Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025)
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Looks good, but too soon to tell. They threw a lot of good stuff at us quickly, but what holds it all together?
Two questions I have: Is Federation HQ a starship saucer section now? WTF was that? And did they just put River Tam from Firefly in Star Trek? Because it kind of looks like they did. Might not be Summer Glau, but that girl definitely had River Tam energy.
Will definitely give this a chance — I’ve been saying they should make a Starfleet Academy series for decades. Now we’re getting one.
The San Francisco campus - or at least a large portion of it - is actually the USS Athena, a fully-functional starship that can land on Earth, but also go on mission when needed to provide some hands-on training (and, I assume, help a Starfleet that’s still spread fairly thin). They talked a little bit more about it here.
As far as I’m aware, Federation HQ remains a giant ship/space station.
stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Apparently in later Discovery they actually used a starship, the USS Federation, as the Federation headquarters. It appears the Athena is just for the academy though.