I’m not sure why anyone ever thought it would be?

Other than the naysayers who were looking not to like it and had to be ‘shown otherwise.’

Even Prodigy ended up an ‘all ages’ show.

Not saying you’re one of them, it’s unfortunate that the new shows seem to have to push against negative labels and narratives that are brigaded before the fist casting announcements.

In this case, despite the idea of an Academy show kicking around since the 1970s, it was fairly clear that no senior network/streamer executive were ever going greenlight it until someone came up with a concept that was more than a college soap in the Star Trek universe.

What I didn’t expect was for the other perennial ‘failed to make it to pilot’ franchise idea of a hospital show also got rolled into it. That’s one that Roddenberry first tried to spin off with M’Benga in the second season of TOS.

I’m finally getting back to this.

Had a work push and then a virus. I really find I have even less attention for listening and podcasts when I’m ill.

One thing that I’ve figured out is that the audio quality varies widely depending on the service one is getting podcasts from or the delivery app.

The base recording is excellent and the sound effects are there. Some of the players have so much noise that you’d never realize that.

In any event, I tried out different players and found that Cassidy’s delivery was much less mumbly on better audio players regardless of being on the same device.

Something to consider when getting podcasts even through open source players.

We can disagree on that.

I will never love TMP but I will never claim it’s not Star Trek.

I agree. These folks have no perspective or are dishonest with themselves.

I can acknowledge that it can be jarring, and it can take time to accept a major visual design update.

I felt that in 1979 as I sat in the theatre watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

I had no heads up whatsoever that the Klingon design had changed. I was completely confused in the opening scenes with the Klingons. I couldn’t figure out what species they were.

But I got over it. Quickly.

I still think TMP is disappointing, long boring movie that rehashes the Nomad plot from TOS. The Klingon redesign wasn’t its problem though.

It seems more that Larry Ellison is giving his adult children amounts of money to invest to learn how to run businesses.

Amounts that for most others would be an inheritance in themselves are less than a year’s interest on Larry’s overall fortune.

David and his sister both started out with a certain amount.

His sister’s firm got into financial difficulties so Larry appointed a co head and hasn’t invested more.

David made his investment in creating Skydance profitable and so his father is investing more.

It’s a better solution than Trump taking his cut of the inheritance and bankrupting it, and then getting full control and bankrupting again.

That’s not to say even so that Larry isn’t taking advantage of the CBS part of the purchase to reshape its news to his own vision.

Celia’s hair for the panel suggests they’re evolving Uhura’s style in season five towards the one in TOS.

Which is interesting because Celia really wanted to avoid wigs and keep a natural hairstyle.

I’m wondering what kind of hair Jess will have for Chappel in the final season.

There are a bunch of the perennial brigading naysayers on other platforms already venting that this young Klingon is too skinny/lanky.

Seems that they never saw Tony Todd as Kurn or considered that TALL is an important Klingon physical characteristic.

This comes across as gatekeeping…

— from the perspective of someone who’s been watching Trek since the 1960s and has seen the same old ‘ahem, not Trek, it’s stealing from …’ chestnuts since TAS was announced, I am alway surprised how little older fans recognize that Trek has ALWAYS adapted other media (movies, television, radio plays, Shakespeare!) into its episodes.

Sigh.

They’re making sure they’ll hit the February sweeps for advertiser data (which weirdly remain a thing in the streaming era).

Perhaps the new ownership are going to give the franchise more of a chance to thrive.

Never any notes on the SNW costumes.

The global trailer is available an an embed on the official site.

https://www.startrek.com/en-ca/news/starfleet-academy-reveals-trailer-premiere

The Starfleet Academy trailer doesn’t seem to be available on YouTube in Canada yet and isn’t on StarTrek.com.

Sigh.

Or, at the YouTube links provided in other posts here.

Thanks @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website

Exclusive footage is being blacked out by the content owner.

So, I guess we’ll need to wait until the featurettes show up on StarTrek.com?

New footage

Exclusive news

And SNW and Starfleet Academy cast and producers.

GO!!!

Al the moreso since Paramount offered nothing this year for Star Trek Day in September.

And we’re all waiting.

Not so patiently.

The most simple acronym would be SA. It’s unfortunately the acronym for so many different things that it wouldn’t have a difficult time establishing an identity with and for the who.

If the VOY, ENT and DIS precedent were followed, some have proposed ACA since STA for Star could fit any of the shows. (I have seen ACA in the wild on other social media.)

The quibble with SFA is that Starfleet is one word not two and it’s unprecedented to go with the first letter in a syllable to get the designation.

For what it’s worth, SA seems to be what Memory Alpha has landed on. It’s designating article stubs for the show as ‘SA Performers’ etc.

Not sure I’m entirely comfortable with SFA as the acronym for Starfleet Academy.

But all the alternatives I have seen would be worse.

I’m tempted and conflicted, all at once.

Nice to see TAS original characters getting some profile though.