Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x06 – “Come, Let’s Away”

[cooleddie74]

Again: telepathy and mind melds are total comic book-level abilities, and Trek's had those since before the Beatles went hippie on us.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Again: telepathy and mind melds are total comic book-level abilities, and Trek's had those since before the Beatles went hippie on us.

Again: I'm not talking about Telepathy & Mind Melds.

Those are bog standard powers by now.

 

[Discovery McDiscoveryFace]

..... not showing a single Betazoid nip-nop.

Were you checking then?.If so, it means that on a forum notorious for nitpicking, you've instead been nipticking.....

 

[Mudd]

Nus Braka is Loki:

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[cooleddie74]

"Comic book level powers" are completely relative terms. Everything that's considered strange or unusual by normal human standards can be "comic book level powers."

 

[Dar70]

First time encountering a hyperbolic headline?

.....it's just that I for one have not given it any thought. Or anticipated it or whatever. The last 4 weeks I have been waiting for the show to get better not wonder what Nus big plan was .. Now if this was next year......

 

[Nerys Myk]

But that's treated as a standard Vulcan Species-wide power.

It wasn't unique to him.

And all Kryptonians have Superman's power. The Legion of Super-Heroes is full of planets that have a specific super-power, And there is a Corps that wields the same power ring,

Star Trek isn't known for giving individuals "Comic Book level Super Powers".

Geordi La Forge says "Hi" as does Data. Garth Izar, too.

I'm talking about her Sonic Scream like abilities, that ability isn't normally part of Betazoids usual racial/species wide powers.

I think it was more she blew up their brains from the "inside". Remember she damaged he father's brain causing him to go deaf.

 

[cooleddie74]

Garth literally learned how to shapeshift from an alien species after being injured in an accident. If that's not some Stan Lee-level junk I don't know what is.

 

[Nerys Myk]

.....it's just that I for one have not given it any thought. Or anticipated it or whatever. The last 4 weeks I have been waiting for the show to get better not wonder what Nus big plan was .. Now if this was next year......

"Finally" is overused for headlines online be it YouTube or some entertainment website.

 

[firehawk12]

Oh my god, first of all, thank you for articulating what drove me nuts about Shaw. The fandom love for that character has baffled me like nothing else. I mean, he was sufficient, but mostly I watched him and wondered "what am I supposed to love so much about this character?"

But I agree with this criticism. Hunter and Giamatti could not have done a better job of acting what they were given, but I didn't care for the scene structure at all. Monologues almost always just feel like self-indulgent writing to me. Give me an actual exchange between characters, please.

Oh trust me, I had the exact same frustration at the time and thought I was going crazy when everyone said Shaw was an amazing character.

I see the arc - he's like an asshole who basically uses the equivalent of a transphobic slur by deadnaming a character, they justify his assholishness by giving him a reason to hate all Borg, then they redeem him at the end. But the way it was presented was just literally so cheap (considering they spent all the budget on the TNG cast apparently).

So far Ake and Braka don't really interact with each other at all even when they're in the same room, both in this episode and in the first one. And as you say it's fine because both Giamatti and Hunter are good actors, so they can chew scenery and deliver monologues, but it's not really interesting storytelling. The closest you get is Ake needling Braka and he backs down, but we find out that was just him playing her.

Even the final moment between the two characters that sets up either the rest of the season or some series long arc is just a one-side conversation, the equivalent of having one character listen to a voice mail message as the big climax. At least Sisko got a chance to toss some barbs back at Eddington when he called to taunt him.

I have been listening to the Olivia Dean Spotify channel around the clock for the last 72 hours, and I can. not. believe. I didn't pick up that was her song.

Wow. It's funny, I didn't notice it at all either. lol

I revise my score of the episode to 10/10. lol

 

[The Wormhole]

So, how did Cadet Pickford make it past the psychological screening to get admitted into the Academy? Between eating her comm badge, walking in circles repeating red alert in the premiere and now having a complete meltdown upon seeing a corpse floating in space, she really doesn't seem up to serving in Starfleet.

