Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (Paramount+)

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On 29/07/2025 at 09:36, Steven P. said:

I tried to rewatch ST:D (from where I left off in season 4 ep7) but my god, it's like they all have to stop and talk about their feelings every 5 minutes. It's infuriating!

Michael's whisper talking really gets to me, and she just does not have the vibe of a Captain.

I didn't even make it through the first season. What a clusterf**k of a mess imho.

But I am cautiously optimistic about the upcoming season of ST:SNW. Although there seems to be a Muppet episode?? Ugh....

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On 29/07/2025 at 10:38, Dutchie64 said:

I didn't even make it through the first season. What a clusterf**k of a mess imho.

I only made it that far originally through the use of the fast forward button.

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On 29/07/2025 at 08:16, Dutchie64 said:

As much as I was a StarTrek fan, I noped out on ST:Discovery and anything related. This doesn't look much better to me tbh.

I kinda like ST:SNW, as long as they don't do musical eposides.... 😛

 

Oh you're REALLY not going to like the muppet episode, then... :p

I've not bothered watching the new season yet.  From the talk I've seen, I'm not entirely sure I want to, either...

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On 06/08/2025 at 05:49, FloatingFatMan said:

Oh you're REALLY not going to like the muppet episode, then... :p

I've not bothered watching the new season yet.  From the talk I've seen, I'm not entirely sure I want to, either...

Ep 1 was fine but since then it’s been silly standalone comedy episodes. It feels like it’s leaning into that… :(

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I went from meh, then when they hired Holly Hunter I went to ok. Then they hired Paul Giamatti and that got my attention. After seeing the trailer I am cautiously optimistic. The one thing I hope they do is rebuild the lore of star trek and update it to the 32nd century,

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So, I just watched the first episode, and my one line review is:

"Oh boy. This one's going to annoy fans even more than Discovery did..."

It's OK for generic scifi, but for Trek? No. It's full of blatant name/race drops without ANY concept of the reason behind those names and races, and in doing so, disrespects the work earlier Trek put in.  It goes for almost non-stop action instead of trying to do something intelligent, like Trek is meant to.  

I won't be watching any more of this garbage. It's just more Kurtzman dross.

Paramount, please just give Trek back to Ronald D More, for Christ's sake...

 

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On 15/01/2026 at 19:23, FloatingFatMan said:

So, I just watched the first episode, and my one line review is:

"Oh boy. This one's going to annoy fans even more than Discovery did..."

It's OK for generic scifi, but for Trek? No. It's full of blatant name/race drops without ANY concept of the reason behind those names and races, and in doing so, disrespects the work earlier Trek put in.  It goes for almost non-stop action instead of trying to do something intelligent, like Trek is meant to.  

I won't be watching any more of this garbage. It's just more Kurtzman dross.

Paramount, please just give Trek back to Ronald D More, for Christ's sake...

Have yet to watch, but I just want to say that everything I am reading is saying that the first episode sucked and the second was much better.

I tried to get back into Discovery (picked up from season 4 as I stopped watching after a few episodes of season 3 when it aired), could not get past the second episode of the fourth season, stopped watching.

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On 15/01/2026 at 18:23, FloatingFatMan said:

So, I just watched the first episode, and my one line review is:

"Oh boy. This one's going to annoy fans even more than Discovery did..."

It's OK for generic scifi, but for Trek? No. It's full of blatant name/race drops without ANY concept of the reason behind those names and races, and in doing so, disrespects the work earlier Trek put in.  It goes for almost non-stop action instead of trying to do something intelligent, like Trek is meant to.  

I won't be watching any more of this garbage. It's just more Kurtzman dross.

Paramount, please just give Trek back to Ronald D More, for Christ's sake...

 

The writers also don't know that betazoids are telepaths not empaths. That was just Troi and she was half human. And once they started using sign language to communicate with eachother my migraine started and I needed a lie down.. that's episode two btw. Only positive is Paul giamatti is actually really good. But nutrek is not meant for the likes of me. I was just curious. 

Oh the doctor was good too although he looks like he's about to fall over....

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On 15/01/2026 at 21:10, Steven P. said:

Have yet to watch, but I just want to say that everything I am reading is saying that the first episode sucked and the second was much better.

I tried to get back into Discovery (picked up from season 4 as I stopped watching after a few episodes of season 3 when it aired), could not get past the second episode of the fourth season, stopped watching.

Yes the second was a lot better. But that's not saying much.

Oh and speaking of name/race drops

WHALES!!

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On 15/01/2026 at 21:27, Som said:

Oh the doctor was good too although he looks like he's about to fall over....

Robert Picardo is the shows' ONLY saving grace. Though that whole initial scene at the academy, with the incompetent cadets getting medicals? Sheesh.. I swear one of them had the mental age of a 2 year old... (No spoilers, you probably know which one I mean. :p )

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On 15/01/2026 at 21:31, FloatingFatMan said:

Robert Picardo is the shows' ONLY saving grace. Though that whole initial scene at the academy, with the incompetent cadets getting medicals? Sheesh.. I swear one of them had the mental age of a 2 year old... (No spoilers, you probably know which one I mean. :p )

Shockingly I didn't hate that scene. What I didn't like was the two main characters had 4 introduction scenes in a row at the beginning 

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On 15/01/2026 at 16:10, Steven P. said:

Have yet to watch, but I just want to say that everything I am reading is saying that the first episode sucked and the second was much better.

I think that the 1st season of almost all Star Trek series are not good. They don't suck, but not great.

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On 16/01/2026 at 03:06, Steven P. said:

Voyager was perfect from start to finish.

It had its hiccups. same with DS9, TNG, TOS & ENT

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This will be an unpopular opinion but I didn't mind the first two episodes. Sure, it's a long way from 'traditional' Trek but I'm willing to give it a chance and see if I can grow a connection with the current crew.

Btw, I have watched every single Trek episode and movie ever devised.

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On 16/01/2026 at 09:06, Steven P. said:

Voyager was perfect from start to finish.

LOL no it wasn't.....

And as much as I like ST, Voyager is still my least favourite show. Imho it ran too long, as Enterprise ran too short.....

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the biggest let down of voyager was the Year of hell 2 parter and finding out later that is was meant to be a whole season, but rick berman didn't want to do a continous story after DS9. that would have been a brilliant season otherwise

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