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You do have a nice cel collection. From what you post on instagram.

Getting ready to watch Starfleet Academy's 2nd episode... pray for me. 🤮 Still wanna know where my Cerritos and Protostar are in this new 60th Anniversary eyecatch... maybe the showrunners are just jealous that both shows are jealous that both shows are something fans actually liked. OK, right off the bat... what is with this series and the f***ing piss filter? Seriously. First Bajor looked like we were watching it through a used coffee filter and now San Francisco looks like we're seeing it through a pint mug of cheap pilsner. Like, I realize the visual effects team is probably three unpaid interns and a AI tool but come on. At least send the interns out to touch grass and maybe see the sun for once... unless they've been in captivity for so long working on Discovery they've devolved into Morlocks. What happened to Starfleet? Before the Kurtzman years, Star Trek treated Starfleet Academy as a not-quite-military college with various postgraduate programs that was designed to take the Best of the Best and turn them into consummate professionals. The sort of people who didn't need to be told to make their beds or to get to class on time. The Starfleet Academy series is treating it like high school, full of inept children who need their hands held at every moment. Like, I don't even like these characters and I'm still offended on their behalf by how patronizing this is. I will say one thing in its favor. I do like that they've gone to the trouble to include a decent helping of alien cadets in the academy class even if most of them are minor background characters. There's one particularly noteworthy blink-and-you'll-miss-it minor detail among them too. The Ferengi cadet is wearing a skirt, and is likely female... meaning at some point in the intervening millennia their species finally got its sh*t together. Lots of reused makeup here. Several of the aliens towards the back are clearly wearing prosthetics that were used for background aliens on Discovery. The Federation War College apparently has a lot more aliens too, their representative closest to the camera appears to be Romulan. A Prodigy-style Brikar shows up at one point. We don't see any Cardassians but there are apparently enough of them to have their own student association. A singer who belongs to the same species as Natalia from Star Trek: Beyond appears at one point (a rare Kelvin timeline reference). There's also a Starfleet Exocomp whom the subtitles reveal is named Almond Basket. We keep cutting back to this stupid f***ing speech. Holly Hunter's voice is rapidly becoming The Most Annoying Sound. They are doing one thing right about depicting her as an educator. They've successfully depicted her as someone who is simultaneously in love with the sound of their own voice and incapable of writing an actual speech anyone might want to listen to. I'm not gonna criticize the jerkass behavior of Cadet Reymi. Even Kirk had to deal with a classmate like that... so much so that his fantasy on the Shore Leave planet was a chance to sock him one. Interrupting a lecture to poke fun at a fellow student... not funny, just annoying. All that before the OP! Ugh... As for the OP itself... this doesn't really say "Star Trek". It's mostly just watching buildings get built and cherry blossoms blow down hallways. OK, there's a Lower Decks reference. There's a Starfleet Exocomp just hanging around in the turbolift. It keeps having to move out of the way because the Doctor apparently still can't read body language despite 900 years of practice and Captain Ake is practically fleeing from him. There is a brief moment where this series comes dangerously close to being self-aware about how unfunny it is. They're really committed to trying to sell the idea that everyone's just so quirky. The Chancellor of Starfleet Academy just wanders the campus out of uniform and without shoes. Even her colleagues look annoyed. We of course have to have a Discovery character remind us how stupid their plot was before being interrupted by Caleb. Why bother setting a series at Starfleet Academy if your entire cast save for the annoying girl are characters who firmly believe they're Too Cool for School? This is worse than boring, it's downright frustrating to watch. Every class they attend is just a venue for them to act out. Honestly? The biggest problem with this episode is that the writers suffered a Critical Research Failure about what Betazoids are. They seem to have mixed up a combination of traits from the half-Betazoid Deanna Troi and the Ramitisian mediator Riva from TNG "Loud as a Whisper". Instead of the dark-eyed telepaths who can speak but communicate mainly via telepathy they are in every other series, these Betazoids are light-eyed mute empaths who communicate via sign language. Actually, another huge problem with this show's logic. Why are the negotiations for Betazed's reentry into the Federation taking place at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco in front of a class of cadets? It's not even the right place or audience for it. Betazed's reentry into the Federation should be something negotiated between the Betazoid delegation and the Federation Council headed up by the Federation President. Those absolutely critical stakeholders aren't even on this planet. They're at the Federation Headquarters space station! I have a feeling that quite a few of the people who worked on this series either never went to college at all, or only went to art school. The tour of the Academy only seems to visit a coffee shop and the quad between some buildings where the students are reading outdoors, tossing around a ball, playing frisbee and hacky-sack, and generally doing everything you only see in the staged photos for college brochures. They couldn't even be bothered to make a replicator for the replimat... they just have cups appear on the serving area of a completely modern-looking espresso machine. That might actually be worse/lazier than Picard using an off-the-shelf 3D printer as the La Sirena's replicator. No corner left uncut. Honestly, it feels like it's more rewarding to watch this series for the background continuity nods than the actual story. At least there it feels like there's some affection for Star Trek as a whole... even if it is entirely superficial. ... ok, when your plot is so badly written that your antagonist starts to sound distressingly like the voice of reason, it might be time to reconsider your entire plotline. So after some fairly weak rationalizations, the plot wraps up with Starfleet seemingly arbitrarily deciding that the Federation will put its next capital on Betazed instead... noting that the entire Federation council and Federation President have been absent this entire time and probably ought to weigh in on that. This kind of further diminishes the relevance/significance of Starfleet Academy on Earth. It would've meant something if the Federation had reestablished the capital in Paris as it'd been since the founding, which would have made that Academy campus the de facto flagship campus again. Now there doesn't really seem to be a reason for it to exist there at all, since there are many other campuses with presumably better staff and conditions than what's available on an Earth that only came out of isolationism two or so years ago. This episode is... "better" feels too much like praise. Let's go with "Less awful". It's following a very old Star Trek diplomacy episode formula that's been used since TOS... but it's just not doing it very well because it's not committing to the bit. It wants to keep drama at arm's length and focus on being "quirky" and "funny" in a very forced and unnatural-feeling way so it ends up in this emotional flip-flop where there are scenes that were meant to be tense and dramatic that are just bland and emotionless because the series keeps trying to shift attention from the drama to a kid in the background who won't stop playing with his zipper to the great dismay of the adults.

