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News Starfleet Academy Coming to P+
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False Fan was my favorite 1960s TV Batman villain. Played by Malachi Throne, no less.
Awards are given posthumously all the time.
There could be a mixture of the living and the dead on the wall (although after 800 years, most of the people on that wall are probably dead regardless).
Have you met Trek fandom?
This was Wesley's rank in Nemesis, right?Either way, I guess Wesley re-enlists for some reason but then either only goes as high as Lt.JG or somehow is at his most famous at that point.
The wall will be adjusted before streaming.
Just a little something to stir up excitement and raise chatter and interest.
Just a little something to stir up excitement and raise chatter and interest.
It is the insignia he wore in Nemesis, though given both Picard and Prodigy have shown he has remained a Traveler all this time, the belief in fandom is that what we see in Nemesis was something similar to how the novels explained that, he mistakenly thought he was on Betezed and showed up naked. He was then hastily given a uniform with a Lt. JG's insignia on it.
Doesn't explain why he didn't just remove the hollow pip and wear his proper rank insignia though.
The same ones who gush over Picard season three and the prospect of Legacy?
Oh yeah. ...weird call to make for the wall on that one.
To state the obvious,...
All of this half-this,/half-that labeling is the opposite of attracting or opening the series up to new viewers. I wonder if the producers even conscious of that or are running on autopilot.
it's a peculiar Star Trek in-group coding premised on the notion that a character's racial background tells you something interesting about them. That it should be the first thing we're told about them. That the character's appearance should be designed to make us curious about what basket we should sort them into - which is doubly funny, because most "alien" makeup design in Star Trek is so minimal and conservative that it has little potential to catch the attention or imagination of anyone who's not already into the franchise.
It's also a problematic, old-fashioned kind of storytelling shorthand that many people would call "racist" now if not for the good will that Trek has built up on so many fronts.
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Agreed, they definitely went a bit overboard with the amount of characters being half this and half that. There’s like four, isn’t there? Strikes me as a completely unnecessary, fannish idea. Then again, from an in-universe perspective, in a world where inter-species procreation is a thing, it probably makes sense a millennium down the line that many of those species have reproduced with one another. But yeah, as a storytelling tool it’s super fannish.
I’m personally also not super fond of cramming this full of references to previous Trek productions. This is only the first fucking trailer (!) and it’s already chock-full of cute call-backs and name-dropping. Certainly not something I need in my Trek.
Other than that it looks cool, I guess. Am interested to get to know these new characters and get reintroduced to their world. I wanna say SAM is the most intriguing so far, with her apparently being a newly-activated hologram.
I’m personally also not super fond of cramming this full of references to previous Trek productions. This is only the first fucking trailer (!) and it’s already chock-full of cute call-backs and name-dropping. Certainly not something I need in my Trek.
Other than that it looks cool, I guess. Am interested to get to know these new characters and get reintroduced to their world. I wanna say SAM is the most intriguing so far, with her apparently being a newly-activated hologram.
My number one question is, who is Holly Hunter playing? I hope it's a character, and one with depth, at that. Dare I dream?
The 400 year old half Lathanite Chancellor of Starfleet Academy.
Half Lanthanite, huh.
I skipped past them/blocked their recommendation on my YouTube suggestions, but I've already seen a couple of commentators saying SFA is 'woke' and Skydance should cancel it.
You lost an 'n' in the species name somehow.
The biggest point of intrigue for me coming out of this trailer and information dump is the concept that the U.S.S. Athena itself is the titular Starfleet Academy, or at least part of it.
Haven’t spelled the name often enough to have it down. Sometimes “Romulan” gives me trouble too.
It’s a whole thing in the far future, apparently.
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