Spoilers Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread

[cooleddie74]

And for all we know the process of moving those new orbital platforms and stations into position began as soon as DSC Seasons 4 and 5 drew to a close. And we just didn't see them in those episodes of that series because, well, they wouldn't be part of those stories so no need to show such vessels and space stations.

 

[I am not Spock]

where exactly is this in the timeline? They mention Discovery can't come to their rescue because it's undergoing a refit. Maybe this is shortly after their battle with the Breen in 'Life, Itself'?

 

[cooleddie74]

In 3193? I think DSC Season 5 took place in 3192.

 

[StarTrek1701]

In which case we saw it in almost every one of those movies and one can interpret those dark blue blocks or panels as a form of solar panel.

> Has matter+anti-matter colliders
> Has replicators
> Has programmable matter
> Has instantaneous teleport now
> Has book size battery packs that can power an entire town for decades
> Still needs solar fucking panels for whatever reason.

Actual futurists don't write anymore do they?

 

[cooleddie74]

For what it's worth I'd have just left those blue strips and blocks as a covered tubeway for trams, which is what I believe the original intention was in the TMP artwork. That people still traveled on the Golden Gate, but under cover in subway-like tram cars.

 

[cooleddie74]

 

[StarTrek1701]

The heck was the budget on this show? It looks more visually impressive than Discovery and Strange New Worlds

So I guess they’re just using it better

I think because they are practical sets and not that Mando graphics wall thing.
DSC used that a lot too but SFA uses it minimally.

 

[StarTrek1701]

But.. in the SFA scene.. he already had that scanner in his hand...?

 

[cooleddie74]

Maybe the flat PADD wasn't a tricorder per se? I don't know, I'm just rolling with it.

 

[Michael]

And don’t forget …

 

[Jayson1]

The heck was the budget on this show? It looks more visually impressive than Discovery and Strange New Worlds

I heard it was 20 million per episode. Not sure how much of that though goes to Hunter and Giamatti's paycheck .

 

[StarTrek1701]

Maybe the flat PADD wasn't a tricorder per se? I don't know, I'm just rolling with it.

I still want to know your real thoughts. Come on man, don't be a baby.

 

[Jayson1]

Without any show spoilers, is there any sex or implied sexual situations?

Only in my head but I don't think that even counts as head canon.

 

[Michael]

Not to state the obvious, but have you been paying attention at all as to how things are being done by the current US Presidential Administration.

Seems to me that there is a perfect example of how wrong you are with that post.

Yes, I have. But you really don't want to have that discussion here.

No, we really don’t. @DaveyNY, keep the politics out of these parts of the board, please.

But also — and this is not just directed at you, but everyone — let’s drop these type of comments that seem to be designed to poke at someone’s personal motives for liking or disliking something about the show:

Ignorance is bliss.

(even though it's obviously feigned)

Let’s just altogether stop with the constant armchair psychoanalysis of why posters like or dislike something or if they are genuine or not. Address what people are saying, not why they are saying it. I think we’ll all get along better and more peacefully that way.

 

[Fateor]

Maybe they didn't have to since the Burn only took out warp drives. If those stations ran on fusion engines, then they should have been spared.

Well yes, but we know they didn't exist because they weren't there when the whole "DMA" thing happened.

 

[Dar70]

Speaking of TMP, notice the new theme starts with the start of Ilia’s theme?

Yes. And the garbage can played a little bit of the TOS theme as well as the classroom bell.

 

[Rahul]

The heck was the budget on this show? It looks more visually impressive than Discovery and Strange New Worlds

Kurtzman shows often have the problem of extremely front-loading their budget to the beginning of the season to attract new viewers.

The season starts with a giant Klingon-Federation battle, but ends in an Orion drug tent and a pitch-black meeting hall. Another starts with new planets, monsters, aliens and ships 1000 years in the future, but ends with a shooting inside a turbolift. Starts with thousand ships hanging around a Borg wormhole, but ends with Picard giving a pep-talk to his ancestors in an office room.

Notable exception being DIS S2, which saved up it's budget for this enormous(!) space battle at the end, as well as SNW, which seems to spread out it's budget more evenly.

But tbh, I fully expect now to see less and less dots flying around, digital set extensions, cgi shots or action scenes each episode, with a few highlights sprinkled in every now and then, until we don't even notice anymore that most of it will be just actors talking on a standing set.

 

[Campe]

That’s a pretty common practice for tv series. Build your sets, hook in your audience, amortize the big costs across the season.

 

[NCC-73515]

Yeah, the show is TV-14, but it's only due to language. Otherwise, it's pretty family-friendly.

There will be a sex scene in the next 4 episodes

Man, that Golden Gate bridge just can't catch a break with how it continually switches between having solar panels on it and not.

Programmable matter

Yes. And the garbage can played a little bit of the TOS theme as well as the classroom bell.

Outrage! The beloved Trek theme is now the Starfleet trash can music!

 

[The Wormhole]

Kurtzman shows often have the problem of extremely front-loading their budget to the beginning of the season to attract new viewers.

The season starts with a giant Klingon-Federation battle, but ends in an Orion drug tent and a pitch-black meeting hall. Another starts with new planets, monsters, aliens and ships 1000 years in the future, but ends with a shooting inside a turbolift. Starts with thousand ships hanging around a Borg wormhole, but ends with Picard giving a pep-talk to his ancestors in an office room.

These two examples aren't Kurtzman's doing. Disco S1 was Bryan Fuller making the decisions at the start while Picard S2 was the Blessed Lord Terry.