Spoilers Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread

[cooleddie74]

I like two of the three Kelvin Timeline films and The Force Awakens, but yeah, it's a complete crapshoot if his projects will be good.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Samuel Cockings doesn't have the upper body strength to swat a fly. Who gives a shit what he thinks.

Direct hit!

 

[BillJ]

Now, having a character flip flop on morals & ethics is not new to Trek either. Take Spock in S1. He is all about terminating with extreme prejudice at some points (the salt vampre in Man Trap and Mitchell in WNMHGB), but has done a 180 by Gallileo Seven. Kirk offers help to disabled enemies (Corbomite Manuever, Ballance of Terror, Arena) and even lets Khan go in Space Seed. But threatens to have Scotty destroy the whole planet in Taste of Armageddon. Maybe a bluff, though.

Because different situations have differing answers. Just watched "The Man Trap" a couple of hours ago. Nancy Crater took the best Spock could give and then attacked Kirk, after killing four Enterprise crewmembers. McCoy did the right thing destroying it.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

lol lol today on abc the view mentioned star trek starfleet acaedmy and how elon musk and steven miller tweeted about the show being woke

 

[cooleddie74]

Because different situations have differing answers. Just watched "The Man Trap" a couple of hours ago. Nancy Crater took the best Spock could give and then attacked Kirk, after killing four Enterprise crewmembers. McCoy did the right thing destroying it.

The M-113 creature's destruction was entirely justified. Even Kirk earlier in the episode tells Crater that he "bleeds" too much and is too soft about the creature's survival, and while that can be chalked up to it being only the sixth episode of Star Trek ever filmed and the very first ever aired (Kirk's character has yet to become the master of both fisticuffs and peaceful negotiation that he will one day attain) it still works in-story. Kirk's ship and crew are being threatened by a shapeshifting alien that will kill anyone it can to sustain its own life.

McCoy was right to fire and Kirk wasn't wrong about Professor Crater being a soft touch in the face of life-threatening dangers.

 

[I am not Spock]

Fucks given = 0

ETA: in fact, in honor of Samuel Cockings, I will add Section 31 to that list of stuff I'd rather watch before Voyager.

trekyards actually seem pretty positive about SFA so far, though, surprisingly