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  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • There you go, accusing people of being sexiest and racist just because they have a meltdown every time some piece of media prominently features a woman or person of colour. I’m sure it’s just a highly predictable coincidence.

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • Riker happily slapped his ass down in the weapons console so he could chat up the prettiest subordinate on duty. Not sure why we’re suddenly supposed to be pretending Trek ever maintained a stern and solemn work environment.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Movie: Ghostbusters Answer the Call.

    If anyone's giving it a chance for the first time, I do recommend the extended edition. For some reason the theatrical cut out the low point of the relationship arc between the two main characters.

    I don't think all the humour lands, but enough of it does, and the movie has a good heart. At the very least it remembered that Ghostbusters is a comedy. The new movies have the same flavour as every Marvel superhero outing.

  • Underrated take from Kirk

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  • Yeah, the effects are definitely not great. Over the years I’ve seen a couple fan attempts to redo them, it’s kind of nice to watch those from time to time.

  • Underrated take from Kirk

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  • I love every TOS movie, though of course none of them are perfect. I find a lot less to love by the second half of the TNG films. But my own bias has always been towards the original series.

  • Underrated take from Kirk

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  • I love TFF. In fact, I call it a big step up from TVH. My mind will not be changed.

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

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  • Saved me from having to look up the episodes where that happened, nice.

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

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  • You’re right, that’s the model they landed on by TMP. I meant to say it resonates with Jeffries’ original concept that the engines were just too dangerous to be near the ship, which I always preferred. And who’s to say 32nd century ships don’t have power plants in the nacelles themselves, like a lot of early fandom assumed in the days of TOS? It would make sense if they’re completely separate now. (I know we saw Discovery with a central warp core after its refit, but Discovery is a bit of a special case).

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

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  • I like the detached nacelles. It's nice to have at least a few clear indicators that technology has advanced in the 800 years since TNG. And it seems like a logical extension of the idea that the nacelles are these big dangerous things that needed to be kept separate from the living spaces and easily jettisoned.

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

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  • OK, I've seen the images in the other thread now, and I'm seeing much more convincing evidence of AI generation there.

    Like, everything about these arms looks wrong: https://imgur.com/DiRNxEY

    And these shadows are just nonsense: https://imgur.com/TMZY25V

    Honestly, I'm personally not too bothered if a background prop you're not supposed to get a good look at is made with AI, but I'm also not going to argue with anyone who takes a real hard line on the subject.

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

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  • I’m really not seeing any obvious AI tells. It looks to me like it was drawn and inked traditionally, and then someone dropped in the little flares to up the cheese factor (and maybe give a little reference to JJ). I may be wrong, it’s getting hard to tell these days, but to me it just looks like someone trying to emulate a very typical comic book style.

  • Jess Bush Talks Upcoming “Deep” Chapel Episodes For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’

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  • Season 3 really did her a disservice. Hopefully the writers got their heads back in the game for the back half of the show.

  • "And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek?" James Cromwell announced for STLV to celebrate the 30th anniversary of First Contact.

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  • The fifty-fifth entry in the Star Trek film franchise, in which the Enterprise Y returns to the centre of the galaxy to enlist the God Thing’s aid in defeating the Borg King. He redeems himself and becomes Captain Kirk the Fourth’s new yeoman, a real full circle moment.

  • "Okay. That... that seems really dark." - Mac

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  • Voyager’s bridge really was sweet. Love the enormous navigator’s console. Don’t know how practical it is, but it sure conveys that this is a maneuverable little sonuvabitch.

  • Beautiful plumage!

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  • But of course, we worship The Great Bird of the Galaxy, after all.

  • What Stops ICE from Snatching People Off Canadian Streets? Very Little

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  • The most polite people I know are also the most willing to stand up against wrong doing when the time comes. They are they way they are because they value good prosocial behaviour, they're willing to sacrifice their own convenience for it, and they're willing to defend it.

  • Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’

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  • That’s right, I completely forgot about Worf, and also the O’Briens!

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

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  • That was my one gripe with the episode. I enjoyed the B-plot, but it felt disconnected to the rest. And with this episode otherwise serving as such a lovely coda to DS9, I wish they'd have kept it a bit more focused on that.

  • Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’

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  • Keeping in mind DS9 itself opened on a direct TNG tie in, sprinkled TNG villains through the first season, then brought back every Klingon captain from TOS, and finally just went all in and edited everyone into a TOS episode so Dax could swoon over Spock’s eyes and Sisko could sneak Kirk’s autograph…

    Every Trek show since the original has referenced the others like this. I think it’s good fun.

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