Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x02 – “Beta Test”

[Tuskin38]

There was a Kelpien in the background in one shot didn’t quite nail the walk as well As Doug jones did

 

[StarTrek1701]

Nah..

 

[Tuskin38]

Nah..

You didn’t even watch it

 

[trek.]

what was up with the 3rd roommate at the end there? he came off extremely cringe.

 

[FredH]

Second one’s distinctly more awkward, but it’s heart’s in the right place.

 

[StarTrek1701]

You didn’t even watch it

Yes I did and the second episode was horrible.
I'll say what a lot are saying on Reddit - "To Boldly Go Where No One Asked You To"
Cringe AF writing.

 

[FredH]

what was up with the 3rd roommate at the end there? he came off extremely cringe.

I have to agree — and I think he was the Betazed brother, which made it more odd.

 

[Galaxy]

So far I am all aboard.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Giving this one a 7. I usually cringe at teen romance, but I found the budding relationship between Tarima and Caleb pretty sweet. Tarima is quite a likeable character and I get hints of Tam Elbrun in why she needs to wear the dampener. Also the decision to make Betazed the federation capital was really cool. I think it makes a lot of sense post-burn to decentralise the Federation as much as possible. Having Starfleet academy located on Earth, the seat of government on Betazed and Starfleet Headquarters in space means no one planet can truly be prominent. Also, I think the Federation being so earth-centric was part of the reason things were starting to fall apart pre-burn

Overall a fun episode and the humour is hitting just right for me. Bonus points for the Doctor getting to sing opera.

 

[Fateor]

Is that the species from S31? The one from BEY had more on the face, IIRC.

It's probably supposed to be the same as the one from Beyond, just with a more limited makeup to save money.

 

[ToddCam]

Having just taken a 16 week class over the span of four over the semester break, I can't tell for sure, but I think the president was using American Sign Language. Not that I really need an explanation for why a Betazoid would use an Earth sign language, I can imagine sign language on Betazed would be uniquely unnecessary (given telepathic communication on top of audio for most who for whatever reason can't) I can imagine a kind of sign equivalent of Federation Standard (which is similarly based on English) may have been adapted as, well, a Federation standard.