I kind of liked the first episode.... interested, where they will go with this?

A long forgotten edition. Wish it has something of a more flamboyant scheme, or at least metallic white akin to the special 25S/F ones.

Didn’t seem to hamper Stranger Things one bit.....grown-ass adults playing high schoolers and twenty-somethings was just a minor inconvenience....

Bandai Spirits - Glitter and Glamours - Nami Egghead Style figure X 2

Watched the pilot, its lighter than the other GoT series but still entertaining.

This. Under the advisement of my boss/friend who is a huge Trek fan (of most things), not Sec 31 or Disco, I am avoiding this mess like the plague. In his words "awful, awful, awful, don't watch!" - I told him my advice was to go cleanse his pallet and watch "In The Pale Moonlight" from DS-9 to remind himself what GOOD Trek writing and acting actually looked like!

I could see it bring a newer better faster variable version of the Ghost X9 from Macross Plus possibly??? Pretty good looking design I think.

Looks like the Feios enemy variable fighter. Twich

So what happens when sheer stubbornness, a glorified button box, Ace Combat and the Unreal Engine Scripting System meet? Pure magic. I got the game to spew out a constant stream of telemetry data and events in search for more immersion in my VF-1 inspired home cockpit. The approach is the very same that I used for X4 Foundations before: Side load lib Luasocket, get a network connection established and start dumping extracted game data to it. This is highly experimental and the result of hacking away for the last ~4 nights. This video demonstrates the results: I usually use a modded VF-1 plane in AceCombat as well. This is now my personal substitute for the lack of any decent Macross / Robotech game since Macross VOXP 🤓

Third party add ons.... For HMR's?

Neat

Star Wars TVC Shaak Ti.

Looks a little like something that can blend in with Macross.

More stuff from Washington DC

Looks like something Big Firebird Toys would have done.

Thanks (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Taking references / inspirations from VF-X cover, hasegawa, yamato. (Ratio; Fighter nose to intake (4/4), intake to wing (4/4), wing to tips of stabilizer (2/4). Spec; a) must have engines display (removable cover), front intake actually have duct connected to hover mechanism and both rear engines. b) Battroid silhouettes have to close to Shoji Kawamori snesei's line art. c) transformation, wing platform as main core support of parts. d) have to look slim as nature of 21 & 22. d) named vf 22 plus is implement my transformation ideas into it, The silhouettes of fighter, gerwalk and battroid have to follow original creator. This are few specs i lists in my scoops.

Initial block out in solidworks sketches for Battroid height close to Type 02 plus or minus

Thank you. Lists of Scoop of works; one of it is have to be far better than Bandai respectively.