that clip is hilarious! Literally made me LOL a few times. Love Reno, Thok , and Sam
Spoilers Starfleet Academy Episode Preview Thread
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Is it me or does that kind of look like the engineering set from SNW?
I wonder if they started with some of the same digital assets when they built that for the AR Wall stage.
Nah its a vr wall. The reason it looks similar is because the design team doesnt realize that things change in 900 years.
Mind reading powers are not just for Star Trek shows anymore it seems.
It's a really, really bad trait to have in a regular character of any dramatic TV show.
It can be a nice "turd in the punchbowl" for a guest character. But so much of drama rests on either miscommunication or a character hiding their real intentions. Having someone who cuts through all that every single episode eliminates a lot of stories. Not to mention in action-adventure franchises like Trek, you could just have them read the minds of the antagonists every single outing, again killing tension.
There has to be some kind of limitation: they can't control when it happens, it takes too much energy out of them to do it too often, they can only do it in certain circumstances (species, locations, times), they need tech to do it which doesn't always work, etc.
Man that's like saying the sets of the refit Enterprise/A look like the sets from the Enterprise D.
Oh wait. Oh....oh no...
I was just watching an episode of Discovery and before it there was a short trailer for Starfleet Academy which showed a bunch of new scenes including a very cool shot of an 32nd century Intrepid class ship (possibly Voyager) warping in next to the Athena. I couldn't pause it or rewind to get a screenshot though.
There's a reason why in the early TNG seasons half the species they met were immune to mind reading (e.g. the Ferengi), and in later seasons they just straight up pretended Troi couldn't do that anymore.
Having a mind reading antagonist could be terrifying though.
I have kind of high hopes for the next episode, “Vox In Excelso”. The title, another Latin phrase the second week in a row, has a vaguely religious background: It means “a voice on high” and was used by a pope in the 14th century to dissolve the order of the Knights Templar. This is interesting, since the episode will reportedly have a major focus on Jay-Den and the Klingons.
Based on the early reviews by TrekCulture and Jessie Gender we can apparently expect a “thought-provoking episode” with “real political themes, some real actual social issues” that feels less like the teen drama of the first three episodes and more like a “Star Trek [episode] through and through”. TrekCulture calls it “a better version of episode two” that will answer “big questions in a satisfactory way” and I’m curious what that will mean.
I think this episode has the interesting potential of highlighting something that probably many people who go to college or university experience: For many it’s the first time in their lives that they are away from home and no longer defined by their parents, their hometown, or the expectations they grew up with. They meet people who think like them, care about the same things, and struggle with similar questions. Often it’s the first time they realize they aren’t alone in how they feel or who they are and they start feeling like part of a group that truly understands them. Nothing of that would of course be unique to Starfleet Academy as a place, but it would still be interesting to witness how it shapes people from various alien backgrounds into the tight-knit crews of space explorers we know from previous shows.
Based on the early reviews by TrekCulture and Jessie Gender we can apparently expect a “thought-provoking episode” with “real political themes, some real actual social issues” that feels less like the teen drama of the first three episodes and more like a “Star Trek [episode] through and through”. TrekCulture calls it “a better version of episode two” that will answer “big questions in a satisfactory way” and I’m curious what that will mean.
I think this episode has the interesting potential of highlighting something that probably many people who go to college or university experience: For many it’s the first time in their lives that they are away from home and no longer defined by their parents, their hometown, or the expectations they grew up with. They meet people who think like them, care about the same things, and struggle with similar questions. Often it’s the first time they realize they aren’t alone in how they feel or who they are and they start feeling like part of a group that truly understands them. Nothing of that would of course be unique to Starfleet Academy as a place, but it would still be interesting to witness how it shapes people from various alien backgrounds into the tight-knit crews of space explorers we know from previous shows.
Please be the Moopsy...
Realistically, it's probably the Klingons themselves, but I want the species threatened with extinction to be the tribbles so damn badly.
They were extinct until Odo brought one to the present after the Defiant's jaunt back to the events of 'the trouble with tribbles'
If it is the Tribbles I'm starting to get why the tried to kill prodigy so damn hard.
Because that would be two episodes in a row that they've basically copied general episodes outlines from Prodigy.
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