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That has been a thing since DSC season three, and I really hope they explore exactly how that works in this series.

DIS Season 5 (with the exception of a flashforward in the finale) took place in 3191, so presumably this new series picks up where it left off.

This is a little up in the air, and Alex Kurtzman has said there's "some overlap" between the two series, but hasn't really elaborated on it. So this season could be running concurrently with DSC season 4 or 5. Maybe. But maybe not!

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For now, I'll just share the thoughts I posted to Mastodon while this instance was still on the Genesis Planet...

Overall, a very strong couple of episodes. The cadets are all interesting enough, though Jay-Den and SAM are outstanding. Caleb is the sort of Rebellious Young Person that can grate on people, but I think the show compensates for that by making him a bit of a punchline. His backstory is also compelling enough (I actually thought his separation from his mother seemed very real), and his motivations are clear.

Nahla Ake is fantastic, and Holly Hunter brings a lot to the role. The character is quirky, but grounded, and you can see that she carries multiple lifetimes of experience.

Paul Giamatti is clearly having the time of his life as Braka. Time will tell whether he remains a cartoonish pirate (which I'd be fine with TBH), or if they'll give him more to do.

I've always loved the post-Burn setting, and I'm looking forward to exploring that status quo. The Betazed stuff is intriguing, and I hope we learn more about this "psionic wall" of theirs.

Also, "Discovery is unavailable because X" is the new "the transporters don't work because X".

Yeah, I don't know if they're focusing on more geographically spread-out areas, or what.

There's been a little bit of vagueness about the details - even in the recent SFX article, Kurtzman hedged a little bit about just how much it overlaps with Discovery.

“The new show synchronizes with the first two years of Starfleet returning to its full form. The safest way to look at it is it’s like when Discovery ends, we begin - but there’s kind of a two-year overlap.”

So it might be (or parts of it might be) running concurrently with Discovery season 5. It probably doesn't matter very much.

I'm not familiar with the franchise, but I have been pretty impressed with Wyatt Russell. He was delightfully unlikeable in Falcon & the Winter Soldier.

It sounds like the party is in the toilet, and the PQ is riding high in the polls...

(although the ongoing IDW comic Star Trek: The Last Starship, whose writers previously teased to io9 that it had connections to the events of Starfleet Academy, suggested that the Federation was on the verge of incorporating every known galactic civilization into the Federation at the time of the Burn, with the Gorn being the last intergalactic outliers)

Although Klingons had been mentioned multiple times across Discovery‘s later seasons, the show never explored much of what happened to the Klingons by the 32nd century.

It's interesting that they brought up The Last Starship in one context, but didn't carry that forward to the discussion of the Klingons. As I understand it (without having actually read it), according to the comic,

I think they've done a decent job of giving each series its own tone and identity.

In any case, SFA and the remaining two SNW seasons are all we're going to be getting any time soon.