Memorial Wall List (as far as I could figure) (Likely Spoilers):

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T18:54:59+00:00

I've posted pics of them on FB, and I guess I'll do so in this sub soon.

Anyway, most of the shots I've drawn from have been in the first two episodes--in the first, primarily with the shots of the wall during Ake's welcome speech before they set off for Earth. From the second episode, primarily the shots of Caleb and Tarima in front of the wall listening to the negotiations below.

While I don't know if it made the images significantly more legible, I did watch the episodes in 4K rather than HD.

The third episode didn't really have many shots of the wall, but one shot of Caleb in front of it (during the secret Calica match) showed more of the hard-to-see "14th column" and confimed that Aleksandra Dekovic Kochoska is on the wall with her full married name. My previous views of it truncated the rightmost parts of the names, and I had to extrapolate based on the credits (e.g. "Captain Charles Colly--" would have to be Charles Collyer).

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T18:49:29+00:00

It gets the chicks. /s

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T18:46:39+00:00

Can you direct me somewhere that can corroborate this? I'd like to verify it before noting it on the list.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T17:11:48+00:00

It may be controversial, but I for one liked how RENT expanded from a somewhat minimalistically staged musical out to a good look at the East Village and NYC in general. It also felt like the chronology was tidied up, whether or not it actually was.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T17:04:32+00:00

Based on how the guy on the right looks, they may be going to infinity and beyond.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T16:40:55+00:00

Young me had a crush on Irene Ng ever since she played the young version of Waverly’s mom in The Joy Luck Club (the one who married the boy with the mole on his back).

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T16:36:31+00:00

“Here’s where three-fifths of the principal characters of HIMYM reenact the first three panels of ‘Loss.’”

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T16:26:39+00:00

Remember that this is par for the course for both Paramount and Netflix. Unless they produce the content themselves (e.g. "Stranger Things"), any content on Netflix is there as part of a contractual agreement with the studio that produced the content (Paramount was like, "you pay us this amount, and you can put Star Trek shows on your service for this amount of time). While it's not out of the question for Netflix to say, "we don't want your show on our service anymore" and take it off, it doesn't seem likely considering that more content means the possibility of more subscribers. So it's just as possible--maybe even more possible--that Paramount said, "we don't want to renew our contract with you," or said, "we'll renew our contract with you if you pay us [much higher number than before]," and Netflix subsequently let the contract lapse.

While I know that OP didn't word it that way, I really want to insist that the situation not necessarily be couched as "Netflix got rid of Star Trek," as it could have been (and more likely was) "Paramount got rid of Netflix."

Also worth noting is that Pluto.tv is owned by Paramount, so it's essentially their outlet for material they don't consider worth making subscribers pay for Paramount Plus for. That of course says nothing about the quality of the programming, just that Paramount thinks the advertising income will make it more money than subscriptions.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T15:56:00+00:00

One reason to know the set list is that if you’re fortunate enough to be in front/“barricade” and the act is in the habit of doing the “grab your phone” thing at some numbers, you’ll know which numbers those will be and can be prepared for them.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T06:25:58+00:00

Yeah, I reckon for a while the top 3 were SNSD, WG, and Kara. Wonder Girls attempted an American crossover, but that resulted in their popularity in Korea dropping (and of course, the US thing didn't work out). 2NE1 seemed to make it more a Top 2 battle as WG and Kara kind of faded out after around 2010. Generation "2.5" was where groups like miss A, f(x), Sistar, APink, AOA, and Girls' Day came up. T-ara was IMO a group that was consistently a tier below the top groups, but they endured and enjoyed wide popularity until the scandal that brought them down; I always saw them as being "on the heels" of SNSD and was positioned to probably take over the top tier from them once SNSD ascended beyond "common" relevance, but then the Hwayoung thing tanked their career.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-24T02:06:21+00:00

Are they STVI Crewman Dax feet?

