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  • TFW watching Starfleet Academy

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  • They aren't over-represented, you're gerrymandering - purposefully drawing lines so that women fall inside your tally, and men don't. If we simply do an objective headcount of the recurring Starfleet officers in the show so far, I get 4 women and 3 men. As even a count as you can get without cutting someone in two, or adding a redundant character.

    And The Doctor is a goddamn treasure.

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  • Deal - and we can both make the occasional post on lemmy about how shitty our respective objects of ridicule are. I wouldn't have it any other way.

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  • How about applied science? You've deduced you wont like a show, now what do you do with that fact? If you maybe spend three or four minutes letting everyone know you wont be fucking with this show and then move on to other things, I totally respect you.

    But if you put out multiple forty minute videos of you pouring over every frame of each two minute trailer so you can froth at the mouth about someone wearing glasses or a Jem’Hadar having tits, you're just eating up bandwidth that could be spent on something meaningful.

  • The Scam that never dies

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  • It'd hurt to delete any of the little time we had with Tasha. That's the only reason I'd hesitate.

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  • Admiral Vance is the exception, yes, but not running the academy, just there to smile at the captain’s quirky behavior.

    What if I were to tell you that Ake is just there to dole out tough love to Caleb? He's the show's protagonist. Others may have their arcs, but they'll ultimately bend around his story.

    But Vance is the one who gave Aka the job, and ran the negotiations in the second episode. He's had a more prominent and varied role than any of the women under Ake's command so far. And you're still ignoring the EMH, Ake's CMO and our heavily advertised legacy character. You're not being very honest in your arguments so far.

    And you're saying it doesn't make sense for a woman to be in charge of something? Even if there's a prominently featured man both above and below her in the chain of command? And men at the same relative level in other divisions? Do you just not accept Star Trek's premise of an egalitarian future? I'm not seeing how my initial characterization of you was wrong.

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  • No, you were listing things you didn’t like about the show. Stand by it.

    Anyway, you’re wrong. The EMH is in a position of authority at the academy, and Admiral Vance is in a position of authority over the academy. There’s also a man in charge of the war college. So what’s supposed to be unprecedented here? Just women existing in a military?

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  • People with standards wait to see a show before they judge it.

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  • The Next Generation’s cast was less mixed than Starfleet Academy’s. You just didn’t notice because it was weighted more towards man than women.

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  • Every position of authority at the academy is held by a woman

    Ew! Star Trek gots GIRLS in it? Gross!!

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  • Those videos really exploded in my feed about a week before it came out, and none of them has seen it yet. I don’t know if it’s coordinated or if it’s just the inevitable response of the algorithm rewarding topical hate mongering, but it’s a painfully obvious grift either way.

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

  • Personal growth aside... where's Alexander?!

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  • Not as dark as Generations though.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test"

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  • Watched the second episode now, and my opinion has not changed much! The romantic subplot was putting my partner to sleep, but I thought the two had pretty good chemistry — until that very forced argument. I guess I’ve seen young couples get into heated arguments about stupid things in real life too.

    Nahla and Caleb’s scenes together were great fun as well.

    One of the things I wished Discovery had taken more time to delve into was how society has changed in the burn-era isolationist Earth. Now it seems as though Academy is downplaying how much Earth had changed, but shifting that isolationist role to Betazed. A little disappointing, but I can understand the decision given how insistent so many fans are that Star Trek feel unerringly Optimistic. Maybe we’ll get to spend some more time delving into how Betazoid culture has shifted instead.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test"

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  • I was actually kind of disappointed going into this show that SFA seemed to be going back to an Earth centric model for the Federation, so this development is very positive for me.

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  • That seems like it’ll be a major issue for future writers to come up with excuses why they can’t just put the characters where they need to be.

    Only a little more of an issue than transporters already were. How often have writers had to add in an exotic atmosphere or cave ore or ion storm or just enemy shields to justify not beaming out of a bad situation?

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  • On my list now, thanks!

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  • So far I've just watched episode one, but I think we're off to a great start. I don't know Holly Hunter from anything except Batman v Superman, so I didn't know why everyone seemed so happy to have her on board, but I get it now. Nahla isn't much on paper, but Hunter really makes me love the character. She sells the comfort and confidence without feeling at all silly or non-genuine.

    I thought Caleb would be a harder character to like, but he won me over pretty quickly too. His introduction definitely started on the right foot. His mode of escape reminded me of Jason Todd stealing the tires off the Batmobile. Good stuff.

    The other cadets are a mixed bag so far. Jay-Den and Sam seem fun, the others seems like boring cliches, but none of them have been given a lot of time yet so it's still a wait and see situation.

    The episode itself was a little messy, especially the action at the end, but I get that it was the first episode and they felt they had to give everyone something to do. Still one of Trek's better premiers.

  • Trick of the light

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  • I agree I wouldn’t use that word to describe the colour, but it looks just about right the way they print it on the “Uniform Color Code” uniform colour code page, so that’s just a question of what you want to call it.

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  • The colours and cuts laid out in Franz Joseph’s Technical Manual are authoritative. They’ve got authentication stardates and everything.

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