Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

[GothmogIV]

I'm complaining about skirts. Do you think I want to shave my legs in winter? I don't. Imagine how much worse it is for a Klingon.

 

[Morrus]

I'm complaining about skirts. Do you think I want to shave my legs in winter? I don't. Imagine how much worse it is for a Klingon.

So you think Klingon’s shouldn’t wear skirts?

I’m so confused.

 

[GothmogIV]

I'm if'y on skirts in general, if I'm being honest. The Tholians wear a lot of skirts, but they are kind of crinkly and difficult to keep ironed. That's why in ST:TOS they only show them from the waist up. I bet you didn't know that.

 

[Morrus]

What if you’re a Braveheart?

 

[Vael]

Pants are just a straitjacket for the legs, more men should ditch pants. Kilts are awesome

 

[Mort]

Overall, I liked it.

But, yet again, I find that I like the main character, his story, and his arc the least of what's going on. I just really don't want this show to be the Caleb Mir show like Discovery was, too often, the Michael Burnham show. IMO the show will be at is best when it's an ensemble - just like the best parts of the first two episodes.

On a different note, did I miss Tilly somewhere? I thought she was supposed to be in at least 1 episode. Maybe it's a later one?

 

[Tonguez]

Pants are just a straitjacket for the legs, more men should ditch pants. Kilts are awesome

Many years ago I wore a kilt to my school ball, I was almost banned from entering but argued it was my cultural heritage and luckily got a sympathetic senior staff member to agree.
I looked good too

 

[GreyLord]

The latter.

TOS: 2265+
Starfleet Academy: 3191+

Shouldn't that mean they have tech that's unrecognizeable then?

900 years into the future is about as far as we are from 1200 AD. Think about the differences between then and now. Our ships "bridge" is completely different then their "deck" of yore or of that time period.

If you want something closer techwise, than from the time between 400 AD and 1300 AD. You have gunpowder, guns, Steel and Iron armor, Better Cavalry that would drive through anything Romans had, etc.

The tactics, the way military moved, everything was different.

With a Time Jump that big how could they realistically have things similar to how they were originally in Star Trek or the Bridge...or do people not really internalize how big a time jump that really is?

 

[Morrus]

Shouldn't that mean they have tech that's unrecognizeable then?

900 years into the future is about as far as we are from 1200 AD. Think about the differences between then and now. Our ships "bridge" is completely different then their "deck" of yore or of that time period.

If you want something closer techwise, than from the time between 400 AD and 1300 AD. You have gunpowder, guns, Steel and Iron armor, Better Cavalry that would drive through anything Romans had, etc.

The tactics, the way military moved, everything was different.

With a Time Jump that big how could they realistically have things similar to how they were originally in Star Trek or the Bridge...or do people not really internalize how big a time jump that really is?

There was an event which threw the galaxy back into the proverbial dark ages — relatively speaking, of course. They are rebuilding.

 

[GreyLord]

There was an event which threw the galaxy back into the proverbial dark ages — relatively speaking, of course. They are rebuilding.

Which would be more like 400 AD to 1300 AD. That was when we literally had the Dark Ages, yet, many technologies continued to go forward.

Sure, they no longer had running water, indoor toilets, continuous hot baths, and other such things, but other areas went so far forward as to be unrecognizable to the civilizations of 400 AD.

A Cadre of Knights backed by Longbowmen or Crossbowmen would probably have wiped out an entire Roman Legion (if for no other reason than the Roman's weapons were weaker than the Armor of the Knights and would literally break before being able to hurt them, and the Bows would have a far greater range). That's even before we mention Rudimentary Canons and muskets that were beginning to be used.

Navalwise, the Ships had also advanced, and though they may have been more even, the way they operated was also different.

I can understand a Dark Age and losing some technology, but there would be other aspects that advanced that should have made the entire way they did things completely different and thus almost unrecognizeable at that point (of course, then that may make it so that it doesn't "Feel" like Star Trek to older audiences).