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News Starfleet Academy Coming to P+
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I think it's more of that Prodigy was thought of as a way to get younger kids interested in the Star Trek franchise.
However, what they found is that they don't need such a show to get younger viewers interested in Star Trek. Kids are either introduced to it via watching it with their parents; or they find it on their own.
(I myself became a Star Trek fan at age 6 when I saw the series on NBC back in 1969.)
Watch Buffy or Smallville. They'll have cadets doing drugs and with the American school system being a literal battleground, a school shooting plotline is inevitable.
Mind you, is it really a wise idea for someone to go on a shooting rampage in a school where every student is trained to use firearms and unarmed combat techniques?
SFA will last for one or two seasons. The series will be fine for what it is, don't get me wrong, but I have a feeling that's what Paramount+ is going to do.
It costs too much to just go for two seasons and quit.
I trust them as far as I can throw them.
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I think we can guarantee the bulk of the viewership will be made up of the same demographic as every other Trek show - 30 to 40+, predominantly male and bitching how it isn't what they want.
I'm wary of this "flavor for every demographic" approach, as am I the up-until-now futile efforts of Paramount to hook a more mainstream crowd that's probably never going to bite. Chris Pine spoke to this in an interview a few months back: stop trying to be Marvel and Star Wars, basically. Even in those properties you can see a sizable chunk of the crowd have disengaged.
STA will have to bring something pretty special to the table for it to resonate with a young audience that would otherwise have nothing to do with Trek.
Even when they GET the show they want (Strange New Worlds), they STILL complain about it! ("Nurse Chapel's done gone woke!"
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Being angry seems to be the default for many fans nowadays. It used to be entertaining; now it's concerning.
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What did they announce again?
Starfleet Academy and Section 31 movie
Thanks.
Tawny Newsome (Lower Decks) joined SFA as a writer.
S31 might be easier to pull off than SFA (Once the film is in the can, that's it. There's no ongoing commitment.)
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Actually I think they switched from Dis to SFA because it'll be cheaper to do SFA then Dis, I would not be surprised in SFA if they get 2 thirds to half of Dis' budget.
Smaller actors salaries, more focus on personal stories, then SFX, younger cheaper actors, more bottle episodes, maybe fewer crew behind the camera, etc...
Here's hoping.
We, as in SFA fans and Star Trek fans, are each hoping your prediction doesn't come to pass whatsoever.
We, as in Star Trek fans, are again hoping that your prediction doesn't come to pass whatsoever.
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