“Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will end with its upcoming second season, Variety has learned exclusively.
…and nothing of value was lost.
I can honestly take this, though I do want more Star Trek content. I will continue to watch the show, but it’s really asking for a lot of suspended belief in each episode. A random sampling of my problems with the show:
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You take fresh, untrained to partially trained students, put them in a mobile school, and then intentionally fly that ship full of children into known dangerous areas of space?
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We’ve had decades of the best in Starfleet fully commissioned officers solving complex problems, and the academy is full of professors and other well educated professionals, yet with every weird anomaly, the approach is, “fuck it let’s let the kids handle this one”
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Terse negotiations with a previous and potential new member of the federation are done as a spectacle at the academy in front of the students and almost no other high level members of Starfleet, instead of literally anywhere else?
There are many more, but at some point I had to just turn my brain off to continue watching. I’m not used to having to do that so much with Star Trek.
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That’s a shame. There were certainly parts about the show I could nitpick, it is far from perfect. But I enjoyed it. Glad to at least get a season 2.
The algorithm felt it wasn’t hitting the right taste clusters
If someone had told teenage me that there would be star trek and star wars that not only would I never see but never care to see. heck sci fi in general. its wild.
I am genuinely happy to hear that Alex Kurtzman is leaving the Star Trek franchise, fuck that guy.
That’s not in the announcements
Variety confirmed that CBS Studios and Kurtzman are continuing to be in negotiations for a renewed partnership.
Quoting the article: “According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Kurtzman and CBS Studios are currently in talks for a new deal that will keep him in the CBS fold”
I personally take that as he is staying at CBS but leaving Star Trek, especially since the new Star Trek movie has no connections to him.
It depends on whether the intent is to integrate the movies and television.
No one involved with the new movies has proven their ability to deliver on Star Trek, whatever their other credentials.
It would be a major risk to give any untested production company and EP the kind of multiyear contract needed to run the franchise.
Personally I have a much higher chance of going to see the new movie if it has NO ties to Kurtzman, and I am not alone in my friends-group for that opinion. I only went to see Star Trek Beyond because it was a fresh take mostly written by Simon Pegg (A known ST fan), and I think it’s the best of the three new movies.
Definitely a YMMV situation. I have seen all three Kelvin movies and liked the first best of the lot
Beyond didn’t redeem itself for me. The motorcycle ridiculousness put it in the Nemesis category for me. There’s also the fact that none of the rest of the family would watch with me after the first one.
That said, the movies are being led by completely different people at this point.
Kurtzman is only negotiating television production not movies. My point was that the movie people have yet to prove themselves in even being able to deliver a cinematic feature in the franchise. So, would be an extreme risk to lock a 5-7 year deal that includes television production.
I have watched all of trek except TOS (just a few famous episodes only).
I just couldn’t get into this show and that’s okay, I don’t need to love every show. Sad to see less Trek as there should be Trek for every type of audience but if they are cancelling then I’m guessing the show didn’t find its mark with people.
I don’t know how to appeal to younger audiences, there are people smarter than me to figure that out but I hope to have a trek for me again someday.
Don’t give me hope like that.
Does that mean we’re not even going to get a nice ending for season 2?
Hopefully they had enough of a sense it was coming to wrap things up.
they did allow disco to shoot additional scenes to make the season finale a series finale. I hope they allow SFA to do the same
Unfortunately, they did a cliffhanger.
Now you have to wonder if they can untangle it into one coherent finale episode, and if Paramount will even give them the approval to untangle it in the first place.
I’d rather have a cliffhanger and a glimmer of hope it could be resolved in a future movie.
I’m always concerned that having an unresolved cliffhanger has the opposite impact.
It discourages new viewers from trying a show and undermines the case for a movie.
A Firefly to Serendipity outcome is vanishingly rare.
And unlike Farscape, the production company partner can’t get the IP back and make a limited series or streaming movie to resolve it.
That’s good point. I enjoyed the Discovery finale well enough but I also can’t deny it definitely felt rushed.
I can’t say for sure if I’d prefer a rushed conclusion over a well-considered writing that gets cut short!
Im so sad
Maybe a minority take here, but I think this is good. I liked the first season and would honestly be satisfied with it ending where and how it did. Getting another season out of it is awesome so we can flesh out the backstories and experiences of the characters that didn’t get as much development, but I think this show is better served by just a couple really good relatively self contained seasons. I would hate to see the show dragged out beyond that, personally. I got into Star Trek from Lower Decks and I like having different shows tackling different aspects of the Star Trek universe, rather than one or two long-running shows that never truly end. I think I just like an open and closed show that has an interesting story with an end in sight so the story that gets told is more fleshed out and feels more important. I’m excited for another season and want to see what they do with it!
I agree about shows not overstaying their welcome, but for me the natural length of an Academy show would be 4 years (or however long we agree a cadet stays at the academy). After that, we could have a new Trek show with a new mission statement, but allow it to carry over a select few characters from Academy in the same way that Academy adopted a few of Discovery’s characters. That would strike me as a nice natural rhythm.
My kids and me love this show 😩
I’m seriously surprised the series wasn’t canceled after the pilot. SFA has nothing to do with the look and feel of Star Trek.
"no but like, where are you from"
That’s how I felt about half way through the pilot, I said to my partner “I don’t think I can handle a grimdark trek,” but then they started introducing the actual premise of the show, how starfleet had a dark time, but was now rebuilding and reaffirming it’s ideals.
I personally liked the vibe, it felt hopeful. Dark times don’t last forever and things do get better, but still leave an impact.
And 4 and 5 for that matter
Well, I’ll be damned. The hate campaigners seem to have won, despite solid signs that the show was actually doing quite well with the target group — internationally, if less so in the US?
This is very sad news, the show seemed to go from strength to strength in its first season.
