10 Bizarre Star Trek Theories (That Might Be True)

One of the great things about being immersed in a fictional universe is the sense of belonging that comes with it. Being part of a fan community, whether you attend conventions in full Starfleet uniform or simply make Youtube videos about how much you love yourself the Trek, there's something for everybody in the thousand or so hours of Star Trek that's been televised.

Of course, being a fan of something and being the creative sort, you may have noticed the odd plot hole, the odd contrivance (they're not all perfect, those many, many hours). You may have been driven to fill in those plot holes with your own ideas so that make just that little bit more sense. Either that or you may have noticed a correlation between two seemingly unconnected factors.

This puts you in the realms of the Fan Theory. Ranging from head-slappingly obvious to the down-right devious, Fan Theories can make or break your involvement in a fandom or franchise. So here's an even ten of them to whet your appetite for more.

In case you absolutely love this kind of stuff, here's the first time around that TrekCulture's Adam Clery had a proper go at Star Trek Fan Theories:

So when did the Eugenics Wars take place? If the TOS episode Space Seed is to be believed, then they happened in the 1990's, with Khan Noonian Singh apparently devastating India and China. Spock specifically says that they occurred around 200 years before the events of The Original Series. Later entries in the franchise would collate the Eugenics Wars with the Third World War, which according to Encounter At Farpoint, happened in the 2050's.

Several years later, the Deep Space Nine episode Doctor Bashir, I Presume? used exactly the same line from Space Seed, setting the Eugenics Wars 200 years before the events of Deep Space Nine. This means that there's apparently a 100 year time jump for the Eugenics Wars. Indeed, the Voyager two-parter Future's End was set in 1996 and the crew didn't happen to hear anything about a devastating world war that would have reshaped global society.

All of this could simply be writers not doing their homework... or could it be an indication that the timeline from Encounter at Farpoint onwards was somehow altered by the overriding narrative from Star Trek Enterprise? Could the machinations of an unknown enemy alien or even Starfleet's own temporal agents have stopped the Eugenics Wars from happening in their original location, delaying them by nearly a hundred years?

Perhaps.