I'm a masochist who has been watching Academy but I had to stop the latest episode. Tilly is an annoying character, her teaching a theatre class and the hologram being really into it was a bridge too far.
I'll subject myself to further punishment next week.
Ditto, being a Star Trek fan requires a certain element of masochism but this is a struggle...its an hour long? I have to keep pausing it to let the cringe dissipate...this is brutal and I'm only like 15 minutes in.
I set my phaser to Maximum Kill and left it on the counter and...it is calling me...and I am seriously considering it...
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If you thought this season would have a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
This episode was literally physically painful to watch.
Spoiler!
I'm going to start with saying something nice, or two things nice. Robert Picardo did a great job in this, and there were some nice callbacks to Voyager.
Its too bad that he was teamed with the Sam Character and worse yet, the actress that plays Sam, who is utterly awful as an actress.
This was the second episode where there really wasn't story to invest in. This was just another awful feelings episode.
The Writers might think they're writing poignant dialogue like the crap between Caleb and what her name, but what they're writing is stupid people gibberish, it makes the characters sound like they have tourettes.
Here's the stretch run.
This episode takes place three months after the events of a couple of episodes ago where they had the training mission go bad, and they're still suffering the effects, but frankly this is Star Fleet Academy, you know future Captains and Explorers and officers, after watching this episode and the last one, none of these silly characters should have passed any psychological testing to get in. In TNG they lost a crew member in Tasha Yar and they still managed to get back to their job.
This is just an extension of that stupid character that ate her comm badge and then fell apart on the bridge during the exercise, I can't buy into characters that shouldn't be there.
Unless this is the mirror universe and Star Fleet Academy is backwards world and its a daycare or mental health facility for the worst of society.
And then we get to the cringe worthy return of Tilly, She was as annoying and silly as ever with rotten dialogue,and Mary Wiseman or whatever her name is, is not a good actress at all.
On the good side, clearly the director or producer or writer with the foot fetish porn addiction must have had the week off after last weeks episode that should have been Star Fleet Academy feet.
With most shows they manage to improve as they move along from the pilot, the Actors get more familiar with their character, the directors get better, the writers tighten up their scripts and understand the lore.
Not this show, every week the episodes get worse, I'd say that whatever this weeks show was is rock bottom, but I have my doubts.
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Just going back...no! Because thats a whole other show. Garak and Bashir will have founded their own Private Detective agency.
Its perfect.
You ever watch the X-Files? You've got the semi-psychotic but often correct conspiracy theorist accompanied by the skeptical but open-minded medical Doctor assistant.
Garak and Bashir. Oh....now that'd be a show...Intergalactic Star Trek X-Files. Sign me the hell up for that!!
Gowron and Dukat is more 'buddy cop' with a little 'Turner and Hooch' and Garak and Bashir would be Cosmic X-Files, exploring the unexplainable and...ironically...'searching for the truth' with Garak. What could go wrong?
Oh...come on Paramount, I'll text you my contact info. Hire me on and lets get this going! You've clearly got billions of dollars kicking around, fire a few of them my way and lets do this thing!!
Ditch that Kurtzman loser and hire me!
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If you thought this season would have a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
He was always about to speak, but then didn't. Seem to recall one episode where he was someone special? The running gag that he was a great singer?
Sorry, hate to ask, it's just odd to see a Trek joke I can't unravel!
Kind of exciting!
There was a few comments about how he was such a talker and a great joker, and the episode where he faked his death had a lot of mourners. The name Morn actually is an anagram from Norm from Cheers, because all Norm did all day was sit at the bar.
IIRC Morn originally had lines and then they decided not to, but yes, the running gag was you never see him talk on screen, but off screen you couldn't get him to shut up.
So...exactly how many mines and how long would it take to completely encompass the entirety of Federation space...
See now, I just had to AI this with a question.
According to Chat GPT, a Starship traveling at warp 9 which is 279 times the speed of light (Plaid) The Federation was suppossed to be about 8000 light years across. You can't constantly travel at light speed, so according to AI it would just take about 8 years to cross the Federation at maximum warp.
If modeled as a rough circle the circumference would be about 25,000 light years 24 years.
So for one ship to A carry enough mines to mine around the entire volume of the Federation, and do it at what would be amounted to impulse power which is .25 the speed of light, just one mine laying loop would probably take a few thousand years.
In other words for our villain to completely surround the UFP or thousands of loop trips around the Federation while laying mines even at warp 9 would probably take like a thousand years.
As for mines even if you were to lay one every few hundreds of kms, like even 1000 you'd need 25 per loop times proabahly a few hundred loops so lets say 10 thousand or more.
In a simpler answer, the writers created a really stupid premise.
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