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|epnum = 105 | |epnum = 105 | ||
|epname = | |epname = Series Acclimation Mil | ||
|epdate = 2026-02-05 | |epdate = 2026-02-05 | ||
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B-story was just killing some time with the adults, but it was still a pretty fun time. | B-story was just killing some time with the adults, but it was still a pretty fun time. | ||
So five episodes in there are the first two that left me annoyed, the third one which showed promise, and these last two which were really good. So a mixed bag, but a good trajectory.}} | So five episodes in there are the first two that left me annoyed, the third one which showed promise, and these last two which were really good. So a mixed bag, but a good trajectory. | ||
Though it is explicitly an episode related to DS9, in concept it has some similarities with something like TNG Data's Day, where we more than usual see the point of view of an artificial life form and their difficulties. We finally see the others of Sam's kind and... they're quite different. The setup reminds me a bit of the Kaylon in [[The Orville]]. An artificial people who are out of contact with their original creators, sending out one of their own to test relations with other organics. Though... is Sam one of their own? They sure didn't send out some "experienced" member of their group, but created someone for this task and within months have them in the Academy. So is she different from them from the get-go, or is it only her experiences among organics that have differentiated her? | |||
Also, it is an irony lost on them but not on the viewer that their worries about organics are due to their creators treating them as only tools, while that is exactly what they are doing with Sam, trying to dictate exactly how she goes about trying to fulfill her role.}} | |||
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|epnum = 106 | |epnum = 106 | ||
|epname = | |epname = Come, Let's Away | ||
|epdate = | |epdate = 2026-02-12 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2026-02-13 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = OK, another good episode. They're now the majority. | ||
So it's a training mission, yes. But when the shit hits the fan why are the cadets on the bridge left there? Did they give the entire standard bridge crew (all shifts?) shore leave? | |||
Apparently the Nus of Nus Braka is short for "Nustopher", but when watching the episode I thought he said "Nusifer", which I thought was pretty funny. Aside from that, yeah, he hasn't shown up much this season but this episode made him a convincingly smart and dangerous threat, and thanks to Paul Giamatti a charismatic one as well. | |||
Academy and War College students finally working together well aaaand one of the War College semi-regulars dies. | |||
Tales From the Frontier, an in-universe comic about the crew of the abandoned ship they were training on, pretty amusing.}} | |||
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|epnum = 107 | |epnum = 107 | ||
|epname = | |epname = Ko'Zeine | ||
|epdate = | |epdate = 2026-02-19 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2026-02-21 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = Easiest-going episode yet. Nice change of pace, letting us see some characters better. | ||
So the Khionians have point-to-point interstellar wormhole tech? Seems like the sort of thing that would've been extremely powerful during the post-Burn years.}} | |||
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|epnum = 108 | |epnum = 108 | ||
|epname = | |epname = The Life of the Stars | ||
|epdate = | |epdate = 2026-02-26 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2026-02-26 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = What a full episode, all kinds of stuff going on. | ||
The Doctor reveals himself to have become more like... The Doctor (of Doctor Who). He's lived so long and outlived so many people that he sometimes gets to a place of wanting to get away from attachments to prevent more heartbreak. | |||
So, the Doctor and SAM spent 17 years "rebuilding" her by giving her a childhood rather than just blipping into existence at 17. But I wonder how that really worked? If it was just her, one ~human hologram, and a bunch of Kasq-type entities, that doesn't seem like it would be a childhood anything at all like what a meat person would have. In the end it also makes for a strange situation even in science fiction. At the start of this episode, they were unrelated. At the end of the episode, one is the parent of the other, and not just in name but in actually having raised them. | |||
How different will SAM be from here on out? They stated she was active for 209 days before being rebooted. So if she reached Earth age 17 and then had those old memories reinstated, it would mean "old SAM" would only account for about 3% of her existence. On the other hand, by the start of this episode it seems like already the vast majority of her existence is during the period of the show, and her behavior hasn't changed all that much. | |||
The cadets studying Our Town felt sometimes a bit too forced in their timing, but there's only so many minutes to go around. Everyone confused and upset at first, and (almost) everyone coming around to understanding the point at the same time. | |||
Tilly is back, and said to have been elsewhere working with third year students. I guess that both explains why we haven't seen her, and why we haven't seen older students. Also, kind of funny that Nahla says that Tilly was in the place of the cadets not that long ago, when in objective time it was about 900 years. | |||
We're nearing the end of the first season, and due for a "shit hits the fan" finale. I wonder if that starts next week with the penultimate episode? | |||
On a personal historical note, this is the last episode I see before my Paramount+ subscription runs out which I've had running for quite some time. The increased prices and decreased amount of Star Trek per year have stopped making it worthwhile to be subscribed permanently. I actually almost dropped it last year for the same reason, but the system's automated response was to offer me a 50% discount on the next year, which I took. They weren't going to do that twice in a row, though.}} | |||
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|epnum = 109 | |epnum = 109 | ||
|epname = | |epname = 300th Night | ||
|epdate = | |epdate = 2026-03-05 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2026-03-05 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = OK, yep, the shit-hitting-the-fan starts now. Nus has the ability to make areas of space warp impassable, and is threatening to essentially cut off the Federation from the universe at large. And of secondary importance to the Federation but high importance to the show, most of the Athena has been captured, though the people are safe. | ||
Caleb finds Mama, who as of the end of this episode seems a bit freaked out by her Starfleet surroundings. | |||
Interpersonal stuff got... complicated again this episode. On the one hand, hard to believe his friends find it hard to believe he'd choose to leave with his mom, since finding her was a primary reason for him joining the Academy in the first place. But also, dick move on his part by making the split full of insults to the people who've befriended him. | |||
SAM seems upset that people don't know who she is... but it seems like it's been a few months since the last episode. Has nobody gotten to know the new her in that time? | |||
Hey, you know what would be useful to have when someone has set up a bunch of mines that threaten to make the Federation border impassable by warp? A spore drive.}} | |||
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|end = 1 | |end = 1 | ||
|epnum = 110 | |epnum = 110 | ||
|epname = | |epname = Rubincon | ||
|epdate = | |epdate = 2026-03-12 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2026-03-12 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = Well who'da thunk it. After a rough start, this ended up being one of the stronger first seasons among Trek shows. | ||
So they did bring up Discovery and spore drive, but handwaved an explanation for why it wouldn't work. Didn't really convince me it was an impassable issue, though. | |||
So Nus Braka sets up a "trial", but... maybe it's just the portion we saw, but I don't recall him actually laying out what things they were supposed to find guilt or innocence of? Just... "Are they bad?" | |||
Considering the scope of the danger, the solution seemed a little too easily found if it could be managed by a handful of cadets and instructors on a busted up fraction of a ship. Buuut seeing them manage such things despite where they began is kind of what the show is about, so I can give it some slack. | |||
The end credits were unlike anything I can recall in Trek, showing very out-of-universe pictures for the actors.}} | |||
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