The upcoming Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series looks like it has its cast for the first season, with the announcement of another member of the inaugural cast of cadets.
One more cadet for Academy
Today Paramount+ announced that British Canadian actor and model Sandro Rosta had joined the cast for the original series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Rosta is the sixth young actor cast as an Academy cadet, joining the previously announced Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané, and Zoë Steiner.
Like with the other cadets cast, there are no details about the character Rosta will be playing. However, Paramount did provide this summary of his experience:
Rosta recently graduated from the Oxford School of Drama. During this time, he starred as Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet,” Trofimov in “The Cherry Orchard” and Tom Musgrave in “The Watsons” at the Jermyn Street Theatre. Rosta recently made his professional debut in “The Harmony Test” at Hampstead Theatre.
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Academy cast is complete
At SDCC last month executive producer and co-showrunner Alex Kurtzman announced they had one more character to cast for the series, and TrekMovie has confirmed Rosta is the final series regular, filling out the cadet cast. However, there may be more recurring roles and guest stars to be revealed for season 1.
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- Kerrice Brooks
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- Bella Shepard
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- George Hawkins
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- Karim Diané (photo credit, Paradigm)
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- Zoë Steiner (photo credit, Steph Cammarano)
In addition to the cadets, the YA series about the famed Starfleet school will feature several adult characters including Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter, who plays the captain and chancellor of Starfleet Academy, and Academy Award-nominee Paul Giamatti, playing the main villain for season 1. British actress and comedian Gina Yashere will be playing an Academy instructor.
Holly Hunter (Ricky Middlesworth)
There will also be several familiar actors reprising Star Trek roles on the show. Fitting with the 32nd-century setting, this includes three crossing over from Star Trek: Discovery. Tig Notaro will be a series regular, reprising her role as Jett Reno. Oded Fehr and Mary Wiseman will return in recurring roles as Admiral Vance and Sylvia Tilly respectively. The Academy show will also feature the return of Star Trek: Voyager’s Robert Picard as The Doctor as a series regular.
Blu del Barrio as Adira, Tig Notaro as Jett Reno, and Mary Wiseman as Tilly in Discovery (Michael Gibson /Paramount+)
Production on the new series is expected to start at the end of the month in Toronto at Pinewood Studios, where Star Trek: Discovery was filmed for five seasons. Paramount+ has yet to set a release target for the new show but Alex Kurtzman has suggested it may not debut until 2026.
ICYMI: Casting video
At SDCC Paramount+ released a video featuring members of the new cast of cadets being told they landed a role in Star Trek.
Keep up with news about the Star Trek Universe at TrekMovie.com.
I had expected the cadets to be unknowns but am surprised by just how little work some of them seem to have done. Good for them.
they should stream this on the CW
Ha my thoughts exactly. I am more interested in it now that the Doctor is back (and he was fabulous on Prodigy) but I still think this will be as bad as Discovery.
Hopefully I’ll be proven wrong though.
Since Michelle Paradise isn’t working on this show it has to be better than Discovery lol.
In all seriousness I certainly understand everyone’s concerns about it although I personally am very optimistic about it. At least so far all the news about it has been very positive for me. But I also remember saying that about the first two seasons of Picard as well. 🙄
And I think that’s why the Doctor is there, to add a familiar and popular face for fans who are (very) skeptical about this show. I did read on another site the new showrunner grew up watching Voyager and the Doctor has always been one of her favorite characters. But I’m guessing the plan from day one was to always add a legacy character (probably TNG or VOY) on it and she suggested him. Who knows but glad he’s there!
You’re always so positive Tiger2 (and you never act like a bully or a triggered emotional child when people hate the things you like haha).
But I hope you are right and ultimately it’s a good show. And I didn’t know the showrunner was a big Voyager and Doctor fan growing up. She and my daughter would get along great haha.
The rest of the cast is good though and I really do like Jett Reno too so happy she’s back. Her and the Doctor will probably be so funny together. So there are things I am looking forward to.
