You are, it’s actually an excellent Trek series. The first three episodes are only pretty good, but it gets really great after that.
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blunderworld@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Starfleet academy looks like hot garbage to me. Am I mistaken?
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 7 hours ago
I’m a bit behind, but I think it’s a bit hit or miss. The hits are really good, though. To be fair to the show, I’ve found the misses to be primarily the parts focusing on teen drama because I just find teen drama annoying…while watching a teen drama show (in other words, it’s not the show, it’s me). The fourth episode, “Vox In Excelso,” has been my favorite so far, and it’s squarely in the field of great Trek stories.
Kirk@startrek.website 3 hours ago
teen drama
Can you expand what you mean by this? I have heard this criticism before but nobody has been able to provide me an example from the show of what they mean.
Just so we’re on the same page, I haven’t seen a single example of drama that I would consider functionally different in form or quantity than any other Star Trek show. There is drama yes, and there are also teenagers. But everyone on SFA is far more mature than (for example) Wesley or Jake and I cannot recall anyone criticizing TNG or DS9 for being a “teen drama”.
astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 32 minutes ago
I mean the petty school rivalry, Caleb and Tarima’s relationship, the sports team antics, and the like. To be clear, I also found episodes like “The Dauphin” annoying too for Wesley’s teenage issues nor was I particularly into Jake’s and Nog’s relationship issues. The difference, I think, between DS9/TNG and SFA on this front is that for the most part, their growth is not the point of the show. SFA, by its nature, is a coming of age show, so there are bound to be teen drama and the stories about being a kid or young adult.
To be clear, my complaint is not a complaint about the quality but rather an expression of my taste. In fact, I think SFA is quite good, and I am enjoying it a lot more than I expected. Like I said, when the episode is a hit, it really is good, and the misses have been the more teen-coded “young people problems.” And even then, many times it’s not an entire episode but just a scene. For example, on the whole, I enjoyed “Series Acclimation Mil,” but the bar scenes I found to be “my-first-drink” fare and irritating to me. To that end, there was nothing particularly bad about the scenes, they just aren’t my thing.
I’ll also agree that the cadets’ drama is more subdued than Wesley (especially in “The Dauphin”) or Jake, but they were each a single character in the show. There are a lot more cadets by the very nature of the show, so even if an individual case is more subdued, there’s still more of it more regularly.
In the end, I think the show is actually really good, and I have enjoyed the scenes with the commissioned officers (especially Lura Thok!). Even the cadets themselves aren’t bad; I really really like Jay-den. In general, I’ve never really liked YA-coded media, and SFA is an exception in that I find it enjoyable.
Kirk@startrek.website 1 minute ago
I’ve never really liked YA-coded media, and SFA is an exception in that I find it enjoyable.
I’m certainly with you on this!
null@lemmy.org 4 hours ago
“Ugh… it’s another Wesley episode.”
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
No, it’s not good, but maybe that’s just me.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
“I ate my com-badge”
“I’m a male Klingon that wears a dress”
I wish I was kidding
hallettj@leminal.space 5 hours ago
What’s the problem with either of these?
13igTyme@piefed.social 6 hours ago
No. I watched the first episode and the writing is just terrible. All new trek is garbage unfortunately.
lemmyseikai@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not enough context. Why does it look like hot garbage?
Serinus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s a teen drama mostly aimed at teens, but with a sex scene.
Serinus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Watch episode 6, skip the rest.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Yes
Kirk@startrek.website 8 hours ago
You are. I had zero desire to watch it myself, put it on because I was bored, and now I’m literally counting the days until each new episode. Episode 4 in particular was everything I love about Star Trek.