Basically. I have a spreadsheet with 1,300 watch items. Here are the first 10:

All Our Yesterdays The Inner Light Time's Arrow Time's Arrow, Part II The City on the Edge of Forever Storm Front Storm Front, Part II Little Green Men Far Beyond the Stars Carbon Creek

It's been a lot of research and adjusting as I go along. Plus a lot of semi-arbitrary choices between Memory Alpha order, Star Trek Chronology order, etc.

If there's no new Trek, that means watching old Trek, right?

Trying to finish my full in-universe chronological franchise re-watch for the 60th anniversary, which means an average of maybe 75 minutes of watching Trek per day through September 8 if I want to get it to line up. I started back in April 2024, but there's a lot of Trek out there, and I'm already falling behind. (Ideally it would've been 58 minutes per day. This includes watching some episodes multiple times if they take place in multiple time periods.)

For what it's worth, we'll arguably get some new Trek soon whenever the "season finale" of Scouts comes out. 😂 Only one episode left if they don't get renewed.

If memory serves it started great with season 1, got gradually worse through early season 4, made a shocking comeback in terms of quality for the rest of the season, and then took a nose-dive with season 5. I'm curious how that ends up matching up with your viewing.

Voyager referenced or included TOS and TNG characters in at least eight episodes of season 3.

• "Flashback" was the big Sulu/Rand/Kang 30th anniversary tribute
• "Death Wish" had Q and Riker
• In "Alliances" Tuvok talks about Spock and recaps the events of Undiscovered Country
• McCoy was mentioned in "Lifesigns"
• Data was mentioned in "Prototype"
• Sulu was mentioned in "Tattoo"
• Picard and Moriarty were mentioned in "Alter Ego"
• Picard was mentioned again in "Scorpion"

That's basically a third of the season, assuming I didn't forget any. And that's not even counting things like the mention of Wolf 359 in "Unity" or the koon-ut-kal-if-fee in "Blood Fever".

And that's from the show that went out of their way to make it hard to use existing concepts.

I like to think that the pepperoni pizza was a tribute to the 30th anniversary of "Threshold" on the same day, but the true tribute to "Threshold" was depicting parents stranding their offspring on a planet and then justifying that it was fine.

Mostly strong-to-glowing reviews. Comic Book Club, Looper, Radio Times, and TV Guide are the most negative (or at least least positive). Comic Book Club and Original Cin (both which I'd never heard of before) are the only ones I've seen that seems to hate it. ComicBook.com, ScreenRant, and TV Line give middling reviews.

(NOTE: I made that note before adding a bunch of others. I've updated it a bit since then, but I'm more focused on updating the list below than the list of negative-to-middling reviews; Rotten Tomatoes can do that for you instead at this point.)

https://www.avclub.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review-tv-paramount-plus

https://awardsbuzz.com/paramount-review-star-trek-starfleet-academy-is-a-fun-look-at-the-next-generation/

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/entertainment/television/2026/01/12/star-trek-starfleet-academy-how-to-watch-stream-paramount-plus/88105081007/

https://bsky.app/profile/weatherkatie.bsky.social/post/3mbxglw3jtc26 (Meteorologist Katie Nickolaou)

https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-season-1-review/

https://collider.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review/

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/review/starfleet-academy-is-star-trek-hogwarts-its-definitely-not-for-everyone-review/

https://comicbookclublive.com/2026/01/08/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review-spinoff-doesnt-get-passing-marks/

https://www.comicsbeat.com/tv-review-what-grade-does-star-trek-starfleet-academy-deserve/

https://www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/star-trek-starfleet-academy-season-1/

