cilantro wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 12:07 am
CharlesPhipps wrote: ↑Wed May 16, 2018 2:42 pm
My headcanon is Discovery IS the Star Trek original timeline. But it's the timeline that resulted from the events of First Contact and the Temporal War. A much darker and more militant time with more advanced technology as well as the Vulcans being a much bigger bag of dicks.
Future Guy, it turned out, was a much more sympathetic figure than you'd think, though.
He was trying to prevent the destruction of Romulus.
Could Future Guy be actually Nero?
Possibly, though how a miner managed to get time travel technology is anyone's guess. My other theory is Commander Tebok ("The Neutral Zone") because canon should always be characters we know.
I admit, my headcanon there is, "The TV shows are an approximation of what happened in canon and Klingons have always looked like Klingons."
Some more Star Trek headcanons:
* Q is actually the inspiration for Lucifer, Loki, and other Trickster gods. He also was the one who made the deal with that race which sold their souls to him and just couldn't be bothered to show up that day when Picard proved he didn't exist.
* The "Q" war with the Confederacy was just another Test for humanity.
* Picard is actually descended from a British family which bought a vineyard in France a hundred years ago.
* The Enterprise reproduction watched by Riker and Troi is actually a fairly bad one in places. It tried to apply Federation values and a pro-humanity slant on the early days of Archer.
* "Dear Doctor" was altered as Archer and Phlox outright gave them the cure among other Prime Directive violations.
* Janeway was barely keeping it together in the Delta Quadrant. A lot of her decisions and seemingly imperious command style was based around the fact she believed it was better to behave like she knew exactly what she was doing than admit she was just as scared, confused, and troubled as anyone else there.
* The Borg ceased their attack on humanity...because it wasn't efficient. They assimilated enough ships to get an idea of our technology, history, and everything else the Borg could want from us. They don't indiscriminately assimilate, they do it to make sure they get as much as they can.
In short, the Borg won and we didn't realize it.
* Even with the above statement about more extremist and nastier Vulcans, most Vulcans aren't like Spock the way most humans aren't like Kirk. Spock is an exemplar of Vulcan logic mixed with compassion and is remembered as a Thomas Aquinas or Saint Francis figure of their religion centuries later.
Most Vulcans pay lip service to logic, pacifism, and stoicism but there's also more Tuvoks (who barely held back his anger, boredom, and withering disdain among other emotions at the best of times) than Spocks.