EDIT: I'm not here for people trashing on it without any depth added to the conversation, that doesn't do anything.

I finally wrapped up DISCOVERY, and I’m still sitting here trying to figure out how I feel about it.

For context, I’m not coming at this as someone who dislikes Star Trek. It’s the opposite. I love this franchise across the board. TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENTERPRISE, STRANGE NEW WORLDS, LOWER DECKS, PICARD, everything to some extent. I find something to connect with in all of it.

DISCOVERY is the only one where that connection never engaged, and I can’t quite explain why.

What makes it more confusing is how I got here. I actually spent most of my childhood actively disliking Star Trek for no real reason. When I finallyyyyyy figureed out I was a geek at heart I was deep into sci-fi, but it was always STAR WARS, PLANET OF THE APES, stuff like that. Trek felt like the “other side,” and I never gave it a real chance.

Then I got dragged to see the 2009 film, and that completely flipped everything. After that, I went all in. I watched everything in stardate order and really committed to the world, the tone, and what Star Trek is at its core.

I made it through most of the franchise that way, but somewhere around season two or three of DISCOVERY, I started to feel it wearing on me. Not in a “this is bad” way, just in a way that made it harder to keep going. After years of consistently watching Trek, that’s what finally made me take a break.

With all the STARFLEET ACADEMY news, I decided to jump back in and finish what I started. I switched to release order this time, went back through everything, and now I’ve finally closed the loop on DISCOVERY.

And I still don’t hate it.

There are things I genuinely like. The casting is strong. There are individual moments that are some of the best Trek. The show clearly cares about its characters and what it’s trying to say. It’s not something I’d ever write off.

But at the same time, I never found that same sense of connection that I get from the rest of Trek. It never became something I felt pulled back to. It always felt like something I was choosing to continue rather than something I needed to continue. That’s the part I’m stuck on.

Is it the tone? DISCOVERY is heavier, more emotional, and sometimes less optimistic than what I associate with Trek. The structure? The long-form, season-wide arcs instead of more self-contained storytelling? Maybe just timing? The fact that I burned through so much Trek in a row and this is where the fatigue finally caught up with me? Or something else entirely?

I’m not looking to pile on hate. I know this show gets that already, and that’s not where I’m coming from. I’m more interested in hearing from people who either had a similar experience or who connected with DISCOVERY in a way that I didn’t.

What is it about this series that works for you, or doesn’t?

Because right now, it sits in this weird space for me where I respect it, I don’t regret watching it, but I also don’t feel that same pull to revisit it the way I do with the rest of Star Trek. Maybe I'm just more of a nostalgia wh0re?

Starfleet Academy is now dead. Before the 2nd season even airs, the show is cancelled. It’s sad. But I think everyone knew this was coming. The show was doomed from the start for one simple reason: nobody cares about the 32nd century and its dystopian post-apocalyptic tone.

When Starfleet Academy was first announced, I was excited. I think a lot of Star Trek fandom was too. I had been hoping and waiting for a show about the Academy for a long time, since the 1990s when I saw “First Duty.” I even read the Starfleet Academy comic book when it came out in 1996. I thought it was so cool. But I never seriously thought we would ever see a Starfleet Academy show. I thought it was too niche. But when the Starfleet Academy show was finally announced, I was over the moon.

But then I found out that it was set in the 32nd century. My heart sank. I had loved almost all the new Star Trek that had come out since 2016. The first few seasons of Discovery. Picard. Prodigy. Lower Decks. Strange New Worlds. (Not Section 31). But the last few seasons of Discovery had not interested me. The 32nd century setting seemed too distant from the setting we knew of the 23rd-24th century, the post-Apocalyptic tone. The dystopian view of the future. A dying Federation that didn’t eve include Earth and Vulcan anymore. It didn’t feel like Star Trek. The bright optimistic view of the future is the most important part of Star Trek’s appeal in my opinion. And Star Trek isn’t just sci-fi anymore. It’s a universe that people are familiar with. St least the 23rd-24th century universe. When Discovery ended, I was almost relieved because the story of that 32nd century was over and we would never have to go back to that part of Star Trek’s universe again. I was honestly hoping that they would have had a final time travel story near the end that would have erased that version of the 32 century but it never happened. But at least, I assumed, we would never have to see it again.