I am also hoping we get Kovich/Daniels back. At least a few appearances.
I’m just worried it will literally sound like a high school show since the so called ‘adult ‘ shows like SNW, Discovery and LDS sounded like that as well.
If the adults actually sound like adults for a change and not petulant children that alone will be a win.
And I really wish the show was in the 25th century instead of the 32nd one. That’s the century most fans seem to care about the most. Not speaking for all of them just the ones who agree with me haha.
But I do want to like this show. Sadly there is now so little Star Trek on now although I am hoping we get more Prodigy!
I do try to be but I’m guessing you haven’t read my review on the Section 31 trailer lol.
And of course I hear you. All of those are valid concerns. I just try not to be too negative about something until we see some of the finished product first (again see my thoughts on the Section 31 trailer ;)).
The show can obviously be bad but I do mean it when I say I have liked all the news about it so far. And I wasn’t that positive about everything. The animated shows both gave me pause when they were first introduced but both won me over right away; just more proof we can only really judge these things until we see it first. As put off as I was over the Section 31 trailer I’m still very open minded about the movie itself. I’m just hoping the next trailer feels more like Star Trek again.
And I know many people want this show in the 25th century. I certainly wouldn’t mind it of course but the setting is actually the biggest reason why I so excited about the show. If it was just the 25th century then it would just be kids going to school basically.
But someone on another site made a great argument that it would’ve been great if they set the show around the Dominion war, or around season 6 of DS9. Now that would’ve been very interesting too and seeing what’s it like to join the Academy during war time. Especially because Starfleet is supposed to be about exploration but you are now training these kids to fight a war.
So that could’ve been a great setting for the show and give us a different side to the Dominion war as well but just an idea. OK I’m rambling now lol.
But that’s what I mean they do have a great angle with the Burn and the possibilities are literally endless where they can go with it.
And even though I’m still not a big Discovery fan I do think the greatest gift from that show was giving us the 32nd century. I can hear the boos now lol but if SFA give it the kind of attention to it we got with the other settings fans will come around ro it more eventually.
And if not, we still got the Doctor! 😉
And I went back and read the comments the showrunner said concerning him and she said the Doctor helped raised her so clearly a big fan lol. Again not going into another tangent but it must be interesting for so many of these new showrunners today who was probably teenagers or younger when TNG originally aired are now bringing back their favorite characters and actors from that era. Must be a dream if you been a fan for decades now.
And to be fair many fans were always saying it made sense to see the Doctor show up on Discovery once they got to the 32nd century so this was always a no-brainer.
Actually I did see your thoughts on the Section 31 trailer and completely agree lol. It looks so bad and I always hated the Space Nazi, even if I like the actress but just like you I will wait for more. But if it’s more of the same I will probably just skip the movie as I did for Discovery last season.
And I guess that’s why I don’t care about SFA, it’s more Discovery stuff I have no interest in. If I never saw anything from that show again I wouldn’t miss any of it. But they were very smart to bring in the Doctor, so I’m giving it a chance no matter what now.
But as always you make thoughtful and strong arguments for these shows. I really do hope we get a compelling and sci fi show like I was hoping SNW would be before it went down satireville.
That example you gave about the Academy show during the Dominion war is exactly what I mean. Imagine a Ron D. Moore making that show as opposed to Kurtzman, Abrams or Paradise who can’t make a compelling Star Trek drama to save their lives. But I digress. But it all ends up with ridiculous mystery boxes, cringe teenage-like comedy and people crying on the bridge.
I just want an adult show again. A show where space is dangerous and people who understands that and not have 20 something year old Captains who haven’t even finished school yet in charge. So ridiculous. I certainly don’t mind humor and fun characters and why I’m happy the Doctor is there but the shows should still have a more dramatic undertone.
Hopefully it will be. But as always love reading your insights dear.
