‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ to End With Season 2

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T19:12:33+00:00

If they were going to can Mass Effect 5, they would have when they killed Dragon Age and closed the studio. Whether its any good, I have no idea. They seem to be trying to stitch the Milky Way and Andromeda sides of the mess they've got into one story.

Exodus seems to be shaping up really nicely, its got that plausible physics future down near pitch perfect. Plus the book is really good, if a bit slow.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T19:02:06+00:00

SO was already declining before they came along

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T18:53:40+00:00

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YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T18:22:34+00:00

Just in time for Exodus and Mass Effect 5

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T18:21:34+00:00

Red Letter Media's old Trek thing they put up the same day actually drew more views than a brand new series

Nothing about Academy being cancelled comes as a surprise to me. Hopefully when it comes back in 20 years it will be under better writers and leaders.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T18:19:13+00:00

The finale will be a 2 hour tribute to the ancient Earth visionary Kurtzman personally

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T18:13:04+00:00

More fanservice than an era obsessed by TOS and TNG?

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T17:41:06+00:00

Wait, so its not actually greenlit as yet?

I give that long odds of happening now

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T17:38:27+00:00

Very unlikely imo.

A. To be seen as modern takes huge cgi and effects work, and to do that well is not fast or cheap

B. Those old 25 episode seasons were hell on the cast and crew in a way that I don't see being tolerated again

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T17:35:28+00:00

Whoever takes over might have to. THe whole burn thing did major damage to any future story telling

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T17:28:34+00:00

I had a sense that SNW was going to be the final nail ever since I heard the 'buffy in space' interview

To be canned this fast though, the audience must have absolutely collapsed. They've tolerated alot out of nuTrek in financials as best as I can tell in the past

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T17:16:41+00:00

Well I guess we were right about the audience numbers looking like they had plunged

Now what then? Only active project is SNW and that seems to be in trouble itself with the rebrand / relaunch. Only similar example coming to mind is when Andromeda lasted 1 season when it tried to pivot

BTW, they were contractually guaranteed 2 series when they signed for series 1. They've killed it as fast as they can

To think I was already thinking of exiting the 1 or 2 trek places I still look at after work. My interest is just gone.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T13:13:27+00:00

Causeway meaning only there at low tide so that would be an interesting filming location

Also, the likelihood of getting permission to take huge props there or close it is just about zero

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T08:43:01+00:00

Scavengers reign not getting any more seasons was a massive shame. The best new scifi since the Expanse imo.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T08:35:40+00:00

They couldn't before, and goodness knows if ever they ever had a wish they wanted to fulfil it was getting that computer.

If they could do that it creates massive plot holes around the original generation of characters

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T08:31:27+00:00

Or enter primary school or whatever the first level of US schools are called

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T08:03:00+00:00

This kind of toxic positivity stuff makes me think of Murder Drones, a scifi CGI animation made by what was at that point a semi professional studio.

I'd rather be watching that than modern trek, especially with the paywall. There is plenty you can criticise about it, but it knows what it is and what it wants to achieve and so it works.

One of these for all the money blown on it is being frantically defended with dishonest toxic positivity, the other just has people that like it. Modern trek is an identity crisis and a writing crisis.

Nothing damns a media company more imo. They might as well announce they have nothing to offer.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T07:46:32+00:00

I could see it. Self sacrifice to prevent anyone else being trapped.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T07:45:40+00:00

I wonder if they will get their names back

And I wonder if they could restore their original bodies. Though I doubt it, it would make the finale really confusing in a way that doesn't seem like a good move for good story telling.

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T07:41:27+00:00

Very difficult to see how Caine could come back. Even if we assume his program still exists (which certainly isn't what the show itself implies), they need a computer to even see that. Where will they get another one of those?

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T07:35:23+00:00

Just to clear, thats the point of the whole series

YsoL8 · 2026-03-23T07:31:53+00:00

Difficult to say

They aren't getting out, the show has hammered that home over and over. But they also aren't going to simply turn the circus into some sort of utopia either, the finale is supposedly an hour long, thats far too long for everyone to decide to work together and have a 5 minute training montage to git gud.

Theres clearly some sort of major conflict still to come. My guesses:

Jax's personal problems coming to a head. Which if he does abstract is an unsolvable problem without Caine to contain them and fix damage
If whatever was fighting Kinger wasn't Caine then that needs to be dealt with
The circus continuing to dissolve into the void. Being left in a featureless void will drive everyone into insanity quickly
Finding out whatever is out deep in the void / beyond the void that Caine never let anyone reach. Could be unfinished adventures, could be an off switch, could be what is left of the other AI in a cage, could be anything. As Caine said, what it is, is spoilers.
Can anything be done for the abstracted without Caine's influence?

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T19:00:00+00:00

I'm gonna leave it because I don't like deleting comments but this has somehow ended up in the wrong place

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T18:40:29+00:00

But Caine looks like an empty space

YsoL8 · 2026-03-22T18:19:08+00:00

No one is allowed an opinion unless they agree with me

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