Also, they didn't want to be bound by past "canon."
Starfleet Academy Official Trailer
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Also, they didn't want to be bound by past "canon."
Agreed. Not a single episode aired but we already know exactly how the show is going to go. Impressive!
Now, where are the winning lottery numbers?
A good choice.
Good or bad. Im not really looking forward to this show. Trek is so oversaturated now. Been running way too long without a break. I have liked only 1 season of Picard and 2 of Disco since the end of Enterprise. My brain is tired of it. Except for the legacy stuff. I can watch that stuff till I die ... 
Anyhow the trailer looks just meh to me. Maybe it will be awesome. Who knows...
Anyhow the trailer looks just meh to me. Maybe it will be awesome. Who knows...
True but I wish they would have placed it in the 25th. That would have solved the problem. Plus the 25th century has the unique lcars look. The producers made the 32nd century looks like 23rd century STD. So it all looks like the same time period now.
I'm okay with the concept, I just have this lingering thought in the back of my mind that I'm not going to be the audience for this. I suspect that after I watch the first episode, I'll most likely think, "It's good for what it is... " but then I'll either pass on it, or I'll binge the rest of the first season at the end.Good or bad. Im not really looking forward to this show. Trek is so oversaturated now. Been running way too long without a break. I have liked only 1 season of Picard and 2 of Disco since the end of Enterprise. My brain is tired of it. Except for the legacy stuff. I can watch that stuff till I die ...
Anyhow the trailer looks just meh to me. Maybe it will be awesome. Who knows...
I could be wrong, but that's what I'm leaning towards thinking will happen. I felt way more excited about Picard before it started. As soon as I saw that trailer in the Summer of 2019, that was it. I was in. With Discovery, I could've gone either way until "Context Is for Kings" got me hook, line, and sinker. So, yeah, we'll see.
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1987-2005, 624 episodes in 18 years. 2017-2025, 231 episodes in 8 years, many of them only half hour episodes. I could take a bit more of the current era before feeling a sense of oversaturation.
I'm still not clear what the problem is.
Still not seeing a problem, especially considering a lot of the tech on Discovery doesn't look like 23rd century Discovery. The ship itself didn't change too much, but everything else -- programmable matter interfaces, ships that change shape, etc -- looks nothing like any version of the 23rd century.
If teens want to see a crapsack world they'll watch The Boys, not Star Trek.
People watch Star Trek for uplifting space adventures.
And one way to lift someone up is to start with them somewhere down.
We agree on that. TOS started way up. Still the best beginning of any Trek.
You forgot the movies that stated a scant 4 years after Enterprise. So really no break at all..There has always been something in the planning stages after TMP within 3-4 years. A true break would be like 10-15 with nothing planned.
But what I'm saying is Trek doesn't have much right now that offers me anything I haven't seen before or which was done better. Which is fine. Most long running franchises get stale after awhile. Star Wars got there with Only a couple bright spots after the prequels. One being Andor.
I will watch out of curiosity. Maybe it will surprise me. It surely has to be better than that god awful movie about Section 31.....right???
You forgot the movies that stated a scant 4 years after Enterprise. So really no break at all..There has always been something in the planning stages after TMP within 3-4 years. A true break would be like 10-15 with nothing planned.
But what I'm saying is Trek doesn't have much right now that offers me anything I haven't seen before or which was done better. Which is fine. Most long running franchises get stale after awhile. Star Wars got there with Only a couple bright spots after the prequels. One being Andor.
I will watch out of curiosity. Maybe it will surprise me. It surely has to be better than that god awful movie about Section 31.....right???
Section 31. What a travesty. It took place in the 2320s most likely but looks like it took place in the STD 23rd century or the STD 32nd century.
According to some sources, Section 31 was a mess because the writers who'd mapped out the first season of the originally planned first season of the S31 TV series were not invited to be part of the S31 movie. Instead, a guy who wrote exactly one Star Trek episode (and lots of other stuff) took over. I can only hope that someday there's a book on the current Trek era with a lot of detail on what S31 should have been.
Sequel/Spinoff
Sequel!
If you think about it, Starfleet Academy is basically the only Star Trek series that isn't a prequel to Discovery.
Go fleet!
Not really. Discovery is a prequel that turned into a sequel but since it altered time I assume the future 32nd century is an alternate future timeline. So it's not really a true sequel.
The entire fifth season is a sequel to 'The Chase'. It's not an alternate timeline.
