Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread

[Nerys Myk]

ya

is there even other schools

there must be

I just said there were.

 

[Turtletrekker]

All Good Things established that the University of Cambridge was still a going concern and Jack Crusher attended University in London, but clearly not Starfleet Academy.

 

[Farscape One]

Jake applies to the Pennington School in New Zealand.

And his dabo girl ex-girlfriend Mardah went to a good school to study. Which was why they brole up... too long distant.

(Granted, it wasn't on Earth.)

 

[Turtletrekker]

Something I noticed recently re-watching Bread and Circuses was that RM Merik was said to have washed out of Starfleet Academy during his  fifth year. Now, I'm not going to go all Thermian on y'all and cry "canon violation" or "alternate universe" or anything like that, but I will say that it stood out to me while re-watching given all that's been established about the Academy since then.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It makes sense to me - he didn't earn enough credits as of the fourth year, for whatever reason, took a fifth to try and get them, and still didn't make it before being kicked out.

 

[Farscape One]

Something I noticed recently re-watching Bread and Circuses was that RM Merik was said to have washed out of Starfleet Academy during his  fifth year. Now, I'm not going to go all Thermian on y'all and cry "canon violation" or "alternate universe" or anything like that, but I will say that it stood out to me while re-watching given all that's been established about the Academy since then.

Makes me wonder if he did something that got his credits for one year revoked but not quite enough to get expelled the first time. (Wesley and the rest of his squad got that at the end of "The First Duty".)

 

[Nerys Myk]

It makes sense to me - he didn't earn enough credits as of the fourth year, for whatever reason, took a fifth to try and get them, and still didn't make it before being kicked out.

Context would imply that "fifth year" is a normal part of the school's program.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It may be optional for some programs and required for others.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It may be optional for some programs and required for others.

Fifth year might be the post grad program or command school. (dare I say "war college?) Perhaps fleet jargon for those is "fifth year."

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

SPOCK: Curious, Captain, the similarity in names. Were you told why Merik was dropped from the Space Academy?  
KIRK: He failed a psycho-simulator test. All it takes is a split second of indecision. Hardly the type to become a political strongman.

Whatever Merik was tested on required an instant response.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Whatever Merik was tested on required an instant response.

It's how they weed out the psychos. (Not 100% successful )

 

[cooleddie74]

Yes. There's more than one school in the 24th century Federation.


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[Turtletrekker]

Fifth year might be the post grad program or command school. (dare I say "war college?) Perhaps fleet jargon for those is "fifth year."

Ro left the Enterprise for some time to attend an advanced tactical training course.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Ro left the Enterprise for some time to attend an advanced tactical training course.

My head canon has Lt Saavik and Lt Kirk (both of them) attending such a course.

 

[Turtletrekker]

My head canon has Lt Saavik and Lt Kirk (both of them) attending such a course.

That actually tracks really well with what's been established.

 

[cooleddie74]

My head canon has Lt Saavik and Lt Kirk (both of them) attending such a course.

It would also help explain why Kirk was already an Ensign and then a Lieutenant with a staff instructor position while still at the Academy.