Academy

[-Brett-]

A facility meant to teach recruits how to crew space ships that don't exist. Sounds totally worthwhile.

 

[IrishNero]

A facility meant to teach recruits how to crew space ships that don't exist. Sounds totally worthwhile.

You'll eat those words when the real Zefram Cochrane steps up to the plate, buddy boy.

Besides, for all of the money we spend on worthless endeavors, the amount spent on a 'Starfleet Academy' would be a pittance.

 

[SPCTRE]

Note that the OP wants to create a Star Trek Academy, not a Starfleet one.

So, people would go there to learn about the franchise, not trekkin' across the universe, as it were.

 

[IrishNero]

Note that the OP wants to create a Star Trek Academy, not a Starfleet one.

So, people would go there to learn about the franchise, not trekkin' across the universe, as it were.

I'm not certain of the OP's intent as subsequent posts suggested a 'Starfleet Academy.' I'm light-hearted and easily self-amused by default, so it was more fun for me to make that leap.

So, given the options provided by the ambiguities:

If we would create a school based upon Star Trek: it would be a monumental waste of effort, and only marginally more beneficial than a 'South Park University' or 'Justin Beiber School for the Extraordinarily gifted.' Star Trek is extremely entertaining, but it's a TV show.

If we were to create a school based upon the premise of preparation for a coming age: Funny, I thought that was the premise upon which most universities are already founded.

 

[SPCTRE]

If we were to create a school based upon the premise of preparation for a coming age: Funny, I thought that was the premise upon which most universities are already founded.

A great point.

 

[-Brett-]

Note that the OP wants to create a Star Trek Academy, not a Starfleet one.

So, people would go there to learn about the franchise, not trekkin' across the universe, as it were.

Not really sure how that makes it more worthwhile.

 

[Silvercrest]

Note that the OP wants to create a Star Trek Academy, not a Starfleet one.

So, people would go there to learn about the franchise, not trekkin' across the universe, as it were.

In either case there has to be a prohibition against the Kolvoord Starburst maneuver or else it won't be authentic.

And it has to have Boothby.

 

[Captain Kathryn]

LOL it would be pretty cool, but there's no need at this time.

 

[Melakon]

Note that the OP wants to create a Star Trek Academy, not a Starfleet one.

So, people would go there to learn about the franchise, not trekkin' across the universe, as it were.

But a little later down he says

If a Starfleet Academy were built and maintained, Anyone have any idea how much money it would take to make the Academy a reality? There are over 7 billion people in the World and many of them know about Star Trek. Would they donate money to make this happen? Imagine the best professors teaching the best young minds in the world that would include research in all aspects of science, philosophy, math, etc.

A campaign of TV spots, magazines, newspapers, etc. could be done to raise the money...maybe. Imagine Patrick Stewart, William Shatner and others go on TV and Radio, Twitter, etc. promoting the idea of an Academy to train the best of the best to become the leaders of tomorrow and beyond.

So I don't know if this is something intended to be different than what he mentioned in the OP or not, but it sounds like it.

 

[USS Triumphant]

The United States Naval Academy is in Annapolis, MD. Attend there, and also join this group, and I think you're as close to covered as anyone can get in 2015 CE.

 

[Push The Button]

We have Caltech and MIT and Annapolis and the AFA, so we're off to a good start.

 

[The Wormhole]

What are the "guidelines of Gene Roddenberry", please?

If it involves Love Instructors I'm in. Not too crazy about taking my pet tiger to the nudist park, however.

 

[T'Girl]

We have Caltech and MIT and Annapolis and the AFA, so we're off to a good start.

Multiple organizations use the initials AFA, to which were you referring?

 

[Melakon]

What are the "guidelines of Gene Roddenberry", please?

If it involves Love Instructors I'm in. Not too crazy about taking my pet tiger to the nudist park, however.

To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

 

[Push The Button]

We have Caltech and MIT and Annapolis and the AFA, so we're off to a good start.

Multiple organizations use the initials AFA, to which were you referring?

The United States Air Force Academy. Thirty-nine graduates have gone on to become astronauts, second only to the United States Naval Academy, with fifty-two.

 

[Jonas Grumby]

Sounds like a scam. I cant see the best minds in the world coming to teach the best young minds in a school based on the half baked ideas of a TV producer.

