Star trek academy series

Bobtheman

I know this is probably arriving this year?

I'd much prefer a series based in current trek Picard series time

I just have my doubts about the production team behind this plus I think they went way too far in the future with discovery

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058339097/star-trek-academy-series

Likely not until 2025, if it ever actually becomes a thing at all. Still no cast attached, and things have gone quiet on development.

Fingers crossed they decide to put their resources towards something more worthwhile.

Bobtheman

The one positive thing about Picard series is that it moved trek forward from the next generation films instead of fxxx prequels.

Though season 3 of Picard was good.

If they do move it forward please please lose the dark sets. Go back to the STNG model of some hope and positivity which DS9 had too and SNW

Bobtheman

Going 700 or whatever years into the future is not really moving it forward either

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121857335#Comment_121857335

Particularly when they just wipe out ~120 years worth of warp travel in the middle of that period with as pointless a contrivance as 'the burn'.

They couldn't just ruin the 'Trek' past, they had to ruin the future too.

Optimus Prime

I’m still hoping they reset all that discovery future nonsense in the final season. I doubt they will , but I can hope.

Inviere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121858097#Comment_121858097

I still find it beyond laughable that a 900 year old ship and crew just slot in a future timeline like they belonged there. I know the burn could be explained away as a period of no tech development, but it's still abysmal writing.

Remember Scotty having a hard time adjusting to things on the Ent-D after a 90 year gap...this shower were practically saving the future after ten times that gap. Absolutely pathetic.

Optimus Prime

Completely , plus for me it kind of takes away from the other shows (slightly) that are set in the past , when rewatching in the back of your head you’re thinking “ this is all pointless sure in 900 years it will all be gone” it was just bad all around , the writing , acting ah I’d be here all night haha and with strange new worlds being so good too , they need to leave prequel shows behind though.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121858097#Comment_121858097

They won't but the next era of Star Trek will. Some show will sit in the gap and "wreck Disco canon" and all the Disco fans will be crying about it being "not real Trek"

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121858384#Comment_121858384

In fairness though it didn't help that Scotty was langers half the time 🤣

AMKC

Ye hopefully this never happens especially if it's set 900 years in the future. Now if they want to do it with a young kirk and crew and then a young Picard and crew that would be ok with me but not this nonsense one.

Inviere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121864443#Comment_121864443

You just know it'll be Tilly leading the new Academy, restoring the Fed almost singlehandedly because Burnham will likely have made the ultimate sacrifice for the finale of Disc.

Stark

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121865366#Comment_121865366

"Ultimate sacrifice" being ascending to the level of Q/Prophets/Organians/whatever.

pixelburp

The way this concept has basically disappeared into the ether, I'd question if it's still going ahead at all; IIRC there were never that quantifiable a rumbling that the show was greenlit, and certainly if there was anything planned it likely won't hit screens 'til 2025 at the very outside.

Inviere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121865380#Comment_121865380

She's practically at that level already :) Next stop Sha Ka Ree for good aul Burnham...

Bobtheman

Bad news

It's coming

https://collider.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-filming-window-episode-count/

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121883177#Comment_121883177

Though he was insistent on not revealing when the series is set, that information does lend itself to the theory that Starfleet Academy is a Discovery spin-off. Season 4 saw Mary Wiseman's Tilly take a trip to the newly re-opened Academy in the 32nd century and developing a strong interest in teaching.

I say this as someone who likes Tilly: Aww hell no!

pixelburp

2026 is a long time away, I'll believe it's happening when cast announcements crop up TBH.

Inviere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121883211#Comment_121883211

Sounds about right, someone who's politically, socially, and technologically removed by just under a millennium sounds like the perfect candidate to train new entrants.

JustAPoorDreamer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121884916#Comment_121884916

That's why we all know this show will be just terrible. Hopefully something happens before it gets underway and it gets cancelled. I woukd prefer they use the resources abd defends that woukd be wasted on this for SNW and Lower Deck as well as a new film instead.

breezy1985

I'm not a fan of a Starfleet Academy show in general but if they were to do it then it really should have been around the BermanTrek era as the San Fransisco Academy is what would co.e to mind for most people.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121941846#Comment_121941846

Given the apparent re-use of assets going on, it's not beyond likelihood that this show will be set during that era; they'll already have the sets, uniforms etc. Christ if they absolutely must have Tilly it's not like they can't have some time-travel shenanigans to get her back to the Academy circa Berman => Picard S3.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121941918#Comment_121941918

Na it's definitely just 32nd century.

Inviere

Even in the unlikely event they set it in the Berman era, one things for sure, the writing wouldnt harken back to that era anyway. This SG1 joke (nearly twenty years old now itself!) ALWAYS springs to mind when considering Trek trying to recapture it's glory days...

https://youtu.be/3_C_PefoE4o?feature=shared

Bobtheman

I won't watch it. Nor am I watching the last season of discovery

I'm sure they will be shattered

JustAPoorDreamer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121942122#Comment_121942122

That episode of Stargate-was so bad. I remember being excited about it and then being so disapointed with it when it aired. So bad.

Evade

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121953157#Comment_121953157

200 was good, especially the Farscape parody.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121964232#Comment_121964232

Ah Farscape; the greatest SciFi show with the highest bar to get over. Stargate mocked its barely intelligible babble but it was true; the thing that made it brilliant also made it a required taste.

Evade

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121964570#Comment_121964570

Don't get your mivonks twisted it was frelling easy to understand.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121965216#Comment_121965216

Go on: be honest, did you have to google the spelling of mivonks? 😂

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121964232#Comment_121964232

See that's the thing. I never got into Farscape. I have watched the odd episode here and there but never the whole series.

Evade

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121965472#Comment_121965472

I did. I misremembered it as nevoks.