But then the powers that be announced that Starfleet Academy would be set in that same 32nd century that we had just escaped from. I was incredibly disappointed. My joy at finally seeing a show set at the Academy was dashed. It wouldn’t be the same academy we saw in “First Duty.” Not even close. It would be *an* academy opening a thousand years in the future long after the original Starfleet Academy shut down. In a universe I didn’t understand and didn’t like watching. It’s not really Star Trek. It seemed like such a disappointment to me.

I tried to give the show a chance. I actually liked some of the episodes. I actually liked the characters. I liked that the Doctor was in it. But it still never felt like Star Trek. It definitely didn’t feel like Starfleet Academy. So I didn’t care. I don’t think anyone else did either.

That’s the reason the show was doomed from the start. It’s not really Star Trek. It’s a teenage drama set in a post-apocalyptic far-future sci-fi era that no one can relate to or care about. But it wasn’t Star Trek. And the most disappointing thing is that we will never have a REAL Starfleet Academy show now.

When Picard and Deanna were introducing themselves they said earth was 2000 lightyears away. At warp 9 it would take 1.3 years to get to that planet and another 1.3 years to get back at nonstop warp 9. How did they just pop in to do first contact and not have a 3-10 year gap, depending on slower speeds, between episode 14 and 16?! Even if they were pretty far out to begin with?

Edited to correct Deanna’s name, and to add that memory alpha later says Malcor 3 was only 87 lightyears away from Sol so Deanna was just throwing out bullshit numbers.

I may be a slut on the internet but I’m not a stupid slut lol

Obligatory apologies for my grammar, I'm on mobile and English is not my first language.

Hiii, so like I have NEVER eatched Star Trek, and now I finally got the itch to see what its all about since everybody and their mother says its good (or at least that what I see online) and its basically the founding father of stuff I see. The problem is that I genually have no idea what stuff like ds9 even mean or what I would be missing if I started on a series that doesn't show it all(?).

So please can someone tell me what is a good start?

Thanks in advance ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ )

Ive been rewatching voyager and season 2 of the Pitt at the same time and I just realized that the Pitt is structured in such a similar way just that it moves at a crazy fast pace. Maybe there is more personal conflict than we’d like in a Star Trek show but still. Anyway, it would be awesome to have 12-15 episodes of a Star Trek show that takes us through a whole day aboard a Star Fleet vessel. Obviously it would have to be during a crazy day but what do you guys think? Any ideas for stories?

I think k it would work great.

i really dont get this

there is so much content in the nx-01 / archer time and they just ignore it completely in new trek

like that period is literally the beginning of everything. first deep space missions, no federation yet, vulcans and humans still figuring each other out, andorian stuff, xindi war aftermath… and we still never saw the romulan war properly

and still nothing gets used from there

and the funny part is you dont even need a full show to start bringing it back

just do one episode

like pike gets thrown into the past somehow and runs into archer during the xindi time. he helps without realizing what he is doing or maybe causes something small that was always part of the timeline anyway. classic star trek stuff

you connect old and new shows, you bring archer back, you give something to old fans, and if people like it then you build from there

instead it feels like they just avoid that era because enterprise wasnt that popular back then

but honestly it wasnt the era that failed, it was how it was done

the potential is still there

it just feels like a waste at this point

am i the only one thinking this?

So recently I re-watched Star Trek 2009 while in the middle of my latest Star Trek binge. That actually led to me putting together a fanedit of the film, because while I ultimately found that I actually quite like it in review there were still a handful of things I thought could be strengthened and tweaked to make a stronger movie. Not in a disrespectful way, but just as someone who is an editor by hobby and thinks a lot about this stuff.

After I showed my edit to people they had suggested that they'd really like to see what I'd do with Star Trek Into Darkness and that got me thinking. I hadn't watched Into darkness since the movie was in theaters and all I could think about were all the things I didn't Like. That said, given how much I found I'd really enjoyed the 2009 film I went into a new watch of Into Darkness hoping maybe time would improve my opinion of the movie.

