectures
19 . Gaila is alive and well and living on Risa
20. Reboot Winona Kirk is not a bad mother
21. TNG Vulcans and Romulans do not all have the same hairstyle or clothes
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Prometheus does not have a silly multi-vector attack mode. It's just a well designed warship.
The Ambassador class ships were all out on exploration missions during TNG and the Dominion War, and that's why we didn't see them in any real numbers.
The Ambassador class ships were all out on exploration missions during TNG and the Dominion War, and that's why we didn't see them in any real numbers.
No, Picard said all Federation members had reach a state of unity when they entered the Fedeation, and even that wasn't a requirement.
Nothing was said of a "global government."
Just came up with a new one. The academy we see in San Fransisco is only one campus of many, though it's the largest, which explains how much attention it gets. Otherwise you would think there would have to be about 100,000 grads per class.
Yeah, Annorax, that is a great point. The writers always seem to have trouble keeping the scale of the Federation consistent.
My "head canon" is pretty simple really. It's ENT (apart from TATV), TOS, TNG, DS9 and VOY and their movies, plus the upcoming DSC. Maybe TAS, or elements thereof (I haven't seen it yet). In no way, shape or form is the Abramsverse there, and that includes the destruction of Romulus, Nero and Old Spock returning. That's all in a completely different timeline. And that timeline diverged a lot earlier than with Nero's incursion.
Then I have some smaller tidbits that are valid in my mind that might help explain things in my canon:
Then I have some smaller tidbits that are valid in my mind that might help explain things in my canon:
- Only Vulcan males enter pon farr, they then induce it in their females. When T'Pol entered faux pon farr, it was induced in her due to that virus or whatever it was.
- There are special warp highways that allow starships to travel faster between specific points even though they have a nominally lower warp factor. Mapping these highways out is an honoured profession. It's also why Archer wants those Vulcan star charts. Most starbases are located near these highways. They're like the roads in the Roman Empire.
- Remans were the indigenous population of Remus that got enslaved by the proto-Romulans when they got there.
- The Federation is, at least early on, more like the EU than the USA, with self-governing planets/systems. The Federation Council is like the European Council/Council of Ministers.
- Starfleet, at least early on, is more like NATO, with forces from the different member systems making up the forces, but with Earth in the lead, much like USA is the lead nation of NATO. Eventually it becomes something more. (And yes, Starfleet is also a military).
- TATV never happened. It's either a bad, wrong holonovel that Riker watched, or an alternate future instigated by Future Guy in the Temporal Cold War.
- The Vulcans, or the leadership at any rate, are well aware of the origins of the Romulans. But they keep it a secret to not disturb the delicate relationship they have with Earth and the Coalition of Planets during the Romulan War. We can even have some people on Earth become aware of it, but not talk about it for much the same reasons. But they could have used that intelligence to "blackmail" Vulcan to come to their aid at a critical juncture, say the battle of Cheron.
Apparently real canon agrees with you. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Starfleet_Academy (See "bases and annexes")
The campier episodes of TOS (Spock's Brain, Catspaw, Wolf in the Fold, The Savage Curtain) that don't fit with the movies or even the rest of TOS just didn't happen. I know it doesn't "make sense".
McCoy having been friends with Kirk's family. I used to exaggerate their age difference in my head and assume that McCoy was friends with Kirk's dad, because that's always how the relationship came off to me.
I've been suspicious for a while that Wesley is really Picard's kid.
McCoy having been friends with Kirk's family. I used to exaggerate their age difference in my head and assume that McCoy was friends with Kirk's dad, because that's always how the relationship came off to me.
I've been suspicious for a while that Wesley is really Picard's kid.
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