TV show Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Starts Production in 2024

[Ryujin]

Star Trek Head of the Class- well this is the hard show: young characters that are not demi gods and have flaws and lack experience.

Let's see if they go the "one student is a ridiculous prodigy" route.

 

[MGibster]

This look didn't last long but was absolutely the greatest fashion crime in Trek history:

They look like the uniforms were designed so the actors could gain or lose weight without anyone noticing. As for the greastest fashion crime, eh? Have seen Star Trek the Motion Picture?

And, Jesus, most of them are dead now, Jim.

 

[Hex08]

Strange New Worlds is actually great and honestly alot better then Discovery. I don't hate D8scovery, I like it for what it is, Star Trek's experimental phase. Its very flawed at that, but it dared to ask the question not what IS Star Trek, but rather what could Star Trek become. Its answers were failures more often then not that tainted other projects in public perception, but it does have it successes too, like their version of Captain Pike, which lead to Strange New Worlds,which is vastly more popular then SNWs. And folks focus on the likely possiblity of Tilly being in Starfleet Academy, but its also likely Saru will be the one to run it, or perhaps Saru and Admiral Vance who are the more wrll liked characters compared to the rest of Discovery's cast. This will likely be set up in the last season of Discovery.

I agree about Strange New Worlds, I think it's the best Star Trek since TOS. The lessons that P+ seems to have learned are why I am willing to give Starfleet Academy a chance even though my expectations aren't high. I will freely admit that P+ has shown my expectations to be wrong before, because of the bad taste Discovery left in my mouth I had low expectations for every show except Picard (for nostalgia reasons) and I was proven wrong by all of them.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

They look like the uniforms were designed so the actors could gain or lose weight without anyone noticing. As for the greastest fashion crime, eh? Have seen Star Trek the Motion Picture?

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And, Jesus, most of them are dead now, Jim.

Yeah that is bad, and Fashion Jail for whoever did that - I would still say Spirit Halloween Fallout Cosplay is worse, though.

Plus that was what, the 1970s, and in Fashion Court, if something happened in the 1970s or 1960s, that's a mitigating factor for the judge to consider. It may reduce the sentence, because Fashion standards were different back then. You can't be charged with a crime that didn't exist back then, either! Though I think this probably did violate Fashion Law in the 1970s.

But what Discovery end of S3 and S4 did is pure, intentional Fashion Crime. It's well-established that this is completely against Fashion Law and all normative community standards. No right-thinking person could approve of the Spirit Halloween Fallout Cosplay nor it's slightly improved but still criminal colourful variant - which frequently looks even worse than the image I showed on camera, but I'm not willing to subscribe to Paramount+ and take phone pictures to prove it.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

They look like the uniforms were designed so the actors could gain or lose weight without anyone noticing.

Was this the time period that Sonequa Martin-Green was pregnant? I guess they covered it up by putting everyone in maternity wear.

 

[Vael]

I don't hate the Disco 31st C uniforms, but then I also liked their OG uniforms. Honestly, nothing tops the fashion crime that was TMP so I'm inclined to give it a pass.

Regardless, this is an era I'd like to see more done with, I feel like there's a lot of potential, and putting the Academy show here would be interesting. Also, it's a good brick to the face of the "Disco ain't Trek" folk, this is the show that launched the vaunted SNW, and put Trek back on TV, having it create yet another spinoff would be gravy.

 

[MGibster]

Was this the time period that Sonequa Martin-Green was pregnant? I guess they covered it up by putting everyone in maternity wear.

Ha! My sister was a bridesmaid at my wedding. When she got her dress in the mail she called me up and asked, "Is one of the other bridesmaids pregnant?" Yup. I never would have thought to ask just by the clothing.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I was hoping this would be set in the Picard (post TNG) time, not the Discovery time.

One thing which bugs me about Discovery is that it's not an optimistic future, and the Federation's days are numbered. It kinda
turns all the hopeful era I enjoy into a prequel to a dystopian era.

I'll still watch it of course.

That...does not seem like a description of the situation after the last season of Discovery. If anything, the Federation is on a resurgence. Its the "post apocalypse getting back on their feet" era of Star Trek. While I agree that I think I'd have preferred Picard era Academy, it makes absolute sense that they're setting one in that time period because the Fed is back growing again.

 

[Hex08]

That...does not seem like a description of the situation after the last season of Discovery. If anything, the Federation is on a resurgence. Its the "post apocalypse getting back on their feet" era of Star Trek. While I agree that I think I'd have preferred Picard era Academy, it makes absolute sense that they're setting one in that time period because the Fed is back growing again.

I would have said I agree with Morrus on this, but I haven't watched Discovery since the end of season 3. If things have changed since then that's nice to hear but unfortunately if the show couldn't win me over after three seasons I'm going to have to take your word for it.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I would have said I agree with Morrus on this, but I haven't watched Discovery since the end of season 3. If things have changed since then that's nice to hear but unfortunately if the show couldn't win me over after three seasons I'm going to have to take your word for it.

I know Discovery gets mixed reactions, and I understand why, but there were significant changes by the end of the fourth season in the situation that, if you're going by the situation at the end of season three, you're not really reacting to the situation as-is.