I really wish that if they'd had their hearts set on a Lanthanite for Academy they'd gone with Pelia who is already an Academy Professor! Plus that actress has real class combined with some sass!!
I like it!
"Scotty....what the Hell is this supposed to be??"
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Could have to do with cooling/insulation. Climate control is important on a spaceship.
The rock chunks are way more confusing. Why do you have slabs of granite in the ceiling the explode out? Why did the Ent C have weird shale like rock chunks that killed the captain lol.
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Could have to do with cooling/insulation. Climate control is important on a spaceship.
The rock chunks are way more confusing. Why do you have slabs of granite in the ceiling the explode out? Why did the Ent C have weird shale like rock chunks that killed the captain lol.
Well thats just the Captain's upstairs pool table...we all know that!
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I am cribbing this from a reddit post, but I thought it really poignant on the nutrek topic.
Basically, the writers of nutrek have most ####ed up by their confusing out of time references.
They took STD 1000 years into the future because the writers were feeling too constrained by existing canon (LOL on this one though, as if that stopped them at all)
Then, instead of using that 1000 year gap to create new stories, they loaded it up with nostalgia vampirism: referencing Voyager, smashing old characters in wherever possible, etc. This was probably due to the comparative success of lower decks and the studio thinking this meant that nostalgia was the only way.
Then STA is conceived as this real "start fresh, in the future" to tell new stories. But what do they do? Seemingly revolve the story around key figures from 1000 years ago!! What!?!
If you had set STA right after Picard, for e.g. these stories would have made more sense. Still wouldn't be good, but would have made more sense.
I said it ages ago and I'll repeat it.
It should have been an off-shoot of Lower Decks. Set it around that time, have a class of Cadets, follow them through the Academy then place them on the ships we know and have a new class follow them.
"Hey graduates! Here are Lieutenants Mariner and Boimler, they'll help you get accustomed to life in Starfleet."
It can still be live-action, but it allows you to grow the Universe in a time-period that people like and understand.
Then they get promoted, move into different roles and then the new class comes in.
The idea of exploring Starfleet Academy is, inherently, a good one. Its just the way they've chosen to do it is patently stupid.
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If you're a fan of DS9, the last Academy episode might have been a little more palatable however they centred the episode around the most annoying character and gave her a "twist" to bring in the DS9 lore. The also programatically got her drunk to increase the annoyance.
The gave us an arguably great cameo (or two) that is wasted on a show like this and now builds into cannon a storyline that will never be resolved.
The B storyline was pointless.
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Yeah, I just watched it and thought it was pretty poor
Spoiler!
Symbiotes in Star Trek Lore live up to 500 years, this show takes place about what? a thousand years after deep space 9 Dax would have been dust.
They didn't solve the mystery of Sisko, that was solved pretty much right at the last minute of DS9.
Now we have characters breaking the 4th wall.
WTF was with the opening banner written in crayon, that was just utterly cringe.
They had the typewriter that Sisko used in the episode where he saw himself as a pulp fiction writer, how the F is that real in the museum.
The hologram character is dumb and annoying, and now they program her to be drunk.
The B story line was meaningless.
The whole episode ended up being about absolutely nothing.
The voice over by Sisko in the end was from one of his spoken records from years ago, and really had nothing to do with anything.
The bar scene between the war college students and the academy students was just outright dumb. Why the hell a thousand years down the road are they talking in 20th century terminology?
This show comes down to a lot of problems, the writers are completely awful and just reinvent #### in their heads.
The acting has utterly slid downhill.
Half the time I have no clue what the Captain is saying.
I thought Discovery was bad, I like Tawny Newsome in Lower Decks, but she gets the writing credit for this, she should have her laptop taken away.
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It should have been an off-shoot of Lower Decks. Set it around that time, have a class of Cadets, follow them through the Academy then place them on the ships we know and have a new class follow them.
"Hey graduates! Here are Lieutenants Mariner and Boimler, they'll help you get accustomed to life in Starfleet."
It can still be live-action, but it allows you to grow the Universe in a time-period that people like and understand.
Then they get promoted, move into different roles and then the new class comes in.
The idea of exploring Starfleet Academy is, inherently, a good one. Its just the way they've chosen to do it is patently stupid.
I like it, I would probably start the show just before the Dominion War where the Cadets are still being taught exploration and command and Star Fleet Values, and then if it lasts to the second or third year, have it take place during the Dominion War where we see things in the Federation change and the Federation starts losing, and students are suddenly taught to go to war, and we have the conspiracy from Deep Space 9 cooking in the background.
You could even see Cadets being rushed into the front lines and hear about them dying.
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I like it, I would probably start the show just before the Dominion War where the Cadets are still being taught exploration and command and Star Fleet Values, and then if it lasts to the second or third year, have it take place during the Dominion War where we see things in the Federation change and the Federation starts losing, and students are suddenly taught to go to war, and we have the conspiracy from Deep Space 9 cooking in the background.
You could even see Cadets being rushed into the front lines and hear about them dying.
Hell...I'd stick with my premise. The new 'Big Bad?' The Romulans. Somehow they found out that Sisko conned them into the Dominion War and they're pissed at Starfleet.
Time period we know and like. Enemy that we know and that has a very legit beef, a Starfleet very much in rebuild mode after a major war.
Easy! Update some of the tech, write some interesting characters, sprinkle in some fan-service member-berries that dont completely suck and voila! You've got a brand new Star Trek and, on top of it all, it generates an almost limitless pipeline of new characters, ideas and plots.
Bob's your Uncle. My invoice is in the mail.
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If you're a fan of DS9, the last Academy episode might have been a little more palatable however they centred the episode around the most annoying character and gave her a "twist" to bring in the DS9 lore. The also programatically got her drunk to increase the annoyance.
The gave us an arguably great cameo (or two) that is wasted on a show like this and now builds into cannon a storyline that will never be resolved.
The B storyline was pointless.
This episode made me want to hang myself. I was tying a noose out of my own shoelaces.
And I know I must sound like a broken record but why cant any of these people enunciate properly? Why would a Holographic student, which is bat-crap nuts on it's own merits, sound like someone shoved her cakehole full of cotton and then punched her in the face?
Can they not find humans who can speak?
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