i thought starfleet academy already came out? 😜
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This looks very slick, but I hope it isn't style over substance like Discovery was. Discovery was terrible but it sure did look nice. I'm keeping my expectations on the floor for this show.
Kurtzman does confirm Klingons will be a part of the show; more specifically a "Klingon hybrid species who are several of our main characters."
And then we have this, seen on TrekCore's Bluesky:
Kling'Hadar?
Has to be.
That’s a cool pattern
Not much concrete here beyond the images, so I'll just comment on those:
- Lots of amber lighting. Seems like it's always sunset at the academy.
- I'm really digging the new uniforms.
- Curious about the significance of the wall of names. A whole lot of familiar names on there from almost every era of the franchise.
- Picardo looks like he's ready to have a lot of fun in the role.
- Nice to see the new bridge, but that's an ugly captain's chair. Obviously supposed to harken back to the TOS style, but while TOS had a minimalistic elegance to its blockiness, this one feels way too busy.
one of the photos shows a wall with many known names. it seems nothing interesting happened in starfleet between LD and DSC.
also. why is Joseph Mbenga listed as CDR instead of CMDR? (assuming it is him)
Commodore?
Commodore should be abbreviated to Cmdre (Canadian Navy), CDRE (former US Navy) or CMDE (several including India).
But given all the oddities of NCOs in Trek, this a weird acronym for Commodore seems on-brand.
Still, I think it may be some kind of physicians’ designation the writers came up with. One would expect some kind of Medical Officer such as CMO, but could it be Commanding Doctor or something bizarre like that?
My excitement was starting to die down thanks to the dearth of news, but hot damn, this show looks gorgeous. There's some really interesting stuff in the interview, too:
"If you're going to do a show about a young generation facing the future and you want it, as all Star Trek does, to be a mirror that holds itself up to the world as it is now, to situate the show in the halcyon days of the Federation would, in some ways, be dishonest," Kurtzman, a showrunner on Starfleet Academy with Noga Landau, tells Entertainment Weekly. (The halycon days was a time period when the Federation of Planets enjoyed peace and prosperity.) "Our children are facing a lot of challenges right now and they are our hope for the future...They've got a lot riding on their shoulders, and they are meant to reestablish and rebuild everything that we all know and love about Star Trek," Kurtzman continues. "They convey hope and they search for hope, and that felt like an extremely relevant message to talk about now."
Landau adds, "It's wish fulfillment. Every week it's about a new part of coming of age. One week that can be a prank, war erupts another week, a romance begins another week, we encounter an alien species for the first time and we don't know what the hell we're doing [another week]. But at the end of every episode, what we want our audience to feel is, 'I want to go to Starfleet Academy.' Even in the deepest, darkest depths of character problems and drama, you get such a good feeling from watching this show [of] how much you want to be there so badly."
"One of the things that we see all across the world now is how much hate is relied on to sow division between things that connect us as human beings and how hate is used as a bludgeon to destroy empathy, which I think is ultimately what Star Trek is about," Kurtzman explains. "At its core, it's about: We may not look the same, but we are the same. Finding that common ground and figuring out a way to understand our differences is at the heart of what [Star Trek creator Gene] Roddenberry was talking about."
Without revealing too much, Kurtzman explains that Giamatti's character "represents a tide that has swept across the world in a very profound and upsetting way," he continues. "I say this without taking a political stance. That is part of what it means to invite everybody into the tent. One of my favorite things about Star Trek is that it reaches across the aisle. People on all sides of the political spectrum love it for different reasons. That is something that we really wanted to hold true to here."
It also seems like we might learn a lot more tomorrow:
The creative leads are keeping many of the character details under wraps until the big Star Trek panel at San Diego Comic-Con this Saturday, but they confirm Holly Hunter plays the lead of the series, that of the captain and chancellor of the academy.