Tawny Newsome has writer credit on next week's Starfleet Academy episode, along with long-time Star Trek writer Kirsten Beyer. That is all.
#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy 
Tawny Newsome has writer credit on next week's Starfleet Academy episode, along with long-time Star Trek writer Kirsten Beyer. That is all.
#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy
Finally got around to giving Starfleet Academy a crack. TBH I didn't expect to like it. Everything I'd seen about it made it seem goofy and lame, including the trailers. I assumed I'd probably give up 10-15min in, as I did with The Acolyte. But I actually really enjoyed the first episode, more than enough to watch a few more.
Based on @jessiegender 's very positive spoiler-free review, I was expecting right-wing pushback against Star Trek: Starfleet Academy -- and just doing a quick search for s1e1 (which Paramount has posted on YouTube for free as they have done before), I see it has arrived. A grab-bag of video titles:
So, yeah, it's probably really good. ^.^
Just read a review about #StarfleetAcademy and I have some notes.
So, for background, I came out of the womb watching Star Trek. I have lived my life wanting to be a member of #Starfleet. Learning to embrace the flaws of humanity and grow from them. Learning that Picard was an irrational young man who got himself stabbed through the heart in a bar fight, Kirk cheated his way through the Kobayashi Maru to refuse the possibility of a no-win scenario, Sisko committed literal War Crimes, Janeway would drag her crew through every nebula for coffee, and learning that imperfection is a fact of the world around us. ("It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness; that is life")
Hell, Enterprise was literally written to show the imperfections of an Early pre-Starfleet.
These reviews seem to forget that all of this is part of the core ethos that #StarTrek was and is remaining to be. Oh but how hard I wished for a show like Academy as a teenager. A show that gave us glimpses into the imperfect nature of the teenagers and young adults that will, I am sure, grow into the captains and officers they need to be. It's full of modern language that youth can understand. It shows us a returning captain willing to shed the decorum of rank to be a strong educator and mentor to a group of young adults whose lives were characterized by destruction and loss. ("They're little warp cores, do you want to say something about it?!")
Yes, it watches like a CW teen drama set in the Star Trek universe: It was designed to. It's for awkward young adults to learn that it is OK to be awkward young adults. It confronts themes that shouldn't still be bothering you in your thirties: And that's OK, not all Star Trek has to be for everyone. Prodigy was for kids, Academy and Lower Decks target an older youth demographic, and SNW exists for all the cranky old Star Trek fans who can't deal with anything other than Alien of the Week serials.
These reviews read like people who want a show about the War College, grinding every unique trait out of everyone who comes into the Academy. A show that teaches the younger audience to fight battles, not end wars. Instead, the show reminds them to serve each other, keep an empathetic mind, and start the day off on the right foot. Lessons many of these reviewers could take the time to learn. It is OK to lead, and to be led, by empathy and hope.
These lessons are not hidden deep in the show, they are stated in the open for an audience much younger than most of these reviewers. It is a true shame that it has to be stated again.
Ultimately, and I guess TL;DR:
If you are a grown adult writing reviews about Academy, complaining about how you can't identify with a group of teenagers onscreen I have news for you: YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE. Look for identification in Holly Hunter's laissez faire attitude toward the world. Take less seriously, and just enjoy what you have... Or don't.
But let other people enjoy things.
Just read a review about #StarfleetAcademy and I have some notes.
So, for background, I came out of the womb watching Star Trek. I have lived my life wanting to be a member of #Starfleet. Learning to embrace the flaws of humanity and grow from them. Learning that Picard was an irrational young man who got himself stabbed through the heart in a bar fight, Kirk cheated his way through the Kobayashi Maru to refuse the possibility of a no-win scenario, Sisko committed literal War Crimes, Janeway would drag her crew through every nebula for coffee, and learning that imperfection is a fact of the world around us. ("It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness; that is life")
Hell, Enterprise was literally written to show the imperfections of an Early pre-Starfleet.
These reviews seem to forget that all of this is part of the core ethos that #StarTrek was and is remaining to be. Oh but how hard I wished for a show like Academy as a teenager. A show that gave us glimpses into the imperfect nature of the teenagers and young adults that will, I am sure, grow into the captains and officers they need to be. It's full of modern language that youth can understand. It shows us a returning captain willing to shed the decorum of rank to be a strong educator and mentor to a group of young adults whose lives were characterized by destruction and loss. ("They're little warp cores, do you want to say something about it?!")
Yes, it watches like a CW teen drama set in the Star Trek universe: It was designed to. It's for awkward young adults to learn that it is OK to be awkward young adults. It confronts themes that shouldn't still be bothering you in your thirties: And that's OK, not all Star Trek has to be for everyone. Prodigy was for kids, Academy and Lower Decks target an older youth demographic, and SNW exists for all the cranky old Star Trek fans who can't deal with anything other than Alien of the Week serials.
