I supported Section 31 until I saw it.

Hey, nothing wrong with optimism.

Hell, I still think that story could have been decent, had it been a 10-episode series as originally intended.

But yeah, I think SFA has turned out a very strong first season, so far.

As long as Star Trek remains popular enough, I think it might be advantageous to not be considered one of the “crown jewels” - flying under the radar has its advantages.

I really despise having to read the tea leaves about this stuff, but in the absence of solid information here we are.

An interesting anecdote that I’ve noticed is that two podcasts (Star Trek Academy, which I recommended a few days ago, and Larry Nemecek over on his YouTube channel) have said that SFA has led to a large increase in their audience. What does it mean? Who knows!

Ah, the tail end of a season, when the publicity stills are even less informative than usual.

As the year comes to an end, Caleb must choose between the life he thought he wanted and the life he’s built for himself at Starfleet Academy. Meanwhile, Nahla breaks protocol in one final gambit to keep a promise to Caleb.

Sounds like the rumours I saw that Tatiana Maslany would be back this week are likely true.

I won’t pretend to be an expert, and I do hope that someone out there will get an actual therapist to guest on a podcast or soemthing to talk about the episode, but I do know that therapeutic confrontation is a real thing.

I’m not really familiar with her past stuff - I think “Absentia” is probably the best-known?

What interests me is that she got that sole “created by” credit, and yet isn’t a showrunner. That seems…very unusual.

I think both things can be true to be honest.

It’s a shame, but I can also understand why - council meetings and other open events are increasingly security risks, full of wingnut conspiracy theorists.

But, the way we designed the transformation of Sam, we called it sort of colloquially in the writers room, “Sam 1.0” and “Sam 2.0.” Sam 1.0 was just a couple months old and was a baby in so many different ways. And the contrast that you start to see in episodes 9 and episode 10, but in a big way in season 2, is that Sam 2.0, while she does carry the memories of Sam 1.0, she really is a totally different person. She feels things that Sam 1.0 never felt.

I’m very curious to see how this plays out.

it is weird that they did not introduce a trained psychiatrist/counselor

Ake did say the cadets had been attending counselling sessions, and that they weren’t working (actually, I think she said that they “weren’t enough”).

Maybe they could have included a scene or a montage of those ineffective settings - IIRC, the most comparable “classic” episodes, “Family” and “It’s Only A Paper Moon” showed them, however briefly.

It’s wild to think that this SFA season finished filming a year ago, and was written even earlier than that.

True, I did forget the Must Reply To Everything in the Hot Feed rule.

Wandering the internet to loudly declare your disinterest in things?

Besides time-consuming (it’s a big Fediverse, so you must not get a lot of sleep)…yeah, kind of toxic.

Hey look, it’s the guy from the article!

Understandably so.

Here’s my question: is it better to boycott the company outright, or to show them that you are willing to pay for progressive content?

I don’t have an answer. I think you can make a good argument for either.

If they downvote, it means you’re an unappreciated genius.

A second watchthrough is on my to-do list this weekend, there’s always something I missed the first go-around…

What you said doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, so I’ll grant you that.

Sam wasn’t present for the theatre classes that are being criticized here, so I’m not sure what the relevance is.

It’s isn’t science-fiction at all, it’s drama set in a techno-fantasy world.

This, however, is hot nonsense.

That’s the perfect scenario for science-fiction.

I don’t agree at all - it sounds rather soulless to me, stripping the humanity from the story.