Star trek academy series

It gets pretty serialised about half way through so it's probably better to start from the beginning and endure the rough first season. Crichton swearing leather trousers is Farscape's version of Riker growing his beard

Theres some shows where I just can't get past the production values. Farscape, Babylon 5 and Dune TV series are probably the big 3.

Farscape's production values do get a little better in later seasons but it's still rough sometimes

By production I don't just mean the FX and sets. I found the acting quite camp or hammy in the shows I mentioned too.

They had a pretty narrow pool to chose from to be fair. The guy that played DK did get a lot better, he was Frank in the Last of Us

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a bit cumbersome a name. Don't think they need the Starfleet bit.

Not sure I want the Doctor in there. I bet it's just lifted from a fanfic idea that the Living Witness Doctor would be returning around now.

After nonsense like Kovich being Daniels, pandering to the Calypso fans or the desperate attempts to make something of a few glances between TOS Spock and Chapel in SNW or Picard and Crusher I wouldn't be confident.

Actually, I was thinking about this last night. Do you remember Heroes? Zachary Quinto who played Spock in the 2009 Star Trek film was in it. In that, there were 5 or 6 key chatacters, and episode 1 was devoted to one, and episode 2 to the next and so on, and then episode 10, it came back to the first one.

They could do a ST: Starfleet Academy with TNG characters, in a similar vein to those books I read ~25 odd years ago. Select 5 or 6 or 7 central characters, give them each a character-centric episode, showing their struggles in Starfleet. Have them bump into their future crewmates at some point.

It could work. I'd have more interest in that than Saved by the BellKlaxon in the 30th century.

Except Disco, where every episode was Burnham centric.

Herself: What are you watching?

Me: ST: Disco.

Herself: Which episode?

Me: The one where Burnham saves the day at the end of the episode

Herself: Yeah Ive seen that one.

That was presumably directed at me.

8 years old? It only ended 9 months ago.

In your opinion, is there anything not overdone?

That sounds pretty Starfleet, surprisingly.

There's nothing inherently militaristic about those traits though.

I do have the strange urge to like to know more after watching it. Maybe it's the grey.

I can see this show either being exactly like Discovery or trying so hard to be "proper Trek" that it ends up being a load of drivel about "values" without any of the cleverness or nuance of actually good Trek.

Judging by the trailer it will be the latter. They will watch episodes like Let This Be My Last Battlefield, Measure of a Man or Duet and mimic the language and settings while having absolutely no clue about the impact of those episodes or how to match it.

Now they're just fcuking with us lol