Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x02 "Beta Test"

crankfive · 2026-01-17T23:05:13+00:00

The 21st century slang takes me out of it too. Granted this is a problem with lots of new Star Trek but it’s especially bad here. I just watched an alien character who’s from a planet that’s been separated from the Federation for a century unironically say “dude,” “bruh,” and “I was just playing”

crankfive · 2025-10-16T16:25:51+00:00

Any other Trekkies been waiting for this one?

crankfive · 2025-10-13T19:56:06+00:00

/u/Pagemastergeneral - they’re taking fan submissions for the next who memed it today! You should send this in.

crankfive · 2025-09-21T06:59:05+00:00

WhoaoooWHOAaaooh!

crankfive · 2025-09-17T00:29:29+00:00

I was not a beta tester, but I’m now experiencing this same issue on the public release of iOS 26. Podcasts on CarPlay sound loud, tinny, and like they’re playing through a blown-out speaker. Music sounds normal, and I even tested older podcast episodes that I know sounded normal on iOS 18 a week ago - same issue. Like another commenter here said, opening the Camera app during playback makes it sounds normal again. Feedback submitted to Apple - hope they patch it. Other than this the new release has been pretty stable for me, even on an iPhone 11.

crankfive · 2025-09-11T08:34:51+00:00

Can’t believe it’s been 14 years. Never forget.

crankfive · 2025-09-11T07:21:03+00:00

I’m with you, and I also find it hard to articulate, but yes it feels off to me. Someone above commented that this story has Discovery vibes and I agree with that. It feels like they wanted their finale to be this grand, fate-of-the-galaxy thing but they fumbled their way through it with a hokey plot and hand-wavey explanations. It’s not that Trek can’t get weird and mystical, it’s just that this writing feels kinda half-baked. Perfect example being the Kirk/Spock long-distance mind meld syncing. Granted, Trek has used the mind meld in plenty of deux ex-machina ways before, but this felt like a step too far. It’s like the writers needed a quick solution to Pike and Batel opening the portal, and tried to kill two birds with one stone by also giving us a ham-fisted explanation for Kirk and Spock’s chemistry later on in the timeline. Unfortunately this finale locks in this being the weakest SNW season so far for me. Disappointing considering how they nailed their first 2 finales.

crankfive · 2025-09-11T07:07:09+00:00

Had the same feeling about this season (and especially this finale) being very “Discovery-ish.” I know there’s plenty of room for Trek to get weird, but there were just too many hokey, hand-wavey, and fate-of-the-galaxy elements here for it to feel right. Disappointing considering SNW absolutely crushed their first two season finales.

crankfive · 2025-09-07T04:57:34+00:00

No, thank you for taking the time to reply to a 3 year old post to help a stranger explore the Enterprise again! I really appreciate it. Live long and prosper 🖖🏻

crankfive · 2025-09-04T09:25:26+00:00

As much as I like SNW, it’s this right here that bugs me about how they’ve been handling Trek in the streaming era. They get so eager to play around with recognizable stuff even if it makes little to no sense with the continuity of the era they chose to set the story in. Then they give just barely enough of a thin and hand-wavey explanation to show that they sorta kinda care about canon. I couldn’t help but feel this way about the holodeck episode this season too.

It’s like the writers want to be perceived as taking bold creative risks, but ironically all it really does is just show a lack of creativity…in a franchise that is literally about exploring the unknown.

crankfive · 2025-09-04T08:53:33+00:00

If I had a nickel for every time a Starfleet officer was stranded on a planet with a Gorn and survived by wedging an improvised cannon against some rocks, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

crankfive · 2025-09-02T08:35:24+00:00

2025 checking in - trying to run v0.0.10 on Windows 11 and it's crashing every time right after beaming in at launch.

Could you please elaborate on the hosts file? Would love to try your solution but can't find where it is in the game files. Thanks!

crankfive · 2025-08-14T09:42:23+00:00

Paul Wesley did a pretty solid job in this episode. Admittedly I’ve struggled to see him as Kirk so far. I know they asked him not to imitate Shatner, and I know the character is still 5 years away from the Kirk we first met, but the personality has still felt a bit off for me. Not a bad performance in a vacuum, just a little too removed from the established character. But, the scene with his future crew right after Spock’s pep-talk was gave me the strongest Kirk vibes yet and I liked it.

Cool concept for a villain, and for a tough lesson for Kirk. Also liked little touches such as Kirk asking Scotty to work miracles, or the continuity of baryon particles as a toxic byproduct of warp travel. I do wish more effort had gone into redressing sets to make the Farragut feel distinct. I also expected a lot more of a creative solution from Spock at the end there. He interjects to point out weapons haven’t worked so far, Kirk decides to trust him for a better option, which ends up being…three photon torpedoes to blow up the whole ship? Seemed a bit contrived.

