Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x01: “Kids These Days”

rogermccoy@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I’m probably stretching, but as soon as I realized Jay-Den was a birdwatcher I wondered if that was a subtle tribute to Chris Cooper, writer of the Marvel Starfleet Academy series and host of Extraordinary Birder. (Cooper became briefly very well-known in 2020 when a woman called the police on him while he was birdwatching.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Cooper

I haven’t spotted it myself, but multiple reviews have mentioned the wall includes a mention of Peter David, creator of the Brikar, who first appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation—Starfleet Academy: Worf’s First Adventure, the first licensed novel (or YA novella really) based around Starfleet Academy. That was probably visible in episode #2, but I’ll note it here because

  1. It’s a standing set.
  2. It pairs well with the possible Chris Cooper allusion.

David was mentioned as being on the wall at nerdist.com/…/starfleet-academy-wall-of-honor-sta… and comicbook.com/…/every-star-trek-easter-egg-refere….

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