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

[Nerys Myk]

It's perhaps worth remembering that even the sainted Jean-Luc Picard got stabbed in a bar fight when he was a cocky young cadet, and that Jim Kirk hacked into the Academy computers to tamper with the Kobyashi Maru test.

There's a long tradition of future Starfleet legends getting into trouble in their rash, impetuous youths.

Janeway once stole coffee from the Teacher's Lounge. (That might just be in my head canon, though)

 

[I am not Spock]

The early reactions to Caleb remind me of the earlier reactions to Mariner and Dal. As with those characters, Caleb is on a journey that we've only seen the first couple steps of. I came to like Mariner and Dal very much, and frankly I already like Caleb more than I liked either of those two after two episodes.

this. I remember people thinking Dal was a bit annoying in the first few episodes. Now , Pro and Lower Decks are pretty much beloved by most of the fandom .

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Mariner hate was palpable. Not a lot of love for Boims, either.

 

[Fateor]

"Here's an extra galactic species that is so powerful and high up the Kardashev Scale that, to them, most sentient species are like ants and irrelevant, and only matter when the extra galactic species register us communicating ..."

Nick Lacarno was able to put together a solar system spanning forcefield 800 years ago.

Species 10-C was only impressive because the Discovery crew was from the 2300s.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Nick Lacarno was able to put together a solar system spanning forcefield 800 years ago.

Species 10-C was only impressive because the Discovery crew was from the 2300s.

We'll file that with the rest.

 

[Fateor]

We'll file that with the rest.

Betazed also had a solarsystem spanning shield.

 

[tenmei]

A psionic shield, not a deflector shield, though.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Betazed also had a solarsystem spanning shield.

And? Tech operates at the needs of plot. Writers pick and chose what they want and when they want it.

 

[Fateor]

A psionic shield, not a deflector shield, though.

Which is harder to do and, knowing the history of such things in Star Trek, probably powered by sacrificing small children every couple years.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Which is harder to do and, knowing the history of such things in Star Trek, probably powered by sacrificing small children every couple years.

It's a planet full of powerful telepaths. It would be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

 

[Firebird]

Nick Lacarno was able to put together a solar system spanning forcefield 800 years ago.

Species 10-C was only impressive because the Discovery crew was from the 2300s.

And what other items can you quote, chapter and verse, from Memory Alpha?

 

[Set Harth]

tryhard shield, lol!

 

[fireproof78]

Warp 10 was achieved twice in TOS and once in TNG and yet it gets a whole redefining by Voyager. Why did it change and warp drive get forgotten?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Warp 10 was achieved twice in TOS and once in TNG and yet it gets a whole redefining by Voyager. Why did it change and warp drive get forgotten?

Starfleet's filing system leaves little to be desired.

 

[Charles Phipps]

I think the Burn was meant to reset the galaxy back to TOS/SNW/DISCO era, which is something that the fans have kind of rejected. The Burn is controversial but the setting has been pretty consistent about the fact that it was the galactic apocalypse.

Reality wasn't set back to the Middle Ages but it seems like it went from being the Culture to being Borderlands.

Lots of planets with Raiders and starvation.

 

[Greg Cox]

I think the Burn was meant to reset the galaxy back to TOS/SNW/DISCO era, which is something that the fans have kind of rejected. The Burn is controversial but the setting has been pretty consistent about the fact that it was the galactic apocalypse.

Some modern fans do seem convinced that Trek is fundamentally about "evolved" humans in a "post-scarcity utopia."

Personally, just as a matter of preference, I like my Star Trek more "Final Frontier" than literally "Utopian."

Like TOS, DS9, DISCO, etc.

 

[Tuskin38]

I think the Burn was meant to reset the galaxy back to TOS/SNW/DISCO era,

I never got that feeling.

 

[Fateor]

Warp 10 was achieved twice in TOS and once in TNG and yet it gets a whole redefining by Voyager. Why did it change and warp drive get forgotten?

Because the Warp Scale was changed in-between TOS and TNG.

I think the Burn was meant to reset the galaxy back to TOS/SNW/DISCO era, which is something that the fans have kind of rejected. The Burn is controversial but the setting has been pretty consistent about the fact that it was the galactic apocalypse.

Reality wasn't set back to the Middle Ages but it seems like it went from being the Culture to being Borderlands.

Lots of planets with Raiders and starvation.

Fans have rejected it because civilization stops being that fragile when you hit the point the Federation was at even in just the 24th century.

 

[fireproof78]

Because the Warp Scale was changed in-between TOS and TNG.

Never explained on screen. Poor writing.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Fans have rejected it because civilization stops being that fragile when you hit the point the Federation was at even in just the 24th century.

Yeah...no