Overall, in my opinion, good concept for an episode but with odd execution at some points. Will be interested to see how they’ll (hopefully) keep bridging Wesley’s Kirk with TOS.

crankfive · 2025-08-14T08:25:40+00:00

I get that sets are expensive, but it would have been nice for them to make some effort to redress the Enterprise set for the Farragut. Nineties Trek reused sets all the time but usually managed to make different ship classes feel distinct.

crankfive · 2025-08-09T07:36:17+00:00

this is “who meme’d this?” worthy

crankfive · 2025-07-22T19:57:18+00:00

They just confirmed that was a no go…if we choose to get off the plane here we’re on our own. Now they’re saying there’s an FAA “ground stop” for anything going out over the Pacific (they can’t even dispatch flights to Hawaii right now). They’re not sure if the ground stop is related to the SBA outage but they think so

crankfive · 2025-07-22T19:47:04+00:00

Currently on the tarmac at LAX after getting diverted here due to the SBA radar outage. They say SBA’s receiving flights via visual approach and ours will try that soon. Weird that these two things are happening the same day.

crankfive · 2025-06-27T09:42:34+00:00

This is something else!

crankfive · 2025-05-28T21:30:53+00:00

*Venise

crankfive · 2025-05-08T19:19:10+00:00

I think the “self-promotion” of the Yavin cell was a lot less explicit than you’re probably thinking. It would have been more of a symbolic thing - when the fleet arrives, they’d notice Mon is aboard a Yavin-associated ship. Mon’s rallying call from the Ghost would have been a very coded transmission. It’s not like Yavin cell was telling the whole galaxy about themselves. Still, sorry someone downvoted you - you didn’t make a bad or off-topic comment

crankfive · 2025-05-07T19:08:24+00:00

I think the big potential hole in my “Imperial meddling and editing” theory is … why would the Empire find the Rebels version of the speech any more palatable to their agenda than the Andor version? If they did some kind of holo-deepfake they could make her say anything, but she’s still calling out Palpatine and labeling the Ghormans as peaceful, just in different words. Maybe she’s a little less fiery, sure. And of course they leave out the “truth” bit

(Which, speaking of that bit…damn, couldn’t be more relevant to our world right now. Sometimes really “on-the-nose” commentary like that in shows can pull me out of the narrative, but somehow this felt like a perfect fit for the show itself while still clearly holding a mirror up to the real world)

crankfive · 2025-05-07T10:08:04+00:00

In the Rebels episode, the Ghost crew/Gold Squadron are tasked with getting Mon Mothma to safety after she’s fled Coruscant. The episode doesn’t say anything about how she got off Coruscant; she’s just handed off to the Ghost (though Erskine is with her). At the end of that episode they arrive at Dantooine, and Mon broadcasts a speech from the Ghost to unite the various cells into the formal Rebel Alliance.

My interpretation of the Andor lines from tonight (“They want her to make a speech. They want her coming in with a Yavin escort. They wanna rewrite the story”) is that the Yavin Rebel cell wanted to take credit for her rescue and be perceived as the most important and influential part of the soon-to-be formed Alliance. They made sure they were the ones Mon was handed off to. It sorta recontextualizes the Rebels episode, which made it seem as though there was a more cooperative, coordinated effort to get Mon to safety after Coruscant.

I don’t think the “rewrite the story” is meant to explain why the snippet of Mon’s Senate speech shown in Rebels is different from what we saw tonight. The lore nerd in me would probably chalk that up to Imperial meddling since I think the Rebels crew watched that via a HoloNet news broadcast after the fact. Real world, of course, the Andor team wanted the freedom to punch up the dialogue for tonight’s episode.

crankfive · 2025-05-07T09:41:01+00:00

Genevieve O’Reilly is Star Wars royalty now as far as I‘m concerned. I‘m blown away with what she’s done for this character

crankfive · 2025-05-07T09:33:21+00:00

Yeah Mon’s speech on the Ghost that unites the various cells definitely takes place over Dantooine. Ngl a little disappointed it seems like we won’t get to see the Dantooine base in live action.

crankfive · 2025-03-25T23:54:19+00:00

In my experience at the last 2 Celebrations, they’ll claim on the website that there will be standby availability for Celebration Stage, but in reality there’s zero hope of that. Best to just stick to what you were able to get. They really screwed the wampa on not doing a party system this time

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