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/star-trek-starfleet-academy-deftly-balances-teen-drama-with-intergalactic-intrigue-170253808.html

https://fandomwire.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review-and-synopsis/

https://fenixnests.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review-s1-e1-6/

https://www.joblo.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-tv-review-an-introduction-to-the-next-generation-of-the-franchise/

https://www.ksitetv.com/starfleet-academy/starfleet-academy-review-star-trek-for-a-new-audience-premieres-1-15/260214/

https://www.looper.com/2070574/star-trek-starfleet-academy-paramount-plus-review/

https://lytrules.substack.com/p/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review

https://www.moviefone.com/news/tv-review-star-trek-starfleet-academy-season-1/

https://nerdspin.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review/

https://www.original-cin.ca/posts/2026/1/8/star-trek-starfleet-academy-boldly-going-nowhere-but-so-very-youthful

https://nerdist.com/article/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review/

https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review-tj8ikchx

https://www.polygon.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review/

https://popculturemaniacs.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review/

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review/

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-starfleet-academy-season-1-tv-review/

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/movies-tv/article/starfleet-academy-star-trek-review-21242248.php

https://www.slashfilm.com/2069394/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review/

https://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/star-trek-starfleet-academy/

https://www.strangenewpod.com/blog/star-trek-starfleet-academy-feels-undeclared/

https://www.thathashtagshow.com/latest-news/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review-new-cadets-returning-legends-and-a-bold-future/

https://www.thetvcave.com/post/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/reviews/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review-holly-hunter-paramount-plus/

TrekCore's WeeklyTrek podcast, which has a review by Alex Perry distinct from the TrekCore review by Jenn Tifft posted by @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website https://blog.trekcore.com/2026/01/weeklytrek-podcast-294-more-spoiler-free-thoughts-on-star-trek-starfleet-academy/

TrekCulture YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7PzOd1GstI

TrekMovie’s podcast, which is distinct from their article review: https://trekmovie.com/podcast/star-trek-starfleet-academy-first-impressions-and-report-from-blue-carpet-premiere/

https://treknews.net/2026/01/08/preview-star-trek-starfleet-academy/

https://www.tvguide.com/news/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review/

https://www.tvinsider.com/1239156/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review/ (by former TV Guide writer Matt Roush)

https://www.tvline.com/2068610/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review-season-1-paramount-plus/

https://www.whatsalanwatching.com/review-in-starfleet-academy-star-trek-meets-the-o-c/

https://winteriscoming.net/starfleet-academy-spoiler-free-review-surprised-by-star-trek-new-discovery-spinoff

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/star-trek-starfleet-academy-review-cadets-come-of-age-on-paramount-d8353f69 (paywalled)

Aggregators:

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/star-trek-starfleet-academy/

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/star_trek_starfleet_academy/s01

Bat'leth-man.

I have one. I want to say ThinkGeek used to sell them, but I definitely recognize that backing as being from the same device I have.

It's cool and fun to wear, but not amazing as a Bluetooth device. Microphone didn't pick up super-well, which isn't too surprising when it's clipped on your shirt. Magnet would sometimes slip off if the shirt bunched up or something too. (I haven't used it in a few years, so I'm a little hazy on some of this.)

A Bluetooth version of the TMP communicators might have better success, albeit at the cost of having to hold your arm up for the whole conversation.

She's definitely missed.

Incidentally, sounds like you might appreciate this podcast if you aren't into it already. I've heard it mentioned a few times, though to be honest I haven't given it a listen myself yet. (I'm behind on too many podcasts already to add another one at the moment.)

https://www.alltheasiansonstartrek.com/

Not sure your country of origin, but in the U.S. it has all 13 theatrical films + Section 31, as well as Woman in Motion and Building Star Trek.

https://www.paramountplus.com/collections/star-trek/

I'd probably just start the PIC era in 2399. We only see the 2380's in a handful of flashbacks. Prodigy definitely has some PIC connections, but it's far more a continuation of Voyager, and it starts like a year after season 5 of Lower Decks.

Not only do you not need to catch up with Disco, but the end of season 2 of Disco doesn't dovetail to the beginning of Strange New Worlds super-well when you watch them back-to-back; if anything, they feel like they lightly contradict each other.

Though if I were to recommend a single episode it would be "Through the Valley of Shadows" from season 2, which is probably the only "important" episode as far as Strange New Worlds goes, though the key stuff gets recapped in SNW.

The Short Treks episode Q&A gets some references in the series too, though if you don't watch it you likely won't realize you missed anything.