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  • Another one who wasn’t actually paying attention to the scenario or the dialogue while criticizing the show for being ‘dumbed down’ for younger audiences.

    I admit I’m losing patience.

    Dudes!!! This takes place when the Academy is being recreated after Starfleet and the Federation were seen to have failed large portion of the galaxy after the Burn.

    This means that this class DID NOT complete with the best and the brightest across a well connected Federation with a common base of expectations.

    They passed the entrance exams but it was not the same as a stable 24th century scenario, or even the early 25th century where Picard’s son was fast tracked based on experience.

    Some, like Genesis, are from multi generational Starfleet families that hung on in secret bases during a century of anarch.

    Most of the rest are off their planets or out of their small cluster of planets for the first time in their or their parents’ lives.

    Others are the first of their species to enter Starfleet and are there for political reasons.


  • lol. You out yourself by citing Red Letter Media as if that is anything to take seriously other than a source of potential mis/disinformation on any given topic.

    I’ve been watching Trek since TOS was in first run. I’ve actually worked with real life military.

    Your attitude and comments strongly suggest you have neither experience.

    Current Star Trek is in no way less credible than the franchise was in any previous era of production. Yes, it’s making different choices for a different generation of audience but on balance it’s just as authentic.


















  • I loved TAS when I watched it as a teen when it first ran.

    I was beyond the age Saturday morning cartoons, but was so happy to have more Star Trek.

    I was furious that older fans campaigned against the show to the point that NBC canceled it before more than the first six episodes of the second season were in production.

    It still stands as the only Star Trek show to earn a ‘Best Series’ Emmy.

    I hadn’t seen TAS in many decades when we picked up the DVDs for our kids (who are now in their late teens).

    Given all the CGI and generally better animation in children’s programming, I wasn’t convinced that they would like it. But they took to it right away and it was very successful as an introduction to the franchise for them — more than 35 years after it was made!

    One point, the number of frames on the animation, the movement only in the mouths during speech as well as the reuse of sequences was the only way to stay in budget in the 1970s.

    The art direction was top-notch nonetheless. The original drawings, including some of the gorgeous mattes for alien planets and some of the new aliens are fantastic.

    (I have some images to upload but that function seems to remain offline.)