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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
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Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x04 "A Space Adventure Hour"English81·18 hours agoObviously continue to watch something you dislike, despite there being many other things you can do with your life.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada’s hockey case raised questions about toxic culture – so why did the accuser end up on trial?English43·1 day agoWhat part of any of this was boys will be boys?
What part of any of this was hockey related?
Are those serious questions?
But [the case] also revealed the existence of a secret Hockey Canada fund, which the organization eventually admitted it had specifically created to pay settlements in sexual assault cases against players – apparently lifting the lid off a long-simmering culture of abuse and cover-ups extending far beyond the case at hand.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Puppets Explained, Sybok Teased, TAS Episode Scrapped, And More ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ SDCC RevealsEnglish11·2 days agoYeah, I’m inclined to agree. I’m not against puppets, but a TAS-style adventure would have been fun.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The SchoolEnglish7·4 days agoIf they’re really going to join the fleet from time to time, maybe we’ll finally see this era’s Enterprise.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Drops Official First Look Teaser TrailerEnglish3·4 days agoThey do look awfully Mogh-like…
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Drops Official First Look Teaser TrailerEnglish8·4 days agoThis casting makes it easy to attack as woke and might limit its audience.
In all seriousness, that would be the absolute best reason for this series to fail. I would be incredibly proud of it.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek: Khan Audio Series Releases Official Trailer, Poster, Premiere Date, and Additional Voice CastingEnglish4·5 days agoI didn’t expect the apparent flashback framing device - Russ and Takei are a nice surprise.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Drops Official First Look Teaser TrailerEnglish7·5 days agoWhenever this happens, it looks absolutely fine on some Mastodon instances (I just checked, and this post looks fine on my own), and “wrong” on others (like yours).
That suggests to me that the issue may lie with the Mastodon server, but I genuinely don’t know, and have no idea how to replicate the issue.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Drops Official First Look Teaser TrailerEnglish81·5 days agoThat is a bit of weirdness that happens sometimes when Lemmy posts federate to Mastodon. It sometimes grabs the thumbnail and headline from a completely different post.
I have no idea why, but it’s incredibly annoying.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' first look welcomes cadets, Paul Giamatti's alienEnglish3·5 days agoHonestly, my biggest fear is that Paramount+ may not have a lot of the demographic they’re trying to capture.
How many young adults subscribe to that thing?
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Court worked as it's designed to in the Hockey Canada case. That's the problem, survivors and lawyers sayEnglish12·6 days agoLike some other jurisdictions, Canada has protections against self-incrimination.
Any person charged with an offence has the right … not to be compelled to be a witness in proceedings against that person in respect of the offence …
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' first look welcomes cadets, Paul Giamatti's alienEnglish9·6 days agoKurtzman does confirm Klingons will be a part of the show; more specifically a “Klingon hybrid species who are several of our main characters.”
And then we have this, seen on TrekCore’s Bluesky:
Kling’Hadar?
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' first look welcomes cadets, Paul Giamatti's alienEnglish7·6 days agoMy excitement was starting to die down thanks to the dearth of news, but hot damn, this show looks gorgeous. There’s some really interesting stuff in the interview, too:
“If you’re going to do a show about a young generation facing the future and you want it, as all Star Trek does, to be a mirror that holds itself up to the world as it is now, to situate the show in the halcyon days of the Federation would, in some ways, be dishonest,” Kurtzman, a showrunner on Starfleet Academy with Noga Landau, tells Entertainment Weekly. (The halycon days was a time period when the Federation of Planets enjoyed peace and prosperity.) “Our children are facing a lot of challenges right now and they are our hope for the future…They’ve got a lot riding on their shoulders, and they are meant to reestablish and rebuild everything that we all know and love about Star Trek,” Kurtzman continues. “They convey hope and they search for hope, and that felt like an extremely relevant message to talk about now.”
Landau adds, “It’s wish fulfillment. Every week it’s about a new part of coming of age. One week that can be a prank, war erupts another week, a romance begins another week, we encounter an alien species for the first time and we don’t know what the hell we’re doing [another week]. But at the end of every episode, what we want our audience to feel is, ‘I want to go to Starfleet Academy.’ Even in the deepest, darkest depths of character problems and drama, you get such a good feeling from watching this show [of] how much you want to be there so badly.”
“One of the things that we see all across the world now is how much hate is relied on to sow division between things that connect us as human beings and how hate is used as a bludgeon to destroy empathy, which I think is ultimately what Star Trek is about,” Kurtzman explains. “At its core, it’s about: We may not look the same, but we are the same. Finding that common ground and figuring out a way to understand our differences is at the heart of what [Star Trek creator Gene] Roddenberry was talking about.”
Without revealing too much, Kurtzman explains that Giamatti’s character “represents a tide that has swept across the world in a very profound and upsetting way,” he continues. “I say this without taking a political stance. That is part of what it means to invite everybody into the tent. One of my favorite things about Star Trek is that it reaches across the aisle. People on all sides of the political spectrum love it for different reasons. That is something that we really wanted to hold true to here.”
It also seems like we might learn a lot more tomorrow:
The creative leads are keeping many of the character details under wraps until the big Star Trek panel at San Diego Comic-Con this Saturday, but they confirm Holly Hunter plays the lead of the series, that of the captain and chancellor of the academy.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori"English4·6 days agoYeah, it looked directly connected - if you squint, you’d probably be able to work out where on the bridge the door is.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori"English6·6 days agoFunnily enough, that episode provides supporting evidence:
BASHIR: Starfleet Medical won’t see it that way. DNA resequencing for any reason other than repairing serious birth defects is illegal. Any genetically enhanced human being is barred from serving in Starfleet or practising medicine.
One has to conclude that the procedure Bashir underwent is considered an enhancement, not a “repair” - like they tried to overcome his undefined disability through brute force, rather than address the underlying cause.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteto Canada@lemmy.ca•All players acquitted in Hockey Canada sex assault trial. Live updates hereEnglish9·7 days agoNot equipped to handle sexual assault cases. This is a very well-documented issue.
Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek at SDCC 2025 — Inside the Paramount+ Lodge Starfleet Academy and Strange New Worlds ExperienceEnglish1·7 days agoI’m not certain about the retro-style logo on the wall (I suspect the blockier lettering on the tote bag represents the actual series logo), but might this be the first look at (a version of) the series uniform?
That was a pretty fun bit of silliness - low-calorie, but it looked like the cast had a good time.
The La’an/Spock storyline is unexpected, but damned if Ethan Peck and Christina Chong don’t have chemistry.