Star Trek General Discussion

[Shazam]

Kurtzman gone for good?

https://www.fandompulse.com/p/rumor-...eal-officially

But y'all will like this part:

As Fandom Pulse reported earlier, CBS insiders view everything Kurtzman produced as “non-canon” and set in an alternate universe. The studio plans to bring Star Trek production in-house, projecting costs at 25% of Secret Hideout’s budgets through improved efficiency and AI integration.

M5 back on the menu!

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Shazam

I just presumed they made the bar really low to get into Starfleet because War College takes all the good people.

This is kind of 'The Thing.'

They're droning on and on about the 'Vaunted' Starfleet Academy and trying to return it to it's former greatness but, from a story-telling standpoint?

Tell us that. You're telling a story...or...trying to. Tell the audience that you're accepting people that normally would never make the cut in a million years because you're rebuilding and desperate.

Tell the audience. Explain the circumstances. Build. The. World.

Because what do we as the audience see? First-rate Technology. Everything works. Top-end ships. Etc.

So what are we as the audience supposed to think? That this incorrigible group of malcontents, losers and ne'er-do-wells are the Best of the Best? Its inherently contradictory in theme and tone.

They should have made Starfleet Academy a craphole. A work-in-progress. But they didnt. Its a gleaming and shining amazing institution...filled with idiots.

[Shazam]

I just figure they can make things look nice pretty fast in whatever century they're in.

No reason for SA to look like a craphole.

[Blaster86]

Go back to season one of TNG. You have a Vulcan likely much older and wiser than the other competitors, a clearly bright young woman just finishing secondary schooling, a Benzite who may actually already be an adult and at the top of his fields on Benzar and a literal proto-god on the path to Q-dom... and only one of them gets to go to the academy.

I'm glad I've skipped this show. What a mess. How can one man keep missing the mark on what people want from Star Trek?

[Shazam]

That episode really made no sense. That's an extraordinary amount of time and resources to admit just one person into SA.

Those ships during the Dominion War better have been empty because they would have lost a massive number of incredibly valuable officers.

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by Shazam

That episode really made no sense. That's an extraordinary amount of time and resources to admit just one person into SA.

Those ships during the Dominion War better have been empty because they would have lost a massive number of incredibly valuable officers.

I know tongue in cheek, and obviously you know, but I thought one of the most harrowing parts of "In the pale moonlight" was them reading off the list of dead officers.

Kurtzman will never be able to produce this level of emotion with his writing teams. He probably doesn't even realize how far off he is.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Shazam

That episode really made no sense. That's an extraordinary amount of time and resources to admit just one person into SA.

Those ships during the Dominion War better have been empty because they would have lost a massive number of incredibly valuable officers.

I think we find out later that this was a process for late/mid term admission. Because Wesley was underage/too young for normal admission so he couldn't just enroll.