#star trek fan theory

[grtmnick]

Seven of Nine must always slay when in service to her Red Queen.

#j7 #kathryn x seven #Kathryn janeway x seven of nine #seven of nine #star trek voyager #star trek: voyager #voyager #star trek #Star Trek fan theory #reddit #fan theory #Star Trek voyager season 5

[chequerootlurks]

Star Trek Fan Theory:

I firmly believe that the El-Aurians were once of the same species the the Q.

For whatever reason, the El Aurians chose to renounce their immortality, and chose to no longer use their powers. Or maybe the surrendered them as they left. (Like the Amish or Mennonites rejecting English culture.)

Regardless of how it came to pass, it is canon that the El-Aurians and the Q had a war or similar event, something that could hardly be possible -unless!- they could be a match for the Q. This split probably happened millions (billions?) of years ago. We know Guinan is more than half a millennia old; we also know from canon that her parents are alive and well. It’s not unreasonable to assume a 4,000+ lifespan for El-Aurians. Possibly much longer.

It is canon that El-Aurians can manipulate the appearance of their age, and that they are sensitive to space-time disruptions. They also come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and skin tones.

I don’t believe they are the hypothesized ‘founders,’ progenitors for the humanoid races of the Alpha Quadrant.

There is no evidence that El-Aurians can interbreed with other races. I don’t personally think they could. I headcanon that they have a 4-strand DNA helix that makes them utterly incompatible with the 2-strand, 48 chromosome genetics of humans, vulcans, klingons, romulans, etc.

I think the Q known from TNG and Guinan have a history that goes back to the schism, or on Guinan’s side at least, very close to it. Maybe her grandparents were members of the Q Continuum.

It is canon that she’s met many Q entities, and describes some as “almost respectable.”

I say “schism,” rather than “civil war,” because I don’t think the El-Aurian split caused a war; not exactly. Maybe individual battles here and there, sect against sect, family member against family member. I think the El-Aurian Schism caused a lot of hostility between the Listeners (El-Aurian), and the Wielders (Continuum). — Think the strife between parents and their adult children when one says “screw tradition! I’m going to go be a [hippy, artist, etc],” when the parents insisted the child become a doctor or lawyer.

El-Aurians will always have extrasensory ability to sense Q entities, and vice versa. They might’ve lost their powers in the traditional sense, but I believe them more than capable of using a Q’s own force against it. — Think martial arts: it’s not about being the most bad-ass, it’s about directing your opponent’s force back at them.

Q is scared of Guinan because he knows he can’t hurt her. She can’t hurt him offensively, but were he to try -anything!- at her she’s pivot the force and basically send it right back at Q kung-fu style.

He couldn’t teleport her out of the ship and into deep space. (He could destroy the ship with her in it, but that’s not his motivation.) He probably introduced the Borg to her group because it was a way to attempt to eliminate her / the group of El-Aurians she was running with.

Why does he have a particular dislike towards her / her family group? Well, who knows. Maybe they were cousins, or maybe he was there when the Schism happened. Maybe before Guinan or her group left, they did some harm to Q, or to his pride. Maybe he vouched for them, and felt betrayed when they left.

Personally, I think whatever harm she did to him was against his ego, not physical.

Anyhow that’s just my theory; but I’m sticking with it until disproven.

#star trek q #star trek fan theory #star trek headcanon #q continuum #el-aurian #el aurian #guinan #Q #muse rambles

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hey if puppets bathed how would they do that. if with water they'd get waterlogged and wouldn't be able to move until they dried enough, i presume. plus that can cause Damage. what the fuck do they do to get the grime off

#modified sponge baths? high powered fan? star trek sonic shower? #WHAT WOULD THEY DO?! #gorl what the fuCk #vigorous brushing??? like a horse???? #or is there like... a car wash but for puppets #shoved into the washing machine and then blasted with high powered air #magical girl transformation where they just get Clean? #WHAT DO THEY DOOOOOOOOOOOO #suggestions and theories welcome #absolutely unprompted

