Uh oh. I’ve only watched the pre-title sequence so far… but unlike the first two episodes, I’m forced to admit that this one, so far, looks pretty much exactly like the stereotype a lot of detractors were predicting (and which Certain Quarters keep insisting the whole show is like, which is very untrue). I hope it doesn’t continue in this vein…
Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x03 – “Vitus Reflux”
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Watch the actual episode and then make up your own mind. What looks like an episode of junk teen cw drama, actually becomes a really heartfelt exploration of Starfleet values.
I did rate this one a bit lower than the other two. This got an 8, a few of its scenes were a bit too long for what they offered. Of course none of those scenes had Ake or Thok in them.
And no Doctor this week.
No Doctor and no Oded Fehr was a shame but as long as the show doesn't make a habit of it
This episode also made me wonder again what that Tarantino Trek movie might have been like. IYKYK.
Eww I hate that I know what you mean
Well, Captain Ake goes around barefoot, so that's one Tarantino fetish covered.
The writers probably put it into a english to klingon translator saw the result and were like 'why don't we just go with Jay-den'Jay-den's name actually means qul bIQ'a'mey chIqwI' in Okrand Klingon, so he must be using a different dialect
More Reno though
Good to know — and it certainly seems to bounce back whenever the adults are in the room.
Also, it took sixty years, but at long last, Gertrude/Beauregard is officially one-upped.
EDIT: You know… transport phasers would be pretty great weapons for actual warfare, assuming your goal isn’t specifically to kill the enemy. Set up a capture-prison facility, set your phasers’ transport buffers to delete all armaments from “casualties” mid-transport while sending them there…
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Re: The Doctor's name. I suspect he has had names over the centuries, but retires them from time to time. I had previously thought the Doctor might have had some recent trauma which made him reluctant to mentor might also have come with a name drop.
Kind of similar for me, when my mom died, I mostly retired use of my full first name (my name is not Todd) because she was the main person to use it. I get annoyed when people take liberty and use my full name when I introduce myself by my nickname.
Kind of similar for me, when my mom died, I mostly retired use of my full first name (my name is not Todd) because she was the main person to use it. I get annoyed when people take liberty and use my full name when I introduce myself by my nickname.
"In a pig's eye!"
Heck, Kirk once joked about dipping little girl's ponytails in inkwells.
Seriously, yes, of course, realistically, people in the far future are going to speak some exotic future dialect that bears little resemblance to modern-day English, but, in the real world, the show is being produced for modern-day audiences so Star Trek dialogue has always employed contemporary language, the only nuance being just how slangy or colloquial you choose to go, which can be a judgment call.
TOS, on tv and in the movies, used fairly colloquial dialogue: "You've earned your paycheck for the week, Scotty!" "Hell of a time to ask." "Let's get the hell out of here." Etc.
TNG leaned toward slightly more formal speech in an effort to be "timeless," but let's be honest, Star Trek dialogue is never going to be realistically "futuristic," for obvious reasons.
Someone should ask AI to project what English should sound like 300-1000 years in the future,
I wasn't a big fan of this episode. Take Me Out To The Holosuite is one of my least favorite DS9 episodes and they basically did that but with a sport they ripped directly from Ender's Game except without the 0g. Complete with the overly competitive Vulcan.
Granted it makes more sense for college kids than it did in DS9 but especially with that smug War College teacher it made everything seem a bit petty. I had trouble caring about what was going on.
Granted it makes more sense for college kids than it did in DS9 but especially with that smug War College teacher it made everything seem a bit petty. I had trouble caring about what was going on.
Exactly. One of the great things about Trek is that the format is broad enough to accomodate lots of different kinds of storytelling: morality plays, topical allegories, courtroom dramas, war stories, high-concept SF, tragic love stories, poltical intrigue, murder mysteries, horror, even the occasional out-and-out farce.
(Not unlike The Twilight Zone, its immediate predecessor back in the sixties.)
I always get leery when folks start getting too prescriptive about what is and isn't Star Trek.
The Vulcan on the War College team was pretty even keeled. The Romulan on the other hand...
I figure that's why they gave her the ridged brow. To signal that she was more Romulan than Vulcan, despite reunification.
Well, Captain Ake goes around barefoot, so that's one Tarantino fetish covered.
Well, Ake did joke about interesting fetishes this episode.
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