Again I completely hear you. And TBH I don’t know if that’s what we will get with this show since Kurtzman said awhile ago the show will have lots of humor in it. And then we found out Tawny Newsome became a writer and that mostly happened because Kurtzman liked some of the improv she did on SNW. And then add the fact we have Tilly, the Doctor and Reno on this show, all comedic characters to a degree (although YMMV like mine with Tilly) so we’ll see.
And it could be a more serious show obviously. But it does feel like that Star Trek is now taking a more lighter tone and humorous approach lately. I don’t think you can blame it on LDS fully but it was the first comedic show and that clearly rubbed off on stuff like SNW and msybe even Section 31. Again that may be a very serious movie in the end but people are dubbing it Treks version of GOTG for a reason. And now they are developing a live action comedy.
It’s (no pun intended) funny how we went from the very bleak and dark angle in Discovery’s first season where people were literally eating other people to now doing musicals with Klingon boy bands lol.
So I get it and I like the light hearted aspects of Trek but I do miss the gravitas and serious tones of the older shows too.
There just needs to be a better balance IMO.
My credo is: any Trek is better than no Trek.
This is true and why I watched the first two seasons of Discovery haha. Because that’s all there was the first few years. But once we got Picard and later SNW I just had less interest watching that show even though I did try to watch every season in the beginning but kept giving up. But I put all my focus on those two shows being a huge TOS and TNG fan.
Of course just my feelings only.
I disagree. I prefer something to be left alone rather than to be stained.
I agree with your opinion.
I’m hoping SFA will end up being a great show.
OK, I can totally see that (and I dunno your feelings on these two shows) but with no DISCO we would never have gotten SNW. Sometimes even a perverbial turn can give birth to a resulting garden. We can leave the field alone but then we will just be having some picnics or paintball fights reminising about old times instead of what comes next.
*stained* ?? That’s a bit harsh. If you don’t like it? Don’t watch it…The gatekeeping that goes on here…*smh*
Yep cause if they *do* make a bad Star Trek it still opens the door for future good Trek than it going into hybernating and Paramount asking , “Trek what now?”
Not true, no Trek is better than Discovery.
Or, it’s all Trek.
Seconded! Tiger always puts the best foot forward.
And you’re probably right they always intended to add a legacy character on the show. Hasn’t there been one on every show so far? And it’s interesting there are so many Voyager characters. This will be the third NuTrek show with a Voyager lead.
But I’m not complaining about that lol.
Every show has featured a Legacy character as a lead minus LDS basically so you’re mostly right.
Discovery is a little different since there were no leads after the third season but season 2 Pike and later Spock were basically leads on that show and Sarek was a recurring character for both seasons.
But Picard and definitely SNW are the worst culprits by far since they are basically a TNG and TOS memberberries reunion. I think Prodigy probably did it the best because while Janeway, Chakotay, Doctor and Wesley all had had strong roles the show still felt more about the kids IMO. And it helps when you have 20 episodes to develop characters and not just 10 as the others.
But actually since Janeway was introduced on Prodigy I said every show will probably have a Legacy character as a series regular going forward. Ironically I said SFA would probably be an exception but here we are lol. It’s Star Trek though, literally anything is possible.
And I have no issues with having more Voyager characters around but yes it would be nice to get one DS9 lead eventually.
Maybe with the new comedy show? That will take place in the 25th century and it sounds like a setting perfect for Quark. ;)
Yes I would love to see more DS9 characters as well. My real dream would be to see the Enterprise characters back to but I know the timeline makes it harder.
But if they can figure out a way for the Doctor to be in the 32nd century it shouldn’t be that hard to see Archer or T’Pol in the future, at least for an episode. Put them on SNW. Like you said it’s Star Trek anything is possible.
For some reason I thought LDS had some recurring TNG characters on it. Isn’t Riker and Troi on that show from time to time?
I also remembered seeing Paris somewhere. Was he only in one episode? I thought he was in season 4 too but maybe I’m confusing him with Locarno? I have never seen the show.
