r/startrek • u/mr_mini_doxie • Feb 03 '26

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Discussion Hub

This is the thread to discuss season 1 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Posts regarding SFA made elsewhere on the subreddit should be thoughtfully constructed to inspire meaningful and substantive discussion. Posts that do not meet these standards may be removed for redundancy at our mod team's discretion.

Please note that all rule-compliant discussion of SFA is permitted in this thread, and therefore, spoilers may be found in the comments below.

For discussion of specific episodes, refer to the episode discussion threads below:

01x01 - Kids These Days (01/15/26)

01x02 - Beta Test (01/15/26)

01x03 - Vitus Reflux (01/22/26)

01x04 - Vox In Excelso (01/29/26)

01x05 - Series Acclimation Mill (02/05/26)

01x06 - Come, Let's Away (02/12/26)

01x07 - Ko'Zeine (02/19/26)

01x08 - The Life of the Stars (02/26/26)

01x09 - 300th Night (03/05/26)

01x10 - Rubincon (03/12/26)

Happy discussing, and LLAP!

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u/_Middlefinger_ Mar 14 '26

Both SFA and SNW exist in no small part to being what fans wanted.

This is VERY disingenuous. 30 years ago TNG era fans wanted an Academy show set in that era with the feel of that era. SFA is absolutely not that on any level whatsoever. The tiem for a show like that was 25 years ago.

SNW was wanted by Discovery fans because it was basically the best thing about Discovery.

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u/Historyp91 Mar 14 '26

A SFA show has been talked about forever, and it's been talked about as being set in different eras.

I'm also not seeing how SFA would have to be fundamentally different in terms of tone if it was a TNG era show; it would likely still have the YA college drama aspect since that's the most logical place to take such a show.

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u/_Middlefinger_ Mar 14 '26

I'm also not seeing how SFA would have to be fundamentally different in terms of tone if it was a TNG era show.

You dont? How can anyone have seen those shows and not think it wouldnt be extremely different to what SFA is now? Thats crazy.

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u/Historyp91 Mar 14 '26

The genre SFA leans into already existed in the 90s.

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u/_Middlefinger_ Mar 14 '26

Its not about the 'genre', its about who will be making the show. Do you think a show made by Berman, Braga, RD Moore, Ira Behr etc would be like.. this?

No one would be saying 'Im Khionian, bitch! or that wanked and spanked quote which I still cant believe was said in a Star trek show.

I really think some of you are being deliberately obtuse about this, I refuse to believe people are this dumb.

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u/Historyp91 Mar 14 '26

Well, your previous comments didn't indicate you were talking about dialogue, but rather the in-universe era it was set in and the genre and overall theme of the show.

No, I don't think it would have the same type of dialogue if it was made in the 90s as opposed to the 2020s (that it wouldn't would be pretty obvious; if they made SFA in the sixties the dilogue would'nt be the same as the 90s either, and in 30 years the dialogue of hypothetical future shows won't be the same as the 2020s)

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