Star Trek: Starfleet Academy S1-E01 "Kids These Days" ***Spoilers Within***

Pure cringe, ship looks like AI slop, stupid Star Wars robots doing the R2D2 beep-boop everywhere. I cannot stand that captain with her stupid grin at everything, feet up in the captains chair. Not going to bother with this one either, gutted. I just hate that this is the direction they've gone with Trek, we'll probably never get back to proper Trek now.

EDIT: And why are they leaning so hard into the stupid Reddit-speech thats going to be completely outdated in 6 months time? "Hangry" "Ive had a day" etc. Its just so stupid. At least we'll get a couple of good Redlettermedia videos out of it.

The ship is horrible. It's like the ship from the 2009 movie that had been even more over engineered.

What is with all the droids floating around?

Some of the names are going to take some getting used to and I hope some of the cadets get less irritating with time.

It also occurs to me that the basic plot so far is similar to the plot of Police Academy where a troubled young man is forced to go to the Academy instead of going to jail, and has difficulty fitting in and taking orders etc. Which is ornic because Kim Cattral was in Police Acadmey and also played Valeris in ST VI.

And yes the audio is terrible, I had to turn the volume up high and even then struggle to catch everything.

And they clearly dont have any Ozempic in the 31st Century.

And seriously, there is far too much techno-babble.

To be honest, Im finding it a real slog.

How big is the ship aswell and what is the layout that crew have to sprint across a college campus every time they want to get to a different console?

Oh yeah, "You hacked our communication system and gave away our location to an enemy that nearly killed us (nobody died in all those massive explosions ripping through the ship?) just to contact your mommy, but you showed initiative, that means you have command potential!"

How do you make Paul Giamatti so cringe aswell? Such a waste of potential, same as Discovery, same as New Worlds, its sickening.

EDIT: Also did Paul Giamatti get away in a Federation escape pod? What?

"And seriously, there is far too much techno-babble."

There is never too much Techno-babble in Star Trek.

Like some others, I didn't hate it, but I don't love it either.

Not sure about Holly Hunter at all - is she the same species as Carol Kane's character in SNW (Long-living)? Can't stand Carol Kane's character! And she's tiny!

Paul Giamatti played....well, Paul Giamatti. As ever he does.

The crew (apart from the Klingon\Jem'hadar hybrid) looked instantly forgettable (just like Disco). Nice to see the Doc, he has evolved into a grumpy old hologram!

Amazing how all the cadets on their first day knew how to resolve the crisis - hoping Caleb doesn't become another Burnham. Are he and the Klingon the new Tom Paris and Harry Kim?

SAM is the new Tilly (and I didn't like Tilly)

I'll watch a bit more to give it a chance (heaven help me,I stuck with Disco!)

And yes, I couldn't hear it properly in places (right from the start) - thank Gowran for subtitles!)

Nobody who hates really Disco is gonna like Academy so just don't bother. It's way too similar.

The only major difference is this show admits it's for hormonal children unlike Discovery.

The modern prosthetics look terrible though. Just so plastic looking which I assume is a money saving thing. The lad is also just needs to stop trying to sound like he has a deep voice.

I have to remain open to it - thats what i am aiming for. Its not been difficult to just get a sense of what people think of each episode - without getting into spoiler territory. Right now the only thing I know, is that there is a half Klingon/JemHadar in it. ANd supposedly Bajor features in it. And BetaZed. That and what ever was given away in the trailer. Oh and someone referred to a Klingon who bird watches?? lol

Il just wait, but im not gonna carry on throughout the series if this season sucks. I did that with disco, and i actually defended it rather passionately at times. Especially in s1 and s2 -

I couldnt agree more RE not wanting this to **** over DS9s legacy. The inclusion of the Sisko references in the trailer was annoying.

I didn't hate season 1 and 2 of Disco. I disliked a few things they did, like retconning Klingons and making Burnham Spock's half sister. Also the fact it might as well have been called ST: Michael Burnham because not only was she the central character but she could always save the day in the nick of time. I'm hoping they wont make the same mistake with Caleb

He somehow saved the ship by hacking the communications array. When introducing a new crew, or in this case a class of recruits, it's nice if they introduce each of their strengths, so it would have been an nice opportunity for maybe hologram girl to step in and work some computery magic.

Early Discovery had great acting too. Just like Academy they made the right call of hiring amazing actors for the captain roles. The problem was turning them Mirror Universe in the end.

Well I thought it was flat out bad. So jammed full of tired tropes and ridiculous contrivances, the most mundane and assinine plot, bad dialogue, terrible "comedy" and what some might call character quirks but I'd call irritating nonsense, like the captain cosied up in the bridge chair reading a book with glasses on, and all the rest.

I thought Discovery was also poor enough but I think it's importantly to say more so as it went on, I would say the first season of Discovery was quite a lot better than this.

I would give it a 4/10. I don't know if I'll even watch the rest of it. I stopped watching Discovery once I realised I was not enjoying it anymore, something just having a label attached isn't a good enough reason to keep going.