Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

A year out but the first big preview story ran so...

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Then there's Paul Giamatti, who takes a prominent role as the main villain of the show, a piece of casting that quickly came together after the Oscar nominee started making the press rounds for his 2023 film The Holdovers. He expressed during interviews that his dream role is to play a Klingon in Star Trek. "We looked at each other and we went, 'Is he kidding?! Well, let's call his agent and find out,'" Kurtzman recalls. "Within, I think, less than an hour, [his agent] called back and said he would love to meet."

On a Zoom call, Giamatti explained how significant Star Trek was to his relationship with his father. The showrunners gave him the first five scripts of their show and offered him five different parts. He chose the villain.

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"If you're going to do a show about a young generation facing the future and you want it, as all Star Trek does, to be a mirror that holds itself up to the world as it is now, to situate the show in the halcyon days of the Federation would, in some ways, be dishonest,"

I hope that this does NOT mean we get more of the same half-baked grimdark in Picard where everyone in a Starfleet uniform doesn't know how to do their job. Buuuut, Tawny Newsome is on the writing staff, so there's maybe some hope?

New Star Trek - ooooh

32nd century - booooooo

We got teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkBU8lvXm7M

Onscreen mention of Sisko? A Jem'Hadar officer?! OK maybe I can get a little excited.

Interesting detail here:

https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-sdcc-2025-panel-2000635137

Kurtzman stepped in at the end to offer a few parting insights to the crowd. “I’m sure there’s been some questions about the trailer,” he said, “(including) why is there a ship that’s landing in San Francisco? And the answer is, the school is a ship, and it’s part of the campus in San Francisco. So they go to class in San Francisco, in the ship. And because resources are lighter in the 32nd century, think of it like a teaching hospital: the ship gets deployed with the fleet in a real-life situation so they can learn in the field.”

“So this is not just theoretical classrooms. You’re going to see Star Trek episodes where we meet new species, episodes that are about diplomacy. You’ll see episodes where these cadets, who are not yet captains, are learning who they are and how they fit into Starfleet. They can make mistakes in ways that if you’re already a captain or if you are already in Starfleet, you really can’t. So these characters get to do unique things in that way.”

So this trailer's causing a bit of to-do on Reddit because of the "DUTY! SERVICE! HONOR!" shouty bit. I dont get it, personally - its a fecking military academy what do they expect? But I can see ppl being worried about Paramount's direction/the right/Colberts firing/etc. I think the worry is unwarranted, but I also didn't feel much joy from that trailer.

Also how was that a female Jem Ha'Dar?

I dont get it, personally - its a fecking military academy what do they expect?

Star Trek occupies an interesting space I think because it's easily the most progressive sci-fi franchise but it IS also the navy and various incarnations have been varying degrees of attentive towards distracting from that.

Love a submarine episode

https://reactormag.com/starfleet-academy-wall-of-honor-easter-eggs

get Wesley off there

evergreen