[klariwitch]

literally me with everything

#if it’s fanon it’s canon #me with star trek especially #kirk and spock are gay okay #they’re bonded fr #t’hy’la #also with tmnt #mostly jonatello 😵‍💫 #spirk #jonatello #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #star trek #star trek tos #canon vs fanon #fan theories #just my thoughts #i’m so bad at remembering #captin kirk #spock #tos spock #tos kirk #casey jones #donatello #fan fic blog #i blame ao3 😌 #ao3 #ao3 feed #maybe a bit with dc #kon el #tim drake

[puttybutter]

Was she just a villian the whole time?

#d'vana tendi #tendi #star trek lower decks #lower decks #💚💚💚 #fan theory #i love her your honor

[paininmyass-ometeicphotons]

Okay what’s your craziest Star Trek: Strange New Worlds theory??

Mine: The gorn that hatched from Hemmer inherited all his best traits and those Gorn are the reason the whole species seems more civilized by the time of “Arena”.

#hemmer Jesus gorn #star trek #SNW #star trek strange new worlds #crazy fan theory #okay but think about it: it makes sense

[writingpuddle]

unexpected side effect of having a supervisor who is young for a professor is having to act normal when i hear the phrase "my headcanon about string theory"

#and actually it was extremely easy to act normal because he used it so seamlessly #like it was a whole second before i realized exactly how he said it and was like wait #it was extremely parseable #as in #i am not a string theorist but this is roughly what i believe to be true about the universe as it pertains to string theory #i also almost derailed a whole lab meeting just by mentioning i was watching voyagwr #so you know this man has been on a star trek fan forum at some point #physics

[tenaciousdecapitator]

To Boldly Go: A Camilla Noceda Character Analysis

I am of the opinion that Vee Noceda might hold a record for how fast a fandom changed their opinion on a character that they once considered untrustworthy and suspicious (and I’m sure the very intentional casting of the 2010s’ most sympathetic voice for a shapeshifter helped with that) but in terms of characters we already knew, very few other shows handled the reveal of a character’s true depth better than Thanks to Them did with Camilla Noceda. And a significant portion of that-at least from what I’m interpreting-is inherently linked to another major reveal of the episode: that Camilla and Manny Noceda were both involved in the early generation of what basically amounts to Star Trek fandom.

Bear with me here, and let me explain. (Info/theory dump under break)

When Cosmic Frontier is first mentioned in the episode, it’s in the context of Gus pointing out the similarities to their current situation. When he lists names like Captain Avery and Chief Engineer O’Bailey, the Trek fans watching (particularly those familiar with DS9) have a little chuckle about the reference and how Gus and Hunter will definitely identify with the characters, assuming that will be the extent of this amusing copyright-friendly shout out.

And then Gus reveals the closet, and we learn so much about Luz’s parents in this one brief shot (though I’m sure the TOH crew would’ve preferred a full episode): 

The sheer amount of merchandise, years upon years of ‘Galaxy Con’ loot and collectables and homemade props The amount of guest lanyards, each from a different summer of memories.

The subtle but important suggestion that Manny had worked hard to update and improve his Circuit cosplay, countless hours of research and studying paused frames and crafting the fine details.

The implication of Camilla getting prepared in a hotel bathroom, making sure her turquoise body paint was properly sealed and Manny’s mask was comfortably positioned before heading out to the familiar sanctuary of the convention hall.

The realization that some viewers might have, a link between Star Trek’s real-life impact on how many people who watched the show would later pursue scientific and medical careers and Camilla’s current job as a veterinarian. 

How narratively fitting, that a girl who engages so passionately in modern fandom traditions like AMVs and commissioned fan art would be the child of two people who shared a love of the fandom that started it all, and quite possibly was how they met in the first place.