Actually Troi was only on LDS once in the first season finale with Riker. He appeared alone in 2 or 3 episodes in season 2 but haven’t been back since and probably to Frakes disappointment.
BTW, fun fact people but Mike McMahan gave an interview recently talking about how Riker became part of the first season. He was showing Frakes some of the early scripts and art designs of the show and. Frakes liked it so much he asked McMahan if he could put Riker in an episode somewhere.
Frakes has no shame and why we love him so much lol. I still remembered when he was gunning for a role in one of the Kelvin movies. I know for a fact it would’ve been a much better movie for it but whatever.
And yes that was Locarno not Paris (although Paris was in season 2). Although that’s pretty funny you confused them and they even joked about it on the show.
People give LDS a lot of crap for being a show about memberberries and nostalgia (and they are not wrong lol) but what’s interesting about it is it’s the only modern shows where the legacy characters don’t lead the story. They are part of it but they don’t drive it like the other shows constantly do. I guess people can argue Locarno was the driver of season 4 though but he didn’t show up until the last episode basically.
And that’s another thing there are no recurring legacy characters like you have in shows like SNW where Kirk and T’Pring awkwardly pop up on the show like they are neighbors. LDS has a lot of cameos but that’s what they mainly are. With the exception of Riker every character has only showed up once.
And as for your interest of seeing Enterprise characters, McMahan has teased he wanted to get those characters on the fifth season. We don’t know if they will appear but we do know more legacy characters will again and there is a scene in the trailer of LDS characters in a D con chamber so fingers crossed!
OK per usual I am waaaay off topic lol. Let’s get back on topic: It be cool if Riker showed up on SFA. I’m sure Frakes would be down for that. Thread saved.
Wait… WOT!… did Frakes want scene with Nimoy in the Prime Universe?!
No this was after the first movie and he made the statement around 2012 or 2013 IIRC.
He was just speaking in general and saying maybe in a future Kelvin movie they could use time travel or something to involve the TNG cast in some kind of crossover story. I definitely would’ve been up for that!
This was also a time most people thought those movies would be the dominant force in the franchise for probably years to come and really nothing else. Obviously that didn’t turn out to be case and Riker is getting his time in the spotlight again while the Kelvin movies are currently DOA.
Ugh, Michelle Paradise should be banned from coming near a Star Trek show. Is there a way we can file for a restraining order so she can’t be 100 meters near a Star Trek script?
Paradise was the first showrunner I wanted fired. I just think she made a mess out of Discovery. I did like season 5 overall but there was still just as much bad as good in that season IMO.
She won’t be missed by me. Eitherway she’ll be fine and will probably be making shows for the next 20 years and will be more rich and famous than I’l lever be; I just hope none of them are Star Trek again, that’s all.
I wish but I’ll remind everyone that Star Trek has only ever had ONE successful show on Network TV (Voyager) and even that show only made it because UPN pretty much had nothing else. I don’t know why Trek performs so bad in traditional networks but it does. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, a show about 4 Star Trek nerds becomes the #1 TV on Network but somehow ACTUAL Star Trek can’t even break through.
I didn’t think they are being serious about putting it there. They are just saying it’s probably going to feel like a CW show, cheap and sophmoric appealing to teenagers than serious science fiction fans.
Ahh, I misunderstood as usual hahaha
No worries! :)
I’m really happy with how this cast turned out. I was concerned they would be skewing TOO much younger for my tastes, but these young actors appear to be JUST the right age for what my mental picture of Starfleet Academy had been so far, so I’m happy.
we still have Tilly the child…
She’s more mature than you though.
YA = Y ain’t you lovin’ it? It’s Star Trek, Y’All!
I know YA gets a bad wrap these days but this may turn out great.
Uh oh I’m in trouble then cause I always say that lol
It’s great we are getting casting news about the cadets. Know nothing about any of them but excited to see them. I hope a few will be aliens. Give us one Cardassian and Klingon!
