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WHOA. Finally saw my #StarfleetAcademy Ep.6 screener & all I can think is: what will the "low-stakes" whiners say *next* week? Me, I was stunned. Twice. After the past 2 wks of huge eps but for different reasons—one w/o pre-ballyhoo, one with—I can't wait to see how this lands with #StarTrek. #SFA

Nanu Nanu! #startrek #sfa

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ypwkaqgxe4eevb2kget7zshs/post/3megqparwbc2h

I sense a #dis/Frank Sinatra crossover. The next episode of #sfa is titled “Come, Let’s Away”.

Silly me. I think I confused psilosynine for psilocybin. #sfa

Sfântul Vasile cel Mare: Admiră ce locaș potrivit a creat Dumnezeu sufletului! Toate patrupedele privesc la pământ și sunt plecate spre pântece; numai omul are privirea gata spre cer, ca să nu se îndeletnicească cu pântecele, nici cu pasiunile cele de sub pântece, ci să aibă toată pornirea lui spre înălțime 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/hjex6 👈 #admirație #alcatuireatrupului #ArhiepiscopulCezareeiCapadociei #CuvinteDuhovniceşti #ochii #Om #Omul #Scrieriexegetice #Sfâ...
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Yes, my #SecondOpinion reaction will be forthcoming this weekend for #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy for the "DS9 episode"; lots of reviews are out now. But for the love of the Prophets, please—no spoilers in casual posts til Friday, Okay? And mark your reviews #Spoilers— mkay thx. #SFA

Omg. It is gonna be hard for me to say this without spoiling “Series Acclimation Mil”. This episode was incredible. It did so much to honor the legacy of The Sisko in a way that I find hard to quantify with words. I’m crying from the joy I felt every moment. 🥹 #sfa

Time for #sfa! Let’s fly!

They made sure professors are experienced enough to teach life.

#startrek #starfleetacademy #SFA #mywork

An infographic, that shows professors in StarTrek: Starfleet Academy are mostly over 400 years old while the students - as far as we know - are about 20.

TUESDAY 2FERS! #TheTrekFiles is up — How #TNG "The Chase" led to #DSC S5, w #Discovery writer @carloscisco.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ! thetrekfiles.com THEN “Are THEY Fake—Or Are WE Fake, #StarTrek?” | #435 Trekland Tuesdays LIVE w/YouTube live SuperChat—2p PT/5p ET! bit.ly/3hzTZXE $SFA #starfleetacademy

RE: https://mas.to/@trekmovie/116007811384014736

The first half of this headline had me thinking they just spoiled #sfa and I was severely let down.

Copying a little rant I made over on Bluesky yesterday, prompted by the attached Edna Mode "No pylons!" meme: https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhans.com/post/3mdvfjk3rgk2u

Honestly, this has been bugging me ever since Discovery jumped forward. To me, it's exemplary of the "designed to look cool" mindset rather than the "designed to make some amount of (even science-fictional) sense" mindset.

Has anyone done a treknobabble deep-dive into how these designs function?

It just reminds me of how Matt Jeffries originally put a lot of thought and drew upon his aviation background to create a design that made logical sense even when depending upon technologies that didn't exist yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)#Concept_and_initial_design

It was one of the things that really drew me into Trek when I was a kid (as evidenced by the various blueprints and technical manuals still on my bookshelves). There was a believable, logical solidity to the designs. Yes, they looked cool, but they also made sense.

These new designs with nacelles just floating near the ship don't do the same thing for me. They don't look like something that makes _sense_, they look like something that looks _neat_. It moves Star Trek away from science fiction and into the realm of the science fantasy of Star Wars.

Are there still engineering sections? Is there a centralized warp core containing and distributing the power from the dilithium crystals? We know those are still necessary for warp flight, after all, so they must be powered and managed in some way. If so, how does that power get to those nacelles?

What benefits are there to the floating nacelle design? How are they serviced, especially in emergency situations? What if the transporter isn't working (a long-standing Trek tradition, after all)? Having critical ship's infrastructure physically disconnected seems like a big potential liability.

And speaking of the transporter, that also seems to have crossed over into "magic" territory. People just blip in and out, and there doesn't even seem to be anything triggering it in most situations. I can go with the system being smart enough not to beam someone into an otherwise occupied space, but it sure seems like it would be startling to have people suddenly popping into existence at any random point and time. If I was doing something critical, I'm not sure I'd want to have a sudden *pwoof* startling me just because someone beamed in unexpectedly.

Picard's open "transporter doorways" really bugged me. There were people walking in and out of them from both directions, and yet nobody ever collided. People would constantly be bouncing off someone just coming out of or heading towards one of those portals! Those were entirely nonsensical.

I want a universe I can believe in. Things can even look cool; I'm not opposed to that! But even a far-future science fictional universe has to have some underlying logic and thought to make it believable, otherwise it's just magic without boundaries or limitations.

So, Star Trek tech geeks: What's the underlying logic and technobabble that makes these designs functionally believable? What makes them science fiction and not science fantasy?

#StarTrek #DIS #TOS #PIC #SNW #SFA #ScienceFiction #SciFi #ScienceFantasy