Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread

[fireproof78]

Not even the LDS joke in Trek 4?

Stupid shit. Same for TUC and the damn Romulan ale jokes.

 

[Jayson1]

I'm surprised. I don't think I have ever seen anyone not like the LDS joke, before. The Romulan Ale joke didn't even make sense because it was legal after the Dominion War.

 

[fireproof78]

I'm surprised. I don't think I have ever seen anyone not like the LDS joke, before. The Romulan Ale joke didn't even make sense because it was legal after the Dominion War.

TUC is before the Dominion War.

Humor is subjective.

 

[cooleddie74]

81 years before the Dominion War, to be exact.

 

[Jayson1]

I was thinking of the joke in Nemesis were Worf gets drunk on Romulan Ale even though it was made legal when Romulans joined up the Federation and Klingons to fight the Dominion.

 

[Farscape One]

NEMESIS was several years after the Dominion War ended. It's possible Romulan ale was illegal again, since the Federation and Romulans no longer had a common enemy, they went back to a somewhat similar state of relations before the war.

 

[Fateor]

I've found it's generally better to ignore what Coming of Age established about Starfleet Academy's entry requirements, as if we go by that episode then Starfleet Academy is so hella hard to get into it raises genuine questions about how Starfleet even meets basic staffing requirements, especially if you go with the belief that everyone in Starfleet is an officer who has graduated the Academy. Indeed, much of the franchise has since moved on from that, what with enlisted ranks being made canon, the existence of other training facilities or even Starfleet granting officer commissions to people who never even attended the Academy.

But even putting all that aside, given this is supposed to be a newly restarted Academy after over a century of being dormant, it stands to reason they would be doing things different than what was shown in the 24th century.

The answer is sheer numbers.

Starfleet draws it's staff from thousands of different worlds, which means it can afford to only accept people in the 99.999th percentile.

The downside to that quality is what we saw in Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Picard with the cumulative disasters basically causing a major manpower crisis.

 

[Mage]

NEMESIS was several years after the Dominion War ended. It's possible Romulan ale was illegal again, since the Federation and Romulans no longer had a common enemy, they went back to a somewhat similar state of relations before the war.

Considering the entire tone in Nemesis considering the relationship between the Empire and the UFP, that seems most likely. IIRC Janeway mentioned them being invited, making it clear they couldn't just go there.