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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  re: Obel Wochak’s complexion, I saw a Youtube recap that said he was an albino Klingon. I don’t know if the show really confirmed it, but I thought it was an interesting takeaway, because we’ve seen a couple in previous shows already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to your point about the debate being pointless, it wasn’t even meant to be in the curriculum until the students fought for it.

  We could mince words about whether or not the writers forced the debate plot, but what really matters is whether they sold that it was within the characters’ motivation to hold one. And for me it did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Aha. This is the reasoning that made the whole thing click for me. Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, plus the Burn that made it difficult to traverse space. The “Klingon Zone” that was hinted at in Discovery probably meant that the apparatus of empire was no longer in place, but that only individual houses remained, scattered wherever they were across the region of the empire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how much do the Klingons know that Starfleet pulled its punches?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the contrivance of involving Starfleet Academy was done very well.

  From an upper decks perspective, a tragedy happened, and Starfleet was compelled to act. No need to involve the Academy, but it just so happens that the highest ranking official in Starfleet with close ties to a member of the Klingon house is the current chancellor of Starfleet Academy. (That she’s 400 years old is going to be a pretty handy plot device for getting her involved in all sorts of things… but it hasn’t hit the point of being annoying yet.)

  Separately, it also tracks that the chancellor needs to see their only Klingon cadet privately to offer support. That’s a good school administration right there. No need to involve him in the diplomatic negotiations that are going on behind the scenes.

  The only reason why these converged was because of the debate class, which makes total sense that it would be a required course at the Academy, and then only because the students debated the Doctor into allowing it because they were already talking about it.

  I think this would be ridiculous if it was literally every episode, but this actually worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rebuilding in the wake of global disaster (and honestly it’s been one after another my whole life) is exactly the kind of inspirational content I think we need right now. 90s Trek was all about “things have been great, it could be better!” and I think our message today really should be “things have sucked for a bit, but how do we recover the greatness we know we’re capable of?”