Starfleet Academy

[Yaworski]

Saw a news story about "Starfleet Academy" being canceled after not many episodes even though they have already shot season 2. Hmmm... .

I hadn't watched it so I decided to watch a couple episodes and see what was so bad. Argh! I want my two hours back.

First off, they worked really had to make the "chancellor" of the academy as un-captainy as possible. She doesn't wear shoes, is a like a new age hippie. It's like "Saved by the Bell" goes to space mixed with "Harry Potter."

We've got the first openly gay Klingon who doesn't like violence.
We've got the bad boy who is there only so he doesn't go to prison. Of course, he's a tech genius and even though he's been sleeping in dumpsters, has a Charles Atlas physique.
Got the snotty privileged kid who is trying to overcome his breeding.
The XO is an overweight lesbian Jem'hadar/Klingon cross breed, who like "Mr Belding" is involved with every activity.
There's a stupid game that makes little sense, like Quidditch.

Oddly, they still play basketball one thousand years from now. The court, baskets, and backboards all look the same but the ball is now black.

The best part is Robert Picardo reprising his role as the holographic doctor.

 

[ArizonaTea123]

Like Netflix, the wokeism is more than I can stomach.
Woke Hollywood would have you believe that people suffering from gender dysphoria are everywhere, when in fact the total population of people that suffer from this mental illness is only 9.3 percent in the USA.

Only Brazil (14%), Canada, and Sweden (12%) are much higher.
Philippines and Thailand are 10%.

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

Once they started streaming these knockoffs they pretty much all sucked. I gave up on them early in so I never saw Picard. Some said it was OK.

 

[s4s4u]

...only 9.3 percent in the USA.

Honestly I think that estimate is one decimal point off.....more like .93%

 

[redhawker]

I watched the first two episodes when it came out and couldn't stomach any more. Besides the over-the-top continual wokeness, one thing I thought was just a non-sequitur was the physical disabilities of the "cadets". Now, not that I'm against anybody with a disability, God knows I have a few, mostly age-related, of my own. But this is set sometime in the far future after the events of all the preceding Star Trek versions. Amongst the cadets and even the academy staff, there are people who are blind or wear glasses. Considering they had a blind engineer in "The Next Generation" who wore an electronic visor to see and, in later movies, had implanted artificial eyes, why would they have cadets who were blind or even wore glasses? They had at least one cadet in a wheelchair. In past Star Treks, they have fully articulated androids walking around as easily as any human. Based on that, you'd think they could make artificial limbs using that android technology to "cure" paraplegia. Or, as an alternative, in at least one prior Star Trek, they reattached a brain, so you'd think reconnecting someone's nerves, causing their paraplegia, would be a piece of cake. They had several very overweight cadets. You'd think, given current medical technology such as bariatric surgery and GLP injections, that by the time of this show, those would have been perfected long ago, so there wouldn't be any fat cadets. Anyway, just my observations, as you'd think if they figured out how to travel hundreds of times faster than the speed of light, that there wouldn't be any disabilities that couldn't be overcome.

 

[ArizonaTea123]

I watched the first two episodes when it came out and couldn't stomach any more. Besides the over-the-top continual wokeness, one thing I thought was just a non-sequitur was the physical disabilities of the "cadets". Now, not that I'm against anybody with a disability, God knows I have a few, mostly age-related, of my own. But this is set sometime in the far future after the events of all the preceding Star Trek versions. Amongst the cadets and even the academy staff, there are people who are blind or wear glasses. Considering they had a blind engineer in "The Next Generation" who wore an electronic visor to see and, in later movies, had implanted artificial eyes, why would they have cadets who were blind or even wore glasses? They had at least one cadet in a wheelchair. In past Star Treks, they have fully articulated androids walking around as easily as any human. Based on that, you'd think they could make artificial limbs using that android technology to "cure" paraplegia. Or, as an alternative, in at least one prior Star Trek, they reattached a brain, so you'd think reconnecting someone's nerves, causing their paraplegia, would be a piece of cake. They had several very overweight cadets. You'd think, given current medical technology such as bariatric surgery and GLP injections, that by the time of this show, those would have been perfected long ago, so there wouldn't be any fat cadets. Anyway, just my observations, as you'd think if they figured out how to travel hundreds of times faster than the speed of light, that there wouldn't be any disabilities that couldn't be overcome.

Wow. Sounds like they should name it, "Starwoke" or perhaps "Startrek, Strange New Woke"
I feel nauseous now.

 

[Jeepnik]

It's aimed at the current woke generation. Nothing more needs to be said.

 

[oldbbb]

I watched some of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, not many strange new worlds and in one episodes it did not matter how many rules or laws were broken as long as someone claims asylum it all fine. It seems Star Trek has always been liberal.

 

[Gopher]

Did you see Johnathan Frakes April Fool's Day prank on a new series of the adventures of Captain Worf? It had the fan base screaming in joy until they figured it out.
There was talk years ago of a series based on Sulu's command of the Excelessor, but it never played out.
After Deep Space 9, I lost interest in the entire franchise.

 

[gnappi]

I hope "go woke and go broke" is sinking in? Nah an entrenched agenda has ways of defying logic.