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I hate new Trek. A bald French captain with an English accent? A blind man flying the ship? The first officer is completely unprofessional, trying to bang every woman he sees (Even holograms! The ship has a virtual brothel, now!). It wont survive a year, I guarantee it.

No, I agree completely. The two leads had enough charisma that it was enjoyable in the moment, but the plot was a mess, Vanessa suffered terrible character assassination, and the parade of cameos was just tiresome. “Some motherfuckers still trying to ice skate uphill” was a million times worse than “somehow Palpatine returned”.

It’s not totally unique for sure, there are similar examples like TNG’s Home Soil. But all too often we have situations like Voyager being on the other side of the galaxy and the universal translator just working.

I understand, but I feel like they go together as part of a realistic alien encounter. These aliens both look and act different. They don’t register “us” as life forms, there’s a full episode devoted to figuring out how they communicate, fun stuff like that.

It you enjoy realistically inhuman aliens, I do recommend you check out season 4 of Discovery. The season long arc involves probably the most difficult and problematic first contract scenarios Star Trek has had.

Really? I've seen some people who really hate it, but my impression from most in my little bubble is more a tone of pleasant surprise. There was even a thread here a week ago titled Star Trek academy (spoilers) is awesome. Actually, I just looked it up for the link and you commented on it!

Anyway, some quick points I like:

1. It embraces IDIC wholeheartedly. It doesn't just show diversity as being good or normal (which is de rigueur for Trek), but shows what strength it can bring. The third episode, while a bit of a silly romp, is a great example of the characters clashing but growing both internally and as a group as a result of working through that clash.

2. I think Holly Hunter is doing a fabulous job. I've said elsewhere, her character isn't all that much on the page, but she brings such an enormous confidence and comfort to it that I don't think many could pull off without it seeming inauthentic.

3. I'm very intrigued by the angle of rebuilding a fallen Federation, which Discovery did an OK job setting up but didn't delve into as much as I'd have liked. It's an exciting new backdrop. I'm also relieved it moved Federation HQ to Betazed, following in Disco's footsteps of downplaying the usual Earth-centric nature of the Trek universe. Maybe a small point, but I didn't think that would happen since the Academy itself stayed in San Francisco and I'm very happy to see it.

4. It's fun to watch. The humour works for me, the characters are charming, and they have good chemistry. Some of them came off as cliche teen drama archetypes on first introduction, but they're already doing a good job moving past that. For episode 3, it's not bad.

Earthy, peaty… and I detect hints of lilac.

I think Academy is pretty good so far 🤷

Awful. Perfect.

If they do a tribble episode without a terrible pun in the title I’m done with the franchise! That would be the final nail in Star Trek’s coffin. A slap in the face to all true fans. Etc etc.

Well that would make perfect sense. I guess I still need to adjust to school based plots.

Jay-Den is definitely my guess. If so, excited to see more of the 32nd century Klingons.

But what’s with all the characters standing behind podiums? I’d think this was a trial episode, but the description doesn’t match that at all.