Star Trek: Starfleet Academy S1-E09 "300th Night" ***Spoilers Within***

If you are gonna do something stupid like have this particle then protect it with a fleet of ships or put it away from any habited planets and self destruct if captured.

The cadets on a mission angle could have been more intetesting but hard to overlook the stupidity of the 'mcguffin'.

I'm impressed more and more week after week with this show and how 90s Trek it feels in some ways (certainly compared to the rest of Nu-Trek).

Quiet, simple scenes of conversation and character development that are based on things we've seen the characters go through, rather than constant pizazz, action, and then five minutes of people crying at each other of Discovery (and even SNW sometimes).

And the action when it comes is largely about puzzle solving and smartness rather than just shooting (although there’s that too).

A solid sign of maturity and complexity in this show is that it didn’t feel the need to remind us that Caleb's mum might not trust Starfleet. It let him quietly make that choice and have us understand. Also mature is the choice to have SAM 2 be noticeably different from the SAM we knew. Not 6 years old anymore, but a real adult with life experience.

Worried that the Braka stuff is a bit too "end of the universe" stakes, but it's fun that he's just making a box to put the Federation in, rather than actually wanting to blow **** up.

Have to fully disagree with an earlier comment someone made about this feeling like a show written by people who had never watched Trek before - aside from people like Tawny who so very clearly are HUGE Trek fans (watch her Trek rewatch podcast if you don't believe it) there's Kirsten Beyer who has been deep into writing for the Trek extended-universe (Memory Beta stuff iykyk) for decades now (and who wrote this week's episode).

Unlike with the memberberries/Glup Shitto-ness of Picard S3 or other Nu-Trek stuff, Starfleet Academy has really felt like authentically loving Trek.

And I genuinely didn't expect it, I thought the premise of the Academy would be ****, I hated the previous 32nd century material we'd had, and I thought orienting around teens would make for a far goofier and teen-ier tone than what we've ended up with. I thought I'd hate this show, and instead it's fast becoming my favourite Trek show since DS9.

No, I have actually watched the show - but truly thank you for the condescending response, it's really what I wanted to wake up to on a Monday morning.

I didn't enjoy "Vitus Reflux" or "Ko'Zeine", but I've really loved a couple of other episodes (particularly The Sisko episode and "The Life of the Stars") and generally think this show is a step above even Strange New Worlds (which rarely has the patience of this show to stay with a conversation for too long)

Ok let me clarify my point further, so in SFA we're supposed to believe that they just happened to "find" or create a particle Janeway destroyed with Borg tech and they just casually keep it as a research facility, ok fine, and then one person manages to steal this previously destroyed never to be heard of again top secret molecule and that one person weaponises it against the entire Federation? Even the Borg couldn't do this!!

My point being is the hacks who write this crud of a show must have just been given a 1 hour teams call about previous Star Trek shows so barely know anything about it..

I was watching this episode and thinking yep I am done with this. Its so bad. Warp nacelles on the shuttle/small ship becsuse it bloody looks more like a amall ship than a shuttle. What warp nacelles? Are they like the Defiant so the white exhaust we see in the nacelles? Is it becsause I see no nacelles on It.

Also how did Nuk or whatever his name is create so many Omega 47 mines?

But then in the last 10 or so minutes it got good still not great but good. Its kinda the oppisite problem that F1 has lol. Sh-it at the beginning good at the end F1 is the other way now.

So I guess I will have to watch the next episode now.

They destroyed just one particle

I think you're getting all confused and con-flustered between those devices created as Trek tech/plot devices and the Omega particle which is the one thing that canon explicitly states that Starfleet should not study under any circumstances, so your point is complete nonsense which ignores everything previously stated about the Omega particle..

On the other point, you're getting a bit too defensive of this show which reveals a lot, however I never "blamed" this show which comes from the same team and is Kurtzman-Trek also, I just said at least as bad as using the Omega particle is, it's still a hell of a lot better than the Burn..

If Starfleet changed the Omega directive and decided to research it again, that makes it worse! The directive existed because Omega destroys subspace, I mean the Burn stopped all Warp travel so give me the logic as to why Starfleet are playing with such a dangerous item after 800 years? Just pure reckless and isn't progress at all! It's not like it was changed for Political reasons ffs!

Rubbish, calling it "hubris" doesn't make it logical, if anything the Burn would have made Starfleet more cautious about messing around with Omega, not suddenly experimenting with it on a Space-station that some bad guy managed to break into and steal…

The hacks who write this crud couldn't even explain why Starfleet would be so wreck-less, but you're having a go eh? And watching something and criticising the terrible writing isn't hate, it's just paying attention..

They also explicitly say that it was a synthetic variant of Omega, not 'natural' Omega.

Just as present-day humanity has created synthetic versions of various types of smallpox, ebola, and other horrifying diseases — both for cure study and for weaponisation.

"800 years later" doesn't change anything, Omega is still the same, science didn't magically fix this in the preceding centuries, unless you're staying that "synthetic" Omega doesn't do what it did back in Janeway's time?? Right so a number of ships attacked the Station led by one man, fine so what happened to the Omega directive?

Questioning whether someone watches the show rather than addressing the points here is pretty lazy dude.