But then we wonder, why is this all hidden? What would cause Camilla to hide these clearly still important relics of her past down in the basement?

We get part of the answer soon enough: She grew up, became a parent, and became far more conscious of how other people perceived and judged both herself and Luz. She tries being supportive of her daughter’s enthusiastic interests and strange habits, but social and societal pressure, along with the weight of her own past regrets, causes her to try to steer Luz away from making the same “mistakes” that she once did.

Though, maybe when Luz was younger, she had a bit of time to go back to old habits. Manny’s enthusiasm would’ve been infectious, helping her remember the good times instead of dwelling on the bad. Perhaps one night they hired a babysitter for Luz and managed to watch a movie that, despite its unfortunate choice of lead actor, was an affectionate parody of Cosmic Frontier that showed its appreciation for what the series meant for its actors and fans.

But without Manny, that spark of enthusiasm and nostalgia wouldn’t last long. Every record and reminder of what Camilla used to share with him would be boxed up, hidden, and left behind as another childish pursuit that she couldn’t afford to waste time on as a single mother.That plan to bury that part of herself deep and never let it grow too much within Luz might have continued as she expected, but Manny, fortunately, had other ideas. He must’ve recognized that spark of creativity and passion within Luz, he surely knew what would be left behind once he was gone.

So he leaves Luz a gift, a memento, something that she would identify with and obsess over and create social bonds through like he and Camilla once did with Cosmic Frontier.

And wouldn’t you know it, ol’ Circuit’s calculations were correct. Luz becomes hooked, enamored, she sees herself within Azura like her parents must have identified with their favorite show’s characters.

Her love of the series is a constant theme throughout The Owl House, it inspired her to express herself, face challenges, make friends, defend the people she loves, and find someone who enjoys the fandom enough to understand her like nobody else could.

What does Camilla do in response to her daughter’s newfound hyper-fixation?

She supports Luz, as much as she can, despite the weight of expectation on both of them. Helping her buy the next books, the new merchandise, even costume parts. One year, not long after they move to Gravesfield, they manage to have enough money to buy convention tickets. Entirely for Luz’s sake, of course, Camilla is too old for this sort of thing, and hardly recognizes most of the characters kids are dressing up as nowadays. But if her eyes linger on some familiar faces at the autograph tables, or she starts absentmindedly humming along to a certain show’s theme song being played over the loudspeakers, well, that’s her business. Old habits are hard to shake.

Speaking of which, I only noticed this after a rewatch, but Camilla’s fandom experience arguably makes an appearance earlier in the series:

When Jacob’s doing his whole “delusional defeated villain trying to claim he’s the hero” bit, Mrs. Noceda’s response before delivering the righteous justice of La Chancla is “Yeah...a lot of bad guys say that.” On first watch I thought this was simply calling out IRL examples of scumbags with a self-centered ego, but later I realized she’s commenting on it in terms of its use as a somewhat cliche trope. As if she’s watched and read this kind of speech dozens of times before.

For a long time, possibly almost a decade, Camilla manages to avoid directly confronting her past. She works as much as she can to support Luz, the forbidden relics are locked away downstairs, everything’s fine. But then the Hexside Kids show up at her doorstep, bringing with them a bit of the same Boiling Isles culture that allowed her daughter to express herself freely.

She tries to keep it quiet, awkwardly denying any knowledge of the merchandise in her basement, but these new kids are her kids too, for now, and she supports their interests as much as she did with Luz. So if Hunter needs help stitching together an Engineer O’Bailey cosplay, or Gus needs some show-accurate props for his own outfit, well. She’s just being supportive, in a neutral and parental way, that’s all.

Once the portal is open and Luz starts to say something she’ll regret, however, Camilla can’t maintain the facade of a responsible, respectful, socially acceptable parent any longer. That old spark within her, the part that never really left, shows itself more than it has in years.

