Admiral Rockwell Tory
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Star Trek : Star Fleet Academy premiered on Paramount + this week. There was another thread discussing various aspects back in September, but now we can see the finished product. They showed two episodes in the debut.
I am looking for other Trekkie opinions on it. I quickly realized it is in the post Voyager timeline because of the EMH (doctor) character there but also post Discovery's timeline and jump forward in time because Jett Reno is an instructor there. My lack of knowledge of some of Discovery may have been relevant because I quite Discovery after the season where they leaped into the future.
Personally, I was not impressed by any of the new characters. To me the Captain/Chancellor's character being played by a well-known actress, Holly Hunter, left me a little flat. She does not have the gravitas required to pull off the role. She wears glasses, reads old-fashioned books, puts her feet up in the captain's chair, and walks around barefoot, despite being 422 years old. She comes across as a rebirth of a 1970s hippie chick!
The other characters were not particularly impressive either. The characters come off as a woke version of the UN-type of diversity of the with blacks, whites, Asians, aliens and later including a Russian crewmember. There are aliens, including the captain, a hybrid alien female number one, and multiple combinations of alien students many hybrids of two species. There are obviously gay characters as well as fat, ugly, Klingons, and a particularly hot Betazoid in the show. There is even another character that is a species that appears as a hologram that is only weeks into its existence but appears as a young adult. The villain is an alien with a history with captain and one of the cadets Caleb Mir. What I found odd is that none of the bridge crew which made up most of the other series, are left as an afterthought in these two episodes as the cadet's do all the heavy lifting.
The ship also serves as the building for Star Fleet Academy's headquarters by landing in San Francisco. The ship was not impressive as the warp nacelles are detachable and the ship's interior reminds me very much of the cruise ship I was on in November in the Caribbean. They have announcements like a high school and they even have coffee bars it appears.
I would be interested in hearing others' opinions on the series. I am going to continue watching it to see if I can find any appeal. You may feel free to check my facts and opinions at will.
I am looking for other Trekkie opinions on it. I quickly realized it is in the post Voyager timeline because of the EMH (doctor) character there but also post Discovery's timeline and jump forward in time because Jett Reno is an instructor there. My lack of knowledge of some of Discovery may have been relevant because I quite Discovery after the season where they leaped into the future.
Personally, I was not impressed by any of the new characters. To me the Captain/Chancellor's character being played by a well-known actress, Holly Hunter, left me a little flat. She does not have the gravitas required to pull off the role. She wears glasses, reads old-fashioned books, puts her feet up in the captain's chair, and walks around barefoot, despite being 422 years old. She comes across as a rebirth of a 1970s hippie chick!
The other characters were not particularly impressive either. The characters come off as a woke version of the UN-type of diversity of the with blacks, whites, Asians, aliens and later including a Russian crewmember. There are aliens, including the captain, a hybrid alien female number one, and multiple combinations of alien students many hybrids of two species. There are obviously gay characters as well as fat, ugly, Klingons, and a particularly hot Betazoid in the show. There is even another character that is a species that appears as a hologram that is only weeks into its existence but appears as a young adult. The villain is an alien with a history with captain and one of the cadets Caleb Mir. What I found odd is that none of the bridge crew which made up most of the other series, are left as an afterthought in these two episodes as the cadet's do all the heavy lifting.
The ship also serves as the building for Star Fleet Academy's headquarters by landing in San Francisco. The ship was not impressive as the warp nacelles are detachable and the ship's interior reminds me very much of the cruise ship I was on in November in the Caribbean. They have announcements like a high school and they even have coffee bars it appears.
I would be interested in hearing others' opinions on the series. I am going to continue watching it to see if I can find any appeal. You may feel free to check my facts and opinions at will.
