Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

[Seto Kaiba]

21 hours ago, Dangard Ace said:

More of Those Old Science guys adventures, less of these paranoia grim dark worlds.

Definitely.

IMO, Kurtzman-era Star Trek's biggest creative stumbling block is that the paranoid grimdark world of the 32nd century is painfully underdeveloped.  Star Trek: Discovery picked up and moved from the 23rd century to the 32nd on a whim to escape accusations/complaints that the series was messing with canon.  They just never stopped to actually think out what the 32nd century should be besides "dystopian".  They seemed to assume that Star Trek exists in the same kind of cultural and technological stasis as Star Wars and spared practically no thought for how the setting might evolve in 900 years or what the implications of the many technological advancements made in chronologically later Star Trek TV shows would have for their story's setting.  The few acknowledgements of progress were to handwave why that progress disappeared.  

The grimdark could have been made to work if they'd actually thought it out properly, but they didn't.  They wanted to make off-brand Star Wars.

 

21 hours ago, Dangard Ace said:

Captain 7of9 and her Enterprise could do that. 

TBH, I don't think Jeri Ryan could carry a Star Trek series.

Her character stood out in Picard because she was one of the only characters in the series who wasn't wallowing in depression and irrelevance or a vaguely racist stereotype.  Her story is building on that same grimdark nonsense from Picard, and nobody wants more of that.

 

 

13 hours ago, sketchley said:

To be honest (and coming from a position of not having watched any of the latest stuff), the show runners need to be replaced.  This has nothing to do with the writing; they need someone that's much better at keeping control of the budget and reining in costs.

Definitely.  Many fans continually ask why Alex Kurtzman and Secret Hideout are still involved with the franchise when the vast majority of their output has been failures.

[vladykins]

On 3/5/2026 at 11:34 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

 

So... why are there transwarp tunnels still?  Discovery never really addressed that.  The Borg transwarp network collapsed eight hundred years ago when Voyager infected the Borg Queen with that pathogen and blew up the hub.

 

Not addressing the rest of the critique, but we were shown in Prodigy that there are plenty of transwarp tunnels still out there, as well as Borg. 

 

[Seto Kaiba]

So... apparently Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's performance was SO bad that Skydance Paramount has reportedly opted to end the arrangement that gave Secret Hideout exclusive creative control of the franchise.  

Something they really should have done after Discovery spun in, IMO, but better late than never and I can't imagine many fans will miss them.

 

On 3/24/2026 at 3:25 PM, vladykins said:

Not addressing the rest of the critique, but we were shown in Prodigy that there are plenty of transwarp tunnels still out there, as well as Borg. 

Which is weird, because the transwarp network was explicitly destroyed at the end of Star Trek: Voyager.

Even if some of the Borg conduits survived because the Queen did, albeit in a diminished state, they shouldn't still be around centuries later after the Borg went extinct.

[Dynaman]

If not after Discovery then surely after Section 31.  That was absolute trash.  I can't comment on anything besides SNW after that since I had no interest in anything else.