Poll Star Fleet Academy Series?

[Sgt_G]

For what it's worth, there was a whole series of books (Star Trek Next Generation: Starfleet Academy) published back in the 1990s, targeting a tween/young-teen audience.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

And a 4 book series that followed the NuTrek characters in the Academy, though Kirk never meets Spock and Scotty is absent, in keeping with the films. As well as a comic series following new characters and tying it in a bit with the movie ones.

I would prefer new fresh characters who we could learn about over the course of the show, instead of previously seen characters.

Well, the main characters would be new, but there would be appearances of old characters where it made sense to include them. Guest lecturers, visitors, family/family friends, etc...

 

[fireproof78]

For what it's worth, there was a whole series of books (Star Trek Next Generation: Starfleet Academy) published back in the 1990s, targeting a tween/young-teen audience.

There was also one for the TOS crew, at least briefly.

And a 4 book series that followed the NuTrek characters in the Academy, though Kirk never meets Spock and Scotty is absent, in keeping with the films. As well as a comic series following new characters and tying it in a bit with the movie ones.



Well, the main characters would be new, but there would be appearances of old characters where it made sense to include them. Guest lecturers, visitors, family/family friends, etc...

I think an Academy series could do well with cameos, without necessarily losing focus on the new characters.

 

[RedAlert]

Absolutely YES, I would love to have an Starfleet Academy series, settled on post-Nemesis stardate .... the first season focuses on new young cadets, and the history of the UFP, a group of new cadets, their first contact with new ships, and new assigments, new technologies.

The second season, based on the Jupiter Station, follow another bunch of cadets. The third season the first assigment of the main character on a school-ship or something like that. The fourth season his first mission and new crews on a new starship. Maybe we could have a war/conflict happen over there (Romulans, Talosians, Dominion remains) ....Etc etc Etc.

well, the Trek Universe is too vast enough to have too many stories to show us.

 

[JayTheTrekkie]

A Starfleet Academy series would be interesting though but I would rather watch a series on a starfleet ship doing explorations and so on. I find it more interesting that way.

 

[Commander Richard]

I'd watch.

Now what would the show do? A planned 4-year arc and that's it? Or would it last longer and have a revolving door of different characters?

 

[fireproof78]

A Starfleet Academy series would be interesting though but I would rather watch a series on a starfleet ship doing explorations and so on. I find it more interesting that way.

The Academy series could be based on a apprentice cruise on a ship.

 

[Relayer1]

I think it's a very poor idea. I've thought it was a very poor idea each and every time it has cropped up.

Of course I'd watch it.

 

[Tenacity]

... have a revolving door of different characters?

This would probably be the best way to go.

 

[Commander Richard]

^ Star Trek: Degrassi

 

[bbjeg]

I also would expect an Academy series to have field trips, so it's still the Trek. Maybe visit some alien planets, historic locations, discovered wonders, etc.

 

[fireproof78]

A trip to planet Gateway!

 

[velour]

Nah. I don't need my Trek CWified. Nor do I want to spend 60 minutes watching a bunch of twenty somethings learn about heroics in a classroom. I'd rather watch actual heros doing actual heroics...or at least utterly messing things up on a planetary scale despite the best of intentions.

That one episode with Wesley and NotTomParisButKinda was enough academy drama to last me a lifetime, and that involved a student dying from negligence and a coverup. That's the most extreme event you can have at a school. There's no topping it, at best you're going to ape it. And an academy show would drag that plot out over 1 or 2 whole seasons. No thank you.

I say no to the CW-fication of Trek. If such a series is going to be about the antics and romances of a bunch of "mouth-breather" (Uhura's description of Kirk in nuTrek) Academy frat boys, then it would be best if it was left on the drawing board.

I don't want to see snot-nosed Wesley Crusher wannabes save the day, episode after episode.

 

[fireproof78]

Because that's exactly what it has to be?

 

[cultcross]

Nor do I want to spend 60 minutes watching a bunch of twenty somethings learn about heroics in a classroom

This for me is the crux of the problem - when we've seen cadets before they've had to come up with convoluted reasons for them to actually do anything (Nog being the prime example, how long was that training assignment..?) As they always seem to be based on a world described as a totally safe paradise.

There might be mileage in a show where something is wrong at the academy itself, a la Buffy or Class, but I'd have to wonder why in an era where weird phenomena are common they wouldn't just get the Starfleet bogeyman cleanup crew in, and also why that show would need to be set in the Trekverse at all (a problem shared by Class).

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

There might be mileage in a show where something is wrong at the academy itself, a la Buffy or Class, but I'd have to wonder why in an era where weird phenomena are common they wouldn't just get the Starfleet bogeyman cleanup crew in,

Who you gonna call?

A show that goes back and forth between Academy and other postings, like one that follows various members of a family who are in Starfleet spread out across different places (think Blue Bloods in space) might work. So one teaches at the Academy, one serves on an outpost, one is on a ship somewhere, another is part of the diplomatic corps...

 

[fireproof78]

This for me is the crux of the problem - when we've seen cadets before they've had to come up with convoluted reasons for them to actually do anything (Nog being the prime example, how long was that training assignment..?) As they always seem to be based on a world described as a totally safe paradise.

There might be mileage in a show where something is wrong at the academy itself, a la Buffy or Class, but I'd have to wonder why in an era where weird phenomena are common they wouldn't just get the Starfleet bogeyman cleanup crew in, and also why that show would need to be set in the Trekverse at all (a problem shared by Class).

It could start out on the Academy itself, and then move to apprentice crews and the like.