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    Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

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  • Over a million upvotes on this post!

    Incredible engagement all.

    Certainly an instance record but is that a Lemmy record? Are many of those upvotes coming via other APIs or is it just Lemmy’s

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    Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

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    Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

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  • Finally, someone asked the most important question for the fediverse!

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    Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

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  • Hello Karim,

    Fantastic that you’re the providing the first Trek cast member AMA in the fediverse! Incredible way to get into the franchise.

    I hope this will be a good experience on your side and that you might consider having your own account on Mastodon or Pixelfed.

    A few questions please…🖖🏼

    — In your study of previous Klingons in the franchise, have you considered B’Elanna Torres journey to accepting her Klingon heritage? Do you see some parallels in her discomfort with Klingon culture, its norms and expectations with Jay-Den’s search for a path to his own identity while still respecting his culture of origin?

    — Was there a specific moment, in your preparation process for the role, when it suddenly came together for you and you knew who you need to be as Jay-Den? Could you share when that was?

    — What other languages, if any, do you speak beyond English? If you are bilingual or multilingual, do you find that helps with the Klingon dialogue and phrases?

    — How are you finding Toronto and the surrounding area? Have you got out much around the region? Other than what appears to be the Escarpment in S1E4, have you been out on location shoots?

  • Interview: George Takei Talks Timeliness Of ‘Beam Me Up, Sulu’ Doc; Wants To Return As Star Trek Admiral

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  • As long as he isn’t a ‘badmiral’, I would love to see that happen.

    Can’t we have more Short Treks please?

  • New Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Episode 107 Photos — “Ko’Zeine”

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  • The article says: Genesis Lythe (Bella Shepard) and Caleb Mir (Sandro Rosta) try to stay out of trouble back on the quiet campus.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away"

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  • Wasn’t Roddenberry’s original concept for the Ferengi closer to the Furies in this episode?

    They were supposed to have large bat ears and the cannibalism rings a bell too — at least the rumours Picard mentions about the Ferengi in TNG ‘Encounter at Farpoint’ included cannibalism.

    While the “capitalists on steroids” concept for the Ferengi doesn’t align with the Furies, I still can’t help thinking that Secret Hideout and the Roddenberry estate haven’t pulled out another old idea and reworked it.

    Roddenberry’s concept was reworked in the posthumous Andromeda tv show that combined a few of his ‘trunk’ of concepts that were never greenlit. According to the fandom wiki, Magog in Andromeda were “a savage bloodthirsty species feared throughout the universe...(with) baser instincts to kill other living beings for food, or forcibly infest them with Magog eggs for reproduction.“

    This ForgottenTrek page on the Ferengi does mention cannibalism and big ears, but I don’t see the prosthetics sketch with the big bat ears that I am recalling.

    Do khaosworks@startrek.website or USSBurritotruck@startrek.website happen to have any other references for the original Ferengi concept at hand?

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away"

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  • My partner, our older GenZ offspring* and I were pretty stunned at the end of that.

    I’m trying to think of the last time the franchise had an episode with such a dark ending that was not the first episode in a clear multipart sequence.

    This is not cozy Star Trek.

  • Preview Episode 6 Of ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ With 10 New Images From “Come, Let’s Away”

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  • That ship definitely has a late 24th century Sovereign-class look to it.

    That third nacelle looks like the full scale Protostar drive.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x05 "Series Acclimation Mil"

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  • That’s how Sam interpreted it, and it’s why she imitated it / mirrored it back.

    But what if it wasn’t pro forma?

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x05 "Series Acclimation Mil"

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  • Does anyone else have any lingering questions or hypotheses around two nonsequiturs in the episode?

    1. The Bajoran who welcomed Sam said that her “pagh is strong;”
    2. Jake’s holographic reconstruction called Sam ‘sis’.

    I’m wondering why and how the photonics chose the form for Sam - and whether her form is based on a real person - such as Sisko and Cassidy’s daughter Rebecca.

    I’m also really wondering how a photonic being can have a pagh…

    These definitely seem like things that might be followed up on later.

  • How Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Pulled Off Those Amazing Deep Space Nine Returns

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  • This has some value added in terms of contrasting the outcome of DS9 ‘The Visitor’ with Jake’s Prime Timeline outcome.

    I like the SFA outcome, and I think it respects what Avery wanted in terms of showing that Sisko was a fantastic Black father who left a legacy of good parenting to future generations.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x05 "Series Acclimation Mil"

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  • I was very moved at how Jake was a truly adult version of the youth we saw in DS9 but that he also had the posture and dignity that Avery Brooks brought to Sisko.

    Cirroc Lofton really can act and it’s outrageous if he’s not been getting work if he wants it.

    If you’ve seen him as himself in his podcast, there’s no doubt about his performance in this episode.

    It makes me very much want to see him cast in something else.

  • Quebec family forced to return to Mexico after mother says she failed French exam by 1 point

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  • Wondering if there’s a minimum wait before retesting and that would put them beyond the time limit.

    Or perhaps she’s previously tested failed the test and this was her best result.

  • The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time...

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  • Skydance only bought Paramount this past summer after production of SFA season one was well advanced and SNW was largely done seasons four production.

    While there is genuine reason for concern regarding future Star Trek, it’s very hard to make the case regarding anything in pre production before 2025.

  • The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time...

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  • As if Star Trek wasn’t corporate from the beginning!

    Every major difference between the original pilot ‘The Cage’ and the original series / TOS was rooted in corporate priorities.

    The bright, primary coloured uniform tunics, bright colourful flashing lights on the bridge and other sets were designed to promote NBC’s ‘Living Color’ television broadcasts.

    Kirk was younger, physically more vigorous and less cerebral than Pike, no matter what Roddenberry wanted. Action adventure hero, romancing women, was what the network wanted no matter that Roddenberry wanted Kirk to be a ‘stack of books with legs’ and for Yeoman Rand to be the original third principle character and long term romantic interest.

  • what... what is threshold day?

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  • A most excellent way to celebrate…

    Voyager in TAS Filmation-style tribute by Gazelle Automations. Animated Threshold

  • See The USS Athena Battle [SPOILERS] In Trailer For ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Episode 4

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  • Hopefully this episode will satisfy the “what happened to the Klingons?!!” questions lingering from Discovery.

    …And perhaps kickoff a new narrative with Jay-Den as Heart of Glory did for Worf in TNG season one.

  • 35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One Noticed

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  • That’s a point.

    Although in the case of the introduction of the Cardassians, there were significant contradictions vs the geopolitical situation of the Federation as presented repeatedly in the earlier seasons of TNG.

    In relation to fan outrage though, even modest ‘filling in gaps’ — or ‘dancing between the raindrops’ as the EPs of SNW call it, is frequently met with with complaint that “no one has ever mentioned that before.”

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    35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One Noticed

    www.inverse.com /entertainment/star-trek-the-next-generation-the-wounded-35-year-anniversary
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    Starfleet Academy will broadcast on CTV Sci-fi Channel in Canada

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    Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows?

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    What does Prodigy’s cancelation imply about Paramount’s respect for Janeway?

    gizmodo.com /star-trek-prodigy-canceled-captain-janeway-voyager-1850586959