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ValueSubtracted OP , 1 month ago to startrek in [Interview] 'Star Trek: Discovery' is over. Now Alex Kurtzman readies for 'Starfleet Academy' and 'Section 31'

I really like his answer to a question about Academy’s setting:

So you’re setting this —

In the “Discovery” era. There’s a specific reason for that. As the father of a 17-year-old boy, I see what my son is feeling as he looks at the world and to his future. I see the uncertainty; I see all the things we took for granted as given are not certainties for him. I see him recognizing he’s inheriting an enormous mess to clean up and it’s going to be on his generation to figure out how to do that, and that’s a lot to ask of a kid. My thinking was, if we set “Starfleet Academy” in the halcyon days of the Federation where everything was fine, it’s not going to speak to what kids are going through right now.

It’ll be a nice fantasy, but it’s not really going to be authentic. What’ll be authentic is to set it in the timeline where this is the first class back after over 100 years, and they are coming into a world that is only beginning to recover from a cataclysm — which was the Burn, as established on “Star Trek: Discovery,” where the Federation was greatly diminished. So they’re the first who’ll inherit, who’ll re-inherit, the task of exploration as a primary goal, because there just wasn’t room for that during the Burn — everybody was playing defense. It’s an incredibly optimistic show, an incredibly fun show; it’s a very funny show, and it’s a very emotional show. I think these kids, in different ways, are going to represent what a lot of kids are feeling now.

ValueSubtracted , 1 month ago to startrek in Attended the Discovery series finale screening in Beverly Hills. Amazing time.

Oh wow, I’m glad you were able to attend - how was the crowd?

ValueSubtracted OP , 1 month ago to startrek in Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x10 "Life, Itself"

I guess we will never find out where it actually came from

This was something that caught me off-guard, but the more I think about it, the more appropriate it seems. Some things are just unknowable.

ValueSubtracted OP , 1 month ago to startrek in Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x10 "Life, Itself"

As far as season finales go, I think this was their best one to date. The action was split pretty nicely between the chaotic events on the bridge, Saru’s mission, and Burnham and Moll inside the portal. I thought the thoroughline of the clues left by the science team came together quite nicely, as well - there was a good amount of emphasis on how concerned the scientists had been about exactly who was going to find this thing. Burnham’s ultimate decision to chuck the whole thing into the black hole caught me by surprise, but seemed pretty well-reasoned.

As far as series finale’s go…I think they did pretty well with what they had. The several-decade time jump often works really well to cause some self-reflection, and it was nice to see an Admiral Burnham who was so settled down. And hey, we got our “Calypso” tie-in that managed to answer very few questions, but at least they closed that circle.

It really does feel like the end of an era. This show kickstarted the barrage of Trek we’ve (hopefully, mostly) enjoyed over these past few years. Of all the series that have followed it, Discovery has consistently been the one I’ve looked forward to watching the most, as it’s been the most willing to surprise and challenge me along the way. It’s been, as they say, a long road.

ValueSubtracted OP , 1 month ago to startrek in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Wrapping Up Season 3 Production, Work on Season 4 Begins Spring 2025

The Academy series remains on track to start filming this summer.

ValueSubtracted OP , 1 month ago to quarks in ‘Pink Moon’: Blu Del Barrio Joins Cast Of Carol Brandt’s Queer Heist Drama

Yeah, I thought this one was particularly notable since they were a relative unknown prior to Discovery.

ValueSubtracted OP , 1 month ago to startrek in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Wrapping Up Season 3 Production, Work on Season 4 Begins Spring 2025

I think it’ll probably get five seasons, but I wouldn’t hold my breath beyond that.

ValueSubtracted , 1 month ago to startrek in Canon Connections: DIS 5x09 - Lagrange Point

TFW you’re a little too accustomed to genre conventions…

Edit: And I think we all get that from time to time. When’s the last time you expected the transporters to work during a high-stakes mission?

ValueSubtracted , 1 month ago to startrek in Canon Connections: DIS 5x09 - Lagrange Point

How dare these people behave semi-rationally! We’ve got a story to tell!

ValueSubtracted , 1 month ago to startrek in Canon Connections: DIS 5x09 - Lagrange Point

He memorably played “unconscious guy on a table” in “Shades of Gray.”

ValueSubtracted , 1 month ago to startrek in Canon Connections: DIS 5x09 - Lagrange Point

I literally yelled at the TV: "Why didn’t you just do that?! Or at least technobabble away why you ‘can’t just’ "

You know, the execution was a little clunky, but I really appreciated the idea that Starfleet would sit around chatting about the situation for the bit, while the Breen would just swing in with a YOLO maneuver.

ValueSubtracted , 1 month ago to startrek in Me at age six, at Star Trek: The Experience

Yes, it was sarcasm, and Riker smiles upon you.

ValueSubtracted , 1 month ago to startrek in Me at age six, at Star Trek: The Experience

Smiling

ValueSubtracted , 1 month ago to startrek in Me at age six, at Star Trek: The Experience

Are you the one on the left or the right?

ValueSubtracted OP , 1 month ago to startrek in Preview The ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season (And Series) Finale With New Images, And Clip From “Life, Itself”

Marvel at the two whole photos (okay, one whole photo and one heavily-cropped photo) that they’ve provided this week!

But hey…Nhan!