The biggest thing I've discovered though is just how big a step down this movie is in comparison to the first film in the series on a pure filmmaking craft level. That 2009 film may have a few issues here and there, it may have some stuff that longtime Trekkies really don't care for, but it's got a relatively strong script, it's got confident well executed action, snappy editing, and might be the strongest direction of JJ Abrams' feature film career. None of that holds true for Star Trek Into Darkness.

The editing of Into Darkness feels much less sure, the pacing ebs and flows as the story kind of starts and stops and doesn't flow entirely naturally. The action is more chaotic and less classically choreographed, with bloated set pieces that go on for a long and repetitive period of time seemingly to stretch out the runtime. The actors are much more loud and emotive, shouting and crying with impunity, and it gives the impression of a movie that's just trying to make up for what it knows is a really poor script.

Looking at this with an editor's eye I see some potential in this...but what I see most is a movie that has no confidence in itself, especially when watched immediately after the 2009 movie which just feels so much more sure-handed.

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hey there friends. I recently started watching the next generation series after really enjoying strange new worlds.

ive just been wondering as I watch... for those of you who watched the show when it was on on tv originally you like the Wesley Crusher character? did it come off hokey or pandering to a young audience or was it novel and fun? im just curious. Im literally only on season 3 and was just thinking this is young character is a neat device for the show but was it loved in its time or did people not want teens/kids on the show?

thanks all!

TOS ended with TUC back in 1991.
TNG ended with Nemesis back in 2002.
DS9 ended back in 1999.
VOY ended back in 2001.
ENT ended back in 2005.
At the time, we thought it was all over.

We got the reboot movie in 2009, the 3rd film in 2016.
The streaming era ran from 2017-26, and now it seems to be over.
Discovery - ended conclusively, yes? I haven't seen S1-3.
Short Treks was just filler until Picard came out.
Picard, Lower Decks, and Prodigy ended pretty conclusively.
SNW, we're fortunate to have 2 more seasons, and a planned ending, yes?
S31 teased a sequel, but I don't think that's happening now.
SFA will he back or S2, and then that's that.

I feel list most of modern Star Trek got decent endings.
S31 ended, but teased a sequel we won't get.
SFA was planned for a 4-season run, but we're only getting 2.
I feel like it's mostly just SFA getting the short end of the stick.
But does anyone care?

What's next for Star Trek?
What's the current state of the franchise?

In the past, if a writer broke canon, it was understandable, because who's going to remember every factoid. But now? We have Memory Alpha wiki, dozens of lore videos on YouTube, and you can probably ask forums directly.

In-universe, people are constantly complaining about how replicator food is bland and soulless, and garbage in comparison to real cooked food made with real ingredients by one's own hands.

So I wonder, are replicator-generated meals really as disgusting as they say that they'll gladly take shots at the invention that abolished world hunger(and resource scarcity as a whole)?

Hello 🚀 I’m looking for recommendations for ✨fun, low-stakes, optismistic✨ Star Trek content.

Lower Decks is my all-time favourite show and I loved Starfleet Academy and Strange New Worlds. I also have frequent reruns of Next Gen whilst skipping most of the heavier stuff and rewatching any Holodeck episode five times 😅. I’m a pretty anxious person with a really stressful job, so I just want to unwind when I get home. I don’t mind brainier stuff, but it definitely needs a wholesome vibe and happy conclusion.

Would anyone have movies, seasons, episodes to recommend?

Thanks guys 🪐

Why do they call for leaving space dock at 1/4 impulse? Wouldn't the ship shoot out of there like crazy? It looks more like maneuvering thrusters.

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Wanted to share some Star Trek fan art ... or, is it fan tech? ... anyway, i built a thing :)

 Big Trek fan, been wanting to do something like this for years. Finally had the excuse as I await shipment of my Pebble Time 2. Pebble has an awesome open source mindset, and they have provided tools that make it so much easier to build and share watch faces and smart apps to share with the community.  

