First SFA Trailer

[The Nth Doctor]

Came to this thread to (perhaps foolishly) share the joy of this trailer and leaving this thread confused why the discussion was so heavily derailed about some random guy I've never heard of on Twitter with the initials RMB (no, I don't care to know who he is, don't bother telling me).

 

[fireproof78]

Came to this thread to (perhaps foolishly) share the joy of this trailer and leaving this thread confused why the discussion was so heavily derailed about some random guy I've never heard of on Twitter with the initials RMB (no, I don't care to know who he is, don't bother telling me).

 

[The Wormhole]

RMB (no, I don't care to know who he is, don't bother telling me).

I know you don't care and don't want to be told, but I have the perfect description and I don't want to sit on it.

He's Star Trek fandom's version of Ian Levine, except a thousand times more toxic than Levine.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I know you don't care and don't want to be told, but I have the perfect description and I don't want to sit on it.

He's Star Trek fandom's version of Ian Levine, except a thousand times more toxic than Levine.

Damn. That says a lot. That's all I need to know!

 

[Quantum21]

As far as trailers go, it's a 10/10, you can't do much better: soaring music, trek optimism, young fresh faces going out there building the Federation.

5 years ago I'd have said we need this in the 25th century, but this trailer shows us why the 32nd is the best one. Rebuild! Or is that Renew!

 

[Rahul]

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The main ship?

This looks... aggressively inoffensive.
Nothing new about the setting, or the plot. The characters are smiling, but we don't learn anything about then or hear them talk, in case they sound like teen-agers or what? - no dialogue, just everything drowning in epic music & important speeches.
Gives a lot of DIS season 3 vibes, trying to please everyone, but nothing really to say.
Gonna' watch it anyway.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

To be fair this is just the teaser. I'm sure the actual trailer is going to do a lot more to show off the characters and what they'll be up to.

 

[Amasov]

I know an Academy series has been talked about as far back as the 90s. It was never something I was too interested in at the time. But, this DOES look intriguing. I'm in.

 

[Nerys Myk]

This looks... aggressively inoffensive.
Nothing new about the setting, or the plot. The characters are smiling, but we don't learn anything about then or hear them talk, in case they sound like teen-agers or what? - no dialogue, just everything drowning in epic music & important speeches.
Gives a lot of DIS season 3 vibes, trying to please everyone, but nothing really to say.
Gonna' watch it anyway.

Sounds like a typical teaser trailer. Later trailers will no doubt go into more "details".

 

[Firebird]

This looks... aggressively inoffensive.
Nothing new about the setting, or the plot. The characters are smiling, but we don't learn anything about then or hear them talk, in case they sound like teen-agers or what? - no dialogue, just everything drowning in epic music & important speeches.
Gives a lot of DIS season 3 vibes, trying to please everyone, but nothing really to say.
Gonna' watch it anyway.

Is this your first time watching a preview teaser?

 

[TRON JA307020]

Is this your first time watching a preview teaser?

Why would you think that? He gave his opinion of the trailer.

 

[Rahul]

No I mean it's totally a valid choice from a marketing perspective.

Look at the latest Avatar trailer:

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Very similar, mostly images & sound. Because Avatar is a movie that is, well, not exactly popular because of it's dialogue or the story.

So that's my whole recap of the Starfleet: Academy trailer: There is nothing wrong with or in the trailer.
But at the same time, this trailer doesn't show anything that people could dislike, it's mostly "trailer vibes", not representative of what watching even a few minutes of the actual show would feel like.

 

[eschaton]

But at the same time, this trailer doesn't show anything that people could dislike, it's mostly "trailer vibes", not representative of what watching even a few minutes of the actual show would feel like.

We don't even know if the series as a whole is "about something" do we?

I mean, maybe it's a highly serialized story ala DIS or PIC. But it also may be mostly episodic like SNW.

 

[Mudd]

People are comparing Holly Hunter's performance to Geneviève Bujold's performance.

Person.

Person is comparing Holly Hunter's performance to Geneviève Bujold's performance.

 

[Rahul]

We don't even know if the series as a whole is "about something" do we?

I mean, maybe it's a highly serialized story ala DIS or PIC. But it also may be mostly episodic like SNW.

Yeah that's what I mean - we know basically nothing about the show.
Now we still don't know basically anything, but have pretty pictures from the characters.
Which, you know, isn't a complaint. Just an observation.

 

[DigificWriter]

Kurtzman's comments about the U.S.S. Athena being part of the Academy itself and its impact on the series suggest an Episodic structure, which would, I believe, make the show the first Episodic Star Trek series to be set outside of the 23rd and/or 24th Centuries since Star Trek Enterprise.

 

[eschaton]

Yeah that's what I mean - we know basically nothing about the show.
Now we still don't know basically anything, but have pretty pictures from the characters.
Which, you know, isn't a complaint. Just an observation.

I guess we do know that Paul Paul Giamatti is playing some sort of season-long villain, though that could just mean say Buffy-level serialization.

Also, he's not a main, so he's almost certainly not appearing every week.

 

[The Wormhole]

Kurtzman's comments about the U.S.S. Athena being part of the Academy itself and its impact on the series suggest an Episodic structure, which would, I believe, make the show the first Episodic Star Trek series to be set outside of the 23rd and/or 24th Centuries since Star Trek Enterprise.

It's also only the second series period to be set outside the 23rd and 24th centuries since Enterprise, so what's the accomplishment here?

 

[Rahul]

My guess would be: "plot of the weeks" based on young adult drama - relationships, school stuff like performance anxiety, love & affairs, betraying & bullying - mostly character focused plots per episode. But with a strong serialisation of character arcs - changes in relationship in one episode will carry over into the next episodes.

There will also be an overarching badguy plotline, but I expect this to be very low-stakes, mostly in the background, and honestly also not very good or exciting - similar to the Osyraa arc on DIS season 3, but with Paul Giamatti having a bit more fun. Maaaaybe a world ending stake in the very end of the season finale. But I expect "space criminals", not "first contact & alien invasion" plotlines.

I base this on nothing but the look of the main characters & expectations from Kurtzman's other work.

 

[eschaton]

My guess would be: "plot of the weeks" based on young adult drama - relationships, school stuff like performance anxiety, love & affairs, betraying & bullying - mostly character focused plots per episode. But with a strong serialisation of character arcs - changes in relationship in one episode will carry over into the next episodes.

There will also be an overarching badguy plotline, but I expect this to be very low-stakes, mostly in the background, and honestly also not very good or exciting - similar to the Osyraa arc on DIS season 3, but with Paul Giamatti having a bit more fun. Maaaaybe a world ending stake in the very end of the season finale. But I expect "space criminals", not "first contact & alien invasion" plotlines.

I base this on nothing but the look of the main characters & expectations from Kurtzman's other work.

I'll be very, very let down if Season 1 ends with some "epic stakes" finale. The whole point of this show, after all, is to watch characters grow. Part of that is (presuming they still do intend this to be a multi-season show, and not a one-and-done) that they face a relatively minor antagonist in Season 1, building up for bigger and badder things in later years.