Cuddling must be rough with those mini-horns.

Babylon Bee:

Boldly go where no man ever wanted to go!

Pretty spot on:

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Originally posted by PASig:
Pretty spot on:

This is profoundly true.

It's a damn shame what they did to the Klingons in this piece of shit show. Turned a fearless and proud race of warriors into a bunch of scared wimpy refugees:

Why Starfleet Academy turned Klingons into polyamorous refugees

I didn’t mind so much about the Klingons being decimated in general…

The whole idea behind the burn was that it decimated worlds. And if you think about the Klingons it makes sense that without a strong home world, they would fall back more on the folklore and less on the strength of the higher houses on Qo'noS. You may remember also that there was a lot of deceit in their government that the burn eradicated. Without the big, swinging dicks in the larger houses, the smaller houses left behind relied on the stories of Kahless.

The way they delivered it was a little off being that this is a woke series. And the fake battle was a little campy, but got the point across that the Klingons still needed to feel like they won as opposed to accepting charity.

Episode 5.

Gay Klingons.



Oh, and the hologram 'girl' is officially the single most annoying character in ALL of Trek history. More annoying than Luxwana Troi, Wesley, young Alexander, Neelix. . .

This was also the most cringe episode I've seen since Voyager's Warp 10 Space Lizard episode.

There are only 10 episodes, and the show really isn't going anywhere.

I mentioned all of this to a friend who also liked Star Trek and his response was "are there any straight characters in the show at all?"

TOS or GTFO.

They're just gleefully rubbing it in our faces now. It's no mistake they chose the Klingon to be the gay soyboy type in this. Can't portray them as a loud, proud, in your face warrior culture any longer I guess

https://x.com/EndWokeness/stat...641386683744605?s=20




I've heard they already pushed through a "second" season due to how streaming can be filmed all at once and then split into "seasons" but it's effectively done after this.

They've killed the franchise.

Well, it's over (for now). The final episode (10 of only 10 per 'season') aired this past week.

Wow, this show was disappointing.

So, Paramount ran a promotion a coupla weeks ago showing an all-female/racially diverse bridge crew. They even had a WWE wrestler on the cast (Becky Lynch, whatever her real name is) (I guess they saw The Mandalorian had Sasha Banks on the cast and they wanted in on the trend).

They BRAGGED that "For the first time, there are no white men in positions of power" on this show. Of course, this was a blatant lie, since Robert Picardo, reprising his role as The Doctor from Voyager, is a MAJOR character, and is present in 80% of the episodes. That dude is an OLD WHITE MALE. It was even worse than that, since the bridge crew they bragged on was mostly absent during the show. We only saw BRIEF glimpses of them (Rebecca Quin / Becky Lynch) was only in 2 episodes. The ship itself is the school, so it spends most of the time on the ground. Even when it does go to space, we never get ANY character development of the traditional bridge crew. I don't even recall Becky Lynch having any dialog at all.

This show does not take the Trek lore seriously. So what if they have a 'diverse' bridge crew - we never SEE them. In the final episode, the capt takes the entire ship off on a rogue mission to find/rescue the hunky latino dude (who's mother was arrested by Space ICE in the first episode). She took only two other officers with her (the white Doctor and the snarky lesbian woman (in real life and on the show - but I do love her character - she is a transfer from Disco). Now, imagine a US Navy captain taking his Arleigh Burke destroyer off on a mission, and only taking two other officers with him. This is, of course, nonsense. But, it set the stage for the end of the episode where the main cast cadets all fill in the bridge positions (mind you, they are ALL first-year cadets with practically no real-world experience) and win the day.

Part of the problem with the show is that it is rushed. There are only 10 episodes, vs 26 on the 'Real' Trek shows (TNG, DS9, VOY, Enterprise). Even my beloved Strange New Worlds only has 12 or so episodes per season. Therefore, there is no real character development. They use stereotypes and ham-fisted DEI plotlines to drive the show forward.

For example, the gay Klingon. He LITERALLY wears a skirt in the last couple episodes. Now, the fanatics on social media point out that there was such a uniform in TNG - it was called a 'Skant' (presumably, for skirt/pants). They showed, from what I recall, ONE SINGLE DUDE wearing this in the pilot episode. No named character ever wore that thing. I never even noticed it until the internet pointed it out to me.

He's the very worst of gay stereotypes. He has no traditional manly/Klingon traits. He got literally disowned/abandoned by his family because he wasn't traditionally Klingon enough (a direct metaphor for a wimpy dude who wanted to knit instead of playing football). He talked about pacifism and was extremely effeminate. I'm surprised the gay community didn't complain that they made his character into such a bad stereotype.

Then there is the white over-achiever dude (he LITERALLY vomits glitter since he is some kind of alien). He looks human, but in the first episode, he transformed into some weird crystal/sparkly alien. For some reason, he spends the entire season looking human. They went to his home planet in one episode, and everybody there also looked human. I guess they didn't have the CGI budget for more than the 5 minutes they showed him in his true alien form. Regardless, his ENTIRE purpose on this show is to be irritating and make the blond girl look smart. He's "top of his class/99th percentile chronic over-achiever smart" but ALWAYS fails and gets beaten by the smart blond girl. He loses the sports team captaincy to her. He messes up and she steps in to correct him. It's blatant how much he is constantly out-done by her.

