******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Debuting on Paramount+ streaming this past January, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was created by Gaia Violo under Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman, and was recently cancelled just after its as-yet-unreleased second season wrapped. Kurtzman himself is also stepping down after this year. For the first time since the cancellation of Star Trek:…
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“Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” season 1 report card…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Paramount+’s latest Star Trek series, “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” (STSA) has finished its freshman year. Created by showrunners Alex Kurtzman & Gaia Viola, STSA is a mix of old and new elements; with A-list actors, Star Trek veterans and a fresh-faced cast of cadets tossed together in a 32nd century, post-Burn Federation seeking…
Pass or fail? Star Trek: Starfleet Academy opens with “Kids These Days,” and “Beta Test”…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** As an old Trekkie from waaay back (as old as the franchise itself), I’ve read about pitches for a Starfleet Academy movie as far back as the late 1980s, when the late Star Trek movie producer Harve Bennett had a movie about Kirk and Spock’s academy days together. That pitch was rejected, though…