Do you mean critical ratings?
Will SFA Season 2 Actually Air?
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Do you mean critical ratings?
Is that the sound of goalposts being pulled up and dragged along?
It is the game that never ends… the goalposts will move forever on my friends…
Who are you accusing of moving goalposts?
Pretty much the same for me. it was a world I could escape into that felt very different from my own.
Too many creators believe that "No, you can't have your honest escapism! There must be blatant and contemporary messaging in all fictional stories." Even worse is when they are incapable of framing things in different (historical/cultural) contexts, because they regard twenty-first century Western beliefs as a collective to be the only acceptable lens through which to filter a work.
Or they are just writing from their experiences. I mean, TOS hit on blatant and contemporary issues in episodes like "A Private Little War".
This.
TOS was never all blatant escapism. Good grief, that's what people complained about with 09 was there wasn't any commentary!
No wonder it's impossible to write Star Trek..too many opinions on what to do. See also the story of the old man, his grandson and the donkey.
Then they complained about Into Darkness because it had commentary they didn't like. Have more luck navigating a Korean minefield vs. Trek fandom.
A Private Little War was really a good episode. At the end Kirk really seemed worn out and I think disgusted in what he had to do. One of the few times we see Kirk like that. The other one City on the Edge of Forever but Kirk had less of a choice. Meaning it was more clear cut. Tyree bludgeoned a man right in front of him. Kirk knew that at that point the war was going to be bloody like McCoy predicted. I know Roddenberry wrote the screenplay for APLW after the Don Ingalls who wrlte story didn't want to make the changes Roddenberry said he would have to make in a script. So Riddenberry wrote the script based on Don Ingalls story. So this episode became one of the few good ones that Roddenberry wrote. Good episode. One of my favorites. The dialogue is pure Roddenberry and really excellent. He actually was a very good television writer before Trek and had plenty of work on other shows. I know many people dislike him today and minimize his contributions to Trek but he could come through with some good stuff.
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i still think that star trek starfleet academt season 2 will probley air in jan 2027 or feb 2027
Nah, even the prank episode on SFA was better than “A Private Little War”.
Vietnam allegories usually worked well.
Actually, I'll stick up for "A Private Little War". The parallel to Vietnam, along with Kirk and everyone being stuck in a situation they couldn't see their way out of is another example of proof that TOS didn't always having a happy ending with everyone laughing on the bridge.
Yes, it's true that the episode ultimately took a pro-war stance around the time sentiment turned against the Vietnam War (and I would've been against it too, just to be clear), but Kirk was reluctant and McCoy was flat-out against it. It's like watching the argument that I understand was going on IRL at kitchen tables and at water coolers. I really liked that the argument was there at all and seeing the process of it play out.
If the prank episode you're talking about was S1E3, then I turned it off mid-way through, but gave it a 5 anyway because I was giving it latitude since I knew I wasn't the audience for it. I was being too generous.
I won't be watching that SFA episode, or SFA in general, again. I gave it five episodes and I was all set. But I will watch "A Private Little War" again. It's not my favorite, but I don't skip it either.
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I've already watched the prank war episode more times than I've ever watched The Gamesters of Triskelion.
Yes.
If that's what the episode mainly was throughout, I'd probably like it more. But there's so much baffling shit going on like that weird ritual by the conniving witch lady and then the bizarre Spock subplot where he's asking for Chapel to slap him hard several times, which I'm sure was a Roddenberry kink. As far as Vietnam allegories go, I like "Day of the Dove" a lot better, even if it does feature the crew laughing at the end. At least Kirk isn't lamenting over serpents in the garden of Eden, or whatever stupid biblical reference Gene thought sounded thoughtful.
Yes, it was confirmed when they announced a new character would be joining them for season 2.
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