I'm not loving how childish the students act. Most are sulking and barely seem to want to be there. They act like sullen middle schoolers and not the 21yo best of the best competing. The tonal shifts are jarring, from the main character being bratty and whining and then there's explosions and violence.

I do like that the main older female has a normal face and not full of filler and Botox.

Who knew that would become rare?

God I miss forehead wrinkles on actors.

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Business aside, I'm enjoying it so far. There is some cringy school drama, but that's to be expected. Looking forward to see where things go.

Staaaaaar trekking across the universe…

the diversity and acceptance of people in the academy is just uplifting.

That would have been weird if Star Trek stopped doing diversity and acceptance, as it has done as a defining characteristic of it since it started. ... Oh wait, but, quite the opposite of uplifting, the bullying and lack of acceptance, largely because of diversity, did seem to happen. How weird.

Glasses

So, is she allergic to Retinax too?

No weird fucking dumb drama

I don't think we were watching the same thing.

episodes that have beginner middle and end.

Did you mean "beginning"?

High praise indeed... stories follow the structure of stories. Heh.

and of course the doctor singing opera

Seemed like a contrived shallow desperate ploy to make it likeable.

But this one hits all the good I loved in the 1990s series.

90s trek being my favourite era of Star Trek too, I did not see that at all. No resemblance at all to anything good as far as I could see. Quite the contrary. An painful offensive affront, densely, consistently, throughout.

We must have been watching different things.