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News Kurtzman: Starfleet Academy Series On The Way
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Yeah. <_>
Well their have been talks about this for awhile actually. I recall when people were confused because we knew Picard was coming back and some wondered if Picard would be in the Academy show. If this happens then I guess the only one left not done would be the Khan series with Nick Meyer. Maybe it will happen as well.
- What can be explored in an Academy series that can't be explored elsewhere (or really wasn't before)?
- Is it a prequel where the bridge crew all manage to meet'n'greet by pure coincidence, a la the idiocy behind the original plot for Star Trek VI before it was scrapped?
- Didn't ST2009 sorta waddle around in the Academy anyway? If that wasn't exciting, how does stretching that to five seasons of 10 episodes/season make it better? (Now that would be impressive!)
- Will this be a serious show or will it be as funny as all of those Police Academy movies were? (Well, 1-4 were to varying degrees)
- How can this flesh out the series?
- Will such a niche venue really appeal to new/casual viewers?
- Is that bit always important?
- Will such a niche venue really appeal to established fans, itching for answers to issues that were (never?) asked.
- And is that bit always important?
- Does a show always (or even really) appeal to young people just because young people they think they're just like them are revolving around it, and not because of thingies that young people like? (Then again, not all kids watch shows where everyone involved is in their 30s or higher... like that show from 1966 involving people in a space ship... what was it called... "Ultraman"? No, that was a big-ass robot. Must have been "Lost in Space" -- oh wait, that one's aged far more pitifully and with unintentional camp than TOS, with all its foibles, ever could... plus, more kids were outside trying to be Mark and Judy (while making lots of little Marks and Judys in the process) than living vicariously via a fictional realm...
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Why not show spinoffs like "Star Trek: The Federation Funny Farm" (per TSFS) and "Star Trek: The Old Folks' Home" (per a dozen Simpsons and Family Guy references and we all know viewers of "On Golden Pond" and "Cocoon" will flock to that?)? They're a couple decades too late or else they could have the original cast for that one too... not too late for the TNG people and it won't be any harder to segue in Worf like all the effort they put into his return into the TNG movies (which ranks up there with how they dealt with Data's emotion chip too...)
I read it on Collider yesterday and it was the same thing, no direct quote or link to a source. Does all seem to be based on hearsay and I wonder if they got it from the Times as well.
In the 1990s, my two favorite Star Trek comic series were Star Trek: Academy and Star Trek: Early Voyages. Both of them are being televised, finally.
Despite what I said earlier, I'll concede the Academy video game wasn't half-bad...
(So were the Klingon game, which was my favorite, and the Elite Force game w/Voyager's crew... oh for those decades ago when we all thought arthritis was a work of sci-fi too...)
What was the premise of the Academy series? I am having a hard time visualising anything other then a teen drama without the space exploration.
It's ok if you don't have any imagination. It only matters that the people writing this do.
To me, this is a perfect opportunity as a springboard for newer fans. You don't need to know anything about Trek but can learn along side the main characters. To me, an Academy series is a great way to make it new and fresh even if old fans might roll their eyes and go "We already know this!" Yeah, that's the problem. Star Trek should be accessible and I think an Academy series can go a long way to making that possible, and even a bit more grounded. Most people have been students at some point in time.
l do hope they ditch the "best of the best" angle that often accompanied previous Academy based episodes and have "regular" characters instead.
depends how they do it, and more importantly WHEN. As in, where in the timeline. 23rd? 24th? Late 24th?
I would like a series set in the Enterprise timeframe, maybe 2154-5 or so? couple years before the start of the Romulan War, and show a set of human cadets from all walks of life, maybe the occasional alien? A young denobulan, or Andorian going through the academy for a time.
And steadily show the hint of the war to come, the fall out of the Terra Prime movement ( way to show Racism/alienism) maybe a hermaphrodites' species at the academy, or a teacher. Vulcan teachers, Andorian Teachers, a Tellerite roaming around. But mainly a core group of humans. and after the start of the war show them on a cadet ship.
Have classes about warp drive, phasers, torpedoes, a entry course to all things Trek.
Could easily last 5-6 seasons, have Enterprise cast cameo's maybe more than a cameo. Maybe at the end of season 1 or 2, have the Romulans attack Earth and Hit the academy, show them running around, helping people, maybe even kill off a main character. Possibilities are endless with this time frame!
I would like a series set in the Enterprise timeframe, maybe 2154-5 or so? couple years before the start of the Romulan War, and show a set of human cadets from all walks of life, maybe the occasional alien? A young denobulan, or Andorian going through the academy for a time.
And steadily show the hint of the war to come, the fall out of the Terra Prime movement ( way to show Racism/alienism) maybe a hermaphrodites' species at the academy, or a teacher. Vulcan teachers, Andorian Teachers, a Tellerite roaming around. But mainly a core group of humans. and after the start of the war show them on a cadet ship.
Have classes about warp drive, phasers, torpedoes, a entry course to all things Trek.
Could easily last 5-6 seasons, have Enterprise cast cameo's maybe more than a cameo. Maybe at the end of season 1 or 2, have the Romulans attack Earth and Hit the academy, show them running around, helping people, maybe even kill off a main character. Possibilities are endless with this time frame!
It would be nice. I really want an everyperson style of character to explore that ground level experience, rather than always assuming everyone is enamored with Starfleet like fans are.
I'm sure they'll have a gifted Wesley-like wunderkind to get burned out and run away with an older man. And I'm sure the cast will be relatable, ST'09-ish types.
In fact, my dream series would basically be an expanded version of the cadet scenes in the '09 movie, with young Kirk, Spock, Uhura, McCoy and the rest (fudging ages Smallville/Gotham-style) creating chaos.
Although if the last rumours are true, it's set in the Discovery season 3 era on "New Earth" so probably new characters.
OK, I´m glad there´s talk about it again but my problem is still the same. Ever since the revival the only product that satisfied me in the realm of what it was trying to do was the first season of Lower Decks. Please give the material to the good writers with a lot of imagination!
helping rebuild Starfleet, that would be neat.
Plenty of teen drama, and Red Squad was the snooty fraternity analogue, but the drama including crazy Trek-only twists, like the Vulcan character turning out to be a brainwashed Romulan spy, the Squad leader killed in the fifth issue, and huge tie-ins with the ongoing TV series (Nog was a main character in the comic) that culminated in their involvement in the epic "Telepathy War" (the Dominion attacking all the telepaths in the Alpha Quadrant before and during the Dominion War).
They spent about half of their issues in space (usually via runabouts) on class assignments that went off-kilter, and their archenemies were the Klingon Academy students of the First Cadre.
My thought exactly! I'm sure this is actually just Kurtzman and company independently developing similar premises as the 1990s Star Trek Marvel writers, but it does feel a little bit like we're seeing the 1997 Star Trek Marvel lineup come to life!
Side-note: The writer of the 1990s Starfleet Academy series was longtime comics scribe Chris Cooper, whose video of a white woman attempting to falsely report he had threatened her to the police (he is black) in retaliation for him asking her to put her dog on a leash in Central Park went viral last year. Apparently he didn't like Star Trek: Picard, but otherwise (
) he seems like a really awesome, amazing guy!
One appeal I do like with a Academy show is a chance to see more of future earth. I think I would set it in Picard time and have a established character as a regular or semi-regular who runs the Academy. Chief O'Brien would make sense. Plus of you wait a few years Riker and Troi's daughter could be a regular.
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