Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x03 – “Vitus Reflux”
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Heavens, people have strong feelings about this episode. And show. And they're entitled to.
But personally, after witnessing the first two seasons of "Enterprise" when they aired, "New Trek" would have to try hard to upset me more than that. After the mind-boggling incompetence of Captain "I'll be the one watering their sacred trees!" Archer, who was only supposed to be Earth's first face to the galaxy, I don't have a problem believing that the first generation of cadets during a time when Starfleet is rebuilding itself after a dark age would act immaturly.
This episode was meh in my opinion. I enjoyed the mugato mascot, but I'm getting sick of the foot fetish.
But personally, after witnessing the first two seasons of "Enterprise" when they aired, "New Trek" would have to try hard to upset me more than that. After the mind-boggling incompetence of Captain "I'll be the one watering their sacred trees!" Archer, who was only supposed to be Earth's first face to the galaxy, I don't have a problem believing that the first generation of cadets during a time when Starfleet is rebuilding itself after a dark age would act immaturly.
This episode was meh in my opinion. I enjoyed the mugato mascot, but I'm getting sick of the foot fetish.
People can be thrown against walls. Or pushed down stairs. Or can be picked up overhead and dropped about 6 feet onto the ground, with said person's back hitting smack in the middle of a big rock on the ground. Yes, people are sturdy and we do survive a lot of things.
Doesn't mean that isn't bullying behavior.
Doesn't mean that isn't bullying behavior.
What foot fetish?
I'm sure the fungus responsible was properly penalized.
Yeah, I'm not seeing where having a character who likes to go barefoot equates to a "fetish".
Holly Hunter spends half of an episode barefoot. She wears service boots on the bridge of the ship.
If that's a fetish then I've seen (and done) FAR, FAR better.
If that's a fetish then I've seen (and done) FAR, FAR better.
It's not a very interesting read in context. The War College kids suffered a couple of harmless pratfalls (@Greg Cox correctly points out that the register of things here is slapstick comedy exaggerated for humorous effect) as a consequence of a chain of events they set in motion.
Pissed as they might be -- or might pretend to be (we do see quite clearly that at least one of them sees the humor in the counter-prank) -- they are sensible enough not to try crying "bully!" about facing this very minimal consequence. Because that would be stupid. Kelrec, who is ultimately most directly responsible and egged them on, also has at least this level of awareness, which is a good writing call.
And Kelric, along with Ake, was fine with that behavior. Which sends entirely the wrong message to these cadets who they are supposed to be teaching the right messages.
Sorry, but I just can't dismiss that given my own experiences. And my feelings about this episode haven't changed.
I just hope the rest of the season is better.
Coming back to the TOS replicator discussion for a second, I was rewatching Day of the Dove, Kirk mentions having to modify the ‘food synthesizers’ to accommodate the Klingons
According to what dialogue from what episode?
Farscape One said:
I mean, I personally think it's more than a bit nutty for Kelrec (Kelric? I'm not clear on the spelling of his name) to set all this in motion. But the War College is a product of a dark age, so it's suited to playing the series' Slytherin.
(In a real-life context, what he's really engaging in here is a form of hazing, which has a bad name for good reason. And directly involving himself should, in any university we know today, lead to his being disciplined or fired; given that the shenanigans are really his idea, it's not as if the War College kids have a real choice about taking part. But in the context of a light-hearted SF show and within the bounds we see here, I don't have any particular problem with comedy being derived from things that in the real world would not be acceptable. You are, of course, welcome to your feelings about this episode or any other.)
I certainly don't attach any blame to Ake for helping to coordinate a (very mild and harmless) response when left with no other choice. Part of the episode's point, obviously, is that the galaxy needs Starfleet's ethics back precisely because of events like this.
Some of the early reviews have said this episode is the weakest of the first 6
I guess we'll see.
I hear Kirk is still seeing a chiropractor after having all those tribbles dumped on his head.
Or an allergist.
Enterprise where the name "Protein Resequencer" literally spells out what the neutral base is.
Strange New Worlds when they informed us that the neutral base used by food synthesizers was glucose.
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