Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x06 – “Come, Let’s Away”

[firehawk12]

The Athena is a training ship and they just all barely survived. I think Ake made the decision to get the students to safety versus chasing a guy in a fleeing ship.

They could have showed him having a second cloaked ship or the escape pod having warp drive or something. Instead it's like they just forgot about him. Maybe a scene was cut, but it was odd way to end that conflict.

My take on the subject is that they've been repairing the ship for years rather than resetting it. There's some exercises but a reminder that Starfleet Academy's first class is...this class. This is probably the first time they've been there.

I mentioned colleges use students for work after all.

The War College has been doing this test for 5 years at least. And presumably every team would want to fix the life support first, just like Caleb did... unless they really just decided to not bother and stay in their bubble suits the whole time.

That also reminds me that the whole 1 hour time limit thing seems so arbitrary, particularly for what amounts to an engineering problem. Maybe it's trying to train them to be accurate with their assessments instead of using Scotty time.

I mean the Furies are human-hybrids. But I also appreciate the mixing of culture in the future.

What species is Braka though? And why doesn't he have his own culture other than being scummy pirate with daddy issues?

She's a Federation citizen so I assume she knows lots of Earthisms.

I mean being on Earth doesn't mean people would know everything about every culture. There's a billion Chinese and Indian people so technically they're the "dominant" cultures of the planet and I would suspect the average American isn't going to be able to quote Mandarin or Hindu idiom, but I could be wrong.

By contrast, this shows the War College is not made of bad people, just school rivals. He died protecting Caleb because he was a hero and the War College is making true Federation officers not just House Slytherin.

I agree, I just wish that they did something with them in the previous 5 episodes other than make them the generic enemy frat house.

I assume it's not a real comic book but might be. It was just showing comics had survived as a medium and also humanizes B'avi before his death. He's a Vulcan who liked comics, which means we know more about him than most Redshirts who aren't getting married.

Honestly it felt like what they did on Discovery where the previously unused bridge crews suddenly had backstories right before they were written off the show. Like I can see the writer's hand in trying to make the character meaningful right before they're dead. Maybe that's just such a Star Trek trope that I can't help but be bothered by it.

Incidentally the uniforms in the comic are different, so I guess Starfleet had yet another uniform change... which is an odd thing to be worried about when you've lost all warp capability, but space fashion is key! lol

I'm interested in what he takes so personally about her condemnation.

I assume it's being she relentlessly chased him down. But also he apparently murdered some people when she caught him, which makes it not as gray as Eddington I suppose.

I doubt that will be the way it goes but I'm still holding out for Caleb's mom to be the leader of the pirates not Nus.

I guess if they turn her evil, it makes the whole surrogate mother/child thing they're going for make sense.
Although then you'd have Braka trying to actively kill his boss' son... unless she doesn't care about him at all which is why she never bothered looking for him.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

What species is Braka though? And why doesn't he have his own culture other than being scummy pirate with daddy issues?

It's stated in episode 1 that he is a Klingon/Tellarite hybrid

 

[tenmei]

Although then you'd have Braka trying to actively kill his boss' son... unless she doesn't care about him at all which is why she never bothered looking for him.

It begs the question, we don't know for sure she's actually his Mom

 

[CT_Phipps]

I guess if they turn her evil, it makes the whole surrogate mother/child thing they're going for make sense.
Although then you'd have Braka trying to actively kill his boss' son... unless she doesn't care about him at all which is why she never bothered looking for him.

He seems to be quite irritated with her but mentioned they escaped the prison planet together.

 

[CT_Phipps]

It begs the question, we don't know for sure she's actually his Mom

That seems a bit of a stretch as otherwise she's just some random baby she stole.

 

[Galaxy]

What species is Braka though? And why doesn't he have his own culture other than being scummy pirate with daddy issues?

Klingon-Tellerite

 

[Orac]

I will write my review tomorrow, but one thing I want to address that I noticed.

The Furies: they reminded me of the ambassador to the Drakh in BABYLON 5's "Lines of Communication". The sort of phase shifting of the face was very much like that.

Now that you mention it, I can see that too, my first thought though while watching was that they were inspired by the night molesters from the TNG episode Schisms; because of the clicking noise they made.

