What's in YOUR 'head canon'?

[JonnyQuest037]

Both have been done to death, which is one reason I want dwelling on affairs and marital troubles to be left to soap operas and left out of Trek. Sure, we want to know more about the characters we love. We are also very often far better off not getting what we're so convinced we want.

It can be done well. I was re-reading parts of David R. George III's Provenance of Shadows last night. That told a wonderful story that largely turned around Leonard McCoy's love life, but I wouldn't describe it as "soapy" by any stretch of the imagination. By the end of it, I felt like I'd seen McCoy in a whole new way, which is a pretty damned impressive accomplishment with a character who had existed for 40 years by that point.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

People are still people, with multiple facets. If you tell it in such a way that it complements the story rather than distracting, confusing, or annoying the viewers/readers, it belongs. Ideally, no episode would be solely based on relationships, but we do have times in our life where our jobs take a back seat to our interpersonal connections.

 

[Nyotarules]

It can be done well. I was re-reading parts of David R. George III's Provenance of Shadows last night. That told a wonderful story that largely turned around Leonard McCoy's love life, but I wouldn't describe it as "soapy" by any stretch of the imagination. By the end of it, I felt like I'd seen McCoy in a whole new way, which is a pretty damned impressive accomplishment with a character who had existed for 40 years by that point.

I'm reading this now. An interesting theory regarding McCoy, took me a while to be sold on the idea but it is believable considering he remained a bachelor for so long (well they all did.)

 

[UnknownSample]

When we leave science fiction content behind, or just make it window dressing for relationships problems, that's where I think we lose perspective. Maybe we lose sight of what these series exist for. Next Gen did too much of that. All the later series did.

It's best when done economically.

 

[Nerys Myk]

When we leave science fiction content behind, or just make it window dressing for relationships problems, that's where I think we lose perspective. Maybe we lose sight of what these series exist for. Next Gen did too much of that. All the later series did.

It's best when done economically.

Most of the SF content in TOS was window dressing. It was never about telling SF stories, but about telling stories about people and ideas in a SF setting.

 

[Nyotarules]

The Star Trek concept was a western in space or so the story goes.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Star Trek concept was a western in space or so the story goes.

Sort of. It was pitched as the SF version of the Adult Westerns popular at the time. One was Wagon Train and that figured in the pitch. They, like Trek, used a particular setting to tell stories,but the ideas in those stories were not exclusive to Westerns.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

That would explain stories like "Mudd's Women". Some pioneer themes are pretty universal (attacked by strange people groups, new diseases to catch, men needing/wanting wives for companionship and help, orphan kids, etc...) but seeing them in outer space kind of makes them exciting.

I wonder what "Little House On The Prairie" would look like in space?

 

[Tallguy]

I wonder what "Little House On The Prairie" would look like in space?

You have to ask?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

What's that from?

I mean imagine a TOS-era series where a family with little kids encounters the same things the Ingalls family did, only in space.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Looks like Firefly.

 

[Nerys Myk]

What's that from?

I mean imagine a TOS-era series where a family with little kids encounters the same things the Ingalls family did, only in space.

That's called Lost In Space.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe. Never seen it.

 

[1001001]

Of course it's Firefly!

 

[Tallguy]

Of course it's Firefly!

I literally gasped.

 

[Tracy Trek]

What's that from?

I mean imagine a TOS-era series where a family with little kids encounters the same things the Ingalls family did, only in space.

I think they did a couple of episodes similar to what you're describing on the old Battlestar Galactica from the 1970's.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I named a colonist ship the Ingalls in one of my fanfics.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Maybe. Never seen it.

Rectify this. As soon as possible. Then watch Serenity (the film finale)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have seen Firefly, just didn't care for it much.

Although - and here's headcanon again - Nathan Fillion as Garth of Izar in DSC

(I actually hope they do that, BTW. Not only because I think he'd do well as Garth, I also want to see the steam rising from Browncoats' heads at one of their own actors jumping ship to the other side, as it were. )

 

[Tenacity]

As a Brown coat myself, i would love to see Fillion on Star Trek. No steam here.