# Starfleet Academy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [July 29, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470 "2025-07-29T15:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/181 "2026-02-27T21:39:14Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > When Sam mentioned a “thousand year old play” Well it at least wasn’t a minimalist Hamlet put on with stone knives and bearskins, like Kirk got. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/182 "2026-02-27T22:23:49Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > _?_ > > And why the hell do we have a female Jem’Hadar on this show? She’s half Klingon. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/B31lA7riR3o/maxresdefault.jpg "Why There's A Female Jem'Hadar In Star Trek: Starfleet Academy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B31lA7riR3o) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/183 "2026-03-05T00:41:22Z")
I thought Episode 8 was thoughtful and done well. They seem to be 50/50 for really good episodes in this show, which isn’t that bad of a hit rate to me. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/184 "2026-03-11T08:48:03Z")
Episode 9 was pretty good - thank God for Jonathan Frakes, who directed. Still, there’s such a thing as being _too_ apocalyptic; also, I wish writers had even the slightest grasp of how BIG space is. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/185 "2026-03-11T09:04:21Z")
I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/186 "2026-03-11T10:48:09Z")
At least in the Star Trek Universe you can just replicate a new towel if you forgot one. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/187 "2026-03-11T11:46:17Z")
Or to quote a certain literary luminary - “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” # ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/188 "2026-03-11T12:15:06Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I wish writers had even the slightest grasp of how BIG space is. This website is a great illustration of how mind-bogglingly big space is even within our own solar systerm, and _that’s_ peanuts compared to the star-hopping distances they cover on Star Trek shows. > **[If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system](https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/189 "2026-03-11T13:06:42Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Or to quote a certain literary luminary Oh, I’m not _that_ great. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/190 "2026-03-11T13:22:41Z")
lol. I didn’t see your post. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/191 "2026-03-11T14:36:58Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I wish writers had even the slightest grasp of how BIG space is. Oh that’s not a new thing. TOS had more than one episode where they think you can travel between stars at sublight velocities\*. Ensign Ro may be one of my favorite TNG episodes, but the ridiculousness of the situation is mind boggling. The refugee planet is (from memory) 20K kilometers from the Cardassian border??!! Does the border follow the planet as it goes around its star? You can be 20K km away from me and still be on Earth! And they are being moved to another star system, in sublight ships! WTF writers? \*yes, you can. It will just take longer than your remaining lifespan. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/192 "2026-03-11T14:43:49Z")
And remember, any time you lose your FTL drive, there is always a nearby gas cloud or asteroid field you can duck into. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/193 "2026-03-11T14:51:29Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > nearby gas cloud Considering most gas clouds large enough to get lost in the dust are at least dozens, probably hundreds, if not thousands of light years across. “We are now entering the Mutara Nebula.” “How can you tell?” “Gas density has increased to 3 molecules per cubic meter.” “OK at this rate we should be hidden in about…three years?” “I estimate 3.1942 years, Captain. Assuming average density and gas composition.” “You would.” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/194 "2026-03-11T15:28:13Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Oh that’s not a new thing. True, but this is taking things to a new level. Let’s assume that Federation space in its degraded 32nd century state is a sphere 100 light years across - the bare minimum conceivable size of the Federation core. That means that the space-destroying mines have to cover an area of at least _30,000 square light years_. Just how many mines do the bad guys have? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/195 "2026-03-11T15:58:59Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Just how many mines do the bad guys have? Self-replicating nanobots using zero-point energy fields and a re-calibrated antheum stasis generator with warp-positive chronitons. Easy! ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/196 "2026-03-11T16:00:24Z")
Has to be worse than that, right? The volume of the sphere, so half a million cubic light years give or take. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/197 "2026-03-11T16:00:26Z")
Well they are very very space fabric destroying mines … Not thrilled with how they have so heavily hinted at mom’s critical role in the mines plan. “Oh I recognize you! You’re” [BLAST killed] ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/198 "2026-03-11T16:20:09Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > The volume of the sphere, so half a million cubic light years give or take. The explosions are arranged in a shell acting as a wall around Federation space, not through the whole volume. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/199 "2026-03-11T16:27:40Z")
That’s still an enormous area to cover with these mines. And how could they all be placed, more or less simultaneously? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/200 "2026-03-11T16:54:09Z")
Proximity sensors set radially very very wide. Seriously though -Trek was never about hard science science fiction. This show a bit less than even that bar. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470.md?page=11)