What is your Star Trek head canon?

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I don't have Paramount+ but I've kept up with some of the news about Strange New Worlds rebooting into a new timeline.
So what Star Trek shows do you consider canon now?
In my mind, of the newer series, only Picard is a genuine continuation of the TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY universe.
As I've said before in other contexts, I think prequels bite. The idea of the Kelvin universe as both sequel and prequel was good in principle but poor in execution albeit legitimised by the presence of Leonard Nimoy as Spock Prime. Even before that I had the feeling that Enterprise was really an alternate timeline created by the events of First Contact, and the newest shows strike me as filmed fanfiction, or at best, the equivalent of non-canon novels.
 

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So what Star Trek shows do you consider canon now?
Picard for me, the final season blew me away. Absolutely fantastic Star Trek.

I’m hoping SNW finds a way to fit in, I’ve only seen the first two episodes and they were fine.

I can no longer watch DISCOVERY. Horrible, completely horrible. The first season was okay, but the show has moved so far away from the ST universe and jumped onto some kind of WOKE wormhole.

The show seemed to care about inclusion and diversity far more than any kind of interesting ST storytelling.
 

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Yes, Picard Season 3 was great. Here's hoping they can continue with the proposed Legacy series.

I've seen the first two seasons of Discovery because they've been shown on free-to-air here. I don't hate it but you do have to dissociate yourself from anything you might have believed before. I did think that the time jump to the far future might help but your description does not sound promising.

Here's a video explaining how STW and therefore Discovery are now in their own timeline. It;s probably to the good since they can now do what they want and stop even pretending to be consistent.

 

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I can no longer watch DISCOVERY. Horrible, completely horrible. The first season was okay, but the show has moved so far away from the ST universe and jumped onto some kind of WOKE wormhole.

The show seemed to care about inclusion and diversity far more than any kind of interesting ST storytelling.
The fact that Discovery is woke doesn't bother me at all, it bothers me how woke characters and storylines are told. Since the series is set hundreds of years in the future, everything that is woke should be normal, but Discovery treats woke topics as something very special and important. That being said, I enjoy watching Discovery, although I wish the show had kept the direction of the first season.
 

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Since the series is set hundreds of years in the future, everything that is woke should be normal, but Discovery treats woke topics as something very special and important.
That’s a great point that never crossed my mind.

It’s not just the Woke side of things it’s the fact they made so many relationships a story. I’ve never been interested in the relationship side of ST, though I accept it happens. This series felt like they were trying to please everyone with its heavy focus on the subject.

Will and Deanna’s relationship blossomed over the years and never dominated any particular period. Same with B’Elanna and Tom and Ben Sisko.

The best and more fascinating, comedy gold relationship stories were always between the humans and the aliens.
 

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I don't have Paramount+ but I've kept up with some of the news about Strange New Worlds rebooting into a new timeline.
No I think it's the old timeline. There are some minor changes but so far the characters of Star Trek's Chapel and Uhura (and the recurring Kirk) or from the pilot "The Cage", No 1, Spock and Pike haven't done anything that is totally against the so-called canon. The reactions to New Worlds are overwhelmingly positive, from press as NYT to Reddit etc.

So what Star Trek shows do you consider canon now?
In my mind, of the newer series, only Picard is a genuine continuation of the TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY universe.
Agree about Season 3!

Here's hoping they can continue with the proposed Legacy series.
Jack Crusher, Seven of Nine, yes, yes!
 
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No I think it's the old timeline. There are some minor changes but so far the characters of Star Trek's Chapel and Uhura (and the recurring Kirk) or from the pilot "The Cage", No 1, Spock and Pike haven't done anything that is totally against the so-called canon. The reactions to New Worlds are overwhelmingly positive, from press as NYT to Reddit etc.
Watch the above video. Apparently the latest episodes have reset Kahn's rise from the 1990s to fifty or so years later with all the rearranging of events that that implies.
 

