The recent cancellation of Starfleet Academy fell into the realm of politicization, but the reality is the show sucked. It had a handful of good actors working their way through a Gaia Violo storyline that was, and I am trying to be fair, lame. Shows have long tried to push stereotypes and tropes as shortcuts. It helps us visually understand characters and even who to cheer for. However, this is a case where Violo overplayed their hand, leaning so heavily on this theme of unity among difference and the classic High school trope sets that it felt old as opposed to new.
Starfleet Academy is, allegedly, about the first group of cadets to attend Starfleet after a mysterious and terrifying condition called “The Burn” occurred in 3069. So we are talking way way way past Picard even. I put the Burn on Alex Kurtzman and his team of writers. It was a terrible concept by a writer who seems to have lost his way since splitting with Roberto Orci. All down hill from there, as they say. Anything post burn appears to have been on the path to terrible. Even I gave up on Discovery long before they uncovered they cause of the Burn. I still know what happened. I was still let down.
I have not stopped being let down. I’m not alone either. Star Trek stopped being sci-fi, according to Andy Weir. He’s one who would know.
Some Thoughts:
- Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: “Drones breach restricted Barksdale air base; no details on source or response” Say what now? You’re telling me we got buzzed by a drone swarm on our home turf and nobody knows who did it or where they went? Hot mess incoming.
- Sundays are for cleaning… I gotta clean out my body too. I’m doing a two day cleanse of eating nothing but oatmeal. This is based on a study that shwoed such things lowered BP as a result of attacking metabolic syndrome. I’ll let you know how it goes.
- When is a blog merely a diary? Is it always that?