On faith

[gominokouhai]

Oh folks, hello folks. Tell me your personal canons. What's 100% true for you that isn't supported by the evidence?

Here are mine:

• Season 6B.
• The Romulans' backstory from the Rihannsu novels.
• Elliot Pope is an unreliable narrator, and The Deadly Assassin didn't happen.
• Sito Jaxa survived the events of Lower Decks. She was either on a super-secret mission that even Picard didn't know about, or she was captured by the Cardassians and released after the war.
• John and Nancy totally got together when they grew up. I hope they survived the war.
• The Daleks deployed the [or a] Time Destructor during the early stages of the Time War, which explains why the Doctor lost fifty years off his stated age somewhere between Sylvester McCoy and David Tennant.
• Edward II wasn't killed at Berkeley Castle. He lived afterwards as a hermit in Europe.
• John Harrison was merely the first of the Augments to be woken from cryofreeze when Admiral Marcus found the Botany Bay. With his genetically engineered intellect, he was smart enough to claim to be Khan.
• Fall Out was another drug-induced hallucination, just like Living In Harmony or A, B, & C. Shattered Visage is personal soft canon.

Those are mine. What are yours?

Comments

[king_touchy]

he was smart enough to claim to be Khan

That makes the re-boot movie make a helluva lot more sense.

[miss_s_b]

It DOES

[gominokouhai]

I really wouldn't go that far. It merely explains why Khan is no white and no longer looks, erm, Mexican.

I didn't come up with the theory, but I can't remember whom I got it from.

What are your personal canons?

[miss_s_b]

Doris is Benton post-transition. The used car salesman thing is a front. This explains the beginning of Battlefield.

[gominokouhai]

Ah yes, I forgot about Doris.

[gominokouhai]

Watching Battlefield now. Can't be. Doris says "Alastair, who is the Doctor?"

Or maybe Benton also has post-traumatic amnesia....

[miss_s_b]

Must be that last one

[gominokouhai]

That would explain why the Brig looks so worried as soon as she says it. He doesn't look like he's either pleased or frustrated at the notion of seeing the Doctor again. He doesn't look like he's concerned about the gravity of the situation if the Doctor is involved. And he definitely doesn't look like he's worried that he now has to explain something complicated from his military past to his new wife. He looks exactly like he's downcast because Doris has, unwittingly, added a depressing note to what would otherwise be an exciting development.

This comment brought to you because, on Princes Street, I just passed a lassie who looks EXACTLY like the hypothetical offspring of Winifred and Ancelyn. Even about the right age. It got me thinking.

[miss_s_b]

The prospect of the offspring of Winifred and Ancelyn makes me feel almost as warm and squishy as Susan Calman on Strictly.

[spiralsheep]

Season 6B, obv. Apart from that I generally only remember mine while I'm actually interacting with canon, but I've been reading the Alpennia fantasy series and have decided the country's economy is entirely dependent on production and export of Alpen (and the book isn't contradicting my headcanon in any way).

[miss_s_b]

Also, magister is having trouble commenting and has asked me to add:

Yes to Doris Benton and not real Khan.

Bok in The Daemons is the Master’s Tardis.

Number 6 is dead, the Village is Purgatory and the only way out is to confess his sins.

Unless the Village is a confession dial of course.

Silver in Sapphire and Steel is the Doctor.

James Bond is the Master, exiled to Earth and working for British Intelligence. This explains why the Master and Rassilon are so venomous to each other in End of Time – the Master is pissed off that he used to look that good and Rassilon is embarrassed to be caught wearing someone else’s hand me downs.

Capaldi Doctor is faking his outrage at there being a horror film called Alien. He’s embarrassed that two previous regenerations were – at least subconsciously – chosen so he could cosplay as Golic and Kane.

I’ve two ideas about the Doctor’s age and the Time War – I’m not sure which I prefer.

Firstly, when Tennant says he’s 906, he’s counting only from the birth of the Hurt Doctor. As far as he’s concerned, the original Doctor dies with McGann and he sees himself as tainted by the Time War and unworthy of being the same person, but tries to cover this with a lot of bluster and shouting. (note – Eccleston never mentions his age, but he does talk about 900 years travelling in time)

Alternatively, the Hurt Doctor is exposed to the Time Destructor, aging him massively, and only actually fights in the Time War for a fortnight before deciding to end the whole damn thing.

The sisterhood’s potion to create a warrior Doctor weaponises his regenerations – if anyone succeeds in killing him, they’ll likely die themselves when he’s reborn.

This is another reason the Tennant Doctor doesn’t think of anyone from Hurt onwards as a “true” Doctor and is the reason why he regenerates into himself – he doesn’t want to, as he sees it, inflict this on anyone else. Let’s face it, he has a history of making decisions for other people, because he thinks he knows best.

He’s still a cock though.

In City of Death, when the Doctor picks up a lump of primordial slime, microbes from his skin are transferred into it. As a result, following the explosion of Scaroth’’s ship, life evolves slightly quicker and human society is fractionally more advanced, such that the UNIT stories take place in the 1970’s, rather than, as previously, the 1980’s.

Personally, I LOVE that explanation of the UNIT dating controversy.

[gominokouhai]

I've never been keen on Everyone Is Jesus In Purgatory theories, but it does sort of work in the case of The Prisoner---with one exception: the Village is Purgatory, and indeed explicitly stated to be such in canon, but it's not the Biblical one. One or more of the intelligence agencies (it's run by one 'side' or the other) has set it up to process departing assets. They suck 'em dry and let them move on, or not. That's what a purgatory is, and the only thing missing is floaty beards and sandals.

Hmm. Floaty beards and sandals would be a great deal more in evidence if the series was made ten years later. That might be a lot of the reason why I don't consider the novels as canon.