She offers an alternative, something Luz would’ve never expected, defiantly and proudly stating that she’d be going into the portal to the Isles alongside them. It’s the specific wording that gets me, though, “It is our DUTY to help your friends get back to their families!” Seems to invoke the sort of “I’ll be your fearless champion” type speeches that Luz sometimes makes. However, we recall from Yesterday’s Lie that Camilla knows she isn’t great with on-the-fly improvised roleplay scenarios. She’s “not imaginative enough”. So it’s entirely possible that Camilla’s taking inspiration from lines that she hasn’t heard in a while but still knows by heart, after hearing it recited at the beginning of hundreds of episodes. A socially acceptable single mother and hard-working veterinarian would never consider something like this, it’s too risky, too dangerous, too many unknown variables on the other side of that portal.

But Camilla Noceda grew up watching others face the unknown, for the safety of others, because it was their duty. Their “ongoing mission”. 

She might not understand anime yet, but for Luz’s sake and Manny’s legacy, she’s willing to learn.

#Camilla skyrocketed to the top of the Best Disney Moms list for a lot of people and for me personally this is why #camilla noceda #toh spoilers #toh speculation #the owl house spoilers #the owl house season 3 #character analysis #manny noceda #luz noceda #hunter noceda #gus porter #the owl house #star trek #cosmic frontier #star trek deep space nine #star trek the original series #fan theory #disney channel #Cartoons #thanks to them #toh thanks to them #long post.

[motsimages]

Being a linguist in DS9 must be the dream job for linguists in Starfleet, in other domains of the Federation and outside of the Federation.

Universities all around probably are looking to establish a Linguistic and Cultural Exchange and Study Center in DS9 with long-term missions there to work on databases and improving interplanetary cultural backgrounds.

There are linguists from many planets working in AI so that the computer can deduce how languages that we've never encountered work. There are linguists working in a more traditional way on specialized glossaries, asking people around, recording sounds, writing things down, asking for books, newspapers, children's letters... There are translators asking people to turn off their translator so that they can practice the language with natives, turning it on again to see how the computer translated the same sentence, making notes on it, improving it later. One of them is really passionate about Ferengi culture and put some extra attention in translating Ferengi children's books which is why we got "Acquire, Brak! Acquire!" to sound like that in English, keeping the alliteration.

There are cultural mediators writing manuals for Starfleet command, for ambassadors, travelers and captain frighters so that they know what to take into account when dealing with people from x planet or y planet or how to deduce what people from an unknown planet want, how to manage a first contact situation. They are all very frustrated because half the time nobody reads them or listens to them.

All of them spend their days trying to get Sisko to agree to take them on a mission to a far away planet so that they can gather data in the planet, in the natural context, but it's always too dangerous so they're stuck with the random traveler who stops at Quark's. They ask the other team members to please carry a recorder and record conversations so that they can analyse them later without the translator's influence. Many of them end up carrying their missions with freighters, runabouts and other non-Starfleet ships.

Some of them tried to offer services as forensic linguists when the threat of the Dominion started to spread so that they could analyse someone's speech and look for alterations, things they wouldn't say or other differences and spot impersonators but Starfleet thought it was slow and risky because what if they were mistaken?

They really love going to the Klingon restaurant because the owner is always happy to help, telling them Klingon idioms, jokes, insults, traditions and correcting their Klingon. Unexpectedly, Morn is also a good contact, he may drink a bit too much and sometimes he speaks and speaks in his monotone voice but he gladly lets them record his speech, writes things for them and brings them reading material.

Quark doesn't want to participate because where is the profit but Rom does, also because he needs translations of engineering and mechanic terminology into Ferengi, the database for Bajoran-Ferengi in this domain is not good enough and half the time they have to use some Starfleet official language as relay.

Garak is also readily available but trying to make sense of Cardassian culture from him is an impossible task. They do have a large database of fabric-related vocabulary in Cardassian. He refuses to acknowledge that he knows about weapons, army or other non-tailor related jobs. He sometimes accepts to tell them about plants, as he was a gardener once. They also have a great glossary of idioms and turns of phrases thanks to Garak.