And before anyone starts with "she's young, this is likely her first corpse" I point out Genesis and Darem are probably the same approximate age as her, and this could well have been their first time seeing someone killed, but they kept it together a lot better.

 

[Mudd]

Again: I'm not talking about Telepathy & Mind Melds.

Those are bog standard powers by now.

You take a pretty consistent rhetorical approach:

• Stake out a mistaken position or assert a generalization that's easily challenged with casual knowledge of the subject;
• Introduce "Yeah, but..." objections when rebutted.

 

[Nerys Myk]

So, how did Cadet Pickford make it past the psychological screening to get admitted into the Academy? Between eating her comm badge, walking in circles repeating red alert in the premiere and now having a complete meltdown upon seeing a corpse floating in space, she really doesn't seem up to serving in Starfleet.

And before anyone starts with "she's young, this is likely her first corpse" I point out Genesis and Darem are probably the same approximate age as her, and this could well have been their first time seeing someone killed, but they kept it together a lot better.

A lot of Starfleet Academy grads get that same question. (Usually ones named Broccoli...I mean Barclay, yeah, Barclay.)

 

[Mudd]

So, how did Cadet Pickford make it past the psychological screening to get admitted into the Academy?

Admiral Vance is her grandfather.

 

[Dar70]

I explained why they should use the D sets. Why would I whine anout it when i just explainedit previously. Maybe you should read my whole response. Youre whining about things you think I didnt say. Pay attention.


I was absolutely right early yesterday that I was worried they would use the snw sets again because again they were encountering an old stsrship in the 32nd century that just happens again to be from the STD and SNW version of the 23rd.


They built new sets and bridges all the time on tng. This show is spending just as much per episode or more. They could easily have constructed something.

I know you already understand you made a blunder now. But back to the reusing of sets. Reusing sets from Star Trek has been a thing forever. It should be the least of our concerns. I remember when they used Ten Forward in Star Trek the Undiscovered country for the Presidents office. They reused the TNG Enterprise Hallways (which many were originally the motion picture but refurbished) for the Enterprise A Hallways in Star Trek the Final Frontier. Which thankfully they didn't use for the Undiscovered Country.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

You take a pretty consistent rhetorical approach:

• Stake out a mistaken position or assert a generalization that's easily challenged with casual knowledge of the subject;
• Introduce "Yeah, but..." objections when rebutted.

Okay, I use a lot of colloquial dialogue.
Do I have to spell out every little detail?
Apparently I do, since there seems to be confusion as to what I'm referencing exactly.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Okay, I use a lot of colloquial dialogue.
Do I have to spell out every little detail?
Apparently I do, since there seems to be confusion as to what I'm referencing exactly.

The confusion might be on your end.

 

[Mudd]

Okay, I use a lot of colloquial dialogue.
Do I have to spell out every little detail?
Apparently I do, since there seems to be confusion as to what I'm referencing exactly.

You're not confusing anyone here. Your arguments just tend to be weak and arbitrary.

BTW, I object to colloquial dialogue and contemporary slang. It just doesn't feel realistic on a Star Trek board.

 

[CT_Phipps]

So, how did Cadet Pickford make it past the psychological screening to get admitted into the Academy? Between eating her comm badge, walking in circles repeating red alert in the premiere and now having a complete meltdown upon seeing a corpse floating in space, she really doesn't seem up to serving in Starfleet.

And before anyone starts with "she's young, this is likely her first corpse" I point out Genesis and Darem are probably the same approximate age as her, and this could well have been their first time seeing someone killed, but they kept it together a lot better.

She's a filthy Earthling and they have Sector 0001 privilege.

 

[Mudd]

She

She's a filthy Earthling and they have Sector 0001 privilege.

She got in on a Dirty Earthling Initiative grant program.