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My mistake, it's almost 4 hours long holy shit.
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TV Starfleet Academy - It's Happening
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My mistake, it's almost 4 hours long holy shit.
The Beer Hall Pooch
MAKE TK GREAT AGAIN!!!
Starfleet Command.
Oh God, there's some memories.
Oh God, there's some memories.
Colonel Kira's Left Tit
Bearded Belly of Bajor
I always figured Kruge was more partial to his Targ.
Phil Collins
Sussudio
Azetbur was hot.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
#1.9 - It's the end of the school year, but it feels like we've hardly seen them attending any classes. Feels like we should have seen more of Caleb starting to enjoy the Academy so that he's more conflicted on meeting his mom.
Tatiana Maslany is a great actress and definitely elevated all her scenes. If we get her, Hunter and Giamatti together next week that will be good.
Why haven't wee seen Lura in the last 3 episodes? She was one of the bright spots of the first half of the season but has disappeared in the second half.
What does Tarima think about being forced to transfer to the Academy from the War College against her will?
Didn't like Sam closing the shuttle door on Genesis and forcing her to come when she didnt want to. Hope she apologises next week.
Federation space is really small now, huh, considering you can put mines all the way around it (okay they are magical Omega mines.)
Tatiana Maslany is a great actress and definitely elevated all her scenes. If we get her, Hunter and Giamatti together next week that will be good.
Why haven't wee seen Lura in the last 3 episodes? She was one of the bright spots of the first half of the season but has disappeared in the second half.
What does Tarima think about being forced to transfer to the Academy from the War College against her will?
Didn't like Sam closing the shuttle door on Genesis and forcing her to come when she didnt want to. Hope she apologises next week.
Federation space is really small now, huh, considering you can put mines all the way around it (okay they are magical Omega mines.)
I've had a chaotic week (too many in general over the past few years), so I haven't had a chance to get my thoughts down on the latest episode until now.
This was a mixed bag for me, but in a kind of polarizing way. I literally don't care about Teacher Tilly, and the whole theatre thing was boring to me. I also don't really care that much about Tarimia’s stuff either, which is a shame because (I'm a shallow fuck) I did think I’d be more invested in her character, but I found the whole thing a bit forced.
The SAM/Doctor story though was something I felt genuinely invested in. Which is surprising, since earlier in the season I noted she was probably the character most likely to annoy me. Now she might actually be the most compelling character coming out of this season.
The idea of time, experience, and the relative nature of it, especially with extremely long-lived or immortal characters, is something I've always found interesting and it's rarely explored well, if at all. So good job on actually using the time jump here for something that makes it feel worthwhile.
I have said before that I wanted to see the Doctor’s 800+ year lifespan actually used, explored, and paid off in meaningful ways, and we definitely get that here. Yes, it’s another big legacy callback, but he’s the legacy Trek element that works best for this show, so I don’t really have a problem with it in this case.
Picardo was great here, and I challenge anyone to say that this doesn’t add to the Doctor’s character we’ve known for thirty-one years in a positive way. I think that’s pretty high praise.
I will say this as well. Looking back at early Trek seasons, they were never really great either. We live in a very different era of television now where “finding your feet” is less acceptable. Huge budgets, shorter seasons, higher expectations. This show definitely makes some explicit choices that “finding your feet” energy isn’t going to fix.
But is it the disastrous, egregious monstrosity certain corners of the internet would have you believe (for I'm sure totally innocent reasons)? No. Clearly not.
Uneven, misguided even in parts, but it has proven a few times now that it can tell compelling stories that capture what I enjoy about Star Trek, even if it still gets in its own way more often than I’d like.
This was a mixed bag for me, but in a kind of polarizing way. I literally don't care about Teacher Tilly, and the whole theatre thing was boring to me. I also don't really care that much about Tarimia’s stuff either, which is a shame because (I'm a shallow fuck) I did think I’d be more invested in her character, but I found the whole thing a bit forced.
The SAM/Doctor story though was something I felt genuinely invested in. Which is surprising, since earlier in the season I noted she was probably the character most likely to annoy me. Now she might actually be the most compelling character coming out of this season.
The idea of time, experience, and the relative nature of it, especially with extremely long-lived or immortal characters, is something I've always found interesting and it's rarely explored well, if at all. So good job on actually using the time jump here for something that makes it feel worthwhile.
I have said before that I wanted to see the Doctor’s 800+ year lifespan actually used, explored, and paid off in meaningful ways, and we definitely get that here. Yes, it’s another big legacy callback, but he’s the legacy Trek element that works best for this show, so I don’t really have a problem with it in this case.
Picardo was great here, and I challenge anyone to say that this doesn’t add to the Doctor’s character we’ve known for thirty-one years in a positive way. I think that’s pretty high praise.
I will say this as well. Looking back at early Trek seasons, they were never really great either. We live in a very different era of television now where “finding your feet” is less acceptable. Huge budgets, shorter seasons, higher expectations. This show definitely makes some explicit choices that “finding your feet” energy isn’t going to fix.
But is it the disastrous, egregious monstrosity certain corners of the internet would have you believe (for I'm sure totally innocent reasons)? No. Clearly not.
Uneven, misguided even in parts, but it has proven a few times now that it can tell compelling stories that capture what I enjoy about Star Trek, even if it still gets in its own way more often than I’d like.
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All In With The Nuts
1x9 - For me, this was the Trekiest episode so far. At least in terms of Roddenberry-flipping DS9/VOY era Trek. Geodie goes off searching for Mom, Data takes the ship to look for Dad, Ezri goes off searching for Worf -- and here we are. We knew Caleb was gonna go hunting for Mom at some point, but I'm a little surprised they pulled that card this early in the show.
There are some Time to Stand/Rocks and Shoals vibes toward the end, when they separated the saucer and discovered the Omega mine perimeter. But unlike with the experienced DS9 Starfleet crew, this crew isn't tried & tested, so there was no need to crash the ship on a planet... just to jettison the drive section and make it home on the saucer's mini-nacelles (which by god, after 800 years they should have invented something like this, so good).
I recently watched VOY's The Omega Directive, and they've pretty much held to canon about what these suckers can do. Although, again, it's been 800 years, nobody has discovered a way to better harness/neutralize them? Anyway.
On a scale of OMG HOW WILL THEY GET OUT OF THIS ONE (TO FIVE), this was on par with decent Trek cliffhangers.
Oh and can I just stand in proximity of Tig Notaro just to take in some particles of her coolness?
There are some Time to Stand/Rocks and Shoals vibes toward the end, when they separated the saucer and discovered the Omega mine perimeter. But unlike with the experienced DS9 Starfleet crew, this crew isn't tried & tested, so there was no need to crash the ship on a planet... just to jettison the drive section and make it home on the saucer's mini-nacelles (which by god, after 800 years they should have invented something like this, so good).
I recently watched VOY's The Omega Directive, and they've pretty much held to canon about what these suckers can do. Although, again, it's been 800 years, nobody has discovered a way to better harness/neutralize them? Anyway.
On a scale of OMG HOW WILL THEY GET OUT OF THIS ONE (TO FIVE), this was on par with decent Trek cliffhangers.
Oh and can I just stand in proximity of Tig Notaro just to take in some particles of her coolness?