They keep trying to figure out what is the changelings language when they are not in solid form, but they only have Odo for tests and he has had his share of tests so he only answers a couple of questions at a time before he is very busy. He never accepts to take tests to figure out language in liquid form.

Obviously, the database that is growing the fastest and with the best examples is Bajoran, to and from so many languages. They have samples of all ages and parts of society, they have access to books, music and videos of all sorts. More than one linguist from more than one planet has become the expert of Bajoran cutlure, translation from and to Bajoran, Bajoran religious expressions, etc.

#star trek #star trek: ds9 #long post #fan theory

[scherzokinn]

Vulcan side blah blah this, Klingon half yadda yadda that.

Enough.

Ligers weigh twice the mass of either of their parents. It's time to give Star Trek hybrids absurd traits that are entirely specific to them.

Deanna knows exactly how your stomach is doing, she can sense when you'll have diarrhea.

Spock can mind meld with any living or conscious thing ever, including things like grass and the fungi in your cheese, thanks to his Human heritage.

B'Elanna has three vaginas.

#star trek #vulcans #klingons #betazoids #star trek aliens #star trek shitposting #shitposting #i'm shitposting but also kinda not bc i do have a reasoning behind all of what i've said here lmao #fan theory #deanna troi #spock #b'elanna torres #scherzina ramble #scherzina nonsense #star trek memes

[keeksybee]

Spock’s Brain Theory:

I’m watching the first ep of season of three and the crew have run into a society of women partially controlled by Spock’s mind, setting aside for what that potentially says about his relationship with his Mother or his sexual politics, my favourite part of this episode is that the main female antagonist has a wristband that produces extreme amounts of pain stemming from belts around the main crew’s waist, as a method of control, particularly in the abdominal region.

Which leads me to believe that the ‘unbearable pain’ McCoy, Kirk and Scotty talk about are actually just really mild period cramps, and being men who’ve never the distinct joy of feeling like they’re being stabbed repeatedly in the stomach with a blunt needle, they’re all having a right bitch fest. Being fair to them they aren’t used to it, but come on lads, if millions of women go through it every month you can bear it for a few moments.

I haven’t stopped laughing about this since.

#star trek #periods #funny #fan theory #jim kirk #spock #Spock’s mind #period cramps

[biblioflyer]

Temporal Cold/Hot Wars Theorizing

Thinking about how most civilizations that range from moderately above to far beyond the 24th/25th century Federation's tech level have mellowed out and largely seem to not be expansionist for its own sake or prone to zero sum thinking, it leaves us with the problem of the Temporal Cold War. So here's a take, see what you make of it internet land.

Its clear that at some point prior to the Burn, the Vulcans and Romulans have mostly reconciled. Time Travel technology of a sort that was utilized and then abandoned in the later half of the 2Xth centuries was involved to some extent in policing and attempting to subvert the Prime timeline. The Romulan agent who attempted to assassinate Khan in Strange New Worlds is food for thought.

Her motive seems to be Romulan supremacism. Which in some sense is the typical motive of the Federation's anti-pluralist enemies. However, I have to wonder if the Temporal Cold War is 1. not intrinsically a thing that originates with the spread of temporal technology in the 2Xth centuries but rather is something that is happening all over the timeline just about as soon as someone figures out that they can go back in time by looping around a sufficiently large gravity well at warp.

And 2. that a lot of it, and this is more me having fun with the idea here, is motivated in large part by the gradual decline in overt great power competition and supremacist thinking and the implicit "victory" of the Federation. Whether they sign on the dotted line or not, the maturation and increased precision of temporal technology comes along at the same time that particular factions in formerly imperial minded polities, like the Romulans, are watching more and more of their people choose peaceful coexistence and reconciliation.

