Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x03 – “Vitus Reflux”

[eschaton]

I think of it as them starting out with a smaller cohort just to test things out before really ramping up recruitment.

This could work, provided they do a ramp up for Season 2. That said, if anything, I'd expect the budget to be smaller, given the realities of this era of Trek, so adding a bunch of additional cadets in the background (real or digital) might be a bridge too far.

 

[tenmei]

Given

The fitness class makes no sense...

Why are they training species with wildly different physical capabilities using 1200 year old generic human standards?

Or theyre using Human standards as a bare minimum.

 

[Fateor]

^ Can you transport inside a holodeck simulation? I don't remember if i have seen that

Very easily.

There was an entire episode and movie built around the idea.

Given


Or theyre using Human standards as a bare minimum.

They had a hologram doing a medical ball workout...

 

[Tuskin38]

Klingon-French fusion cuisine sounds interesting

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Or theyre using Human standards as a bare minimum.

Or most of their Academy Students are similar enough to Humans in terms of basic biology that Human Standards are a "Good Enough" average.

Although it makes no sense for Android / Photonic life forms to even care about Organic Physical Capability standards given the nature of their Physical form is programmed / designed.
If anything they should be seeing a Mechanical / Engineering specialist to tune their Physical Capability like a Sports Car and test their Physical form to it's limits.

 

[tenmei]

They had a hologram doing a medical ball workout...

Sorry, you seen to have moved the goalposts again.

 

[tenmei]

Or most of their Academy Students are similar enough to Humans in terms of basic biology that Human Standards are a "Good Enough" average.

Although it makes no sense for Android / Photonic life forms to even care about Organic Physical Capability standards given the nature of their Physical form is programmed / designed.
If anything they should be seeing a Mechanical / Engineering specialist to tune their Physical Capability like a Sports Car and test their Physical form to it's limits.

Sam was presumably doing the class as part of her "doing what a regular young adult does" mission.

 

[Uncle Sock]

I'm half-expecting a Captain Ransom and timeship Relativity reference now that we have her age and that she was at the Academy back then.

Not to nitpick here, but Ransom was the Equinox guy. The Relativity guy was Captain Braxton.

 

[Romulan_spy]

In universe, Caleb was fully exposed, against his will, to the wider public. We might not have seen it on screen but in-universe that's what happened. That is a horrific thing to do.

I agree about Caleb. I was talking about the other characters.

 

[Set Harth]

He's doing a Bon Jovi

Or a Bryan Adams...

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Sam was presumably doing the class as part of her "doing what a regular young adult does" mission.

Then she's doing it more for social bonding with her fellow class mates.

A hologram wouldn't gain anything from physical exercise.

 

[Markonian]

Then she's doing it more for social bonding with her fellow class mates.

A hologram wouldn't gain anything from physical exercise.

A bit of light exercise doesn't hurt anyone.

[Edit: This was meant as a pun. Photonic - light exercise. Hehe.]

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

A bit of light exercise doesn't hurt anyone.

It shouldn't, especially at their age.

 

[Fateor]

Or most of their Academy Students are similar enough to Humans in terms of basic biology that Human Standards are a "Good Enough" average.

Given humans are on the lower end of physical capabilities compared to most other alien species thats pretty much the opposite of how things should actually be.

 

[cooleddie74]

Not to nitpick here, but Ransom was the Equinox guy. The Relativity guy was Captain Braxton.

Thanks! Yep, it was Braxton.

 

[eschaton]

While I understand the real-world, casting-related reasons for not doing this, photonic beings are effectively shapeshifters, aren't they? I mean, what's stopping Sam from changing her projection (and its capabilities) at any time?

 

[Tuskin38]

While I understand the real-world, casting-related reasons for not doing this, photonic beings are effectively shapeshifters, aren't they? I mean, what's stopping Sam from changing her projection (and its capabilities) at any time?

Well she does utilize that in this episode.

I’m guessing she chose the form used every day

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Given humans are on the lower end of physical capabilities compared to most other alien species thats pretty much the opposite of how things should actually be.

Theoretically, Vulcans & Klingons should be stronger than Humans on average, but from what we're seeing, they don't seem to be showing much meaningful biological performance differences from the cadets shown.

Heck, Jay-Den Kraag is the least intimidating Klingon this side of Alexander Rozhenko.

Caleb Mir is the most jacked out of the boys by a good margin.

 

[Rahul]

Klingon-French fusion cuisine sounds interesting

Yeah, that's a pretty wild combination. One of these serve disgusting mollusks in alcoholic broth, livers from force-fed, tortured animals, and the other.... sorry, where were we...?

 

[eschaton]

Heck, Jay-Den Kraag is the least intimidating Klingon this side of Alexander Rozhenko.

Don't forget about the fat Klingon that ran that restaurant on the Promenade in DS9!