What's in YOUR 'head canon'?
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This goes into the long running strange trend (not just this, but Geordi's eyes, Detmer's headset, etc.) that there seem to be few cloning/biological medical advances in Star Trek. The only real time they had one was when McCoy gave someone a pill in Star Trek 4 and it grew a new organ. This doesn't seem to happen anywhere else though...
One headcanon could be that there was such a severe overreaction to the Eugenics Wars that biological research just basically stalled.
I also found it very strange that Picard's family were killed in a fire. Doesn't Earth have emergency beamout procedures? What happened here? Real world 21st century fire sprinklers reduce the chances of fatality quite a bit already.
Robert refused to have smoke detectors on his property.
Dude. They can heal friggin' anything biological in Star Trek, often with some type of rays.
Kassidy Yates clearly wasn't taking birth control, she entrusted Sisko with it, and he forgot. That's a simple mistake. Not evidence for "science gone wrong". Though it obviously shows more equality between partners, and considering how much negative hormonal birth control for woman have - really, talk to any woman about side effects from the pill - a birth control for males simply could have way less negative side effects.
As for both Detmer and Geordi, the problem in both cases might be brain damage. And they clearly have a functioning medical treatment for their conditions - conditions that, remind you, are probably untreatable today.
Really, it still stands what McCoy said in TOS: In the Trek future, literally every normal wound can be healed, except if it hits the brain. Hell, NOG grew a new leg. Add to that the elimination of all regular diseases, and the only things staying problematic for patients are unknown alien diseases, and damage to the brain, although even there some treatments exist, though they might be reliant on technology and be visible.
This definitely isn't true though--there was a whole issue about Picard's fake heart, which wasn't the brain. Furthemore, they should be able to heal brain injuries--the transporter itself would have an entire readout of what the brain was, at the molecular level, at transport. That should be enough to heal brain injuries in the future, or restore the brain to an earlier state.
Not if you forget to take it. That's the whole point.But surely by the 24th century, it would be?
^ Well of course medicine (of any kind) can't be effective if you don't take it. 
There are techniques 98% effective today, people just don't bother when they're horny and shit happens.But surely by the 24th century, it would be?
It is though. Picard's heart was completely replaced and his new one needed maintenance. That still cunts as "healing" or "treatment". Try to completely replace your heart today.
Now it isn't perfect - it still needs maintenance, as was shown in the episode. But, you know, so need real organs some time. In fact, donor organs don't have a very long lifespan and need to be replaced regularly, like every 10 years or so. THe same thing might be true for cloned organs, especially ones so vital as the heart in the future.
In fact, an artificial one might simply have been the best solution there. Like, how often did Picard needed that maintenance? I don't remember the episode that good, but was it the first time since his youth? That's fuckin' AMAZING.
In fact, it's hard to describe how magnificantly futuristic and utopic it is to be able to replace a functioning HEART, and only need to check up on it ~50 years. Nothing we have now or even in the forseeable future will come even close to it The medical science in Star Trek is amazing - as it should be, hundreds of years in the future. It's just that the illnesses depicted - stabbed through the heart - are so so much worse. Today (and in the next 50 years) NOBODY is going to survive that - in the utopic Trek future? It's a mild annoyance.
(PS: That's not the way transporters work)
Romulans were using Klingon design in "Enterprise Incident" because they were converting their fleet over to using quantum singularity drives and needed something to fill the gap until they had ships in sufficient quantity.
The reason the Enterprise was refit (and other supposed refits at the time) instead of a new build was due to treaty agreement with the Klingons limiting the size of the fleet and spec types. Much like arms treaties and arms reduction talks/agreements from the 20th and 21st centuries limit the number and type of nuclear missiles. Building new ships/increasing the size of the fleet would violate treaty. Starfleet "refit" a number of ships to get around this limitation.
The Reliant NCC 1864 was docked at Starbase 11 during "Court Martial." The NCC number is on the list in Stone's office. I want to believe Reliant was a new build with the advanced tech, but I'm willing to concede it was a refit.
The reason the Enterprise was refit (and other supposed refits at the time) instead of a new build was due to treaty agreement with the Klingons limiting the size of the fleet and spec types. Much like arms treaties and arms reduction talks/agreements from the 20th and 21st centuries limit the number and type of nuclear missiles. Building new ships/increasing the size of the fleet would violate treaty. Starfleet "refit" a number of ships to get around this limitation.
The Reliant NCC 1864 was docked at Starbase 11 during "Court Martial." The NCC number is on the list in Stone's office. I want to believe Reliant was a new build with the advanced tech, but I'm willing to concede it was a refit.
Q did it to fuck with Picard. What are a couple of human lives in the grand scheme of personal entertainment for an omnipotent being?
In retrospect, Picard probably should double check into his family being killed by a fire. 21st century fire sprinklers do a good job reducing fatalities, and I assume by the 24th century these along with emergency beamouts and other futuristic technology would be mandatory and make a fire fatality on Earth highly unlikely. Was it a murder?
For all we know Daimon Bok, or another of the many enemies Picard made over the years purposely sabotaged the safety controls and started the fire purposely to kill Picard's family.
If they retcon this into a murder, this could actually be a thread the new Picard show could pick up, with him finally confronting the killer of his brother and nephew.
Q is many things, but he's not a murderer.
Actually, he sent the Enterprise to the Delta quadrant knowing full well the Borg cube would carve out a piece of the Enterprise and kill or assimilate the crewmembers on the piece carved out.
Picard: I understand what you've done here, Q, but I think the lesson could have been learned without the loss of eighteen members of my crew.
Q: If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it's not for the timid.
The Federation would have made it out there sooner or later anyway. At least Q gave them a sense of what they were up against.
Without that, Starfleet would have been completely unprepared for the Borg threat, and the Borg would have done a lot more damage on first contact.
For that matter, the transporter should eliminate the need for most types of surgeries.
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it would so easy to see q killing off some of picard's family just to casually mess with him.
I think it is kind of up to the individual.
In essence, for me TOS (and films), TNG (And Films), DS9 and VOY are all Canon.
With the exception of episodes that deal with the mirror universe, time travel (though I suppose TVH and FC would be exceptions) or other parallel universe stuff which just send any sense universe continuity out the nearest airlock... In my humble opinion anyway.
The Q would be iffy for me, but "Q Who" immediately makes their existence within the Star Trek Lore so pivotal that they cannot be ignored.
ENT I just don't care for at all and just for me, I prefer to forget about it.
I would say one footnote, that Generations and Final Frontier would be the only films I would be tempted to strip of Canon Status.
In essence, for me TOS (and films), TNG (And Films), DS9 and VOY are all Canon.
With the exception of episodes that deal with the mirror universe, time travel (though I suppose TVH and FC would be exceptions) or other parallel universe stuff which just send any sense universe continuity out the nearest airlock... In my humble opinion anyway.
The Q would be iffy for me, but "Q Who" immediately makes their existence within the Star Trek Lore so pivotal that they cannot be ignored.
ENT I just don't care for at all and just for me, I prefer to forget about it.
I would say one footnote, that Generations and Final Frontier would be the only films I would be tempted to strip of Canon Status.
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