At that point the only way to avert this "decline" via peaceful assimilation, is to erase the Federation as a viable entity from history. The Sphere Builders for instance try to use the Xindi as a proxy for this.

Sera likely represents another attempt at this for the cause of Romulan ascension, although its equally possible, perhaps even more likely that she comes from an earlier point on the timeline using cruder methods of time travel (like warping around a large gravity well) since she appears to have been stranded in 1992 after failing to find and assassinate Khan and unable to return to her present to ascertain what went wrong.

Of course because the past wasn't what she expected, she may have also feared returning to a present/future in which she wouldn't be recognized by her handlers and unable to prove to their satisfaction who she was, or worse, they would accept her proof and then throw her in an oubliette for intensive study.

Finally, while the Federation and other parties to the armistice that "ended" the Temporal Wars may have destroyed their technology, it seems unlikely that that is actually the real end of it all so much as some outside neutral party is policing the advancement of the timeline such that as desirable as it may be to prevent avoidable catastrophes like the Burn or the destruction of Vulcan in the Kelvin timeline, it must be a tenet of the consensus among time traveling civilizations that nobody gets to go back and tinker Although it is interesting to speculate about when and how different intrusions that aren't repaired such as Narada starting the Kelvin timeline are permitted to spawn branching timelines.

#star trek #fan theories #time travel #this is no time to talk about time we don't have the time

[quasi-normalcy]

Another thing that occurs to me about Odo, Re: his "inability" to do faces, is that if *I* were a detective who could make myself look like anyone, I might not want that fact to be generally known. And if I were a changeling who resented having to pretend to be humanoid in order to operate in their society, I might do some subtle thing in order to set myself off from them; remind them that I'm not like them.

Anyways, Odo can do faces.

#odo #star trek deep space nine #meta #fan theory

[stra-tek]

Having only knowledge of what shown on-screen with regards to the ferengi military, my interpretation of it would be thus: they don't have a state military in the traditional sense, what they have is akin to the Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader RPG. Several wealthy merchant families who maintain fleets of ships to operate trade routes (and protect those trade routes with warships), establish colonies for exploiting raw materials, and who have some sort of warrant or license from the Grand Nagus (which, of course, has to be renewed regularly and costs a fortune) that grants them the authority to do so. I suppose a real world analogue would be the East India Company, these merchant fleets would operate with the full authority of the Ferengi Alliance and the Grand Nagus, while not being a "real" military.

This sounds plausible. Like, where's the personal profit in joining a traditional military?

#star trek #ferengi #headcanon #ds9 #tng #fan theory #ask response #ask me anything

[starfleetskunkworks]

Something that has been kicking around in my head is that Mariner might have experienced the Dominion War.

I'm basing this on her academy friend, Captain Ramsey. Kirk was the youngest person to make captain at 32 (Tryla Scott beats that but we dont know how much). If we assume that Ramsey beats that record by a few years, let's say she makes captain at 30. Then let's assume that Mariner is a bit younger than her, putting her at 28 in 2381 when the show is set. I'm making these assumptions to give us a low end, but they're still assumptions. Maybe Ramsey just kicks so much ass she made captain at 25 idk.

But if Mariner is 28, she would have graduated in 2375, the last year of the war. Could even be sooner if she was fast-tracked. If she's any older, she would have cut her teeth during the worst parts of the conflict. Grey ops with General K'orin, even.

Maybe she's so averse to promotion because beta shift is the lower deck experience she never got. Friends who stick around, who don't meet their end on a Jem'Hadar's blade or get promoted away to fill the bloodstained boots of a deceased senior officer.

#star trek #lower decks #dominion war #fan theory #headcanon

[house-of-quark]

It was Sheldon's love for Spock that made me start watching Star Trek!

#star trek #the big bang theory #sheldon cooper #star trek poll #star trek fan film #star trekkin #tumblr culture #tumblr polls