Come, is it me or is this dude totally playing a Nevar??
That would be cool as well obviously. But we’re probably getting those regardless.
I mentioned Klingons and Cardassians because we haven’t seen any of them in the 32nd century yet, but I actually forgot the Federation President is part Cardassian.
My first thought was that this lad was made for a set of pointy ears, yes. 😆
I’d really like to see this series recognize the ones that came before in the form of holograms and/or statues of famous captains and commanders, starting with Archer and the crew of the NX-01.
Those poor students having to take exams and history classes on events that took place a thousand years earlier. Specially after the Burn, it’ll be a miracle of any intact records survived.
The cool thing is that they have the database from the Discovery, which records about everything before they left their home time would be considered more accurate than anything that survived into the 31st Century.
Of course, having time travelers helps.
I really like this idea as well. It would be a great way to bring in any character you want from Archer to Janeway Holograms which could appear in classrooms as historical figures. I saw someone mention this on another site but it would be no different than Janeway talking to Leonardo DaVinci or Data conferring with Einstain in the holodeck.
I don’t expect it to happen but nothing stops it either.
If Prodigy could do it in the Kobayashi Maru test, then the live-action series can and should do it too.
Honestly, the DISCO era has done so much with Archer (so much so we even got the theme) and Picard. My personal feeling is that with these “cameos” they are forgetting the ones who started it all with Kirk and co (not Spock of course but in this context that doesn’t count cause of Burnham).
Burnham even said, I never let myself find out what became of him. What became of him? He sacrificied himself for the Enterprise and her crew. Then Kirk doubled down and sacrified the Enterprise and his own son to revive Spock. How Spock’s own sister does not think to even mention that is beyond me (that is directed at Kurtzman and co, not actual Burnham).
I’m sure that if the season had had more episodes they might have explored that more deeply. Definitely a consequence of the shorter count.
Ya perhaps. I mean I am biased because no matter what I will be a TOS guy. I know I am overly complaining but sometimes these days it feels like TOS get’s short changed if your name is not Spock.
They have half of the TOS characters on SNW now and I suspect more will show up in the third season as well.
And with the exception of Kirk and Chapel I really like how all the others have been portrayed. And I like the actress who plays Chapel but she might as well just be a different character altogether.
Sulu will probably be next.
If not Rand.
Yep my thinking exactly. I think Mccoy will eventually show up but maybe in season 4.
And actually they now have more than half the main TOS characters on SNW: Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Chapel and now Scotty. Only Mccoy, Sulu and Chekhov are missing at this point.
But TOS is very much represented these days thanks to that show.
It will be interesting to find out how McCoy ends up becoming CMO. I guess that will be a season 5 reveal, but that is a bit off topic here.
Looking forward to seeing what SFA will be all about.
Doctor Piper first, then McCoy…
She is written better, heh.
But it’s still not the character. She might as well jist be someone else. And I don’t just mean her personality but the relationship with Spock (which I hate) and how Korby is being added AFTER the fact makes zero sense in canon but this is for another thread.
Well, canon is fluid as exemplified in the episode with Khan.
Then just make it official and say it’s in another timeline then. Yes it basically is now but I wish they just made it clear. But it’s no way this show is a direct prequel to TOS now.
It’s the same timeline but with an altered history, like in Yesteryear in which the Andorian replaced Spock.
The episode with Khan pretty much made that as clear as possible.
Ic it’s an altered history then it makes it an altered timeline. And let’s not make this stuff overly complicated lol.
Not necessarily.
It’s the same timeline but with a different history, something we’ve seen many times before going back to City on The Edge of Forever.
I believe it was Daniels who told Archer that changes to the timeline happen in waves.
I am a proponent that SNW represents the tip of the wave washing over history and changing it along the way.
