Having not watched the show, what keeps ships on the galactic plane and not just flying well out of it to avoid mines?
Why do you think they’re confined to the galactic plane? The galaxy is a lot thicker than the shrunken Federation is tall.
Well, assuming the Federation is pretty much on the plane and the writers probably not understanding that space is three dimensional, I’m imagining a whole lot of mines basically with effectively the same Z coordinates.
FWIW the graphic showed a sphere.
From my perspective, this is the least stupid bit that I willfully overlook to enjoy the show.
I’ve been a science fiction fan all my life, and I actually prefer “soft” SF over “hard”. I’m willing to forgive a lot for the sake of a good story. Still there’s a certain line past which it becomes too stupid for me to enjoy; this show passed it, and not for the first time.
I suspect most SF fans have a line like mine. They just draw it at different places.
For me it’s a moving line. A show with fun characters and interesting stories and I don’t notice bad science. Even if I notice when the science is good, if that makes sense. And some SF to me is held more to the rules of fantasy? It doesn’t have to make sense by the physics of our universe but it does need to be internally consistent. This show? Still not sure. Every so often some of the characters and plot lines are fun and interesting enough for me to not notice the stupid. Every so often. But I’m watching with the perspective that this show is not made for me; it’s a teen show so I cut even more slack than usual.
Just because it’s written for teens, that doesn’t mean it can’t be smart. Fiction written for young people can be simpler than fiction written for adults, but simple is not the same as stupid.
Truth. And I think of the teen demographic caring less about the science being very wrong and more about the angst, the relationships, the individuating from their parents and their own past expectations, how these characters become not only adults but Star Fleet officer adults.
I can’t really say the science seems any worse than on other Trek series. It has always been very, very, very bad back to the very beginning. Really no better than the “science” in Lost in Space.
Well I misread that.
That was … okay. Mostly redeemed by Tig Notaro’s take on that character. And the I gotta pee line.
I thought the episode wrapped up the season nicely. Not sure what the angsty event will be in Season 2 without Caleb looking for his mom.
I predict a pregnancy scare for SAM with a Cardassian transfer student.
FYI, Starfleet Academy won’t continue past the second season, which they’ve already filmed.
That’s a joke, right? 
They need to amp up the teen angst somehow and they could spend an episode about how is light babby formed.
This isn’t much of a surprise.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Cancelled Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Cancelled
Well no. @Dewey_Finn told us! 
Where will the Trek universe go from here? After Strange New Worlds finishes its run. More in this post burn future? Other stories in the original series time that were not of Enterprise? Far quadrants?
Keep swinging for new young fans?
From that article:
While critics were mostly positive about the show, Starfleet Academy proved divisive among segments of fandom who objected to the show’s progressiveness and Gen Z-skewing nature.
I bailed on this show because it just wasn’t for me. Still, I find it disheartening that one of the reasons for its cancellation may be Paramount’s continuing shift to the dark side in the current culture wars.
I didn’t love the show, but I did kind of like it. I thought a lot of the aspects were kind of stupid like the alien who vomits glitter or the warping snail, but I also enjoyed some of the character growth along the way. I’m also not a fan of the post-burn storyline but I loved Holly Hunter, Tig Nataro, and Paul Giamatti. So I was very back and forth about the show as a whole.
With the cancellation of this show and the end of Strange New Worlds not far off, there won’t be any current series in the franchise, though a new movie is planned. I don’t expect this blank period to last long, given that Star Trek is an important franchise for the studio.
Important or not, if they can’t figure out how to make money by making a successful show/movie, all that more flogging it will do is create more losses for the studio.
IOW, my suspicion is the “importance” is a product of looking deeply into the past while thinking very wishfully about the future.