Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (Page 2 of 2)

I kinda like this show. But the hate on the web for it is huge. Every where I look, there are tons of articles bitching and complaining. Youtube is full of hate.

But I just read they are filming season 2, so if thats all we get I will be happy.

I just do not understand the hate for this show.

I am sure if I really enjoyed it, it would have been cancelled by now. Such is my luck.

The most recent episode wasn't great, but reasonably good. If they could keep the quality around that level on average, it would be a reasonably decent show, even for the Star Trek name. They even got the Klingons roughly right - especially if we keep in mind that it's after centuries of cultural exchange with the Federation.

Star Trek has many strengths, but complete consistency in what is and isn't possible has never been one. We'd all prefer that it were.

He wasn't in prison as a kid at all. He wasn't even a fugitive at first, only a runaway. It's an orphanage that he escaped from, not prison. Only his mother went to prison. When he ran away, he wasn't tracked because he was just some random kid and nobody except the chancellor lady had the time to even care. "One less mouth to feed", basically.

He then spent years surviving on his own, staying off every possible grid. That latter part wouldn't have been too hard while most planets were barely having any communication at all. Whatever stuff he did learn, it happened during that time. He was then eventually arrested on some random planet for something he had recently done there, and the moment he was booked, the Federation immediately found him and got him out. He was only in there for a week or so.

Big difference between a fanatic, casual and spectator.

I am sorry for your loss.

I would be pissed to, if something I loved went this far off the rails.

But yay for me, I don't give a crap.

Any show that ignores 60 years of cannon and lore will be and always be poorly written. trashing the Klingons was the final straw - never mind that in TV cannon they had hundreds of conquered worlds and colonies.
buuuuut their almost extinct now, also note that when the Feds declare war, all the Klingons show up in a minute, you know 5 days travel here, a week there\, lets just all ignore that. we fans don't know what we are talking about.
join me in not watching another second of this trash

I am currently watching it. Its the only new science fiction out there. I was ready to throw in the towel, but the show surprised me. I  wish it had more adult type content.

But for now I will watch it and like it.

For your sake, I hope your wife doesn't use this forum as well

I'd say Episode 4 is probably the most "Orville"-like episode so far...only difference is that The Orville probably would've done a better job with the character...

Did I get that right:

I also never thought I see the day where they do a fart joke in Star Trek...ufff.

Last but not least...I really hate it when actors play different roles in the same universe unless it's part of the plot, breaks the immersion for me > Tawny Newsome (Lower Decks) as Professor Illa Dax in this episode...I know this shouldn't matter but for me it does.

If they are already doing a Season 2, my guess would be there will also be a Season 3...but that's about it...also considering no Star Trek show has made it past 7 seasons so far.

The basically filmed 1 & 2 together.  Saves costs and energy to have all the actors, crew and sets up at the same time.

And... well... That's only 20 episodes.  That's still less than a normal broadcast season of 22-24 episodes.  There's really nothing new about filming 20 episodes in one block and I think these streamers are starting to get an understanding of the finances and logistics that really go in to making a show.

Now the crew and cast are free for... 24 months to do other projects without this show being on near-horizon, while the post-production digital staff work the second 10 episodes.

The downside of this is lack of feedback.  Halo The Series had time between their season 1 & 2 to hear audience feedback and did a massive amount of course correction; even if it wasn't enough to keep the gamers from crying.  They were still able to do it.  Here with SF:A filming the first 20 episodes in a block means that two of their stream seasons are going to carry the same tones, same writing, same problems.  When the show at this point is basically just canon fodder for YouTubers as every episode gets more cringe than the previous, one must wonder how low the show will sink in the remain 15 or so episodes yet to air.

Personally I'm not betting on a season 3 - but almost ready to start a pool on how many get aired before its yanked off the air.

My prediction: Since season 2 has been shot... They post process it... then dump it on the servers all at once.  They'll bill it as a gift to the viewers so they can bing it.  Or trying something new to the other shows to judge the response to a full season drop.  However they need to present it to save face.  But it would be better for them to do that and get one news-cycle of reviews than to have a second week-to-week season where they get dragged through the YouTubes for 10 consecutive weeks.

Gene Roddenberry must be rolling over in his grave. This franchise has been off the rails since Discovery. They even tried to throw us a bone with Picard, but it just didn't work. I was holding out hope for Strange New Worlds but it just seems like more of the same. I am a diehard so I will watch Academy (if only for Robert Picardo). It's time to get rid of Kurtzman and Abrahms.