Oh yeah, the publicity stills are often laser-focused (phaser-focused) on being as boring as possible - if it weren't for the logline and information on the writers and directors, I'd consider them almost completely worthless.
Preview Episode 5 Of ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ With 13 New Images From “Series Acclimation Mil”
This is now an Avengers: Doomsday spoiler community.
Preview Episode 5 Of ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ With 13 New Images From “Series Acclimation Mil”
As a cadet sets out to solve an ancient Starfleet mystery, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery and learns the value of forging her own path. Meanwhile, Nahla agrees to help a fellow chancellor with an elaborate alien ritual.
I have a strong suspicion that this shot from one of the early trailers wasn't a throwaway easter egg as many of us assumed:
Between this and Freeland, I wonder if we'll see an election called in the near future.
The show was from a time when the U.S. thought they had beaten fascism
I think all the time about how early TNG largely reflected the falsehoods we were being sold at the time - that all of these things were Past Problems.
Early Picard seemed to be going that way,
Discovery went there in its first season, with the Federation prepared to sell its soul to win the war until they found another (problematic) way.
The post-Burn 32nd Century is coming at it from the other side, with SFA in particular reckoning with some of the choices that were made during the period when everything was falling apart.
The latter too closely resembles “American exceptionalism”
Yeah, I've always found the "Starfleet must always be in the right" mentality to be patronizing at best, imperialistic at worst.
Oh, good catch - I've never delved into the Big Finish stuff, and I'm concerned about having the attention span for it, but...this is an impressive bundle. It may just be enough to convince me to give it a go...
Is there any evidence at all of the writers of the more recent series not having "freedom," or of corporate interference in the shows?
I don't think that planet was portrayed as a particularly idyllic place...
I'd say they took it even further than that - the reason they were in that all-too-relevant "past" to begin with was that they had travelled back in time to an inflection point that could lead to a global descent into fascism.
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Holy crap, what a career trajectory...