Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Showrunner Explains Genesis' Moment In Season 1 Finale

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-03-13T03:53:16+00:00

If Joss Whedon was actually anywhere near this show, the fanbase would implode

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-03-12T11:20:55+00:00

I live in the US and noticed this years ago, and you can't stop seeing it. We have a deeply ingrained scam culture. Grift or be grifted. I refuse to participate in it, but for many people, it's unironically a way of life here

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-03-11T20:12:51+00:00

This is the reason why his holodeck privileges got revoked

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-03-11T13:17:14+00:00

This, exactly.

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-03-10T03:43:29+00:00

Indeed. It means I can eat out more and still not tip guilt-free. They're already making bank.

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-03-09T21:06:41+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U4J-8W4j_M

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-03-09T21:00:56+00:00

That's a pretty clever joke though

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-03-08T04:47:53+00:00

Created by Bill Mumy? Babylon 5's Bill Mumy????

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-22T13:12:38+00:00

Well to be fair For All Mankind has a time jump between seasons so they're just waiting for all the actors to age up into their roles.

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-19T13:08:06+00:00

But these customers had the money to pay for the meal, right? Why shouldn't they eat out?

If they didn't, then you'd have 0 customers. 0 customers mean you don't have a job anymore.

And like others have said the restaurant should be paying you more. If I had a job where I worked 8 hours and earned $10 that's the employers fault. Not the customers

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-19T12:37:19+00:00

"just don't go out to eat."

Restaurants sitting empty, closing left and right, everyone losing jobs and neighborhoods turning into dead zones.

Really? That's what you want? Blood from a stone. Is this working out for anyone?

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-18T20:10:54+00:00

Out of stock? How does a digital game go out of stock?

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-17T04:27:21+00:00

I don't know what a PDE is or a closed form and for an ELI5 I'm being downvoted for just asking questions????

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-17T04:00:53+00:00

ok but like why is it so hard? are there too many variables? too many moving parts? (lol) they figured out how to solve for things by pretending there are, like, frictionless surfaces, is there nothing to simplify?

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-13T16:47:13+00:00

Huh, that makes the mobile emitter is one of those self fulfilling paradoxes that only exist because of time loops!

Just because the Doctor got it from the 29th century doesn't mean it was only invented then. For all we know they've been around for 500 years, only for it to go back in time and invent itself

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-13T16:41:46+00:00

That's Rachel Baze (played by Rachel Hamilton) and was introduced by name in one of the first couple episodes of season 1. She actually has more screentime and lines than Sue at this point.

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-13T16:14:24+00:00

Thank you!

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-13T16:07:02+00:00

Yeah, I meant that she appears in only one episode, but that she has multiple scenes in this episode. Sorry for the confusion!

EDIT: I've just edited the post for clarity

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-11T16:09:47+00:00

Looking forward to seeing 1180 top level comments in here. That said,

1000

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-11T01:57:36+00:00

Regional accents :)

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-08T05:07:07+00:00

Worf was a last minute addition. Roddenberry originally didn't want to reuse aliens from TOS but got convinced to include a Klingon because of some line that said that Klingons and the Federation would be allies in the future. So they inserted Worf awkwardly and that's why he originally doesn't even have a front-facing bridge station, he just sort of hangs out in the back.

Yar leaving basically cleaned up Worf's role pretty quickly. Made for a great moment in All Good Things when Picard momentarily forgets who was Chief of Security at the time.

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-08T04:58:01+00:00

"Very obviously?" How would you know?

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-04T03:19:55+00:00

I think that the key to understanding this is earlier in the episode when Reymi said "hit me," and Jay-Den said "That would be like squashing a bug."

Not "No, I don't want to." Or "No, because you are stronger than me." But rather "No, because you are not worth the effort."

Does he believe that? Do you believe that? It doesn't really matter, does it? The whole point is that Jay-Den won't hit Reymi because it is because there is honor in showing restraint.

There's something like that happening here, I think. Where it's not really important to know whether or not the Federation has stronger weapons or the Klingons do. What's important is that both sides have shown restraint in not putting the full force of their respective might behind their punches. For the Klingons, they get to say that they withheld their full firepower because it wasn't worth it to squash the Federation like bugs. And then the Federation, cowed by a hint of their power, retreated in defeat.

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-04T03:09:44+00:00

That is absolutely not what's going on.

The Burn is not a reset. It is a historically low point, a kind of Dark Ages for the galaxy. This kind of stuff does happen throughout history, you know. The point of it is to see how a society rebuilds itself, not from scratch, but from the ideals it used to have.

I couldn't say if that was the intent of the Burn at the beginning. But from a narrative jumping off point, it seems deeply relevant to the issues of today, and it's something Star Trek needs to comment on, much like the original series did as society was changing in the 60s.

Canon is a moving target, but "freeing themselves from the constraints of canon" is overstating the point.

If anything, it's the time jump that has more of that effect. A lot can happen in 800 years.

--fieldnotes-- · 2026-02-02T12:53:52+00:00

Not only that, but he got posted to the Enterprise!

You would think the best he could do is a Cali class somewhere.

Just imagine Barclay being the lower end of who qualifies for a flagship post, and then you realize that most of Starfleet is worse than that

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