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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
- Comment on San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) | Rufus Wainwright Orchestral Recording 16 minutes ago:
TBH this piece didn’t resonate with me at the time, but I have to admit it’s just about perfect, thematically.
I’m not a huge fan of the opening theme, but c’est la vie.
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- Comment on San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) | Rufus Wainwright Orchestral Recording 1 hour ago:
I didn’t realize this was an original recording for the show.
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 22 hours ago:
I really hope they get into this at some point, but my assumption is that the main limitation of programmable matter is that you have to, y’know, program it first, which takes time.
Also, I had no idea that programmable matter is an actual theoretical thing that scientist have been trying to crack for a few decades now!
In the case of the tricorder…I wonder if that’s the Doctor being old-fashioned, since we’ve also seen that tricom badges have tricorders built into them.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
I guess as a response to the youth movement that was pressuring him to negotiate. This sort of thing is unfortunately common IRL.
- Comment on Lakeshore Records Announces Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Soundtrack, Available Now 1 day ago:
There are arguably spoilers in the track titles, so browse at your own risk.
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
Genesis is an interesting version of charming because at first glance she starts out as a “mean girl” but then you realize that she’s parodying it hard.
From the trailers, I had assumed that Genesis would be the stuck-up mean girl, and Darem would be the friendly tryhard. Turns out the reality is the exact opposite.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
I think their initial demands were ludicrous because the president had no real intention of rejoining the Federation - it was all theatre.
- Comment on The State of the 'Star Trek' Universe Coming Into 'Starfleet Academy' 1 day ago:
Yeah, unless they start specifically mentioning the DMA or the fight with the Breen or something, there’s no reason to assume this doesn’t take place after DSC S5 (excluding the time jump).
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- Comment on The State of the 'Star Trek' Universe Coming Into 'Starfleet Academy' 1 day ago:
Or at least a refit, which I suppose could be repairs following season 5, in theory.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
are Betazoids really so vain that the shift of Starfleet HQ is enough to mitigate all their concerns?
I think this is actually a really big deal, especially since the Betazoids’ concerns were chiefly about security, and the Federation is hardly going to let their seat of government fall.
But “the Federation is too Earth-centric” is a concept that’s been played with since…at least the PIC era, so I thought this was pretty significant.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
That has been a thing since DSC season three, and I really hope they explore exactly how that works in this series.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 day ago:
For now, I’ll just share the thoughts I posted to Mastodon while this instance was still on the Genesis Planet…
Overall, a very strong couple of episodes. The cadets are all interesting enough, though Jay-Den and SAM are outstanding. Caleb is the sort of Rebellious Young Person that can grate on people, but I think the show compensates for that by making him a bit of a punchline. His backstory is also compelling enough (I actually thought his separation from his mother seemed very real), and his motivations are clear.
Nahla Ake is fantastic, and Holly Hunter brings a lot to the role. The character is quirky, but grounded, and you can see that she carries multiple lifetimes of experience.
Paul Giamatti is clearly having the time of his life as Braka. Time will tell whether he remains a cartoonish pirate (which I’d be fine with TBH), or if they’ll give him more to do.
I’ve always loved the post-Burn setting, and I’m looking forward to exploring that status quo. The Betazed stuff is intriguing, and I hope we learn more about this “psionic shield” of theirs.
Also, “Discovery is unavailable because X” is the new “the transporters don’t work because X”.
- ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showrunners Break Down the Two-Episode Premiere and Reveal Their Favorite Easter Eggscollider.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to startrek@startrek.website | 0 comments
- Comment on The State of the 'Star Trek' Universe Coming Into 'Starfleet Academy' 3 days ago:
There’s been a little bit of vagueness about the details - even in the recent SFX article, Kurtzman hedged a little bit about just how much it overlaps with Discovery.
“The new show synchronizes with the first two years of Starfleet returning to its full form. The safest way to look at it is it’s like when Discovery ends, we begin - but there’s kind of a two-year overlap.”
So it might be (or parts of it might be) running concurrently with Discovery season 5. It probably doesn’t matter very much.
- Comment on The State of the 'Star Trek' Universe Coming Into 'Starfleet Academy' 3 days ago:
(although the ongoing IDW comic Star Trek: The Last Starship, whose writers previously teased to io9 that it had connections to the events of Starfleet Academy, suggested that the Federation was on the verge of incorporating every known galactic civilization into the Federation at the time of the Burn, with the Gorn being the last intergalactic outliers)
Although Klingons had been mentioned multiple times across Discovery‘s later seasons, the show never explored much of what happened to the Klingons by the 32nd century.
It’s interesting that they brought up The Last Starship in one context, but didn’t carry that forward to the discussion of the Klingons. As I understand it (without having actually read it), according to the comic,
Spoilers for *Star Trek: The Last Starship*
The Klingons did join the Federation, but a sect known as “The Black Path” attacked Earth in the wake of the Burn. This directly led to Earth’s secession from the Federation, and presumably the Klingons’ as well.
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- Comment on [USA] ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Series Premiere To Stream For Free On YouTube 3 days ago:
I think they’ve done a decent job of giving each series its own tone and identity.
In any case, SFA and the remaining two SNW seasons are all we’re going to be getting any time soon.
- Comment on [USA] ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Series Premiere To Stream For Free On YouTube 3 days ago:
Star Trek currently just has this new series and Strange New Worlds, which has wrapped production on its final season. 🤷
- Comment on [USA] ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Series Premiere To Stream For Free On YouTube 3 days ago:
I mean, it’s YouTube…
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- Comment on Exclusive: ‘Starfleet Academy’ Showrunners Talk Easter Eggs, DS9 “Love Letter,” And Keeping Star Trek Alive 4 days ago:
Curiouser and curiouser…
- Comment on Exclusive: ‘Starfleet Academy’ Showrunners Talk Easter Eggs, DS9 “Love Letter,” And Keeping Star Trek Alive 5 days ago:
And episode 5 is essentially a love letter to Deep Space Nine.
Colour me intrigued, especially since the title is reportedly “Series Acclimation Mil,” which probably means it’s SAM-centric.
Even with the War College next door…
The War College is its own thing and the conversation was very Trek, which is: Is the War College still relevant now that we’ve moved into this new age where we’re actually able to harness back to the original vision of discovery and exploration and curiosity?
So the much-discussed War College has been confirmed to be…Academy-adjacent, separate from the Academy itself.
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- Comment on See New Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Photos from This Week’s Two-Episode Premiere, “Kids These Days” and “Beta Test” 5 days ago:
Episode three: “Red Pillar”