Starfleet Academy - It's Happening

[CaptainWacky]

The typewriter was one of Sisko's possessions so I assume he had one replicated after his Russell experience.

I agree with the general opinion that the problem is that there's YOUNG SEXY GAY PEOPLE in the show, but that they're doing the YA stuff poorly. Actual Young Adult shows do this stuff so much better, so young people are going to watch them instead of thinking "wow, Star Trek has a young person in it! I BETTER WATCH THAT." I looked up the writers of the episode: Kirsten Beyer is 64 and Tawny Newsome is 42. Maybe they should add actual younger people to the writing staff if they want to appeal to that demographic? Or, as Cassie said just do straight Star Trek and hope it will apeal to young people like it did to me when I was 14 and became obsessed with TNG.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

In terms of the timeframe, I think they're taking license with "how these people should act in this century" because even though it's 800 years since the TNG era, it's only 130 years since The Burn, so the writers are figuring things are still sort of ragtag, and societies are still rebuilding, and the question of how everyone wants to shape the future for the galaxy is still an open one.

(BTW I stopped watching Discovery before the time jump, so I had to look up this "Burn" business after watching the first couple of eps. Man, Discovery really fucked the franchise through the headboard and into the wall. I wish they would just pretend it never happened for any future new shows...)

 

[whisky]

It's hard enough getting young people to read, never mind write.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

It's hard enough getting young people to read, never mind write.

The next Trek show will be sent via text.

 

[StarMan™]

 

[StarMan™]

The typewriter was one of Sisko's possessions so I assume he had one replicated after his Russell experience.

I agree with the general opinion that the problem is that there's YOUNG SEXY GAY PEOPLE in the show, but that they're doing the YA stuff poorly. Actual Young Adult shows do this stuff so much better, so young people are going to watch them instead of thinking "wow, Star Trek has a young person in it! I BETTER WATCH THAT." I looked up the writers of the episode: Kirsten Beyer is 64 and Tawny Newsome is 42. Maybe they should add actual younger people to the writing staff if they want to appeal to that demographic? Or, as Cassie said just do straight Star Trek and hope it will apeal to young people like it did to me when I was 14 and became obsessed with TNG.

I was 17 when I got into Berman-era Trek. I didn't think "ohhh, this speaks to my generation / me personally. I feel seen." I just liked the stories, characters and space shit.

The overwhelming majority of Trek fans don't want YA dramedy in a Trek skin.

And young adults otherwise uninterested in Trek / sci-fi are NOT going to convert to nerdom or get their tween fix from this.

This targeted demographic approach has captured the same demographic each time - the 40+ male crowd. There's no next generation onboarding - at least not in any meaningful number.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

And it's not like Lower Decks and Prodigy brought in a game-changing number of younger viewers, because they're both canceled now.

 

[whisky]

In my twenties I tried to become a writer, I wrote stories people never read, mostly adaptations of films or TV I had scene but with a character based on me as the star, but I hadn't really lived, hadn't really experienced life, and then in my 30s when life started happening, there was no time to write.

I envy published writers, they do something when I just thought about it.

I'm probably too old now to write about young people, but I do remember what it was like to be one, to not know who you are, what you are, what I would be when I grew up.

Still waiting to grow up.