"Starfleet Academy: It gets better" Topic

We watched the first one, implausible and looked like it was going hard on the woke. Watched the second one, and oh the pain. The second hand cringe was intense. The plot was terrible. It was, wow, bad. Third one was better, not great; watchable, but there are better uses of your TV time.

The fourth one was pretty darn good. The fifth was great. The sixth was great.

Still a lot of plausibility issues, but that's always the case with Star Trek. Love the sets, hate the stupid nacelles on the latest ship. There are some people who clearly don't belong in Starfleet Academy. But we enjoyed it.

So if you gave up early I don't blame you. If you want to like it keep going. It's much better than Discovery.

If you hate all modern Star Trek I don't blame you, and you'll find plenty to hate here.

But wow, that second episode really stank.

That's like saying on a scale of one to ten, a three beats a two.

The later episodes are not just better than 1, 2, and 3, they were enjoyable to watch. It's not just an improvement. If episode 2 was a 1 (because you can't give zero stars, can you?) then 4, 5, and 6 were 8s. After Ep 2 I was ready to never watch again, but we're stubborn and I did want to like it. After each of 4, 5, and 6 I was and am looking forward to the next episode.

Hmmmm ….

I gave up after Ep. 3

Woke and a disrespectful chain of command with disrespectful subordinates.

From the reviews, Ep 7 is every bit as bad as the first three. "[M]uch better than Discovery" sets the bar pretty low. Let me know when it gets better than Space Rangers.

I understand that it's been canceled. Which is saying a lot for a streaming show.

I understand that it's been canceled. Which is saying a lot for a streaming show.

I haven't heard that. Season 2 was started before Season 1 even came out, that's how they do things now.

The fourth one was pretty darn good. The fifth was great. The sixth was great.

The reviewers have crapped all over Episodes 4, 5, 6 and 7. It's more fun to watch the reviews than to watch the actual show.

"It gets better"

Well from what I've read here and elsewhere, it would be hard for it to have gotten any worse.

What I've read so far on cancellation is…inconclusive. While Season 2 began filming before Season 1 completed, that's pretty standard, and there's buzz that it may never see… well, whatever one calls "air" on a streaming service. It's a four season show as planned, but audience interest has apparently plummeted, which may lead Paramount to pull the plug early.

It really does come down to what sources you read, and alas, politics is heavily influencing the reporting. And the rumor mill is going overtime, too, so it's hard to discover what's really going on.

As for reviews, what few I've read have been universally poor. But I can't comment on the actual show quality, having never seen it.

My policy is that whenever people creating a fiction tell me it's not for me, I honor their wishes. There seems to be more of that lately.

Professional reviewers seem to be quite taken with the show, but my experience with on-line reviews matches Parzival's, and viewing numbers, which are more objective, seem to have started out poor and dropped like a rock.

So nearly as I can determine, reports of cancellation are all wishful thinking. Season 2 was mostly filmed before the first episode of Season 1 aired. I think the only way to avoid Season 2 at this point would be a "Batgirl" situation in which the higher-ups concluded the tax write-off was worth more than they'd make after post-production costs--which can be pretty serious for a special-effects heavy show like this.

But if I had to guess, I'd say Season 2 will be the end. Sets are reportedly being cannibalized, and no one's talking about a renewal of the Kurtzman contract. Note that evidently the existing contract ensures he'll get a percentage of anything "Star Trek" related which refers in any way to what he's produced--STD, SNW, Picard, Lower Decks, and, of course, Star Trek 90210. But this creates an incentive for Paramount NOT to ever refer back to any of this. Maybe in five years, the entire nuTrek era will never have happened.

In a way, that's a very Star Trek ending. Puts me in mind of "City on the Edge of Forever."

…politics is heavily influencing the reporting…

That's hard to believe, since the reviewers are an international bunch.

I've literally seen no positive reviews for this show on social media.

As far as I am concern Star Trek ended in 2005.