Star trek academy series

I watched the first two episodes and I will freely admit, I was not expecting to enjoy it at all.

BUT…. I will say that I thought it wasn't bad. That sounds like I'm damning it with faint praise but it COULD have been awful.

I enjoyed Holly Hunter (Even though I typically find her voice/accent slightly annoying in general). I enjoyed her character. I very much enjoy the drill sergeant.

The kids weren't insufferable as they could have been. Even the hologram girl. She is annoying but that's her character arc so that makes sense and I'm OK with that.

I take the show for what it is: Star Trek Academy. It's going to be full of hormonal teenagers. I thought the Betazed girl was a bit too smiley/teenager but, again, if they bring her back, I'm assuming that's her thing. She has the inhibiter for a reason ("I hurt people"). So I take it that this is burying some deep uncontrollable rage or lust or other emotions.

It's not perfect of course. It is what it is. I'm not the core demographic. And I could do with them dialing back all the extraneous robots etc and stop trying to do a Dave Filoni and squeeze in as many references to other species as possible. The deeply missed Lower Decks already did that.

And, of cource, Tig Naturo (Or whatever her second name is). She's just brilliant and was one of my favourite things in "That-which-must-not-be-named".

So, yeah, pleasantly surprised. I'll watch it.

oh well. Not terribly unexpected, and I’m not that upset that teen-drama Trek isn’t the one that really found it’s market.

Some promising characters here though, and the post-burn world was starting to feel a bit more realised than it had in Discovery, I’d be interested if they show up again in some other thing.

Is that no new Star Trek being filmed then? Both SA 2 and SNW 5 are in the can, I think. Or very near to it. Interesting.

As the phrase goes.... "and nothing of value was lost!"

As I said over on the E10 thread, I expect they'll just dump S2 onto the platform next year (maybe later this year?) in one go with little to no fanfare.

Hopefully that's the end of Kurtzman Trek now as well.

Agreed, am going to mentally block out everything from Kurtzman and hope the new direction is after Picard and gets back to stories instead of gender politics, feelings and being different is better (well hoping Kurtzman is out)

When you see less than 4k votes to save a series you know nobody wants it

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I'm not massively gone on Trek in the cinema. Of course there are good Trek films but more suited to ongoing series. Mre time to get your teeth into something. The Borg appear in Season 3 or whatever of TNG and don't appear again until a year later but don't need to spend first 30 mins figuring out who these Borg characters are. DS9 of course went far more serialised post S3.

It's a pity the Academy series was cancelled. I enjoyed the characters and the show for what it was. It was trying something different, aiming for a different demographic, different angle and was punished. DS9 would not have survived nowadays as there was huge backlash in the US ("Trek without trekking" etc. Was initially far more popular in Europe than the US. But I suppose people got what they want.

There was no gun to anyone's head to watch season 1