# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/41 "2026-01-15T20:10:19Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > _Prodigy_, not so much, but it’s not like I hated it, I just didn’t like it and couldn’t watch past a handful of episodes (though I really tried). _Prodigy_ gets so, so much better as it goes along. How good is it? They got Robert Beltran to return. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/42 "2026-01-15T20:12:57Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > And why the hell do we have a female Jem’Hadar on this show? They need to explain that to my satisfaction, as a DS9 fan. Because in Star Trek no species ever stay enemies (except, so far, the Breen.) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/43 "2026-01-15T20:20:34Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > I thought all but two members of the entire species were wiped out, and they were both male. How’d they swing _that?_ Handwave is there were more off planet much like the Romulans were a lost group of Vulcans and various lost human colonies that were found from time to time. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/44 "2026-01-15T20:26:35Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > _Prodigy_ gets so, so much better as it goes along. When does it stop being _Space Goonies_? Although that’s a disservice to _Goonies_ which is a classic. I can’t tell you how many episodes I watched, because I can no longer look at my queue. Apparently it was yanked from Paramount+, which is where I was watching it before, and put into Netflix, but isn’t available there anymore either. I apparently have to go purchase it from Amazon Prime or some other streaming service that sells series and episodes. It looks like it was so unpopular that they don’t even bother making it available anymore on the platforms that were streaming it. No big loss I guess. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/45 "2026-01-15T20:29:36Z")
Second episode was solid. The humpbacks were a great surprise, but then again Star Trek IV is my favorite movie. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/46 "2026-01-15T20:33:01Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Apparently it was yanked from Paramount+ > [@Star Trek Prodigy the latest to be canceled and erased](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-prodigy-the-latest-to-be-canceled-and-erased/986004): > > As has been the trend, beyond just cancelling shows , streaming services have been completely removing them from their catalog (presumably for tax purposes). Star Trek Prodigy is the latest victim which is a shame. The show started off slow but became basically a sequel to Star Trek Voyager. I was looking forward to seeing where season two went. Plus > [@Star Trek Prodigy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-prodigy/959136): > > I waited until the season was over to binge it. It clearly has elements aimed at kids, and some of the Hologram Janeway stuff was pretty rough around the edges, but overall I liked it. It was good enough to place it in the top three made in the last couple of decades (along with but behind Star Trek Lower Decks and Star Trek The Orville). It had [a few callbacks](https://i.imgur.com/pZNc3mN.jpg) (but not nearly as many as Lower Decks). ---
**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:** [January 15, 2026, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/47 "2026-01-15T20:36:37Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Second episode was solid. About your spoilered part, I wonder how canon [the _Lower Decks_ comic](https://www.bottalk.com/2025/09/star-trek-lower-decks-11-2024-review.html?m=1) is? ---
**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:** [January 15, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/48 "2026-01-15T20:37:52Z")
Thanks for the info. I never paid attention because like I said, the show didn’t work for me so I just ignored it until today. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/49 "2026-01-16T22:58:24Z")
I’ve only watched the first episode and hadn’t seen any of the previews so I had no idea what to expect. It was just OK but I thought the less about “Encounter at Farpoint” so there’s still room for hope. Holly Hunter is an odd choice IMO. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/50 "2026-01-16T23:22:12Z")
There were lots of cheesy moments in the episodes but the only thing that I really, really, teally, really _hated_ in them is the scene where they spent 12 hours playing that mind-numingly awful “San Francisco” song. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gTkXsdtN-QE/maxresdefault.jpg "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTkXsdtN-QE) ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/51 "2026-01-17T03:36:10Z")
Betazed has a male president? 😉 Wokeness has gone to far! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/52 "2026-01-18T15:12:41Z")
I am weary of Star Trek, Star Wars, Sponge Bob and The Simpsons. Something is wrong with a society that recycles the same memes endlessly. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2026, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/53 "2026-01-18T15:21:39Z")
Awful of society to hold a gun to your head and make you watch. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/54 "2026-01-18T15:39:04Z")
The inevitable drag of someone making the thread about the other poster. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/55 "2026-01-18T15:41:53Z")
I really wanted to let this and the other [threadshit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/295) be handled by another moderator, but now it appears you’re just trolling. Take a **warning** and a day off. You are **suspended** for 1 day and I’ll bump this up to the Modloop. Your suspension may be longer. **Moderating:** ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/56 "2026-01-18T19:07:15Z")
I’m not up on any Star Trek post-Picard, but the first episode was free (I assume the rest is on Paramount Minus, so I’ll miss it), so I watched. I liked it. Holly Hunter was having fun (she lounges in the captain’s “chair”, throwing a leg over the arm, or sitting sideways), and Paul Giamatti chewed some scenery well. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/57 "2026-01-18T19:21:07Z")
I never watched Star Trek: Discovery, and read someplace that this new show is set after it. So how much of the backstory is shown in Discovery? Supposedly there was this thing called The Burn, that led to a shortage of the dilithium fuel. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/58 "2026-01-18T19:22:16Z")
Why is Holly Hunter barefoot? ---
**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:** [January 18, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/59 "2026-01-18T19:51:31Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I never watched Star Trek: Discovery, and read someplace that this new show is set after it. So how much of the backstory is shown in Discovery? There wasn’t enough room in the 23rd Century for USS Discovery and USS Enterprise to both save the galaxy every episode so Discovery was propelled 1000 years into the future where the Federation is a pale shadow of its past self after “the Burn”. All you need to know is that this show is part of the Federation’s rebuilding era. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starfleet-academy/1021470/60 "2026-01-18T20:23:59Z")
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