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Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars”
Klanky@sopuli.xyz 3 days agoI agree that I felt this was the weakest. This felt like actors writing an episode for actors about the healing power of ACTING! Just…calm down and see a real mental health professional.
Cableb and Tarima have negative chemistry, and I wish the writers would stop trying to make that happen, but here we are.
The stuff with SAM was great and should have been the A-plot.
Overall I’m still liking the show but this was definitely one of the weakest so far.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 days ago
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 days ago
I would find some sort of magical “mental health technology” not only unrealistic, but rather insulting.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Why?
That’s the perfect scenario for science-fiction. It’s theoretically possible to do so, trauma has a physiological footprint, it manifests in physical reality that can be altered by technologies. It’s entirely plausible for some effects of trauma to be healed medically instead of solely through something like talk therapy, or in this case, theatre therapy.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 days ago
That’s the perfect scenario for science-fiction.
I don’t agree at all - it sounds rather soulless to me, stripping the humanity from the story.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 days ago
I think it’s clear that, much like Nog in “It’s Only A Paper Moon”, the cadets (particularly Tarima) have not been receptive to conventional therapy, which is extremely predictive of whether said therapy will be effective.
Klanky@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Fair point. I’m sure my thoughts on this episode will soften over time (they always do), but I think my dislike of both the character of Tarima and the way she is played are making it hard for me to be invested in her story lines.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 days ago
I didn’t expect this one to be quite as divisive as it seems to be!
But yeah, I can see why it would clang if you’re not feeling the characters involved. I’m sort of in the same space with Darem right now.
Tarima is messy, but it’s a very familiar kind of messy to me. Zoe Steiner is definitely taking a unique approach to the character, but it’s mostly working for me. I thought her scene with Caleb in the botanical lab was quite well done, and not an easy task.