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Good question. I liked the original series and STNG.
I have not seen much of DS9, but I would like to see more.

I thoroughly recommend Deep Space Nine.

Great show. It really picks up when Worf arrives following the destruction of the Enterprise D.

It's very under rated Deep Space Nine. :)
 

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Watch the above video. Apparently the latest episodes have reset Kahn's rise from the 1990s to fifty or so years later with all the rearranging of events that that implies.
But that was probably due to the fact that we've passed the 1990s. Khan was only seen as a child but they didn't change the events he would be responsible for. I'm not nitpicking about it, that's similar to age kids or teens for a few years. Since Trek is on TV for fifty years they have to push away from our current timeline a bit. The world of Picard did that also in Season 2 and that's a general problem for Sci-Fi if it's too close to our time. Something like the riots in DS9's past ("Past Tense", set in 2024) are still imaginable and less drastic as that what Khan stands for. That could be an alternative reality as the visit at Cape Canaveral in ST-TOS.
 
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But that was probably due to the fact that we've passed the 1990s. Khan was only seen as a child but they didn't change the events he would be responsible for. I'm not nitpicking about it, that's similar to age kids or teens for a few years. Since Trek is on TV for fifty years they have to push away from our current timeline a bit. The world of Picard did that also in Season 2 and that's a general problem for Sci-Fi if it's too close to our time. Something like the riots in DS9's past ("Past Tense", set in 2024) are still imaginable and less drastic as that what Khan stands for. That could be an alternative reality as the visit at Cape Canaveral in ST-TOS.
Yes, that's why they did it, but it still creates a new timeline distinct from that in TOS and continued in TNG.
 

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I'm open to reboots and continuations if the writing still presents me my idea of an original as various Star Trek series did often. Regrettable with the timeline is that they didn't abandon it before they started with ST-TNG. The producers and writers knew their Trekkies and could've easily avoided any debates about details that weren't needed for the stories.
 
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Variety has ranked the best episodes from the Star Trek universe.
No episodes of the new shows made it into the top 10. Only two episodes of Enterprise made it onto the list, with its best placement at no. 48. The best episode surprised me, not necessarily in a bad way, but I wouldn't have thought that episode would be at the top.
 
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During lockdown re-watched TNG for the first time since I was a kid and I loved it all over again. I started Picard a few weeks ago, and enjoyed the first season and seeing some old faces, but have found the second season pretty boring especially like the first half of the season which seemed to be just set on earth most of the time. It did get a bit more exciting with the Borg queen and Q but I have to admit I found the whole plot very confusing and convoluted. I have yet to finish season 2, but I will do now that people here have said season 3 is great.

I am also tempted to go re-watch Voyager and watch Deep Space 9 for the first time. The other newer shows don't interest me that much, probably as there just isn't that connection to the past. Or any recognition of characters.
 

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I rewatched a few episodes of STDS9 on Canadian Pluto recently and I'm now more open to the first two seasons that left a weak impression on me when they first aired. But now where I know how the characters will interact in the following seasons I must admit it's much better than I thought. Real great drama and probably the soapiest of all Trek shows because it features a couple as the O'Briens and a family as the Siskos with relatable family stuff. Wallace Shawn as the important Ferengi (Grandmaster Zek) and Louise Fletcher as the evil religious Bajoran had their first impressive guest-appearances in the first season.
 

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I thoroughly recommend Deep Space Nine.

Great show. It really picks up when Worf arrives following the destruction of the Enterprise D.

It's very under rated Deep Space Nine. :)
Deep Space Nine is the best of them all. The amazing thing is that it could have been even better still, because there were people upstairs sabotaging longer Dominion War arcs. I love the Original Series and The Next Generation, but they are largely purely episodic in nature. Deep Space Nine is a lot more than that, where actions have clear consequences in future episodes.

Three different types of captains too:

James T. Kirk is a swashbuckling hero at heart
Jean-Luc Picard is a diplomat at heart
Benjamin Sisko is a soldier and tactician at heart
 
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