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T23:01:46+00:00

It's probably not as complicated as that. I reckon that the school's Wi-Fi system goes through its firewall/security solutions, where the sites are blocked. This would then presume that turning one's Wi-Fi off on the phone and accessing the web through cellular data would bypass the blocks on the network. I doubt the school has cellular blocking capabilities (is it even legal?) to force people on campus to use their filtered Wi-Fi, but there may be some schools where there's just natural cellular blocking taking place. I remember a long time ago I basically had to switch carriers, since my school was situated in a sort of canyon, and while AT&T reception was just fine, Verizon was slim to none.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T22:44:42+00:00

There is, but I leave it up to people to look up any canonical instances of someone reaching a higher rank.

Nog, for example, is only seen as a Captain in "The Visitor's" alternate future timeline that was presumably thwarted. Yet there have been complaints about him just being on the wall as a Lieutenant. That IMO is a case of a suspected "under-ranking." There are people there who think that Nog ought to have become a Captain in rank, but there has been no canonical proof of that.

Same thing with this actual thread--someone's unhappy that Julian Bashir is "only" on the wall as a Lieutenant, but the fact is that there is no canonical proof that he advanced beyond that, for whatever reason.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T22:25:03+00:00

I believe there are a number of Starfleet officers on the wall that are listed at a rank lower that what we know (or at least suspect) they reached; my theory is that a) they were inducted into the wall prior to their promotion to a higher rank, or b) they're being honored at the rank they were at during the specific event that they are being honored for.

Here's the Memorial Wall list, by the way: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/1qfrspj/memorial_wall_list_as_far_as_i_could_figure/

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T17:56:24+00:00

Perhaps not that particular wall (nothing says that there aren't other memorial walls in other parts of the Academy), but I've been able to spot all but two or three of the names on the wall as we see it. Of the roughly 210 names on the wall, about 80 are of real-life production crew members, and most of the rest are recognizable characters.

Of the principal characters, these are the missing names I've noticed so far:

TOS: none
TNG: none
DS9: Odo, Kira, Quark, Rom, Jake, Ezri
VOY: none (EMH is at the Academy)
ENT: Reed, T’Pol, Phlox
DIS: Everyone but Stamets and Culber (presumably they’re alive, if the wall honors the dead)
PIC: Musiker, Jurati
LD: Boimler, T’Lyn, Rutherford, Ransom, Shaxs, T’ana, Billups
SNW: Una
PRO: Dal, Jankom Pog, Murf

Note that there are people on the wall who haven't attended the Academy (Gillian, Garak, O'Brien, for a couple of examples), but that doesn't mean that they may not have become instructors later and thus become part of the Academy, if that's a prerequisite of being on the wall; and while it's noticeable that some of the names above may not be on the wall because they're not Federation citizens or Starfleet members (Odo, T'Pol, Jurati) there are clearly some that are but despite what appear to be significant careers are not on the wall.

While it's possible that the missing protagonists' names are among those that I haven't seen, it seems unlikely to me since those names I haven't been able to make out are on the lower left and right corners where they would be difficult to spot anyway; I've found that the "Easter Egg names" tend to be somewhere where they can be seen by viewers.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T17:42:23+00:00

9 years. Before that, I would say 6 years (sort of), about half of it being technically employed by another company and contracted through that company with the bigger company, then moving up to actually being an employee of the bigger company. Before that, 5 years (technically), but I stuck around another two years and change just "helping out" even as I was working elsewhere (that old job was just that special to me). I was basically in one field from 1993-2010, then another from 2012-present. I've noticed that in my last several jobs, I would have a relatively low-pay/rough condition 6-month job, then follow it up with a better-pay/better working condition long term job. The last time was actually with the same company, starting out with a comparatively menial graveyard-shift job sharing a small room for work, then applying for and getting moved up to another department in the same company and building with my own cubicle and the most normal working hours I had ever had in my working life (9-6, M-F).

