I think people who like Disco will like Starfleet Academy.

The premier had some neat parts, but I think the structure, pacing and writing of the show have moved away from something I easily recognize as Star Trek and at the end, I was left more confused than interested in more.

I’m very happy with Academy so far, but I’m upvoting due the quality meme.

It's a high school drama in a Starfleet academy. It barely counts as SciFi and every scene is melodrama. There are two star Trek princesses and a street rat main male character whose an idiot but somehow also a genius and of course, extremely hot, and is immediately in a love triangle with princesses. Every position of authority at the academy is held by a woman and the head of the academy spends part every scene showing you how cool and non-conventional she is by being completely unprofessional. This show is a startrek soap opera.

I watched the first episode (it's on Youtube). After reading a the shit talked about it online already, I wasn't sure what to expect. I honestly enjoyed it. It is not TNG/DS9/Voyager/etc, but it was well done. The actors, the characters, all have potential. It is no longer tethered to any other show/ship/character, so they have the freedom to do something new. I am encouraged.

I don't like that the premise is the same as micheal from discover.

Gets in trouble. Gets a chance at proving themselves after solving a problem that no one else could.

They really should have come up with something else.

But it's fine.

I was kind of getting a "Harry Potter but scifi" vibe from the second episode.

Shenanigans followed by magic fix (slime). And the little magic holograms that pop up conveniently.

Oh and student teacher rivalry.

Yeah definitely a Hogwarts vibe. Or The magicians. But scifi.

I thought in the first episode the acting was a little rough but hey, watch the first season of tng, it's rough too.

I'm still open to seeing more.

I'm not one of those trekies who hate anything that isn't tos or TNG.

I like all of it except enterprise. And that's mostly cause I really don't like the captain. And I don't know why but I don't. And I can't get over it.

I even mostly liked Picard. Especially the 1st season. Kinda downhill after that.

There's plenty to critique in every series. Plenty of inconsistencies.

But I still enjoy the world building and stories.

My biggest complaint is all of the stairs. Why are there so many stairs?

I feel there was a targeted campaign against this show before it even came out. So many videos appearing in my algorithm saying how bad it was and how it’s doomed and how it’s failed etc.

I’ve already found it better than Discovery. And it’s not as bad as I was expecting. It’s still fast paced and wish it would slow down a little, and if the camera could stay still for more than 1 second that would be great.

But besides that, is decent.

I just don’t trust the new owners of paramount.

It’s been pretty enjoyable so far. Caleb, Jay-Den, Sam, and Genesis all have good chemistry as a main cast. Not every show needs to be TNG: Season 8. There’s some nits one could pick, but I’m looking forward to see where it goes once it’s out of character introduction and exposition mode.

Star Trek needs some time off. I enjoyed these two episodes but after the Section 31 "movie", and the quality of it all the past few years... It just needs to go away and find a new creative team.

I like it 🤷.

The characters are pretty likeable. There is some intentional silliness, and I'm totally OK with that.

Agreed. But it also has Holly Hunter as Barefoot Casual Spacemom.

So I'm probably going to watch it.

Yeah but so was VOY. It got there .

I don't watch star trek anymore. Havent watched SNW, haven't watched this either, and won't ever.

I hope one day I can go back and watch TNG or DS9 again without feeling the cringe from ST Picard.

I watched 5 episodes of STD and dumped it, it was awful CGI slop. I regretfully watched the nu trek movies and they're literally much worse remakes of earlier star Trek movies.

Then came ST: Picard, which has managed to ruin even TNG for me for a long, long time. I knew it would be terrible but everyone and their mother was repeating the aggressive marketing campaign that it would be absolutely awesome and ooooohhh god it was bad. They fucking ruined Q... That pissed me off.

Want to watch the true successor to star trek, in heart and mind? Wat h the Orville. Seasons 1 &2 are awesome, 3 kinda went into the same shit direction like star trek with longer episodes, weaker stories and much, MUCH more CGI to make up for it and hope we wouldn't notice. Season 3 is still not AS bad as nu trek, but it's close. 1&2, though, best trek since DS9, they even have their TBOBW moment!

Yesterday I watched a few minutes of the first episode. I was very confused, I guess I missed a few shows.

Is this show centred around a single character again?