That’s fine but they just have to make that more clearer that’s all. I think what bothers people is Goldsman is trying to have it both ways. He acknowledged baby Khan changed things but still suggest canon basically lines up in the prime universe when it clearly doesn’t.
I just don’t get these guys. If you want your show to line up with canon aa much as possible than do that. If you feel it’s too hard because the universe is too wielding at this point then just say it’s an alternate timeline and just do what you want.
Or the third option just keep going forward and you have none of these problems. Discovery made that turn after 2 seasons after the hole the show put itself in.
And I love SNW but yeah.
And that cost Discovery its identity. It stopped being the show it set out to be.
What SNW has been doing works primarily because of the episode with Khan outright addressing the fluidity of history.
What we’ve seeing play out, albeit in real time, is no different from the timeline in which Edith lived in TOS and the one in which Spock died in TAS, but without someone going back in time and changing things back to how they were before.
I believe history first changed when Troi drunkenly told Cochrane that they’re from the future.
Well Discovery has no one but itself to blame there when it introduces advanced technology like a spore drive but then don’t want to get rid of it when they know its too advanced for its period among other things.
As far as SNW and alternative timeline , I get all of that but it should be made more clear like the Kelvin movies did and made it be known it is operating in a different reality.
But it’s still trying to have it both ways.
For example , last season SNW had two time travel episodes. the one with baby Khan and TOS where Mariner and Biomler came from the 24th century.
The baby Khan episode goes into the Temporal War as to why Khan’s timeline was changed. But then 4 episodes later they meet the Cerritos crew who clearly ISN’T affected by the same timeline changes and is keeping canon to everything that happened in the prime universe.
But of course the biggest problem is TOS itself since according to Space Seed and TWOK Khan was still around in the 20th century and where the problem lies.
They both can’t be canon. But if SNW makes clear it’s operating away from TOS then yeah they can just do anything since they already are lol.
But it seems like they are still playing with the idea everything in SNW is supposed to still connect with TOS and beyond.
(Reading above, I really think about this show way too much lol)
The spore drive was not advanced for the period, it was advanced for the production values of the ’60s. No different than the holodeck, which they wanted to do in TOS but couldn’t due to budget constraints, so it didn’t appear until the animated series in which it was cheaper to do.
But SNW is not operating away from TOS.
Remember, changes to the timeline happen in waves, and SNW is likely the tip of the wave. Hence, the changes haven’t caught up to Lower Decks.
SNW did another time travel episode that further cements the fluidity of history in season one when it showed the alternate version of Balance of Terror.
After the release of Abrams’ Star Trek movie, IDW did a series of comics that reimagined classic episodes of TOS as retold in the Kelvin timeline.
Let us say that after SNW ends its run Paramount + decided to launch a new version of TOS starring the actors from SNW that play the characters from that series today.
They could very well do in live-action what those comics did on paper. The difference would be that while the stories in those comics took place in an alternate timeline that exists separate from the prime timeline the events in this hypothetical revision of TOS would take place in the new history of the prime timeline that began prior to the launch of the NX-01 as seen on Enterprise.
Are you kidding me?? Dude the spore drive was so advanced it wasn’t even made in the 32nd century lol. C’mon it’s a magical device that can jump ships ANYWHERE in the galaxy in seconds. How is that not advanced???? Can you imagine if every starship was equipped with a spore drive? They would be finding thousands of planets every year when you can just type in a few coordinates and be in a new Star system in seconds.
As far as the wave thing OK man but as a fewer just watching these shows its still a bit confusing watching something like SNW and then watch TOS to realize most of the characters and situations just feels out of joint from each other.
I meant viewer…
The advancement in technology is not the reason why it wasn’t made in the 32nd Century or even in the 24th. It was because the Federation banned augments, and in order to make the spore drive work the pilot needs to be augmented by having their DNA rewritten with tardigrade DNA.
They feel as out of joint as when the Andorian replaced Spock in Yesteryear, because just as in that episode of TAS history is being rewritten. It just hasn’t caught up to the TOS era.