Got to agree. I can't imagine anyone wanting a career in, say, scientific research wouldn't much rather have MIT (or, hell, even the University of Illinois) on his resume rather than "Starfleet Academy."

 

[Ghrakh]

I can't see someone like Stephen Hawking being a fan.

 

[IrishNero]

Sounds like a scam. I cant see the best minds in the world coming to teach the best young minds in a school based on the half baked ideas of a TV producer.

Got to agree. I can't imagine anyone wanting a career in, say, scientific research wouldn't much rather have MIT (or, hell, even the University of Illinois) on his resume rather than "Starfleet Academy."

Guarantee you that you'd have a LOT of trouble getting a job with that.

 

[Chronos]

Sounds like a scam. I cant see the best minds in the world coming to teach the best young minds in a school based on the half baked ideas of a TV producer.

Got to agree. I can't imagine anyone wanting a career in, say, scientific research wouldn't much rather have MIT (or, hell, even the University of Illinois) on his resume rather than "Starfleet Academy."

Guarantee you that you'd have a LOT of trouble getting a job with that.

Better Starfleet Academy than University of Phoenix or DeVry.

 

[Timewalker]

What are the "guidelines of Gene Roddenberry", please?

I'm assuming that OP is referring to the ideals set forth by Gene Roddenberry in the original Star Trek. Utopian society, non-interference, exploration and discovery, no currency or class system, etc.

Most those were vague and not always thought up by Roddenberry.

The Prime Directive is a plot point designed to created conflict. Forcing the characters to make a hard choice.

Star Trek is not about living in a Utopia. Earth might be a called a "paradise" but I doubt it's true. There is always conflict somewhere in the Galaxy.

In TOS there interfered as much as not. Exploration and discovery were often the launch point for action and adventure often involving battle.

The non currency thing seems to be an invention of the post TMP films, which Roddenberry wasn't involved in. It was picked up by the TNG+ series, yet still there were references to credits, which appear to be a form of currency.

I really don't understand why people insist that there is no currency/no money in Star Trek. There are many references to people being paid, there are occasions when purchases are made, we see economies at work, etc. When Kirk tells Gillian they don't use money in the 23rd century, he means they don't use cash. He doesn't mean there's literally no money or that everything is free.

As for Picard... well, he seems to be living in his own little world. Beverly had to pay for the cloth she bought. DS9's day-to-day economy runs on cash in the form of gold-pressed latinum, as well as bartering and whatever other currencies may be used - including Federation credits. Voyager's economy ran on a mix of barter, replicator rations, and holodeck time.

You probably don't get the reference. Wagon Train was an actual TV show. One of the adult Westerns Roddenberry was trying to emulate when he pitched Star Trek. A Network executive in the 1960s would get what GR was talking about when he used this "pitch shorthand". He wanted to do an adult Science Fiction show along the lines of Wagon Train, Bonanza and Gunsmoke. Make SF adult in the way those shows made Westerns adult and not kiddie fare like Roy Rogers or Captain Video.

Thing is, though, nobody on Bonanza ever got the girl. She was either found to be a con artist, dying of some illness, in love with someone else, left down, got shot and killed, or some combination of the above. The closest any regular cast member came to getting the girl was when Will Cartwright got the woman Adam was going to marry (at that time Will Cartwright was a recurring character who had been suggested as a replacement character when Pernell Roberts wanted to leave the show).

If a Starfleet Academy were built and maintained, Anyone have any idea how much money it would take to make the Academy a reality? There are over 7 billion people in the World and many of them know about Star Trek. Would they donate money to make this happen? Imagine the best professors teaching the best young minds in the world that would include research in all aspects of science, philosophy, math, etc.

A campaign of TV spots, magazines, newspapers, etc. could be done to raise the money...maybe. Imagine Patrick Stewart, William Shatner and others go on TV and Radio, Twitter, etc. promoting the idea of an Academy to train the best of the best to become the leaders of tomorrow and beyond.

Let's wait until we have warp drive to worry about that.

Isn't it a better idea to instill some ethics and scientific knowledge into a few generations of people before we have the capability of going "out there" and meeting aliens? Even if we never do meet any, the knowledge would make getting along with our own species easier.