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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" (startrek.website)
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“Kids These Days”

Written by: Gaia Violo

Directed by: Alex Kurtzman

“Beta Test”

Written by: Noga Landau & Jane Maggs

Directed by: Alex Kurtzman

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[–] 15 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Welcome back! I enjoyed both these episodes. I don’t like this time period, the post burn Federation. The rebuilding could interesting but it’s not really aspirational and I really could use some aspirational content in my life, vaguely waves at every thing.

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Rebuilding in the wake of global disaster (and honestly it's been one after another my whole life) is exactly the kind of inspirational content I think we need right now. 90s Trek was all about "things have been great, it could be better!" and I think our message today really should be "things have sucked for a bit, but how do we recover the greatness we know we're capable of?"

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    This, very well put. I've been struggling to vocalise why I like this to folks and I think you nailed it.

    Its a different message for a different era. And one we need. Too many are looking at the near and potentially bleak future, we need them to realise that hope can still lay beyond that.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Totally! I haven’t loved the post-Burn setting but the way this show is already contextualizing it, and the optimism it’s doing it with is already starting to change my mind.

    And it’s even carrying over from the show into real life, which is one of the things I love most about Trek and its good to have this out there. There’s some nitpicks, as there always are, but so far I can deal with them, especially if it stays consistent. 🖖

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I haven’t loved the post-Burn setting but the way this show is already contextualizing it, and the optimism it’s doing it with is already starting to change my mind.

    Same. A lot of that stuff just feels more comfortable with time and I appreciate how Star Trek always pushes it a little bit. People FREAKED OUT with the Klingon changes in TMP/TNG. Then FREAKED OUT that DS9 was on a space station with a "politically correct" captain. Now we think of those things as normal, nostalgic even.

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