That’s not a strong excuse because wasn’t augments already banned when the spore drive was invented? And I refuse to believe A. Out of the billions of people they couldn’t find anyone else to be able to control a spore drive since they happen to find two people on Discovery itself when you include Book or B. After 900 years they never could just make a drive without tardigrade DNA.
It just never made any sense nor does it look like anyone even tried. Another reason why I don’t really like Discovery much and I always liked the spore drive but it was always too ridiculously advanced.
But we can agree to disagree. :)
As for TAS you’re talking about one episode from a show that I doubt most people has ever seen and it was reset at the end like 99% of all Star Trek time travel episodes that you seem to ignore. SNW is an entire show and it just doesn’t connect to TOS at all outside of a few things. The point is you now have two shows where Khan was born at two different times and both considered canon. If they said Space Seed and TWOK was no longer canon then I can buy what you’re selling but we both know that will never happen.
Yes. They broke the law, what they did was illegal.
Book was a naturally augmented human, though. He was born that way, and they didn’t find him until almost a millennia after the spore drive was invented. As for other humans like him, they all died in season four, no?
What comes after SNW is changing as the wave washes over history and changes it. What was canon before is not now. Only what currently appears on screen counts, and when it comes to SNW and TOS that is changing.
By the 32nd Century, better forms of travel than the spore drive had been developed, such as the Pathway drive. Such a drive did not require a pilot like the spore drives does, for example.
And not once was it ever explored on the show about augments because it was just about the spore drive.
Again just have to agree to disagree. I LOVE the idea of the spore drive. It was one of the few new things the show presented in season 1 but it felt completely out of place to the setting and another reason why the show didn’t belong in the 23rd century and they obviously knew that.
As far as SNW and its questionable canon issues one of the things it does completely right is the show fits in perfectly technology wise. Nothing feels out of place and organic to that time period, so they have corrected a few things for sure. Discovery just felt too advanced as a show and they put it in an era where none of that was a concern anymore.
“What was canon before is not now.”
So you’re basically saying SNW is overwriting TOS. That definitely won’t put the nerds in a huge angry tizzy lol. And that also suggests SNW isn’t really a prequel at all, just basically a reset of the entire universe ala the Kelvin movies.
This is why I wish they stopped doing prequels altogether because then you run into issues like this.
Or just say it’s in an alternate timeline like the Kelvin films were. Doing what you’re suggesting would only give them more problems in the end.
There are plenty of works of science fiction that take place in settings that are either previous to or concurrent with Star Trek that present considerably far more advanced technology.
It is important to not confuse the limitations of what was able to be done on TV in the 1960s with what would be possible to do in the 23rd Century.
For instance, Roddenberry intended for the Enterprise to be able to land on planets, much like how Voyager would do over a century after TOS, but they weren’t able to do it due to production limitations.
Today, if SNW wanted it, NOTHING would stop them from having Pike’s Enterprise land on planets, which would not make it more advanced for the 23rd Century, it would merely be more advanced from what could be done on TV in the 1960s.
To be fair, as suggested SNW does give TOS a lot of love. It is doing a much better job at reinventing it for the 21st Century than the Abrams movies did.
If Miles O’Brien can get a holographic statue in an undisclosed time in the far future, no reason the same cannot be done with other characters from the previous series in this one.
Great news for this guy! Bet he will do great! Now, back to the only question on my mind.. OG Doctor or Living Witness Doctor?????
Indeed.
I vote latter!!!!
It would certainly be far more interesting if it was.
It sounds like the original Doctor based on their statements..It is odd it wouldn’t be the Living Witness version though so maybe it will be.
Why not both?
I’m curious about what happened to both versions of the Doctor.
Wow that would be interesting and we actually got both of them!! Never thought of that but good idea.
That would be great.
Get ready people, Gotham high in space is almost here…
It’s Galaxy High, Star Trek edition…