More about STARFLEET ACADEMY s1 ep 5 and 6: it's worse than I thought

 More about STARFLEET ACADEMY s1 ep 5 and 6: it's worse than I thought

Star Trek is about listening to others and maybe forming an opinion that might not be that opinion you had before those others made sense. Here's me looking back at episodes 5 (the worst one so far) and 6 (not as great as I first thought). Someone made arguments for ep6 but no, no, and no.

First their argument, some of which made some sense and then my response:

1.      Tarima uses her power when she's able to and saves them. Before that, the subspace field distortion prevents the Athena from beaming them out. She's also terrified to expose this ability, because, frankly, it's terrifying.

Well, if she could get in Caleb’s head, then…why not do it and destroy the Furies BEFORE that or did she actually beam over to do that, I did forget if she had to beam over there to do that….no, she was on the table when she ripped out her device so she wasn’t there physically to kill the Furies but I could be wrong about that so no, no, and no. She could kill the Furies BEFORE the beam out, then there would be no need for urgency FOR the beam out or even an urgent need at all. Let's let her wait because it will create urgency...is stupid.

 

2.      Tarima talks about her first time because Caleb ASKS her to.

 

Yes, possibly but why would he do that? And even if he did that (I believe you) is it really okay for Tarima to talk about that in detail. AND how did Caleb know to ask about that? And what guy does that? Ask a girl to talk about a past conquest unless he has a kink to hear about how his girl enjoyed a past guy? Which with this show, it’s possible, gurl!

 

 

3.      Ake is forced into the negotiation by Vance, and, you know, sometimes you just don't win. Like Picard says, it's possible to do everything right and still lose.

 

I’d settle for Ake doing ANYTHING that’s right and still win at least once. She gambles with the Jem lady over her students getting things done right or wrong ON THE BRIDGE. She separates a child from his mom and then can’t stop the child from getting away or find him in years. She doesn’t see the pirate’s plan from a mile away. She can’t negotiate with the Betazeds and instigates a prank war with cadets creating a rare life form that she’s not sure will not hurt the War College. She then wants to make nice with the War College after showing them up. She gives up in ep1 right away. She can’t protect the cadets she put in danger.

 

 

 

4.      A lotta haters have been complaining about how the stakes are so low in this show. The cadets go to do a real training and now it's all "ooooh, so dangerous, think of the children!" Pick one or the other. Others died there? You mean the starfleet officers who died when the drive malfunctioned on it's first test? No one's asking them to actually use the drive in the exercise, just to get the power on.

 

Stakes are low in this show so…let’s contrive to put cadets in danger in training. I pick logic. The show by its nature has low stakes---it takes place in a college. There are other things at colleges that could happen….if it were set in the here and now and if they want to do political messages, well, there’s a ton of urgent danger I could mention about things that take place at colleges NOW but simple security would prevent those being plots in whatever century this show takes place in but knowing SA, their security probably sucks. Putting power on in a ship that once malfunctioned---uhm, a good idea? No, no, and no. And you failed to mention that it was known the Furies were in that area.

 

 

5.      We don't know enough about SAM's internal makeup to decide this. Caleb doesn't get her drunk, he shows her how to get drunk and she chooses to do this herself, and while Caleb leaves, Genesis is right there. And when Darem calls Caleb to come help with the fight -- never mind the fact that SAM hits two war-college cadets and they hit the floor -- he comes running.

 

Caleb sees her turn up the number to a 12 and still leaves to go have a kiss. “He shows her how to get drunk.”  She wants to get drunk to learn about how humans are not risky and then gets into a bar fight CAUSE SISKO would do it that way. Would he? Oh, so Genesis is there to…save her friend from being a dope and yet did he even tell Genesis that Sam was drunk for the first time in her 120 days of life? Maybe? Oh, he set up a situation that he walked out of so him coming running is a good thing?

 

 

6.      There's no gay baiting. We still actually have no idea if Jay-den is gay, or Kyle for that matter, and different people engage in overtly sexual/romantic conduct in different ways. Jay-den is obviously shy and also somewhat oblivious. He's not gonna hop in bed with anyone.

 

You obviously don’t know what gay baiting means. The statement “We still have no idea if Jay Den is gay or Kyle for that matter” IS gay baiting. They seem gay. They act gay sort of. They hold hands maybe? While the het couple holds hands, kisses, gets to know one another with actual full on conversations (about past sexual partners, family, and more) and not just light hearted, shy banter of maybe three lines about their bearing (gosh). That’s the very definition of gay baiting. They might be gay so keep watching! They might not be so we can keep those homophobes and traditional old heteros happy and watching. But they are but they aren’t.

 

 

7.      Reno is NOT un-likable. The Doctor is helping the War College Chancellor with a ceremonial dinner. Ake is a great leader as shown by her compassion, empathy, and connections to her cadets.

Reno at the dinner in ep 5 is miserable being there and acts accordingly. Does she even like Ake, or the Doctor or the War College guy? She seems like she hates them and hates being there. It’s not funny but it’s supposed to be. Just like the Doc with his bullhorn at dinner: it’s not funny but obnoxious. And Ake sort of screws up this dinner too and/or the War College guy is just being overly sensitive and a jerk, too, again.

 

8.      This is not the Starfleet of just after the Dominion War. They are diminished.

Ahh, so they can develop a super weapon in secret and not protect it but they can fake out Klingons in a fake space battle and not take on ANY damage but not protect the Lab IN SPACE! No, no, and no.

 

 

9.      The Sargasso is not taken out by one shot. They sustain damage under heavy fire, taken by surprise, and they're not shot by the Furies, they're attacked by the Venari Ral, with a very powerful warship.

I didn’t count the shots but it took how long to take out the Sargasso—less than a minute? Named after an area of sea that  ships  vanish in. Great. Name our ship after an area that ships vanish in. See:  “The Sargasso Sea is often portrayed in literature and the media as an area of mystery, where ships and wreckage can become mired in weed for years, even centuries, unable to escape.[34] Outer-space equivalents are a recurring motif in science fiction.”

 

 

“So yeah, that was definitely a block of text you posted, but I'm not sure if you're actually watching the show and misunderstanding it, or writing all of this based off of AI summaries.”

 

You’re not sure about a lot of things actually. Watched the show and even enjoyed most of eps1 to 4 and ep 6. Ep 5 is just illogical and boring at the same time. Your accusations of AI are unfounded and just an excuse to circumvent what is lazy writing, poor characterization, and a totally bad captain.