Starfleet Academy series

I didn't invite him...

is there irony that he's ripping on Tilley with Garfield as an av?

made even more so as it isn't Heathcliff.

I want to let you know I get and appreciate the Steve Dahl reference. Bravo!

Garfield when his body outgrew his legs.

Tilly absorbs a lot of sound so, no echo.

I have no illusions Tilly won't be a regular but I was thinking after the last couple of episodes that it would be a big missed opportunity if Reno didn't show up from time to time.

My little wish for this show is that they make this guy a regular



Very much the best thing about that episode.

Same old same old.
*sigh*

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And unlike Janeway, Burnham did time for her war crimes

Are you trying to tell me that ST: Orange is the New Black isn't canon?

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/star-trek-paul-giamatti-starfleet-academy-villain-1236032978/

Paul Giamatti signs up to play the first seasons Big Bad/Space Voldemort.

Pig vomit!

It's amazing what they can do with CGI these days.

As much as I like him, I worry about this a bit.
Star Trek didn't used to rely on well-known names to prime interest for the series. The first time I recall it happening was Scott Bakula, and we know how that went.
Now we've seen it twice with SA.

All the movie guest villains who weren't space probes.

Man, they made Ted Wolf look thin.

Wil Wheaton was arguably a movie star after Stand By Me, Patrick Stewart was in Dune, and Levar Burton was fairly well known for Roots. TNG wasn't exactly a cast of nobodies.


Regardless, Hunter doesn't seem to have had too many big starting roles in some time, and Giamatti is an established character actor but not really a leading man. I'd rate them about as "well known" as Michelle Yeoh and Jason Isaacs were when Discovery premiered.

They just don't learn, do they? If you're doing academy series you don't need a villian. Star Trek as a whole does need a villain. Presumably the key things you would want to see in the first season would be someone taking the Kobyashi Maru test. the phsych test, flight simulations or flight tests and probably a discussion about the Prime Directive and Starfleet rules and regulations. That's your drama and tension, a group of cadets who are friends that are at various levels. One doing the command track, one doing a medical track, one doing engineering, one doing science just like Lower Decks. You have them rivaling with each other, throw in some tough professors and there you go. No need for a villain. Adversaries, yes, but no villain that's probably going to suck anyway.

I knew Levar Burton from Reading Rainbow.

A conservative that doesn't think a professor can be a villain.
Be still, my beating heart.

I'm not a conservative and of course a professor can be a villain, but it's dumb. It tells me that they aren't putting much thought into this show, just as they did with Discovery.

Your idea is literally "every high school drama series ever, including anxiety about the big exam, but in SPAAAACCEEEE!!!" and you think the DSC writers lack imagination...

I forget about LeVar. Good point.
I guess I just get nervous about these big casting announcements, because to me it elevates the actors over the story.

https://deadline.com/2024/07/star-t...cast-kerrice-brooks-bella-shepard-1236004479/

Oh no, they cast a black person. SA is officially woke now.

Isaacs was fairly well known for a little series of movies about a boy wizard... but yeah, a lot of small parts (I was gobsmacked to recognize him in Armageddon)

(loved him in Death of Stalin)

Michelle Yeoh-yeah, not so much a big name in north america outside of Jackie Chan flicks.

I guess the point stands, just with a slouch and a couple of empty beer cans on the ground.

I feel like this may be less for the sake of having a big name as it was for Bakula as it is that they'll have an entire young cast who are not only unknowns bue more importantly less experienced. P-Stew and Avery Brooks may not have been household names but they had been in the game for decades and could handle the work.

All that out the way...given that people are slagging it off as a CW drama on concept, will it hurt that much to have a small handful of "real" actors to balance things out? I'm sure it'll w another Prodigy sitch where people slagging off the concept will come around eventually why not grease the wheels a little?

I know the right willdo what they do but Star Trek is the one franchise that was "woke" from day one. Every single Trek series has had at least one Black lead, including Prodigy's lead whom plays Dal, and goddamn if Brett Grey didn't manage to Janeway's mannerisms that time their characters switched bodies as well as Jeri Ryan nailed Bob Picardo's mannerisms in "Body and Soul."

Granted, Berman definitely tried muting that as much as possible near the end of his run and Roddenberry's casting of Nichelle Nichols probably had as much to do with the two of them bumping uglies as anything else, but it's here and CHUDs gotta live with it.

Too bad

Two more cadets cast.

https://trekmovie.com/2024/07/18/2-...academy-prep-work-already-started-in-toronto/

Another black? And an insufficiently busty female? Welcome to Joe Biden's Starfleet.

Our core group is typically 7-10.
They're at 6 if you count Holly Hunter.
Couple more cadets for cushioning would be good.

Do we know if their characters are mostly human or anything about their backgrounds? It would be nice for a cast to have more than one alien, and it would be nice to have explore some of the races that have been given relatively short shrift. Despite Andorians being one of the founding races of the Federation, we have barely had a main crew member be Andorian, for example. (RIP Hemmer)