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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x07 “Ko’Zeine” (startrek.website)
submitted 17 hours ago by ValueSubtracted@startrek.website to c/startrek@startrek.website
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As our cadets return home for their first school holiday, they must choose between what their families expect of them and their own dreams for the future — including an aspiring captain who’s secretly willing to risk everything to re-write her own past, and an aristocratic cadet called to serve his planet way before he’s ready.

Written by: Alex Taub & Eric Anthony Glover

Directed by: Andi Armaganian

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[–] buerviper@lemmy.world 2 points 34 minutes ago

Meh, didn't really care for this episode. The wedding stuff would have interested me more if we were already more invested in Darem and his culture, but there is too much going on at the same time (lore-wise).

As for the academy stuff, don't know. Considering Giamatti is in this show, I hoped Genesis, Caleb and Reno would do a The Holdovers, but the entire premise falls flat. Again, too much in one episode. Genesis is first about to be recommended into that Captains program and in the same episode not. Wish this would have been more of a storyline between episodes.

After I thoroughly enjoyed the past episodes this is the weakest episode of the series so far to me.

[–] end0fline@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Another week, another episode I enjoyed. I'm not super sure how Genesis didn't think they were going to get caught when they activated the impulse and warp engines.

I don't know what is happening between Jay-Den and Darem but I am here for it.

[–] hmantegazzi@startrek.website 3 points 5 hours ago

The more I think about that scene, the more I feel that she was trying to get caught in a situation that gave her no alternative to tell the truth. She feels like a character that's hiding too much for her own good.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 8 hours ago

Well, that was certainly a low-stakes palate cleanser after last week's more intense episode. Probably a little too low-stakes for my liking.

They seemed intent on inverting common tropes in this one:

The "arranged marriage" storyline didn't play out in a way that we've really seen before.

Similarly, Darem's overall arc of "I need to stop being such a people-pleaser so I can be my more authentic, dickish self" is...a twist.

Caleb and Genesis put any "will they/won't they" plotlines to rest (though I suppose they could revisit it).

And Genesis' deep, dark secret turned out to be...not that deep. As much as I appreciate the inversion and that she didn't turn out to be a Species 10-C spy or something, I feel like we still don't know enough about Genesis. We're going to have to meet her dad to really get to the bottom of her character, I think.

[–] alx@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago

I love Jay-Den so much, and I really hoped he and Reymi would finally realize their love.

However, I hated the suggested romantic tension between Caleb and Genesis, fortunately it didn’t went further than that.

[–] khaosworks@startrek.website 2 points 13 hours ago

Annotations for 1x07 are up at: https://startrek.website/post/35797552

[–] billmason@startrek.website 4 points 16 hours ago

Quieter episode but I enjoyed it. I wasn't expecting a Genesis story this season from what's been said, but I was glad to get one.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

So how did Reno break her toe?

EDIT: This had the feel of “Family”.

[–] khaosworks@startrek.website 4 points 10 hours ago

She felt like testing the impact door.