SO hunky latino dude. The entire show starts off with her mother being arrested and (literally) ripped from her 5-yr old child by Space ICE. She was involved with a theft where a Starfleet officer was murdered (by Paul Giamatti's character). They played up the whole 'tragedy' of separating this child from his mother. Holly Hunter's character quit Starfleet over her guilt of being part of this 'travesty of justice.' They NEVER paused for a second to consider the dead officer.

Now, they did surprise me. In the final episode, they DID bring up the officer. He was a close friend to Holly Hunter's character. He was doing 'one last mission' before he retired to spend time with his wife and children. Talked about his hobbies, his family, his life. Really called out Hunky's mother for being accessory to his murder, and called her out because she COULD have prevented the murder (whereas before, they brushed it off as her having no accountability/blame whatsoever). They actually called her out and assigned proper blame to her for her role in this guy's murder. I did not expect that.

Paul Giamatti was good. They actually had some good writing for him. He's a great villain, even though the last episode had a ridiculously cartoonish plot. Basically, he stole some Omega Particles that were turned into mines (some magic space stuff that was a plot line from Voyager, IIRC). If a ship got too close, the mines would detonate, and apparently destroy entire solar systems and make vast stretches of space impassible by warp drive (effectively stranding whoever is left alive inside). The bad guys spread a minefield around THE ENTIRE FREAKING FEDERATION, effectively bottling up every ship inside this region (fortunately, the Academy's ship was THE ONE SHIP outside this minefield). This is the equivalent of ISIS mining the entire western hemisphere to prevent the US Navy from leaving home waters (yeah, stupid, right?). It was a FREAKING STUPID plot device. Of course, in the end, the freshmen cadets thwart this nefarious plot and deactivate the minefield. Yay, everybody goes home and the show is ready for Hogwarts ST: Academy season 2. . .

The show is supposed to have a second season, and everybody is arguing about it on the internet. They announced that they wrapped filming a couple weeks ago for Season 2. Now, filming wrap does NOT mean the show is ready to air. With such a SFX-dependent premise, I imagine there is a LOT of time and money that needs to be spent before it can be delivered as a watchable show (adding soundtracks, adding CGI/SFX (every transporter beam, every phaser shot, every scene of the ship flying through space). It remains to be seen if it will actually air. It has gotten lousy reviews and ratings, and there have been many news items about how bad the show is doing.

People who defend this show say the ENTIRE campaign against it is by "AI/Bots/Review Bombing," without any real acknowledgement that people have legitimate reasons to dislike the show. From what I've seen, this is even a more divisive show than Disco was.

To be fair, some of the episodes were less bad than others. That's about all I can say about it. I didn't see ANY single episode where I thought it was "A Good Episode." Some episodes sucked less than others; that's about as far as I can go. The show is teen angsty/90210 or Dawson's Creek In Space. There is WAY too much cringe and too many annoying characters. They don't respect the seriousness of what made Trek great in the first place. They cram in cameos and easter eggs, to the point that it's distracting. They did an entire episode about Capt Sisko from DS9, and it just came across to me as blatant pandering / fan service. "HEY REMEMBER DS9?...." Yes, I remember. The good show with the good writing, with good character development respect for the lore that made Trek great in the first place. All the DS9 callbacks did was make me compare this turd to a really GREAT show.

Sound like a made the right decision to NOT give this POS show any of my time.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
Sound like a made the right decision to NOT give this POS show any of my time.

Yeah.. it’s absolutely terrible, even worse than discovery which is saying something. I hate watched it just out of curiosity just to see how bad it truly was and I couldn’t pay attention to most of it. They are trying to kill the franchise

Discovery did blow, also. It makes me sad to see how much they are fucking this great franchise. It's been downhill since DS9/Voyager. I still like to go back and watch those and TNG, of course.

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Originally posted by Hound Dog:
Wow, this show was disappointing.

Ya think?

And I didn't even see it.

I watched many negative video reviews of every episode in this series. Disparu, Nerdrotic, some funny Irish dude, Critical Drinker, etc.

I never watched any part of the show itself. I wouldn’t pay to subscribe to this tripe.

The above named reviewers eviscerated every episode… and, truly, I enjoyed the savagery. This series’ showrunner, Kurtzman, is just rubbing it in the noses of every traditional Star Trek fan. I guess you get to run a franchise IP if you can crank the woke to 11. Seems like a bad business plan for a studio but they’ve done it to Star Wars and Star Trek… with disastrous financial results.

It’s official. Canceled after the second “season” (really the second half of the first and only season filmed):

Divisive ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Canceled After Two Seasons

^ I'm sure they'll blame the patriarchy at some point.

Since Enterprise was cancelled, the only other show I've ever watched to completion was Picard and that was more than enough of this Nu-Trek for me.

High production costs + very low viewership numbers doomed it.

It's almost to the point of being as written in stone as the Laws of Physics:

"Get Woke, Go Broke"

They never learn, do they?

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s Cancellation Explained