I mean, Picard started a bar fight that almost got him killed. Even Kirk didn't do that, at least not in the Prime Timeline. 
Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x05 – “Series Acclimation Mil”
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Maybe he came back "yesterday"? Loophole!
Though the episode implies that he was keeping an eye on them. Honestly, maybe he "returned" to Kasidy and Jake and his other child periodically and they simply didn't share that information with the universe. We saw in WYLB that he could visit Kasidy without an orb or any other intermediary.
Jake isn't making anything up. He's speaking from his lived experience. The way Sisko raised Jake would have without a doubt impacted how he helped raise Kasidy's child. And while Kasidy disliked that Ben was the emissary, she also understood how important his role was. It's no different to Ben being a Starfleet Captain. Kasidy hated that too but again understood the importance of being one.
I did love the Dr. Lewis Zimmerman name drop. Casual reference to "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?(DS9)."
Whenever I see people complaining about the unprofessional behavior of the cadets, I'm reminded that our first significant glimpse of the Academy was that Finegan played "one practical joke after another" because "He's the kind of guy to put a bowl of cold soup in your bed or a bucket of water propped on a half-open door."
I think the bit about him and Kirk physically fighting was meant to be more of a fantasy of what Kirk always wanted to do rather than what regularly happened... but Finnegan also says "You never could take me," so they probably did get in a few physical fights too.
Throw in the fact that in this time period where I suspect volunteers are slim pickings—as opposed to filtering from a seemingly large pool in Picard's time—and I think we're doing pretty good in depicting on-screen what we've heard described as far back as TOS.
And let's face it... Barclay probably swallowed a communicator or two.
That we know of.I mean, Picard started a bar fight that almost got him killed. Even Kirk didn't do that, at least not in the Prime Timeline.
And I assume Janeway didn't start bar fights. She finished them.
Agree that it is sad but thematically, it strongly resonates with Emissary. SIsko was absolutely shattered by Jennifer's death and in the eyes of the Prophets, he continued to exist in that moment. It was only after he internalized their message was he able to start living again. I would imagine that this was a lesson he passed on to Jake (and eventually from Jake to his sibling). In the totality of context, I find the message rather hopeful.
As Picard said:
I think that message, ultimately, is a fundamental examination of the human condition and that is, IMO, Star Trek at its core. That's why we didn't meet the broken Jake of The Visitor but a man serene with acceptance about the way his father lived (lives?). That's ultimately, what Ben Sisko left behind for his family.
Also worth noting Sisko arguably lost his body in the fire caves, and there's nothing in lore to suggest the Prophets could just give him a new one.
Seems like Tawny interpreted "return" in a spiritual, rather than physical sense.
Compared to 800 years (or never), "maybe a year" is soon.
Which again, is what I choose to believe.
I thought maybe the Mil in Series Acclimation Mil stood for millennial but when i looked up the etymology of that word in the current vernacular it means someone born in 1980 so someone in their mid forties/5th decade of being alive, not a teenager/2nd decade, maybe she's a military hologram? She seems to have been created to infiltrate a military academy. Most likely explanation is that it's nonsensical technobabble.
Oh wait, you moved on from this discussion 10 pages ago? Nevermind.
Oh wait, you moved on from this discussion 10 pages ago? Nevermind.
Jörg Hillebrand (@gaghyogi49.bsky.social)
I'm glad Bajoran jumja sticks (#StarTrekDS9's "In the Hands of the Prophets"⬇️) are still a thing in the 32nd century (#StarfleetAcademy's "Series Acclimation Mil"⬆️). Man, I can't wait for reaching #TNG season 6 / #DS9 season 1 for my observations research! :-)
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After 800 years of your friends dying around you, you’d probably have problems too.
I wouldn’t surprised if these are seeds for an upcoming Doctor centric episode.
That's what I'm hoping.
Bob has teased getting a real acting showcase....I'd bet it involves him staying relatively young while his friends age and die - like another famous sci-fi Doctor..
Opens the door to some VOY love too.
My Rating is 5/10
I don't like the character SAM, nor Captain Nahla, so there was no way I could have enjoyed this episode.
The childish series jokes were also bad, if the target audience is teenagers, then make jokes for teenagers and young adults, not fart jokes, that's stuff for kids' shows!
The only parts I liked were the references to Deep Space 9, so the parts I enjoyed were thanks to DS9, not this episode.
I don't like the character SAM, nor Captain Nahla, so there was no way I could have enjoyed this episode.
The childish series jokes were also bad, if the target audience is teenagers, then make jokes for teenagers and young adults, not fart jokes, that's stuff for kids' shows!
The only parts I liked were the references to Deep Space 9, so the parts I enjoyed were thanks to DS9, not this episode.
They didn't want to build an entire set for it.
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