Spoilers Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread

[Campe]

That’s so interesting because I seem to recall one of the actors on the show saying there would be more Tig next season.

Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

 

[Tuskin38]

That’s so interesting because I seem to recall one of the actors on the show saying there would be more Tig next season.

Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

They probably meant we would still see her.

 

[Turtletrekker]

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Flying V violin. Now I've seen everything.

 

[cooleddie74]

I love her violin music. She's covered pretty much every Trek series theme and her videos are always a fun ride.

 

[Jayson1]

Comment I saw on TrekCore, if it's accurate, we will be seeing less Tig next season

That more of less feels like the same reason we didn't see her much on Discovery as well. It does suck because she is one of the best things about the show. Maybe we will see Dax brought back and with a expanded role.

 

[eschaton]

Alright, now that Season 1 has been completed, time for some "meta" thoughts:

• The biggest niggle across the entire arc is how the show treated recurring characters. We are introduced to a "bridge crew" very deliberately in Episode 1 we never see again. Recurring minor characters like the Cadet Pickford or Dzolo or Ocam just kind of vanish. Indeed, the number of kids in the classrooms just kept dropping, making the academy seem progressively smaller over time.
• Related to the above, it feels like they sort of got bored of having a show about students after awhile. In the back half of the season, we only see the kids in a class once (the whole drama experience with Tilly in Episode 8). I cannot believe, TBH, we got through an entire season of a college-based show without an episode at least touching on the stress of final exams. It just felt like it was slowly drifting thematically away from a school based show to a Trek show that happens to have a young cast.
• Caleb got a great arc this season, but with how it's all been tied up in a bow, I expect him to recede into the background somewhat next year, unless they try and come up with new relationship drama with Tarima.
• SAM ended up the breakout character. Kerrice Brooks is just awesome, and I can't wait to see where they take her next season.
• The writers really seem to be struggling to come up with content to do with Jay-Den now that his introduction arc is finished. He needs something further to challenge him to grow.
• I don't really like Tarima much, largely because I don't think Zoe Steiner is the same caliber of actor as the remainder of the young cast. She's fine in some of the more typical teen drama scenes, but any time it's the less relatable stuff regarding her superhero-like status, I just feel like she fails to carry the full weight of the scenes.
• Genesis is awesome, and I'm sad she only got like half an episode of character development. Darem was really underserved here as well. It felt like both of them got strong introductions, and then the writers kind of moved on.

In general, the season felt more coherent than a lot of modern Trek shows, but you could very much feel they were sort of groping around for what they wanted the show to become.

 

[tenmei]

Related to the above, it feels like they sort of got bored of having a show about students after awhile. In the back half of the season, we only see the kids in a class once (the whole drama experience with Tilly in Episode 8).

In the latter half of the season, we get the field trip to the Miyazaki (still a class), and the theatre class with Tilly - and of the remaining three episodes, one is Spring Break, and the set-up for the finale is a field trip to Betazed for the inaugration of the new UFP HQ, before Caleb goes all Feris Bueller

 

[eschaton]

In the latter half of the season, we get the field trip to the Miyazaki (still a class), and the theatre class with Tilly - and of the remaining three episodes, one is Spring Break, and the set-up for the finale is a field trip to Betazed for the inaugration of the new UFP HQ, before Caleb goes all Feris Bueller

Maybe I'm not remembering the setup for the ninth episode perfectly, but I seem to recall that the whole "300th night" thing was the end of the academic year? So we skip all of the year-end stress, and go straight to party central.

Again, it's a choice, of course. But really only the theatre class with Tilly required them to be students. These aren't student plots, they're generic Trek plots, which happen to involve wet-behind-the-ears young folks. I don't mind a mixture of "Trek episodes" and "Academy episodes" but I think the balance was tilted too far away from them actually being cadets in the back half. It mostly stopped feeling like a school, other than the fact the kids happen to live there.

Maybe they're just concerned if they lean to heavily into "nerd shit" like anxiety over grades and such they're going to be less relatable to a lot of the audience, but I'd really like to see some Real Genius type shit in here.

 

[tenmei]

Maybe I'm not remembering the setup for the ninth episode perfectly, but I seem to recall that the whole "300th night" thing was the end of the academic year? So we skip all of the year-end stress, and go straight to party central.

This is what Ake says, so yes, its end of term, but as a treat ... FIELD TRIP ... as we don't see the students leave for summer until a week later.

300th night. Official end of our first academic year. Studies, quizzes, homework, and tests are behind them now. And what a great feeling that tonight we all have something to celebrate. We're en route to Betazed to rendezvous with the Federation fleet for the dedication of our new seat of government.

Again, it's a choice, of course. But really only the theatre class with Tilly required them to be students. These aren't student plots, they're generic Trek plots, which happen to involve wet-behind-the-ears young folks. I don't mind a mixture of "Trek episodes" and "Academy episodes" but I think the balance was tilted too far away from them actually being cadets in the back half. It mostly stopped feeling like a school, other than the fact the kids happen to live there.

The class about them going onto the Miyazaki required them to be students too.

Processing trauma through the medium of theatre could be the set-up for any workplace drama, it wouldn't require them to specifically be students.

But a pot that requires them to be students and an episode showing them in class, your original statement, are different kettles of fish entirely.

 

[Fateor]

The biggest niggle across the entire arc is how the show treated recurring characters. We are introduced to a "bridge crew" very deliberately in Episode 1 we never see again. Recurring minor characters like the Cadet Pickford or Dzolo or Ocam just kind of vanish. Indeed, the number of kids in the classrooms just kept dropping, making the academy seem progressively smaller over time.

Hopefully someday someone will ask members of the production team about that.

Because it's super blatant that something was going on behind the scenes.