Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x10 – “Rubincon”

[tomalak301]

Other than some melodrama and some serious overacting from Paul Giamatti, I did enjoy that episode. I still stand by what I said about this series needing like a Prologue movie like Vulcan Hello/Battle of the Binary stars and I wish we did get more from the trial, but I think the thing I appreciated the most about the episode was being pleasently happy that it wasn't some bang 'em up action finale. It was a very Star Trek finale with ideals and debate. However, I look at an episode like this and wonder if the rest of the season could have been rewritten with this episode as a foundational core. Did we really need Vitas Reflux, or the episode with the Wedding that was kind of boring?

I don't think I have given an episode a 9 yet, and this episode actually surprised me so I'm going to go ahead and give it a 9. I do wonder if it made the rest of the episodes this season a gigantic missed opportunity though to tell a cohesive interesting story about this Post Burn world. I know they have to use Starfleet Academy as the center-peice, but I think it showed how the show could have worked if they were not stuck on Earth but actually used the Athena as a mobile Starfleet Academy and seeking out Strange New Worlds.

 

[edschen]

BTW, Strontium does burn red.

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[NCC-73515]

Well...We did get a quick glance of Discovery out of the window, so I guess that counts.

I first thought it was Disco, but in the later shot I wan't sure anymore

 

[GothicPudding]

No one ever thought of adding gluons to stabilize Omega?

Presumably that was in the files that Vance and Thok sent the Athena at the beginning of the episode. When the Doctor was in the computer, he absorbed that knowledge?

I suppose we have confirmation that they intended this season to take place between 3191 to 3192, based on the "Class of 3196" at the end.

I enjoyed it. I found it slightly funny that it seemed like they had the saucer separation last episode so they could use existing sets for the trial scene.

I felt like the writers had a plan for each cadet's development this season and wrote the episodes with that in mind. Hopefully they did something similar for next season.

 

[Fateor]

"There is no time in the history of the Federation that it has fired on civilians."

Well we know that's a lie.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

"There is no time in the history of the Federation that it has fired on civilians."

Well we know that's a lie.

It would be great if you could state the counterexample(s).

 

[Kraig]

Well, we have an explanation on the title. It's pretty cleaver.

So good, I give it a 10.





The fleet arrives

 

[cooleddie74]

I first thought it was Disco, but in the later shot I wan't sure anymore

Yeah, the nacelles looked way different, so the resemblance was just superficial. Unless Discovery had a brief refit to a different configuration before the events at the end of the DSC series finale!

 

[cooleddie74]

Well, the first season of SFA is in the books.

I think I can confidently say this series is better than both DSC and PIC. Not bad.

 

[Fateor]

It would be great if you could state the counterexample(s).

When Sisko used a biogenic weapon on Solosos III in the episode For the Uniform.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

When Sisko used a biogenic weapon on Solosos III in the episode For the Uniform.

a) Sisko didn't use a biogenic weapon. Eddington used one against a Cardassian colony, which precipitated what followed.

b) Sisko didn't fire on civilians. He temporarily turned them into homeless refuges, who were able to resettle where it was legal to do so according to the treaty with the Cardassians, still living and breathing, unharmed.

Just to clarify for whatever other instances might be offered as counterexamples, in this context, firing on civilians means using weapons to kill them. That's what was under discussion in "Rubincon".

 

[Agony_Boothb]

When Sisko used a biogenic weapon on Solosos III in the episode For the Uniform.

The weapons Sisko used detonated in the atmosphere of Solosos III. Sisko didn't specifically target the Maquis base as the VFX shot shows the Trilithium resin dispersing via air currents across the planet. Sisko also notified the Maquis of his intentions and gave them the opportunity to evacuate, which the Maquis chose not to do until the last second. Sisko's actions are questionable, but the notion that he fired directly on civilians is not accurate.

 

[thribs]

That’s such bullshit about the Discovery. Its spore drive has nothing to do with subspace.

 

[Weyoun 251]

"Now show me pretty streaks of light" - little bit wordier than your standard but it might be my new favourite "go to warp" phrase

 

[Agony_Boothb]

That’s such bullshit about the Discovery. Its spore drive has nothing to do with subspace.

The Mycelial network is a layer of subspace. Therefore the spore drive has to access subspace to be used. This is stated in multiple episodes. Get your facts right.

 

[cooleddie74]

Giamatti was overacting to a degree that makes Shatner seem like a character in a Merchant-Ivory film, but damn, was he fun this season. Nus Braka is one of the best guest villains in 21st century Trek, up there with characters like John Frederick Paxton or Nero.

 

[DaveyNY]

Gave it a 9.
Much better than episode 9 though Braka's whiny monologue was cringe.

TIme to go into Trek withdrawal again.

 

[Discovery McDiscoveryFace]

That’s such bullshit about the Discovery. Its spore drive has nothing to do with subspace.

The Mycelial network is a layer of subspace. Therefore the spore drive has to access subspace to be used. This is stated in multiple episodes. Get your facts right.

A 20 second google would have saved them their embrrassment

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I loved this episode!

Also, I was spot on with the 1x Omega Particle per Mine, the total Mine's within the Mine-Field count is in the "Hundreds", I would've guessed much higher than that, but it is what it is.

 

[Discovery McDiscoveryFace]

I added a point for "Think about how much you hate me little fish, it'll keep you warm at night". And then deducted it for that FECKING STUPID CLOSING CREDITS. They thought they were being oh so clever, like when the actors signed off in their own names at the end of TUC. It really didn't work.

But, it was a good enough episode, not season finale material, but at least designed to bring the story to a close if we didn't get to see a S2 (which apparently remains a possibility).

I do worry about the quality of S2's post production if Secret Hideout doesn't get a continuing deal. It hardly incentivises them to go all out. And apparently S2 ends on a cliffhanger.