{"id":980643,"date":"2025-10-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=980643"},"modified":"2025-10-16T00:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:20:15","slug":"star-trek-starfleet-academy-wrong-time-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/star-trek-starfleet-academy-wrong-time-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Is Set in Precisely the Wrong Time Period"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Say what you want about <em>Star Trek:<\/em> <em>Starfleet Academy<\/em>, but it\u2019s a series that\u2019s absolutely determined to strike out on its own path. With its decidedly younger cast, school-based setting, and, if the trailer is anything to go by, fairly frequent relationship drama, it\u2019s definitely not like any other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/star-trek\/\">Star Trek<\/a><em> <\/em>series we\u2019ve seen recently. (And that\u2019s before you get to the pair of Hollywood heavy hitters chewing up the scenery at its center.) But while its central premise \u2014 detailing how unseasoned cadets are forged into the Starfleet captains and leaders of tomorrow \u2014 is certainly compelling, the specifics of its setting are\u2026 questionable at best and an outright red flag at worst.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>The series takes place in the 32nd century, after the events of <em>Star Trek: Discovery\u2019s <\/em>final season. This is a controversial decision in and of itself, as <em>Discovery<\/em> isn\u2019t exactly beloved among a fairly wide swath of the <em>Trek <\/em>fandom, and the story of the event known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/star-trek-discovery-season-3-the-burn-explained\/\">The Burn<\/a>, which decimated warp travel, fractured the Federation, and essentially ended Starfleet Academy as we know it wasn\u2019t as compelling as the show wanted it to be. (Or nearly as well explained.) <em>Starfleet Academy<\/em> will follow the first class of cadets to come through the institution in over a century, a concept that may sound interesting on paper but that also somehow feels almost completely disconnected from nearly every <em>Trek <\/em>story that has come before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, one of the best things about the rebirth of Trek on streaming is that it\u2019s encouraged the franchise to tell very different sorts of stories. And there\u2019s certainly something to be said for the idea of a series that\u2019s focused on younger characters and lower-stakes stories about personal relationships that don\u2019t necessarily involve a potential galaxy-ending threat. Even the promise of more romance is an exciting one. However, it\u2019s difficult to focus on those stakes when the show must also flesh out a revamped world that still feels largely unfamiliar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of necessity, this <em>Starfleet Academy<\/em> is going to largely be about creating something new: A fresh future, a reconstituted Federation, and a reimagined Academy that apparently sends its students on real-time ship-based missions even as it&#8217;s attempting to teach them theory and ethics. It\u2019s unlikely to connect to many (most?) of the experiences that previous cadets shared, and outside of a few ancillary figures (Tig Notaro\u2019s Jett Reno, Oded Fehr\u2019s Admiral Vance), it&#8217;s about an entirely new crop of characters, several of whom hail from species we haven\u2019t met before. There\u2019s not a whole lot for viewers to really hang their excitement on, which is likely why it can feel as though there\u2019s relatively little of it within the larger fandom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 32nd-century setting is doubly disappointing when you consider that <em>Star Trek<\/em> managed to accidentally already set up a perfect <em>Starfleet Academy<\/em> spinoff a couple of years ago. Yes, the final season of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/star-trek-picard\/\">Star Trek: Picard<\/a><\/em> was essentially fan service in televisual form, reuniting many of our <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation <\/em>faves to explore how they\u2019d all changed in the years since we last saw them. But it also introduced us to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/star-trek-the-next-generation\/\">The Next Generation\u2019s<\/a> literal<\/em> next generation \u2014 the children of characters like Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi and William Riker, and Geordi La Forge. It was even a <em>plot point<\/em> that Kestra Troi-Riker was headed off to start classes at Starfleet Academy! How is she not the character we\u2019re hanging this series on? She comes complete with a familiar era of the show, the opportunity for cameos by her famous parents, and appearances by assorted friends who are all technically new characters but who wear familiar names. It\u2019s not the <em>Star Trek: Legacy<\/em> sequel series that so many folks are still clamoring for, but it could have been kind of a backdoor to much the same idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be fair, there\u2019s every chance that <em>Starfleet Academy<\/em> will turn out to be just fine, thanks to its charming assortment of fresh faces, new alien species, and what already looks to be a towering performance from Holly Hunter as their chancellor\/captain. (Heck, Hunter\u2019s involvement is pretty much enough to give this show a chance in and of itself.) But, still, it\u2019s difficult not to wonder what might have been.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will premiere on January 15, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you want about Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, but it\u2019s a series that\u2019s absolutely determined to strike out on its own path. 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