Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x04 – “Vox in Excelso”

[Commander Richard]

"When an existential crisis threatens to wipe out a beloved but infamous Star Trek species, a cadet is forced to confront his past and strained relationship with his family. As he pursues an unexpected method of coping, Nahla races against time to save this species from extinction." - TrekCore.com

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[NCC-73515]

IIRC, this will have some 'shocking' reveal about the Klingons

 

[TRON JA307020]

IIRC, this will have some 'shocking' reveal about the Klingons

What? That they're near extinction?

 

[Fateor]

IIRC, this will have some 'shocking' reveal about the Klingons

Is it wrong the only thing I can think of about that is that they're going to try and explain the Discovery Klingons?

 

[NCC-73515]

That would certainly be worthy of plenty of discussion

 

[Starflight]

Gotta admit, that synopsis is setting off Discovery-ish alarm bells, but I've been pleasantly surprised by every other episode so far and the writers are building trust, so let's do this.

 

[Galaxy]

 

[NCC-73515]

present ... business

The EMH left out part of Aaron Satie's wisdom
Autor Author reference!
A semi-vegan Klingon? And they're refugees now!

When they slam their glasses, they say: May your blood scream!

And here's the thing from the reviews...

 

[TRON JA307020]

That would certainly be worthy of plenty of discussion

It looks like they are going the extinction route. Maybe that being a warrior race is destroying them. A scenario of the burn bringing the Klingon empire to their knees and they could no longer travel space and have battles. So they fought amongst eachother and the ensuing wars have brought the klingons to near extinction.

 

[trek.]

EMH saying "chickenshit" in the first 30 seconds of this episode is so distracting and cringe.

 

[NCC-73515]

USS Riker!
The Klingon theme!
And what sounds like a version or continuation of the warrior's anthem

The groumallish freighters from the promo clip



It was fine, much better than last week's, but quite predictable and a little shallow. Of course you have to make them (mock) fight for it. Riker had to hit Kargan to truly give him his command back. The Klingons don't like charity, and the worse the circumstances get for them, the prouder they defend their ideals. And no one knew that? Maybe they've been gone from the Fed's eyes for so long that everyone forgot and hadn't even met many Klingons in their whole lives. Which other episodes does this repeat? It happened a few times IIRC. The flashbacks were nice, but could've been deeper. The ugly Disco "sword" works much better as a bow! Wish we'd seen the ships better. And the old leader reminded me of the Albino of all people

 

[Discovery McDiscoveryFace]

Watching now. Nahla is a little bit Marge Simpson mixed with the Nagus.

 

[Galaxy]

I enjoyed this one, even with the solution being ritual combat see able a mile away,

The "combat" scenes were meh though, compared to Klingon battles like The Way of the Warrior.

8.

 

[tomalak301]

I really liked this episode. After worrying about the show after last week's episode (Which I still think was very mean spirited) this episode was Star Trek done really really well. It was a show about ideals, and we got to learn a lot about Jay-Den and what happened to the Klingons post burn. The guy who plays Jay-Den (I'm sorry I'm still not familiar with names yet) did a fantastic job carrying this episode, and I did like the Klingon/Federation fight for the planet scene. It brought home the point of the debate and what Jay-Den was saying about the emotional side rather than quoting stats and facts.

Also, I don't mind the quirkiness of Nahla, and if she likes Barefeet so be it. My issue last week was the Camera guy who seemed to want to take shots at the feet any chance they got. It's a personal thing being grossed out by feet. Nothing against anyone else.

It's still early yet so I'm going to save my 10, but after last week's episode and being kind of turned off by it all, the show came back with a bang this week and did everything I love about Star Trek. For that it gets a 9.

 

[NCC-73515]

It's kinda "fair" in the sense of balance that long after the Romulans were refugees and their empire destroyed, the same happened to the Klingons too

 

[Galaxy]

From an in Universe perspective a massive rolls eyes, that machos need such pandering.

I am sure many barrels of blood wine have been opened over the great battle of Faan Alpha.

 

[ToddCam]

What's with Caleb's weird Stardate reciting? Canon violation! Truly terrible. The worst Star Trek series by far.

 

[Discovery McDiscoveryFace]

Okay - I gave it an 8 because it was well executed though I think the attempt to tie in the backstory with the Faan Alpha planet and with the mass debate, didn't land well. I got to thinking that this would have played better with the straight A storyline of trying to diplomat the offer of the planet.

Then I remembered they diplomatted already.

Then I remembered it's this show and they need to tie it back to the academy.

I still have to remind myself that Sandro Rosta had never acted in any filmed media before this, or even in a studio, and came directly from drama school.

 

[cooleddie74]

My favorite of the first four episodes. Almost a start-to-finish winner. I give it a 9.

The show isn't perfect by any longshot, but so far it's surprised me with how good it's been.

 

[cooleddie74]

Is it wrong the only thing I can think of about that is that they're going to try and explain the Discovery Klingons?

I hope there's a mention of the Augment Virus having been " a problem" that took a hot minute to correct.