My headcanon is the the entire SF Bay Area is the Acadmy. From Marin to Santa Clara and maybe down to Santa Cruz/Monterey.
Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x01 – “Kids These Days”
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Bajor was within range of the Federation during the Burn years. After all, as per Disco S3, Starfleet had the Dominion under regular surveillance. The only way that would have been possible is if they had easy access to Bajor and by extension the wormhole into the Gamma Quadrant.
They wrote them just blowing them up. They could have wrote them disabling the ship. Or hell, since they needed Paul Giamatti to escape anyway, just have the ship run away like the pirate that tried to steal the Enterprise in SNW.
Yes and the writers made it clear that Sisko was "Ahab" at that point. It's not a "fist pump" hero moment.
Also there are a lot of jokes about Janeway being prosecuted for her hundreds of crimes, including the murder of Tuvix. lol
Remembering that the Burn was a one-off / discontinuous event, but the main apprehension came from the uncertainty of a repeat. Interstellar travel continued, but there was less of it as the affected galactic powers became more strategic in their choice of when to use it, and commercial users yanked the price up.If you wanted to travel, you travelled, but maybe it cost more, and maybe you accepted a heightened risk.
Look at me explaining this like it was an actual historical series of events.....
She just disagreed with the ruling, that doesn't mean it was extra judicial
Gave it a 7, I'd say typical good Discovery episode, some good, some Huh.. but in general enjoyable. One part that i DIDN'T like is the Jema-klingon was yelling at the kids.. DON"T FN YELL at people. If your yelling you've already lost. Its not some military boot camp, its a freaking collage/academy. Plus the having a "robust" black lady yelling was.. stereotypical? ( Trying to be nice) all she was missing was a flip-flop.
Anyways. Decent start, I'll keep watching.
Anyways. Decent start, I'll keep watching.
According to the memorial wall, Harry Kim became a badmiral (seems fitting).
It's both.
This is a military organization and training to serve in it.
I agree on the yelling but that's another thing, especially given multiple species being represented here. Flashbacks to the Zakdorn insulting Wesley.
She was the highlight of the first episode, for me. Seemed like the only one with an actual personality that wasn't baked in smugness.
Firmly disagree. In the military, yelling happens. That's how you mold people into dealing with deadly environments.
ETA: If you can't deal with yelling, you've already lost your life.
ETA: If you can't deal with yelling, you've already lost your life.
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It's both (Something along the lines of Annapolis or The Citadel).
They're going to be military officers. They have to take discipline.
Indeed, officers need to model discipline for enlisted persons and NCOs.
That's because the writers have no sense of scale about just what the "Burn" actually would have been like.
Not really, they could have used Slipstream, Protowarp, Transwarp, or Transwarp Corridors to travel there.
Or artificial microwormholes to communicate with whatever colonies were in the area.
I appreciate the comment. But I disagree.
First, for most practical (i.e., actually implementable) purposes, up through DIS season 5, they did need dilithium. I vaguely remember a whole line of dialog from Vance (?) about how Starfleet has investigated a ton of alternative warp options but has failed at them all till now (frankly ridiculous, given the variety of technologies we have seen in Trek before including Romulan sigularities and spacial trajectors, etc., but that is Discovery writers and the power of plot for you). Second, given what Trek has shown us, fusion reactors, as powerful as they are, would never generate enough power for high-level warp, and additionally would require too much on-board fuel. And Bajor is a long way away, low-level warp wouldn't get you there in a reasonable time even for a half-lanthanite.
It's more likely that I am forgetting more instances of warp travel in the post-Burn era. Enough such that interstellar travel is feasible, just not enough to hold a large (100+ lightyear) political entity like the Federation together. Or the show just forgot that it should be extremly hard to get to Bajor.
Hmm, I don't remember that, but makes sense for the Federation. But one of the most important once-and-potentially-future adversaries being within range for surveillance by the Federation/Starfleet is quite different from being within travel range for a former captain turned teacher who wants to get away from things for a while. Seems like a stretch. Vulcan, Tellar, Betazed - those I could see getting a transport to, but Bajor, that is a hike!
She's the same one who swallowed her badge and got pissed off at SAM. She's not making a good first impression.
Of course let us not forget all the cadets who ran away from their posts in Wrath of Khan. They are still children, just because they pass an exam doesn't mean they can handle blood and explosions on day 1.
It means their training sucked. Someone should have been yelling at them.
In this instance though there hadn't been any training, they were still on their way to school for their first day. No one is considered university educated just because they chose their course.
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