I think it's pretty fun. Even knowing the story beats, things go way different than on the show.

In my current (still first) run Tom and B'ellana got sucked into a black hole and died, but B'ellana's full Klingon half is on phasers, Tuvix runs the mess and the Doctor runs the sick bay in tandem with a Malon. Voyager is armed to the teeth and just stomped the shit out of the Borg. I'm still missing a lot of heroes so I must have missed some opportunities too even though I've been hitting almost every mission.

Anyway, I enjoy narrative games and ones like Ixion or Fallout Shelter so this was aimed right at me.

However, I hated the suggested romantic tension between Caleb and Genesis, fortunately it didn’t went further than that.

I think they did that well. Spent one moment of "is this...?" and then moved on. Felt very young adult to me, but I also hope that's the last of it.

Yeah, I liked the episode, nothing felt out of place in individual scenes, but you're right it does feel like they were trying to fit too much story into too little time. There's like four B-plots in there.

Yeah, big difference between "Starfield 2" and "Starfield 2.0", one is a sequel, the other is a version.

I have played the first 4 or 5 sectors now and it does hit a lot of the highlights but not every episode (although there may be some randomness to what shows up). I fucked up and entirely skipped Tuvix though.

Wesley (the boy?!)

True to your username, I heard the clip haha

the director thinking Geordie was an alien

Ugh. How did Stuart Baird end up directing this when you have a huge bullpen of Trek actor/directors that could've done so much better? Frakes is right there and did fine on First Contact / Insurrection. LeVar Burton himself, or even Roxann Dawson or Robert Duncan McNeill would have been available by then (although most of their directing credits come later).

I could understand if they went outside for someone that had a track record of decent movies, but Baird had little experience directing before Nemesis and apparently none afterwards.

Hi Karim, big fan of your work in Academy! Jay-Den's backstory is already an all time great Trek episode.

My hard hitting question is personal: Coffee or tea? More generally, favorite drink?

It's thoroughly mediocre. I will watch it if I'm watching the TNG movies, but probably not standalone. There is definitely some cool stuff in it, and I also like Tom Hardy and Ron Perlman, but as you note I don't think it really pulls it all together. And then there are things I hate, like dune buggies, B4, and the fact they fucking killed Data.

It is especially bad as the last TNG movie. The TNG era crew should have got their Undiscovered Country epic last ride but Nemesis isn't nearly conclusive enough. At least we'll always have "All Good Things".

Cronenberg's Law: For every Garnet there's a Brundlefly level freak of nature.

I encourage you to watch it and form your own opinion (just make sure to get past the first ten minutes of the pilot, the tone shifts dramatically).

Captain Ake runs the Academy and commands the Academy ship, the Athena, which is used to do more hands on training but isn't the flagship by any stretch. She's more like a principal than a professor. The other main characters are cadets, with some strong supporting characters too.

IMO it's the first live action Trek show in the new era to come out firing on all cylinders and it's great to see.

Yes, but in context it's not a big deal. A lot of it is contrasting her with her peer, the chancellor of the war college, who is uptight. Ultimately, she's less military commander, or even explorer, and more chancellor of a school full of students and in that capacity it makes more sense to generate a relaxed atmosphere. When the situation calls for it, she can be serious as well.

She just has her own style, but people want to be negative because she's not Picard-ing hard enough or some dumb shit.

It's always great to see someone scratch their own itch, so kudos. However, I'm curious what the actual pain point is? Does your mouse not sample fast enough? Noticeable input lag on a gamepad? Seems like this would be a bug with the implementation if it needs to be overclocked to fix...