#startrek

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🖖 I strongly encourage most Star Trek and sci-fi fans to give 'Starfleet Academy' a chance with an open mind. The season 1 finale was very good IMO.

❌ Don't @ me if you're just going to disagree/troll. It's not a show for everyone but that's OK.

I do actually have more than a few critiques (ship design among them) but overall it's an interesting fresh take on Star Trek that feels accessible to new viewers (a good thing). "Space Hogwarts" is what my partner started calling it and Holly Hunter as "Headmaster" Captain Nahla Ake is a highlight for me, she's quirky and eccentric in such a fun way.

While I've been very slow to learn to like the Discovery spinoff timeline the series is set in — a distant future from established TOS/TNG canon — it's doing better world building and politics than most Trek …

day 24: What's a work of science fiction that you love? What do you love about it?

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It's been with me my whole life. Between film, tv, books and podcasts, it's given me thousands of hours of entertainment.

It's given me a creative outlet and a connection to like-minded people.

It's given me a future to aspire to.

I would not be the person I am today without it.

accounts to follow:

➡️ !@startrek - Discussion group about all versions of Star Trek
➡️ @nocontexttrek - Screenshots from Star Trek taken humorously out of context
➡️ @RikerGoogling - Riker searching the internet
➡️ @WorfEmail - Worf sending emails
➡️ @PicardTips - Picard giving management tips
➡️ @georgetakei - Actor, activist, author
➡️ @GoodAaron - Screenwriter, executive producer, showrunner, worked on Star Trek Prodigy

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