Originally Posted by
Jokerz79
I want to start this off by saying this has nothing to do with official canon and rights issues that some fans yell about this is my own head canon period. As far I'm concerned ENT, DISCO, SNW, & Picard are all official Canon to TOS, TNG, DS9, & VOY. But what this isn't about official canon but my head canon.
There have always been hiccups in Trek continuity but since ENT there has been big holes of WTF IMO.
So, I've been a Trek fan since I was a kid and grew up in the 80's and 90's. I enjoyed the Kelvin films and outside of Prodigy find the current show god awful not only bad Trek but bad tv they're just badly written shows. I consider them bad Trek due to their cynic view of Gene Roddenberry's vision of humanity for the future. Roddenberry use to drive writers on TNG nuts because he insisted conflict come from the outside and not within the crew as a Starfleet crew would have moved on from such petty things. What does Burnham do in the pilot of DISCO she assaults her Commanding Officer and commits an act of mutiny which ends up starting a war. Also, there was no major consequences for her Tom Paris got more crap in Caretaker than she did on Discovery. As for Picard I despise the representation of Starfleet and the Federation in that show. Yes, there were rogue elements at times like Section 31 but overall, the Federation and Starfleet were beacons of hope not xenophobia. So, I really hate having these shows canon to Gene's original vision, so I recently decided well in my head canon they don't have to be, and Trek gave me the excuse why they're not. Going forward this is my version of Beta Memory.
Here's a idea of my Trek Sensibilities
Film Ranking: Wrath of Khan, Undiscovered Country, The Voyage Home, 1st Contact, Beyond, The Search for Spock, The Motion Picture, ST 2009, Generations, Nemesis, The Final Frontier, Into Darkness, and Insurrection.
Show Rankings: DS9, TNG, TOS, ENT, VOY, (Honorable Mention to Orville), Prodigy, Lower Decks, TAS, Picard, and DISCO.
As a DC Fan the old Pre-Crisis had a vast Multiverse which had these examples as some of the main universes Earth-1 (Main DC Comics Earth), Earth-2 (Golden Age heroes and their kids), Earth-3 (Heroes as Villains), Earth-4 (Charleton Heroes), Earth-X (Nazis won and the Freedom Fighters), Earth-S (Shazam), and Earth Prime (Basically our Earth until the introduction of Superboy Prime) so Prime doesn't need to mean the main Universe. In recent years DC introduced the Dark Multiverse which is my Mirror Universes going forward.
I loved Enterprise I thought it was Voyager done right, I mean the story of a Starfleet vessel with no back up and the last season was gold until the finale. But it made no sense that the 1st Warp 5 vessel which helped found the Federation and it's Captain became a President of the Federation was never included in the ship of the line displays in Star Trek TMP or TNG. Now the reason is the show came after those projects, but continuity wise it's a glaring error it's like telling the story of the United States and forgetting to mention George Washington. Now if the ship had been named Excelsior especially with the NX numbering it would have not been an issue, but it wasn't, so it is.
Recently while watching some ENT I'm like well the major event of the series is the Temporal Cold War so what if it's the Prime Universe that all other universe stem from due to the Temporal Cold War. But it's not the same Universe as the former shows and films?
So, here's my head canon.
The Roddenberry Universe (Since Gene himself signed off on most of it) is: TOS and their films, TAS, TNG and their films, DS9, and VOY. I also include books and games like New Frontier Book Series, Captain's Table, Corps of Engineers, Vanguard Novels, Stargazer Novels, Titan Novels, Typhon Pact, Comic Series Early Voyages from Marvel, Comic Series Starfleet Academy from Marvel, Voyager Comic from Marvel, TNG Comics from DC, TOS Film Era Comics from DC, Star Trek Online, & the TNG, DS9, and VOY Relaunch book series.
Roddenberry Universe Mirror Universe is the one from TOS and DS9.
The Prime Universe is: ENT, DISCO, SNW, Picard (Riker appeared in the awful ENT Finale and since the coloring of the D interior was off it adds to this theory again in real world they couldn't get an exact match, but it fits my ideas so I'm running with it lol), Prodigy, & Lower Decks. I'll add the Khan Eugenics War book series to the Prime Universe they were good, but I always hated trying to fit the real-world history into the Trek timeline, so I'll place it here.
Prime Mirror Universe is from: ENT, DISCO, & the TNG comic Broken Mirror.
Kelvin Timeline (Basically it's what it was said to be, and Spock Prime came from the Prime Universe not the Roddenberry Universe): ST 2009, Into Darkness, Beyond, and I add the IDW comics like ST Ongoing, ST Boldly Go, and Countdown to Darkness.
I'm much more at peace now with Trek since I created this head canon and can enjoy Picard and even Discovery more since I don't consider them in universe as the old shows outside of ENT. Also, it allows me to fully enjoy SNW which it drops which I want too but had issues with due to its designs and my love for the comic series Early Voyages.
I just felt like sharing my new head canon with fellow Trek fans.