I just finished this episode and didn't pick up on that. Was it mentioned in dialogue or hinted at? It's a genuine question, no hate or anything.
Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x03 – “Vitus Reflux”
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In the locker room before they get transported. He said he was dating a guy, then slept with his sisters and cousin.
Yeah, that's more defensible. Though something like 5,000 cadets in each grade seems a good enough balance of realism and what they could depict onscreen.
And that Kivas Fajo had a specimen of in his illegal collection in Season 3 of TNG.
Thank you!
Do you think they lack enough budget to create enough "Digital Extra's" to make the campus look more populated?
I dunno. DS9 managed to feel pretty populated, in spite of not having digital extras, and the overall set being smaller. I think a lot of it is just making sets crowded with extras, and not showing repeats too often.
I also think it would help if the show outright stated our mains (and in this episode, the War College cadets we see) are just a smaller clique/cohort in a wider school which largely remains offscreen.
Or even mention that other Star Fleet Academies are in the process of being set up on other worlds.
I gave this one a 7.
It took almost half the episode before I started developing an interest and I had to watch it a second time before it felt like something more than a Sci-Fi copy of "Saved by the Bell".
For me anyway, it may end up being a slog for me to get through this particular Trek show, but I'm not giving up.
I think of it as them starting out with a smaller cohort just to test things out before really ramping up recruitment.
Some random thoughts. During Kelrec's conversation with Ake, he mentions she has three hundred years on him, to which she responds "three hundred and fifty-two, if you want to be exact." Which would mean Kelrec is supposed to be seventy years old.
Also, given the transporter prank pulled in the 28th century is revealed at the end of the episode to be Ake's own doing when she was a cadet, that means she's been with Starfleet for over four hundred years, minus the most recent fifteen years. And she's only made Captain. Guess Starfleet still doesn't have an Up or Out policy.
Also, given the transporter prank pulled in the 28th century is revealed at the end of the episode to be Ake's own doing when she was a cadet, that means she's been with Starfleet for over four hundred years, minus the most recent fifteen years. And she's only made Captain. Guess Starfleet still doesn't have an Up or Out policy.
I'm half-expecting a Captain Ransom and timeship Relativity reference now that we have her age and that she was at the Academy back then.
I thought she was a captain who left and came back as Chancellor.
I'm still hoping they eventually do the Lathanite=Vampires joke some day (replicated blood works fine).
Which would make Ake into Bloodrayne.
Maybe she chose to remain captain. In the DS9 Relaunch novels there was a character who chose to remain a commander for a long time because of his involvement with Starfleet Intelligence (to keep a low profile).
I like that. It could be similar to how large universities on Earth have several satellite campuses. The show could say that this is the Earth campus of Starfleet Academy but there are satellite campuses on other Federation worlds. That would make a lot more sense.
In universe, Caleb was fully exposed, against his will, to the wider public. We might not have seen it on screen but in-universe that's what happened. That is a horrific thing to do.
^ Can you transport inside a holodeck simulation? I don't remember if i have seen that
That's how you retain so much staff and don't end up having "Man Power" shortages like modern military seems to have.
But in the future, the economy is different, so they don't have to worry about Personnel Budgets / Salaries like modern Militaries do.
So they can afford to retain anybody that wants to stay on board.
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