Star Trek: Starfleet Academy premieres January 15, exclusively on Paramount+. This thrilling new chapter follows a fresh class of cadets as they train under...
Currently region-locked - hopefully they’ll fix it soon.
Finally, something substantial. I was worried this would be “Star Trek: High School Musical” but this trailer makes it clear this isn’t just a Trek show for tweens and teens.
Other than the naysayers who were looking not to like it and had to be ‘shown otherwise.’
Even Prodigy ended up an ‘all ages’ show.
Not saying you’re one of them, it’s unfortunate that the new shows seem to have to push against negative labels and narratives that are brigaded before the fist casting announcements.
In this case, despite the idea of an Academy show kicking around since the 1970s, it was fairly clear that no senior network/streamer executive were ever going greenlight it until someone came up with a concept that was more than a college soap in the Star Trek universe.
What I didn’t expect was for the other perennial ‘failed to make it to pilot’ franchise idea of a hospital show also got rolled into it. That’s one that Roddenberry first tried to spin off with M’Benga in the second season of TOS.
Finally, something substantial. I was worried this would be “Star Trek: High School Musical” but this trailer makes it clear this isn’t just a Trek show for tweens and teens.
I’m not sure why anyone ever thought it would be?
Other than the naysayers who were looking not to like it and had to be ‘shown otherwise.’
Even Prodigy ended up an ‘all ages’ show.
Not saying you’re one of them, it’s unfortunate that the new shows seem to have to push against negative labels and narratives that are brigaded before the fist casting announcements.
In this case, despite the idea of an Academy show kicking around since the 1970s, it was fairly clear that no senior network/streamer executive were ever going greenlight it until someone came up with a concept that was more than a college soap in the Star Trek universe.
What I didn’t expect was for the other perennial ‘failed to make it to pilot’ franchise idea of a hospital show also got rolled into it. That’s one that Roddenberry first tried to spin off with M’Benga in the second season of TOS.
Well said. Prodigy was not for me. But I’m not making it my personality!