 

[iarann]

I'll be honest, I haven't disliked the show so far, but often came away from episodes thinking they were just ok to cringe, things I would score below 6 out of 10, SNW season 3 rather than season 2. This was the first episode I really enjoyed. Braka is great as a villain, I'm happy to see more of Vance, and while I'm sad my favorite character in B'Avi died it was nice to see the good guys lose and get a The Empire Strikes Back moment to get the characters to start taking things seriously. I'm very excited to see what direction the rest of the season goes.

 

[CT_Phipps]

Caleb's "Star Fleet Imperialism" thing will be interesting to have commented on because it really is the kind of random thing thrown about by people who don't like the franchise but broadly agree with its politics.

 

[Michael]

Only managed to watch the first few minutes so far before being off to work, but I found the Caleb/Tarima sequence really beautiful and very well done. The Olivia Dean song is gorgeous and fits perfectly. The way it’s filmed and cut is nothing groundbreaking, but still I appreciate how well they capture the intimacy and intensity of their young love.

Can’t wait to check out the rest later tonight!

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[NCC-73515]

This was bizarre, the worst one yet.

The comic suggests the Miyazaki is from the 2250s-60s. Convincing a computer via comic book?

Is Giamatti's bla bla supposed to be interesting? Cause it's not

Now we know why her dad is deaf: She damaged his brain

She screams people to death. Is she related to Su'Kal?

 

[tenmei]

This was bizarre, the worst one yet.

The comic suggests the Miyazaki is from the 2250s-60s. Convincing a computer via comic book?

Is Giamatti's bla bla supposed to be interesting? Cause it's not

Now we know why her dad is deaf: She damaged his brain

She screams people to death. Is she related to Su'Kal?

Where does it say the Miyazaki is from TOS? It explicitly states its either just prior to or immedoately after The Burn.


Although the Bridge is clearly the Pike-prise, the command chair and CONN/Ops looked different, and were the non command chairs from the Disco?

 

[thribs]

Starfleet are pretty stupid in the future. Even I could tell he was behind everything.

 

[Kraig]

Where are Caleb’s roommates?

He left a sock on the door handle.

This was a very satisfying adventure with many twists, some predictable, others surprising! Another 10.

He had to use something other than his sock, because, according to the Olivia Dean opening song, they're sharing socks.


I gave this episode a 9, it knocked my socks off.

 

[thribs]

Where does it say the Miyazaki is from TOS? It explicitly states its either just prior to or immedoately after The Burn.


Although the Bridge is clearly the Pike-prise, the command chair and CONN/Ops looked different, and were the non command chairs from the Disco?

He means the comic book which looked like it was set in the TOS era.

The Furies reminded me of the Magog from Andromeda.

 

[cooleddie74]

Where does it say the Miyazaki is from TOS? It explicitly states its either just prior to or immedoately after The Burn.


Although the Bridge is clearly the Pike-prise, the command chair and CONN/Ops looked different, and were the non command chairs from the Disco?

There's a line of dialogue late in the episode saying the ship was damaged and left adrift 125 years ago, meaning 3070. Roughly the date of the Burn.

 

[tenmei]

There's a line of dialogue late in the episode saying the ship was damaged and left adrift 125 years ago, meaning 3070. Roughly the date of the Burn.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

 

[NCC-73515]

Where does it say the Miyazaki is from TOS? It explicitly states its either just prior to or immedoately after The Burn.


Although the Bridge is clearly the Pike-prise, the command chair and CONN/Ops looked different, and were the non command chairs from the Disco?

Look at any of those comic pages...

 

[Discovery McDiscoveryFace]

He had to use something other than his sock, because, according to the Olivia Dean opening song, they're sharing socks.
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I gave this episode a 9, it knocked my socks off.

Well played. You remind me of a book where the author was on the way back home to Switzerland to his grandfather's funeral. He' on the flight remembering visiting him as a child. "In mind mind, I still picture him, pottering about in his clogs, which he has now popped".

 

[Discovery McDiscoveryFace]

Where does it say the Miyazaki is from TOS? It explicitly states its either just prior to or immedoately after The Burn.


Although the Bridge is clearly the Pike-prise, the command chair and CONN/Ops looked different, and were the non command chairs from the Disco?

The uniforms - I had to look twice but they are 2260s....