You mean to say you haven't seen Neelix's Orations or Yridian Engineering Surveys?
Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread
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To my mind, referring to Discovery as STD or even ST: D indicates a low level of emotional maturity that tends to say a lot about the poster in question. Trolling at its most trollish.
^ On the other hand, however, no one should jump through every damn hoop dangled in front of them. 
I know it's often easier said than done, but if possible, simply ignore posters whose posts seem troll-ish to you. Don't feed the troll, as it were.
But also, it has not escaped me that this entire tangent has only been brought upon us because @nightwind1 felt the need to comment on a post from a month (!) ago. Please don’t do this. We have enough drama in the here and now, we don't need to constantly rehash the ones from the past.
I know it's often easier said than done, but if possible, simply ignore posters whose posts seem troll-ish to you. Don't feed the troll, as it were.But also, it has not escaped me that this entire tangent has only been brought upon us because @nightwind1 felt the need to comment on a post from a month (!) ago. Please don’t do this. We have enough drama in the here and now, we don't need to constantly rehash the ones from the past.
General curiosity question: did anyone else want to go to Starfleet Academy as a younger fan? I've had a fascination with the cadet life for a while now but I suspect many imagine themselves as officers first.
I grew up when TOS was the only live action Trek. The Academy was barely mentioned, so no.
My fasciation with the Academy in Star Trek started with Where No Man Has Gone Before and Shore Leave
Stacks of books and bullies? Sounds like High School. Hard pass.My fasciation with the Academy in Star Trek started with Where No Man Has Gone Before and Shore Leave
I love books and was bullied by Trek fans so at least the Academy offered something interestingStacks of books and bullies? Sounds like High School. Hard pass.
I would fantasize about serving on a starship, the academy not so much.
I was planning to. Time goes by fast. Can't believe we're here.
Never. Neither as a kid or an adult did the cadet life ever interest me. I found the idea boring.
Stacks of books and bullies? Sounds like High School. Hard pass.
I would fantasize about serving on a starship, the academy not so much.
Fascinating that the revulsion towards school is a factor. Starships always struck me as way too dangerous to be my first Starfleet experience.
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Who wants to watch a show about study hall?
What got me into Star Trek was escapism. When I was a kid, escapist would mean "anywhere but school!"
Well, if Starfleet were a real thing and it was my ambition, of course I would do the Academy. But when I was at the Academy, I wouldn't say "this is my dream come true", it would just be the first step towards the dream. The dream coming true would be when I got my first starship assignment.
Simon Tarses said it best in "The Drumhead", when he said he didn't want to wait and sit in classrooms for 4 years.
*Raises hand*
I guess I get too practical in my own imagination
Of course the dream is a ship assignment, but the process of learning and training appears to me.
A fair point of view, just not one I share.
Escapism is hard for me
It's still the safest way to travel.
Absolutely not.
Had that been evident in the Original STAR TREK (it never was; that shift came when GR tried to completely re-envision Star Trek with ST: TNG - which doesn't have many episodes I now find rewatchable - and his depiction in TNG of 'perfect' interchangeable and well adjusted mannequin like characters) - I wouldn't have continued watching it.
Utopia wasn't what drew me to watch or enjoy STAR TREK at all.
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