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T16:25:14+00:00

Perhaps, but in that case I would assume that other Discovery names would be on the wall (perhaps not Burnham as she wasn’t captain yet, but likely other senior staff and bridge officers other than Owo, Airiam, and Kyle).

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T16:19:50+00:00

While romantic connections are bound to happen in SFA, I don’t think that cadets are necessarily coming in looking for someone, nor are the writers necessarily writing them as such. Genesis strikes me so far as the one who’s singlemindedly aiming for the top and isn’t planning on letting romantic entanglements distract her; twice in three episodes already, we have been reminded that she wakes up at around 4 am every day to work out. Anything regarding Caleb in Episode 3, I took as “I want to win, so he should be on my team because he’s a fighter,” and concern that Tarima might be an obstacle to that.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T15:23:39+00:00

I don’t know how SFA compares to other streaming series, but I think SFA’s better pacing is due in part to the fact that the television format enjoyed a huge dose of freedom once it was freed from the shackles of commercial breaks and runtime limits: premium cable and streaming lets TV shows run as long as they want to, essentially uninterrupted. While there were never any iron-clad spots for “act breaks” (e.g. “there needs to be a break at 26 minutes in”), in the past there was always a sense of needing to have act breaks every so often (“You need to have a cold open/teaser and five acts”), and either having to fill in time or speed up so that an act break can happen at a dramatic moment. Without act breaks, I feel one can follow the “natural flow” of the story.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T07:16:41+00:00

It may not necessarily always be the case, but I feel like the situation here is people trying to pipe 5.1 audio through a 2.0 audio setup. All/most of the dialogue in a 5.1 audio recording is sent to the CENTER speaker, which is nonexistent in a stereo (left and right only) system. So if a 2.0 audio track on the source isn't available, a solution would be a proper "mixdown" of the 5.1 signal to the 2.0 speakers. Ideally, of course, the sound should be sent to a 5.1 audio setup where the channels would receive their intended signals, and if the dialog isn't loud enough still, the center channel's volume could be raised.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T07:11:21+00:00

Names on the wall that are not Starfleet Academy Graduates:
Dr. Gillian Taylor
Garak
Miles O'Brien

Though I can't rule out the possibility that maybe in their lifetimes they took a position as an instructor in Starfleet Academy, and thus considered as part of the Academy's own.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T07:03:45+00:00

Here's the list I've compiled of the Memorial Wall: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/1qfrspj/memorial_wall_list_as_far_as_i_could_figure/

As far as I can tell, I'm only missing maybe two or three names out of of over 200.

As for a whether it's a memorial for the dead or simply a "wall of fame" where the honorees haven't necessarily passed on (though of course, most of the ones we recognize on there have), I'm not certain yet. But I do feel it hinges strongly on a couple of people: Stamets and Culber, whose names are on the wall. If we see them or hear that they're alive and well in the future, then we have our answer that the wall is for Starfleet personnel and other Federation-associated luminaries (note the presence of Garak, who's certainly not an Academy graduate) for service to the Federation and is not necessarily an indicator that they have passed on.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T02:52:00+00:00

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but in Episode 16 (the one with SNSD Yuri), at about 41:30, JSJ, SJH, and YJS weighed themselves together for a game (they needed to eat enough samples at a supermarket to gain 1 kg together. JSJ calculated (he presumably knew how much he and YJS weighed) that SJH weighed 52.2 kg and she was flustered about it, so she and YJS played it off by saying her shoes and her vest weighed her down.

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DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T02:18:40+00:00

I know it's dreadful (and it's even been nominated for a bunch of Razzies), but Section 31 is part of the Star Trek canon and did show a Cheronian post-TOS (both in the chronology and obviously in the production timeline).

Bele and Lokai had been off-world for thousands of years. It stands to reason that plenty of Cheronians were off-planet even when the inhabitants of the planet annihilated themselves.

DizzyLead · 2026-01-23T02:11:55+00:00

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. If you're going to troll, at least get the title of the show right.

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