Good god! Did we really need a check list scene?
Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread
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Only the ships that had Dilithium M/AM reactors would have exploded.
And how long should they test to determine what killed so many?
Ships were still using conventional warp with dilithium after the Burn, just rarely for obvious reasons. So someone at some point got curious.
Book’s ship even had a recrystalizer. Before Michael crashing into him broke it.
again, you’re making stuff up about slipstream that was never stated on screen
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More small universe syndrome. No thanks.
Never said on screen if it did or didn’t use dilithium.
Rick Sternbach seemed to be under the impression it did.
Only if they were active at the time.
So when are we going to see some "Time Lord science" in this? They are supposed to have it by now.
Romulans like to mine it. Must have some value. Maybe they sell it to Troyius to make jewelry.
imagine a star trek verison of doctor who
Why would they need to test it when they already knew?
No I'm not, the following quotes are directly from Hope and Fear when Voyager used it's regular warp drive to generate a quantum field and travel at slipstream velocities.
This was when Voyager utilized the normal method of slipstream used by the original Species 116 Daultless.
Later, in the episode Timeless, they designed a new type of Warp Core that utilized Benamite and allowed the ship to travel at speeds much much faster then the original species 116 design. (That one could only go at about 300ly an hour while the Timeless one could make a ten thousand light year trip in less then a minute.)
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What did they know and when did they know it?
It's a building near the water where ships dock to load and unload passengers and cargo, but that's not important right now.
I recall when word of the academy series began in earnest, it was Discovery season two and I remember thinking Pike's flashforward was likely using instructor/cadet uniforms designed for that new academy spin-off.
Then Discovery season 4 happens, and I'm certain the Tilly/cadets episode is a backdoor pilot for the new academy series and the cadet uniforms are probably ones designed for the new show.
While I'd personally have preferred a 23rd century setting with the TOS crew as cadets, they must have their reasons for the 32nd century setting.
Alex Kurtzman wanted to make it relevant for today's youth.
It's not a happy happy, joy joy world out there (today's youth are facing social upheaval and a lousy economy).
They wouldn't have been able to relate to a 23rd century setting.
I think there’s certainly an interesting parallel with how the young people of the 32nd century — who are tasked to basically rebuild a world that they have never known because they’ve been brought up during the fallout of the Burn — are mirroring today’s “Generation Corona”, who purportedly missed key parts of their adolescence due to the measures combating the pandemic. It remains to be seen how much they will lean into that parallel, but I would appreciate if the writers are rising to the occasion and use the concept to say something worthwhile about it.
The inherent danger in that might be to just have a pat message of saying that the youth should be listening more to the old folks, because they still know a thing or two about how the world should be run. Basically that weirdly patronizing theme season three of Picard had going. I hope the message can also be that this new post-Burn universe is for the young people to shape and build and that the goal shouldn’t necessarily be to recreate an idealized image of a world that’s long been gone. Sure, learn from the generations that went before you, but don’t make it your mission to try and replicate the past.
I doubt they’ll hit you over the head with these lofty ideas, but I’m really curious what (if anything) the writers intend to be the takaway from their show. Other than it being entertaining, I mean.
The inherent danger in that might be to just have a pat message of saying that the youth should be listening more to the old folks, because they still know a thing or two about how the world should be run. Basically that weirdly patronizing theme season three of Picard had going. I hope the message can also be that this new post-Burn universe is for the young people to shape and build and that the goal shouldn’t necessarily be to recreate an idealized image of a world that’s long been gone. Sure, learn from the generations that went before you, but don’t make it your mission to try and replicate the past.
I doubt they’ll hit you over the head with these lofty ideas, but I’m really curious what (if anything) the writers intend to be the takaway from their show. Other than it being entertaining, I mean.
The whole problem with them saying they chose the 32nd century to "mirror the uncertainty of today" is we know on the show everything's going to turn out alright, since this series obviously takes place before the epilogue scene in Disco's finale based on the ages of Tilly, Reno and Admiral Vance in the trailers. And as we see in the epilogue, the Federation and Starfleet are thriving as they always have.
