Starfleet Academy series (spoilers)

[Crazedwraith]

The first two episodes of a new series dropped yesterday on Paramount Plus.

Spun off from Discovery it features a new class of students entering Starfleet Academy in the 32nd century. The Academy taking place both on the San Francisco campus and a ship the USS Athena.

Only watch the pilot so far. It starts in basically the bad old days of the post burn Starfleet pre-Discovery fixing everything. And our Captain separating a mother and child and the child going on the run. fifteen years later, said Captain, who resigned after than incident, is assigned to be head of the academy. At that same time that child is arrested after a life of crime, so the captain gets him out out of guilt and gets him to go to the academy.

The big academy ship is going from starfleet headquarters to earth. We meet the cadets. Said criminal. a pacifist klingon, an admiral's daughter who's lived on ships and starbases her whole life. A tilly like awkward Hologram girl and an asshole bully. (who's looks human like but is the first of some alien species that can survive vacuum)

oh and the emh is the cmo of the ship and the prodigy cast get an explicit reference and name drop. There's a memorial wall that has lot of names and end ranks of past crew. According to TVtropes a good chunk of them never made far past their end rank of the shows (apart from Harry Kim who ended up an Admiral)

The ship is ambushed en route. The main cast cadets rally to save the day. They get to earth and the starship lands to make up the campus building.

I've got a lot of petty complaints about the concept and a few other things. I'd have been fine with the main cast just being... regular cadets not some criminal who doesn't want to be there but it so talented etc has a link to the captain etc. A few too many aliens with weird powers. (a orementioned vacuum capable cadet.) and I still don't like the aesthetic of the 32nd century ships. but nothing too drastic. It was a perfectly fine start.