Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x08 – “The Life of the Stars”

[Mr Awe]

Pot, meet kettle.

Well, I'll grant that we both have strong opinions. At least my skin is thicker. I didn't get bent out of shape over a differing opinion. I'm actually happy for people who enjoyed the episode even though I didn't.

 

[Mr Awe]

What, exactly, is incorrect in that distillation of information?

Funny you should ask because I was directly mirroring one of his earlier snippy replies to me. What goes around, comes around, right? As he himself would say, it was more of a joke than making a case though.

 

[Nerys Myk]

And why should I care what your LLM says? They have negative credibility.

They are hurt by your comments and luckily haven't reached a level of sentience to plot revenge.
But to be serious
Here's a quote from an article in the Oregonian in 2014

But Our Town won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and it is now estimated that, on average, Our Town is performed at least once every night somewhere in the world."

Too old? Here's one from 2025 published in conjunction with the Broadway revival.

This universal embrace of the play has never ended. Even now, Our Town, with its message about the transcendent value of our growing up, our living, and our dying, is performed at least once every day somewhere in the world. I

A review of a Boston performance also from 2025

Lyric’s playbill calls Our Town, “An American Classic for our time.” In that, I fully agree. The play wears a veneer of homespun happiness, but scratch beneath the surface and everyone is isolated, fearful, and alone. Which pretty much sums up USA 2025.

Ok, good. Perhaps you're not aware of how you come off sometimes.

I think my rep as a level headed and occasionally funny poster is pretty sold. I'm downright lovable .

 

[fireproof78]

Well, I'll grant that we both have strong opinions. At least my skin is thicker. I didn't get bent out of shape over a differing opinion. I'm actually happy for people who enjoyed the episode even though I didn't.

To be perfectly blunt, the "bent out of shape" was the implications of someone having higher standards and being more sophisticated than I over a difference of opinion on a Star Trek episode, which is not high art.

 

[Nerys Myk]

which is not high art

How dare you!!!

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[Detached Nacelle]

As a thought - could the rando Cadets who appear in Tilly's Class be her third years?

If it does that means Academy season 1 takes place froum autumn 3192 until summer 3193. Meaning Reno left Discovery only a year after the finale which would mean she would have met Lura at some point before or after the events of season 4 and never brought it up.

 

[Nerys Myk]

If it does that means Academy season 1 takes place froum autumn 3192 until summer 3193. Meaning Reno left Discovery only a year after the finale which would mean she would have met Lura at some point before or after the events of season 4 and never brought it up.

Or brought it up all the time and we just never saw

 

[Fateor]

But to be serious
Here's a quote from an article in the Oregonian in 2014

Too old? Here's one from 2025 published in conjunction with the Broadway revival.

A review of a Boston performance also from 2025

So you're evidence that "Our Town is, for Americans, basic cultural literacy" is the fact that it's an intermittently running play?

You're really not helping Mudd's case here.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Or brought it up all the time and we just never saw

Very true. We only saw a couple of weeks of 3190 and 3191. I bet Linus knew, he seems the adorable gossipy type.

 

[Nerys Myk]

So you're evidence that "Our Town is, for Americans, basic cultural literacy" is the fact that it's an intermittently running play?

You're really not helping Mudd's case here.

Yeah. Shows it's a pervasive part of American culture. What you got, other than "theater worker friends?"

 

[Nerys Myk]

Very true. We only saw a couple of weeks of 3190 and 3191. I bet Linus knew, he seems the adorable gossipy type.

Anytime Reno wasn't in a scene, she was off with Lura.

 

[tenmei]

Thok's last assignment was supposedly the Locherer which showed up in Disco S5, so possibly where they first met?

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Anytime Reno wasn't in a scene, she was off with Lura.

Certainly the downside of short seasons. We see little of characters' lives and journeys either by just seeing one singular adventure like in Discovery or by skipping over weeks or months like in Academy.

 

[Mr Awe]

I think my rep as a level headed and occasionally funny poster is pretty sold. I'm downright lovable .

If you say so. Truce? Agree to differ on that episode?

 

[Mr Awe]

To be perfectly blunt, the "bent out of shape" was the implications of someone having higher standards and being more sophisticated than I over a difference of opinion on a Star Trek episode, which is not high art.

Agreed. The episode was NOT high art! Not even remotely.

 

[Tuskin38]

What, exactly, is incorrect in that distillation of information?

How do you know it's correct in the first place?

 

[Turtletrekker]

How do you know it's correct in the first place?

It matches with my experience with the play.

How do you know the sites you get from a Google search have the correct information? How do you know the encyclopedia hasn't copied the same mistake through volume through volume through volume?

 

[fireproof78]

Agreed. The episode was NOT high art! Not even remotely.

Star Trek is not high art either.

 

[Mr Awe]

Star Trek is not high art either.

No it's not. Also agreed.

 

[Tuskin38]

How do you know the sites you get from a Google search have the correct information?

I don't, but there are sources more trust worthy than others. Ones not written by AI