These reviews read like people who want a show about the War College, grinding every unique trait out of everyone who comes into the Academy. A show that teaches the younger audience to fight battles, not end wars. Instead, the show reminds them to serve each other, keep an empathetic mind, and start the day off on the right foot. Lessons many of these reviewers could take the time to learn. It is OK to lead, and to be led, by empathy and hope.
These lessons are not hidden deep in the show, they are stated in the open for an audience much younger than most of these reviewers. It is a true shame that it has to be stated again.
Ultimately, and I guess TL;DR:
If you are a grown adult writing reviews about Academy, complaining about how you can't identify with a group of teenagers onscreen I have news for you: YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE. Look for identification in Holly Hunter's laissez faire attitude toward the world. Take less seriously, and just enjoy what you have... Or don't.
But let other people enjoy things.
Great speech about #empathy.
Possible #Spoilers S1E3 #StarFleetAcademy #StarTrek
"The war college teaches its cadets to fight battles.
I'm teaching you to end wars. To learn the patience to formulate a true strategy and the empathy to understand your opponents so you can disarm them.
That's what Star Fleet needs to be again. And leading through fear alone makes that impossible."
Captain Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter)
I tip my fedora to writers Alex Taub & Kiley Rossetter
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34127729/fullcredits/
Great speech about #empathy.
Possible #Spoilers S1E3 #StarFleetAcademy #StarTrek
"The war college teaches its cadets to fight battles.
I'm teaching you to end wars. To learn the patience to formulate a true strategy and the empathy to understand your opponents so you can disarm them.
That's what Star Fleet needs to be again. And leading through fear alone makes that impossible."
Captain Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter)
I tip my fedora to writers Alex Taub & Kiley Rossetter
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34127729/fullcredits/
Who knew that you’re basically not trackable in an escape pod from the ship you just launched out of. Escape pods are now get of jail free cards in the Star Trek universe.
I also like how the classroom ship just murders an entire ship of people (when they weren’t trying to kill you just steal your warp core to sell) instead of just arresting them when you so massively outclass your attackers a few torpedoes blows them up completely.
I honestly hate how stupid either the writers of new Trek are or how stupid they think we are.
Lura Thok seems like a fun character though and steals the pilot easily.
Also the main character having magical “hack anything” powers is just so tired.
I generally like the cast ok enough though and having a 1000 year old Doctor sets up all kinds of neat threads to pull.
But the incredibly weak plotting of the pilot just looks like more of the same from this group of awful writers Kurtzman keeps throwing at Star Trek.
Who knew that you’re basically not trackable in an escape pod from the ship you just launched out of. Escape pods are now get of jail free cards in the Star Trek universe.
I also like how the classroom ship just murders an entire ship of people (when they weren’t trying to kill you just steal your warp core to sell) instead of just arresting them when you so massively outclass your attackers a few torpedoes blows them up completely.
I honestly hate how stupid either the writers of new Trek are or how stupid they think we are.
Lura Thok seems like a fun character though and steals the pilot easily.
Almond Basket is They/Them, BTW. :)
LOOK AT HER GO #starfleetacademy
Almond Basket is They/Them, BTW. :)
Is Star Trek: Starfleet Academy the first Star Trek with a bisexual at the helm or what lol #starfleetacademy
LOOK AT HER GO #starfleetacademy
Is Star Trek: Starfleet Academy the first Star Trek with a bisexual at the helm or what lol #starfleetacademy
Stranger Things and Star Fleet Academy are Gen X nostalgic wish fulfilment -- What if we had the freedom we had in the 1970s/1980s, but also had parent who cared about us?
(the big difference between ST/SFA and The Goonies or ET is that the adults are actually characters we know about rather than just plot obstacles to overcome)
**January 17, 9:00 PM Eastern**
Mark your calendars for the Starfleet Academy episode 1 watch party!
Make sure to use the hashtags: #AllStarTrek and #StarfleetAcademy so we can follow the conversation as a group.
Promote and retoot!
Thoughts about #StarFleetAcademy
I am a Fan of a Certain Age, and what I loved most about this 2-part series opener is how it addresses the being a teen dramedy for fans like me: The Magic Flute.
They couldn't have done it in a funnier, better way.
The Magic Flute is a silly, high-camp masterpiece. It's what SA endeavors to be: a way to talk about surviving catastrophe, rebuilding, and still keeping childlike wonder.
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This #StarTrek isn't about the Cold War or The War on Terror or The End of History. E2 convinced me this is about the USA since 1980, and particularly since 2016.
It's about our War on Children. The one here in the USA, and around the world. There's a reason the separation of mother and child is central to Starfleet Academy.
I'm cautiously optimistic. This might be amazing.
