First Look Teaser | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

[MarkB]

I’ll give it a try but I wish it were a Strange New Worlds era Starfleet Academy.

Or, really, any era other than far-flung future.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Well, damn, she's aged well... I loved Saving Grace back in the day. Might be interesting to watch if I still watched tv.

 

[overgeeked]

The stated purpose of setting the show in the bleak distant future is to provide a glimmer of hope in dark times. To explicitly make the case for the Federation and Starfleet ideals to people. Star Trek has always been political and this show is going to continue that tradition.

 

[Umbran]

The stated purpose of setting the show in the bleak distant future is to provide a glimmer of hope in dark times. To explicitly make the case for the Federation and Starfleet ideals to people. Star Trek has always been political and this show is going to continue that tradition.

So, what they did with Discovery was in line with some other Roddenberry projects, that were intended as post-apocalyptic narratives. And that's cool.

Unfortunately, in the process they actually increased the tech level - ships no longer have to be physically contiguous, there's personal transporters small enough to fit inside a comm badge, Earth put itself behind a planetary shield that protected probably the most advanced civilization in the galaxy against all comers, and so on.

That undercut the post-apocalyptic narrative.

Also, what you're talking about is essentially a political story. There's nothing wrong with political stories, but telling them from the perspective of people who aren't even fully officers is.. an odd choice.

 

[Morrus]

I would also argue that the setting changed so drastically that it no longer looked like Star Trek. Which is fine, but I personally prefer the older setting(s). But each to their own, I guess. Plenty of people like it just fine.

 

[Ryujin]

The stated purpose of setting the show in the bleak distant future is to provide a glimmer of hope in dark times. To explicitly make the case for the Federation and Starfleet ideals to people. Star Trek has always been political and this show is going to continue that tradition.

In my opinion that would have been better served by going back to something like a Post Earth/Romulan war era, in which the Federation could have been a newly formed organization.

 

[Morrus]

In my opinion that would have been better served by going back to something like a Post Earth/Romulan war era, in which the Federation could have been a newly formed organization.

Oh that would be fun. A really early Starfleet Academy.

 

[overgeeked]

In my opinion that would have been better served by going back to something like a Post Earth/Romulan war era, in which the Federation could have been a newly formed organization.

I'm just relaying what I got from interviews. Here's one of many.

STAR TREK'S Alex Kurtzman Explains Why STARFLEET ACADEMY Is Set in the 32nd Century

Star Trek television's Alex Kurtzman explains why the upcoming Starfleet Academy series is set in such a far future timeline.

nerdist.com

 

[jian]

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Wait… Admiral Tawny Newsome? Not Admiral Beckett Mariner? That’s weird.

Also no other Lower Decks mentions apart from Mariner’s dad that I can see.

So, this is set about 900 years after the TNG era, right? So we have a 900 year old Doctor as one of the continuity characters.

 

[Ryujin]

Wait… Admiral Tawny Newsome? Not Admiral Beckett Mariner? That’s weird.

Also no other Lower Decks mentions apart from Mariner’s dad that I can see.

So, this is set about 900 years after the TNG era, right? So we have a 900 year old Doctor as one of the continuity characters.

So only 200 years older than he was in that episode of "Voyager" in which he was rebooted as a museum exhibit.