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sixbeforelunch asks: What Star Trek headcanon of yours has not yet made it into a story?
Most of it is (unsurprisingly!) about Vulcans. For example, I have some Thoughts about how to reconcile Vulcan culture from Enterprise with the rest of the TV show. As mentioned in my previous post, the taboo against telepathy there DOES NOT FIT with
anything else we know about Vulcan telepathy ANYWHERE ELSE IN ANY OF THE SHOWS, let alone the books. I would bet you that lots and lots of families (plus of course the monks of Gol and the priestesses of Mount Seleya) just kept quietly keeping on with what they were doing and finding ways to mislead the Science Directorate about it.
I also think that Mestral from that one episode about the Vulcans marooned in West Virginia in the 1960s got married and had kids who formed a whole backwoods West-Virginia clan of Vulcan-Human hybrids who kept some elements of Vulcan culture and not others, and quietly imported some Vulcan things (possibly musical instruments, crops, etc.) after official First Contact was made. And possibly also made contact with the V'tosh ka'tur at some point--maybe a few marriages? Adopting kids the V'tosh ka'tur didn't want to raise on ships but didn't want to send back to Vulcan to be forced into line? And possibly after Vulcan was destroyed in the Reboot universe sending aid there to help out. (I am completely ignoring the canonical difficulties in producing a Vulcan-Human hybrid, here, and the fact that if anything the show underestimated it.)
I think that Saavik and Spock (who eventually got married, in the books) have a daughter who is on track to being the next T'Pau, and will in time become the Eldest Mother of their clan. I think her name is Amanda.
I think that part of the reason that Perrin (Sarek's second wife) and Spock didn't get along is that Perrin didn't know how to relate to a step-son older than she was, and also (unlike Amanda) was very definitely On Sarek's Side in any disagreements, instead of staying out of them or trying to be a go-between. And I think on Spock's part he was (however illogically) interested in finding fault with the woman who replaced his mother, and he'd have been a lot less tweaked off if his father had married a Vulcan instead, something logically arranged by the clan. Because falling in love with a human once is one thing, and shows how wonderfully special Amanda was. Falling
twice just smacks of fetishism, and makes Amanda one in a series. Meanwhile, Sarek loved Amanda, and he loves Perrin, but in
very different ways. He had to make accommodations for Amanda, and he changed his lifestyle for her (however much they looked like a Perfect Vulcan Couple on the outside), and marrying a Vulcan woman would mean adapting
back to Vulcan ways of doing things, and he's old and doesn't want to. Perrin, however, will maintain the human tone of the household, and she's kind of in awe of her predecessor so things can stay pretty much the same. (She is not, however, in awe of Sarek, however much she respects him. Spock
thinks she is, and respects his father less because of it, but then he doesn't see the way Sarek and Perrin are when they are alone together. Perrin, for her part, plays up the Dutiful Vulcan Wife around Spock because she knows it annoys him, which doesn't help his impression of her.) She knows where she stands in Sarek's affections; she wants respect more than anything else, and he gives it to her, and she's one of those people who falls in love with a culture other than her own and wants a place in it, and he gives her that. And Sarek doesn't like the friction between Spock and Perrin, but look, he and Spock have always had their differences, and both are stubborn, and neither have ever had to deal with one another without Amanda there to smooth off the rough edges and tell them they're being idiots and cajole them into talking, and he doesn't know how to
do it with Perrin fuming about Spock's disrespect. It's the one thing he regrets about marrying her.
Worf spent a few years as a teen trying to fit in and be more human, but eventually realized that it wouldn't get him any more acceptance from the other kids at school, and so went the opposite direction and tried to be More Klingon Than Klingons. He doesn't really remember that phase, until Alexander comes along, and even then, he's forgotten a lot more about what he was going through than he thinks he has.
Will Riker gets a lot of crap for staying a Commander for so long. He should have gotten a promotion to Captain
years before he did. He stayed because he loves Enterprise, and as First Officer he still gets to do the stuff he loves (front lines of exploration, getting to actually GO ON HAZARDOUS AWAY TEAMS and not stay on the bridge all the time). And it's
comfortable there, with all his friends.
I don't have any headcanon for DS9 that I haven't written because the show was so fascinating and well-written I never felt I had to fill in the gaps myself. And I didn't pay enough attention to Voyager. Didn't pay much attention to Enterprise, either, truth to tell, but the gaps were SO FRICKING HUGE.
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