SFX still exists? I use to go down my local Hastings and read some of the sci-fi magazines. That was one of them.
Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread
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‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Orientation: The State Of The Galaxy And The Rebuilding Of The Federation
Welcome to the first of a series of articles to prepare you for the upcoming series.
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FWIW:
Series: IMDb rate, Rotten Tomatos
DISCO: 7.0, 84%
PIC: 7.5, 89%
LD: 7.8, 93%
PRO: 7.6, 97%
SNW: 8.2, 94%
Looks pretty successful to me. Abd, apparently to lots of other people.
IMDB by sample size...
144k DISCO: 7.0
100k PIC: 7.5
073k SNW: 8.2
030K LD: 7.8
008K PRO: 7.6
We'd need to see sample size vs. time considering Discovery & Picard were very different animals from year to year, and it looks like no one who hated Star Trek Animation hate watched Lower Decks and Prodigy only to cravenly complain as loudly as possible.
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What's amusing to me is if Kurtzman is fired or stops producing Trek they would likely stop producing Star Trek, at least for a time. The attitude is a weird mix of "Kurtzman is a failure!" and "we need better Trek" while ignoring that if Star Trek is deemed a failure then it would be seen as unprofitable as a business venture.
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Star Trek is a famous IP. Even failure doesn't mean they will stop making more Trek. It just means they will hire someone else and try again and again and hope a few of them will stick .
The point is that it won't be made the way many who love the Berman era want it to be.
I think social media is the biggest game changer for a show now.
I don't think anyone expects it to. I just think people want Trek to always retain it's most important trait and that is optimism about human nature. I think lots of people are turned off when Trek feels to cynical, especially when it comes to human beings.
Trek is one of the few shows that doesn't believe in evil human beings. It looks at even bad people often as being able to be redeemed. That is why when you see a racist human like the one towards Data in "Redemption" he is capable of growth and learning the error of his ways at the end and comes to respect him. People find that hopefully because people want to think someday, we humans in the future might learn how to also become more mature people not so controlled by our fears and insecurities. Even though I think most people are realistic and know the future is likely going to be bad, people still want to have the hope,
Bull.
Fans liked Prodigy and it wasn't really all that much like Berman Trek. While SNW has taken some heat lately, it was pretty well liked at least in season 1. I do think people want some bad consistency with the aliens. Vulcans like logic,Klingons are warriors etc but I think people are open to lots of change.
Especially if Trek ever decides to leave the Prime Universe and the pressure for visual continuity goes away even more if you do a show set in the same time period of one of the older shows, that have already defined the look of that time period.
Academy is showing off people becoming more and it's not even aired and being treated poorly.
I think people expect Academy to be about teenage angst. The adults will be seen as out of touch and they will need to learn from the young people. In other words have a "Okay Boomer" attitude to anyone older than them. I mean it's pretty much built into the concept. The Federation is still recovering from the Burn. So the cadets coming to the Academy will be more cynical. Lots of traditional Federation ideas will be presented as being outdated and in need to change.
The Federation can no longer be colonizers and racist to holograms. Less military like. Lots of ideas that could in theory make for a good show if people trusted the people making it but I think people mostly expect it be preachy and shallow like Discovery. In other wards the talent making it will be unable to maximize the potential of the premise.
The Federation can no longer be colonizers and racist to holograms. Less military like. Lots of ideas that could in theory make for a good show if people trusted the people making it but I think people mostly expect it be preachy and shallow like Discovery. In other wards the talent making it will be unable to maximize the potential of the premise.
It's really not. This is the dumb assumptions that people apply based on nothing but their own biases.
And enough failures and it will be shelved entirely and we'll have one giant universe and 2 or 3 unrelated isolated projects.
HOLY FUCKING CRAP did you guys notice the set design?
And it's NOT that Mando wall thing?
If nothing else this seems to be the best looking show of 2026 and I really hope it's a big hit!
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