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This is probably as good as you're likely to get.

It's interesting that they know that, since it's not in the official release - I suppose they may have seen the screener already.

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.

So, definitely a Darem episode, and maybe Genesis as well?

I can't help but wonder what Caleb's going to do for a "home for the holidays" episode. Staying at the school is possible, but it would be interesting to see him connect with B'Avi's family.

For the record, if anyone reading this is that sort of person, you can save us a lot of time and just go away now.

The Academy is a fully-functional starship, so she's both the captain and the chancellor. She's 500 years old, is a bit of a hippy, and is happy to lounge around when they're not facing a crisis.

The implication is that the portrayal of bad things is somehow an endorsement of bad things, so it most certainly is not.

The one that bumps me most is the Totally-Not-Ten-Forward Office of the Federation President.

That's a good question. I found this on Memory Alpha:

A desperate scramble among the creative staff ensued to trim as much as possible of the budget as possible; the entire prologue was (albeit painfully) scrapped, scenes were trimmed, all planned set construction for new starship interiors was abandoned (though a new Kronos One corridor set did get build ultimately), the planned live-action shoots in Alaska for the Rura Penthe scenes were scrapped as were plans for new studio models and other visual effects elements. Starship sets were to be entirely recycled from Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was concurrently in production, but was slated for its summer hiatus, when filming of The Undiscovered Country was planned to start, and only existing studio models were to be used.

I'm guessing this set was simply not built to hold up under feature film-level resolution.

Edit: elsewhere on the page, it says the galley was a redress of Troi's office.

The way I see it, if there's a big moment and you lost the nuance of what happened with the puck, there'll probably be a replay and I can catch it then.

Jettisoning the nacelles was considered in TOS' "The Apple" and "The Savage Curtain", but in both cases they never actually did it.