Pleasantly surprised, especially since it’s coming out after the disappointing third season of SNW and set in the far future time period from Discovery.
It feels like a live action Prodigy, which should be taken as a compliment. The captain is that mix of chaos and principle that makes the best Starfleet officers, and the kids are a fun bunch. The in-universe context is a Starfleet in the process of recovering from a time of Adults In The Room and Hard Choices, which is portrayed as having been very bad and not cool.
Also the ship/school is pretty.
I am reserving judgement for now. I do not like the post-Burn setting, it’s too distant from the galaxy I know. I’d really much rather have a Picard-era Academy show. I do not like the ship designs. But, it does feel like live-action Prodigy, I agree, and that’s not bad.
Episode 1 had one egregiously bad bit of writing. I’m going to give it a few more episodes.
I would also prefer a Picard/LD era setting, but even though I dropped DIS back in season 2 I think this post-Burn setting fits the same historic moment: a rebuilding and correction after an era of conflict and darkness.
We’ve had two different Adults In The Room go “I made the Hard Choice. I was wrong, that was bad to do and a failure to live up to the ideals of Starfleet, I’m sorry” and as the site’s resident Adults In The Room Making Hard Choices hater (in UlyssesT’s absense) I think that’s great.
I’m pretty out of the loop on recent Trek that’s not Lower Decks, what is this “burn” thing?
Disclaimer: the Burn happened in the later seasons of Discovery, which I didn’t watch past season 2 so everything I know about it is either from hearing about other people talking about it online, or from the intro to this new Starfleet Academy show.
In the later season of Discovery they got tired of being in prequel time so they time traveled the ship forward to something like 500 years after the TNG era. I’m told this improved the show but can’t personally vouch for this. The Burn was an event that happened in that far future time a while after Discovery got there where FTL stopped working for reasons and the Federation kinda fell apart. Adults In The Room Made Hard Choices.
Starfleet Academy opens with showing exactly how this was very bad and hurt a lot of people. The plot so far has centered on kids trying to unfuck the results of those Adults’ Hard Choices.
The Burn was an event that happened in that far future time a while after Discovery got there where FTL stopped working for reasons
So Star Trek without stars and without treks? That seems a rather flawed concept.
So far as I understand it. But by the time Starfleet Academy starts, they’re Trekking those Stars again. The school is a ship.
I quit halfway through the second episode. The writing just felt extremely terrible and I kept laughing at it.
I quit somewhere into the first episode, I’m not usually a negative nelly but my eyes glazed over within minutes when it established this was taking place in Trek’s own post-post apocalyptic era. I don’t like the Discovery plot threads at all and don’t care for the post-Burn setting.
It will probably be binged down the line when all the episodes are released, but, gosh, yeah, I don’t know why they keep trying to write dark, gritty and Very Bad and Not Cool stories into the universe built to explore post-scarcity, enlightened humans
It’s specifically about how the dark and gritty era was a mistake
It’s not great and everyone is way meaner than they have to be, but I hope they’re building up to a statement on the kind of societal rot they’re depicting.
Also I like Sam. If anything happens to her, I will kill everyone in this room and then myself.
