Starfleet Academy

Cafe Society
1

Trailer for the new series. I’m apprehensive about it because it is a direct spinoff of the loathsome Discovery, but maybe it might be okay.

2

So it takes place in like the 33rd Century. It will barely be Star Trek anyway.

I’ll probably try it, but not thinking about it as Star Trek. The Discovery spin-off part is really not a selling point.

3

For being a series supposedly oriented toward the future, it sure seems unimaginatively stuck in the past. (Ricardo’s Doctor? The mystery of Ben Disko? Really? Come on.)

This has Alex Kurtzman and his Chatgpt-esque remix-and-repeat fingerprints all over it.

Pass.

4

Looks very 20th century militaristic.

5

This strikes me as a very odd scenario. If I’m going to jump the Star Trek universe hundreds of years more into the future, I’m going to concentrate on major plot differences in terms of friends, enemies, and situations. I’m not going to hang around Star Fleet Academy watching people take classes and do the 33rd century equivalent of “college stuff”.

6

Coming back and rereading this later, I curse the overlooked autocorrects.

7

They missed a great opportunity by not getting Brian May onboard for the theme song.

8

I remember that there was at one point talk of the Deep Space Nine character Miles O’Brien as a lead character in a series set at Starfleet Academy.

9

Am I the only one curious about the bureaucracy and logistics of Starfleet? I mean, it’s literally the poster child of “fully automated luxury space communism”, but most of the series and movies just kind of gloss over the society that makes this possible. How did they get there? What’s the day to day like for people who aren’t actively on a starship?

I, for one, would love to see more of their educational and other social systems. I loved that Picard had some moments of that, and maybe this series will too?

10

When I first heard that they were planning a Starfleet Academy show, I was hoping for something set in the NG/DS9 period. I may watch the first few episodes, if only to confirm that they managed to screw it up.

I may be completely lost anyway, as I stopped watching Discovery after the first episode of season 3.

11

I thought Tilly was supposed to have a big role. Apparently not.

I was looking forward to seeing her win a decathlon and rise to President of Starfleet while everyone cries and hugs. And in the second episode…