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No spoilers, but I think the series started very well. The cast of adults is great, and the young characters are an interesting bunch. The series clearly has a lot of talent, both in front and behind the cameras. Shout out to Holly Hunter playing a chaos gremlin captain that sits on her bridge chair like a cat; Paul Giamatti for his scenery chewing; and Gina Yashere for her big Nigerian London Mom vibes
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It's too early to tell, but what I've seen so far intrigues me enough to watch the rest of the show—of course I'm not going to subscribe to Paramount Plus because fuck David Ellison; just like with his dad, never fall into the trap of anthropomorphising an Ellison. I'll do what I've done with Disco and SNW: I'll buy the season pass when it's out, and get the BluRays for my collection.
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As an Old School TNG Trekkie™, the "Starfleet Academy" spin off has been in the fan discourse for a long time; back in the late '90s/early '00s discourse typically took the shape of "let's go back to the TOS era character when they were young", because the Star Trek fandom always had this predictable reactionary/nostalgic streak, which was counterbalanced by the "get that prelapsarian fuckery away from me and give me new characters to love" progressive current…
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I think the reason why the Starfleet Academy concept kinda works now, as opposed to then, is that the reactionary current that took over the fandom as a response to Discovery got hit by Strange New Worlds—a series that, at its best, takes nostalgia and turns it on its head. Instead of the Academy of Kirk/Spock/McCoy, we got the first five year mission with a different set of legends…
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This freed up the part of the fandom that saw Discovery grow up from its grimdark season 1 and 2 into a series dedicated to building bridges and hope in the face of trauma, picking up the pieces of a broken, divided, and confrontational world; the part that is now trying to seed the next generation of the fandom, teaching new (and old) folks how to deal with Star Trek again…
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Instead of looking at the past as a way to retreat into the comfy socks of the future as imagined by our parents and grandparents, we get pushed into a future trying to rebuild itself—and that future doubles for both the Star Trek and general SF fandom. Instead of going further and further dark (both figuratively and literally, just look at how Picard was staged and lit), we got bright, airy sets…
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I don't know if this effort will pan out, and we're going to get a long running series with a rotating cast going farther into the future, like the showrunners seem to indicate. At this point, just like with Discovery, I value a lot more a valiant effort even if that may ultimately fall short, than a safe bet on whatever grimdark slop they'll give us next if things don't change.

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