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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy S01E01 and S01E02 discussion (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 days ago by buckykat@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

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Pleasantly surprised, especially since it's coming out after the disappointing third season of SNW and set in the far future time period from Discovery.

It feels like a live action Prodigy, which should be taken as a compliment. The captain is that mix of chaos and principle that makes the best Starfleet officers, and the kids are a fun bunch. The in-universe context is a Starfleet in the process of recovering from a time of Adults In The Room and Hard Choices, which is portrayed as having been very bad and not cool.

Also the ship/school is pretty.

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[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am reserving judgement for now. I do not like the post-Burn setting, it's too distant from the galaxy I know. I'd really much rather have a Picard-era Academy show. I do not like the ship designs. But, it does feel like live-action Prodigy, I agree, and that's not bad.

Episode 1 had one egregiously bad bit of writing. I'm going to give it a few more episodes.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would also prefer a Picard/LD era setting, but even though I dropped DIS back in season 2 I think this post-Burn setting fits the same historic moment: a rebuilding and correction after an era of conflict and darkness.

We've had two different Adults In The Room go "I made the Hard Choice. I was wrong, that was bad to do and a failure to live up to the ideals of Starfleet, I'm sorry" and as the site's resident Adults In The Room Making Hard Choices hater (in UlyssesT's absense) I think that's great.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty out of the loop on recent Trek that's not Lower Decks, what is this "burn" thing?

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Disclaimer: the Burn happened in the later seasons of Discovery, which I didn't watch past season 2 so everything I know about it is either from hearing about other people talking about it online, or from the intro to this new Starfleet Academy show.

In the later season of Discovery they got tired of being in prequel time so they time traveled the ship forward to something like 500 years after the TNG era. I'm told this improved the show but can't personally vouch for this. The Burn was an event that happened in that far future time a while after Discovery got there where FTL stopped working for reasons and the Federation kinda fell apart. Adults In The Room Made Hard Choices.

Starfleet Academy opens with showing exactly how this was very bad and hurt a lot of people. The plot so far has centered on kids trying to unfuck the results of those Adults' Hard Choices.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago

The Burn was an event that happened in that far future time a while after Discovery got there where FTL stopped working for reasons

So Star Trek without stars and without treks? That seems a rather flawed concept.