Star Trek : Starfeet Academy (Paramount+)

Today’s ep (5) is wildly different in tone than the others… narrated, 4th wall breaking and very much aimed at a younger audience, weirdly similar to a 90s show like ‘Clarissa Explains It All’.

Yeah… it’s pretty jarring at first. If you didn’t like the earlier eps you really won’t like this! Absolutely nothing like ‘classic trek’.

I’ve quite enjoyed the overall light tone of the show so after an adjustment I still liked it. The lead - Sam - while still a total dweeb is less grating than her briefer appearances in earlier eps., through a bit of adjustment / time, so that redeems her in my eyes.

Plot is a bit of a nostalgia grab by referring back to DS9 related matters, with Sam doing a library project to maybe solve a mystery. The bar / dinner scenes are pretty fun, so gets better after that jarring start.

I think all the main characters had their own episodes (or shared eps) now, so presume it will now start weaving in more plot points or an overall theme / story that will carry over to the end of the season, assuming also that the staff are going to be mostly reserved to ‘B plots’.
 
ill watch it but to me trek finished with picard season 3.... discovery, strange new worlds and this academy is not star trek. I don't know what it is, but its not star trek.

If I watch the entire season via binge and its not bad, ill eat my own comm badge and travel to stovokor
 
Ep 5 - garbage. A hot steaming turd that hopes you will the forget the turdness by feeding you memberberries.

And they ripped off Mork and Mindy...............

 
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I think my biggest gripe is probably that this Scifi show has no Scifi..

Maybe not so much DS9 which was very character orientated but very much the rest, every week was about the ship or space or an alien race etc.

This and a lot of recent trek has been about the character, the emotion, the situation etc. I want some Scifi that isn't just a transporter or shiny floor.

Essentially this whole thing is set in a school on a blue screen, so we aren't gona get what I want. It's cheaper to make it about the characters.
 
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I'm enjoying how daft this is... Warped the shark from the off, but silly enough to watch for amusement. Laughed so much I thought it was a comedy!
 
JRS said:
Would you prefer people to call it crap while not watching it? That seems problematic.
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Not at all. But we're 5 episodes in, if it is that bad, why continue putting yourself through the misery? There is plenty more (better!) TV out there, surely people's time would be better spent there.

TWD, 11 seasons 2010 - 2022, 12 years. Yet the same posters were still posting, "this is crap!" You watched for 12 years, it couldn't have been that bad, or you're just a Victor Meldrew who enjoys suffering just to whinge about it.
 
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