For example, the Federation’s founding members (Tellarites, Andorians, Vulcans, Humans) were the subject of fan theories and “fanon” for many years before the ENT writers made it official. One of the interesting (and fun) aspects of this recent wave of series has been seeing the writers increasingly add nods to fan theories and pieces of fanon lore over the years. What are some good examples of this?

And relatedly: what’s a fan theory, or piece of fanon, that you suspect the current writers believe, even if they haven’t explicitly stated it on-screen?

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    I don’t think so. Nothing in the new series explicitly contradicts the idea that warp drive functions by lowering the inertial mass of the ship. You may ask fans and they may answer, but that doesn’t make them right. And until they come right out and say that it’s the Alcubierre Drive, I don’t buy it because we still see inertial effects being felt, which we wouldn’t if it was an Alcubierre metric driving the ship.

    I wrote a post in old Daystrom aying out the evidence why the two drives are different. I’ll repost it here to see what comes out of it.