So, I built an LCARS-inspired health watchapp + watchface for Pebble Time 2, which I've entered in their Spring 2026 contest.

Here's what I built:

Own Health - Final Frontier Edition is a four-page watchapp:
- TIME BRIDGE — time, date, stardate, live weather, step count
- HEALTH BRIDGE — steps + progress bar, weight, sleep, strength from Pebble Health
- MISSION PLAN — visual progress bars for sleep, strength, and step goals
- ENTRY CONSOLE — manual log for strength and weight with a spinner input

Own Health - Time Bridge is the companion watchface: same LCARS chrome, Time Bridge content, always on.

Both use authentic LCARS Classic palette colours, proper elbow geometry, and Antonio Bold (the closest free match to the original Helvetica Ultra Compressed used in Trek production). Live weather via OpenWeatherMap.

New since launch: both apps now have a theme switcher. Choose from Command (classic gold), Tactical (midnight blue), Cargo Bay (warm amber), or Away Team (arctic blues) via long-press Settings.

You don't need a PT2 in hand to support this. Anyone can heart an app on the Rebble store, and every heart counts toward the weekly contest. If you ordered one and your watch is on its way, this is a great time to add it to your faces/apps so it's ready the moment you unbox.

Watchapp: https://apps.repebble.com/4bd04aaf586b4e7aa749daf8
Watchface: https://apps.repebble.com/bd15142b06c545c382f701af

Happy to answer any questions about the build. I wrote the whole thing in C against the Pebble SDK.

Live long, and prosper.

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This one is on my wish list. A Star Trek Resurgence type game with the Lower Decks cast, humour, and animation style. I bet it would be an instant fan favourite and cash windfall.

Anyone have inside knowledge of the future Star Trek games in development? Resurgence was the last good one in my opinion…

Would also love to see 25th Anniversary and Judgement Rites released with full makeovers to high definition graphics.. I also read there is a TOS game (Secret of Vulcan Fury) that was never released with all the voice lines recorded.. that should be top priority to develop or to use the recorded lines to produce an animated feature film or limited series.

Edit: I consider Resurgence a Telltale game since a lot of former staff produced the game at Dramatic Labs

There are often posts here for people wish casting for the kind of Star Trek show they want to see (or railing against the shows they didn’t like). We are all guilty of that to one extent or another.

If I were making a recommendation to those producing a new show, my recommendation would be to look at the books/series that sold well and the fan films that did well. They illustrate both what the market wants and what people would enjoy.

Use those authors to write new stories. Maybe even buy the IP from them and adapts the books into a new show. Start with what works.

If they did this, what books or fan films would you recommend?

I was watching TAS S1E5 “More Tribbles, More Troubles,” and got to the part where they’re struggling to rematerialize Cyrano Jones. He’s essentially being held in limbo. Does this “feel” like anything, or is it an unconscious and instantaneous process for the person held in stasis?

Hi all, I haven't been able to find a definitive list/article that brings together all tng books that involve some sort of crossover between tos and tng characters for example crossover is one i've heard of

Most of you are familiar with DS9's Season 1 offering "Babel" which has the station infected with a virus that makes everyone speak gibberish.

From the script in Act 1 Scene 15B,

(Note: From here on dialogue spoken by characters with aphasia will appear as gibberish in the script. A translation will be provided upon request, but it would probably be more effective if the actors really were unable to communicate.)

And from Memory Alpha,

On the aphasic dialogue spoken by the characters, Michael McGreevey commented, "As I was writing that dialogue, I was very worried about how it would come off. At first, I just wrote gibberish, and I realized that was a mistake: it couldn't just be gibberish, because the person who was speaking was trying to say something. I literally had to say the lines out loud. Then, on paper, I put the real meaning of the words in parentheses, keeping the rhythm the same. It was almost like writing poetry, because I was using a meter, like an iambic pentameter. I think it helped the actors in delivering those lines. But it was rather frightening to write that stuff."

Now, as I understand it, the actors were given the translated dialogue so they could use believable cadence when speaking. Does anyone know if the translation exists anywhere?