Starfleet Academy: Vitus Reflux
Jan. 23rd, 2026 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kathleen_daileyI'm sticking with the series, although so far it seems less like its Star Trek predecessors and more like a generic YA-ish dramedy featuring attractive and/or quirky characters who just happen to live in a complex futuristic setting.
-- For me, a serious conceptual stumbling block is that so far the 32nd century doesn't seem very much advanced from what we saw of the 23rd and 24th. One might expect 800 years to make a difference in some shockingly dramatic ways (as, for example, the difference between 1226 and 2026). I guess we're meant to believe that post-Burn isolation and deprivation brought all aspects of development in all sectors to a halt?
-- The prank-war plotline didn't do much for me, but I liked most of the scenes that featured the adults. My viewing partner was greatly disappointed by the idea that Starfleet would condone that type of hostile competitiveness among students (as opposed, I guess, to more conventional war games, battle simulations, Kobayashi Maru tests, etc.).
-- Some people are complaining that the dialogue incorporates 21st century slang and idioms (for example,"on your six.") This tells me that the complainers aren't true SFal suspenders of disbelief. If they were, they'd know that the characters are speaking 32nd-century Federation Standard, and we're just hearing the idiomatic equivalent in 21st-century English.
-- KRAD says that the plant was inspired by Little Shop of Horrors, but I was sure that it was (somehow) a descendant of Rand and Sulu's Beauregard/Gertrude.
-- Lura and Reno are a couple, which makes me happy.
-- I've been a fan of Raoul Bhaneja since the days of Train 48, and I liked the way he was directed here. Bhaneja is doing a great job in this role, and it's clear that there's more depth to Kelrec than we've seen.
-- The characters still seem like high-schoolers rather than undergraduate or graduate students, but there are some in-universe explanations for their immaturity (and Chancellor Ake gives the prank war her imprimatur, so whatevs).
-- I am really annoyed by Caleb, but maybe that's the point--more room for redemption and maturation?
-- This business of instantaneous on-the-spot transport seems fraught with unjustifiable hazard.
-- Hmm, a young Vulcan in the War College. Tell me more ...
It's early days, so I'll be keeping an open mind, although I don't expect to develop any deep fannish connection to this iteration of Trek. May TPTB prove me wrong.
-- For me, a serious conceptual stumbling block is that so far the 32nd century doesn't seem very much advanced from what we saw of the 23rd and 24th. One might expect 800 years to make a difference in some shockingly dramatic ways (as, for example, the difference between 1226 and 2026). I guess we're meant to believe that post-Burn isolation and deprivation brought all aspects of development in all sectors to a halt?
-- The prank-war plotline didn't do much for me, but I liked most of the scenes that featured the adults. My viewing partner was greatly disappointed by the idea that Starfleet would condone that type of hostile competitiveness among students (as opposed, I guess, to more conventional war games, battle simulations, Kobayashi Maru tests, etc.).
-- Some people are complaining that the dialogue incorporates 21st century slang and idioms (for example,"on your six.") This tells me that the complainers aren't true SFal suspenders of disbelief. If they were, they'd know that the characters are speaking 32nd-century Federation Standard, and we're just hearing the idiomatic equivalent in 21st-century English.
-- KRAD says that the plant was inspired by Little Shop of Horrors, but I was sure that it was (somehow) a descendant of Rand and Sulu's Beauregard/Gertrude.
-- Lura and Reno are a couple, which makes me happy.
-- I've been a fan of Raoul Bhaneja since the days of Train 48, and I liked the way he was directed here. Bhaneja is doing a great job in this role, and it's clear that there's more depth to Kelrec than we've seen.
-- The characters still seem like high-schoolers rather than undergraduate or graduate students, but there are some in-universe explanations for their immaturity (and Chancellor Ake gives the prank war her imprimatur, so whatevs).
-- I am really annoyed by Caleb, but maybe that's the point--more room for redemption and maturation?
-- This business of instantaneous on-the-spot transport seems fraught with unjustifiable hazard.
-- Hmm, a young Vulcan in the War College. Tell me more ...
It's early days, so I'll be keeping an open mind, although I don't expect to develop any deep fannish connection to this iteration of Trek. May TPTB prove me wrong.
