Article "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" canceled (Kurtzman brewing)

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Its strong point was that it checked extra social justice boxes that went beyond just what entertainment industry protocol encourages as policy nowadays. Its weak point was that as a public service message and Sunday sermon (i.e., dull), none of the classic fan hopes were realized for a Starfleet Academy series, which had bounced around as an idea for decades.
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy canceled after only 2 seasons
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/a...47415.html

EXCERPT: It's now official that Starfleet Academy is being shut down and there will not be a third season of the show. Season 2 recently wrapped filming, but the hopes of more episodes beyond that were dashed by today's (March 23) announcement.

[...] Unfortunately, Starfleet Academy didn't perform strongly in the ratings. The show never cracked the Nielson Top 10, although it did fare well in the United States through Amazon channels of all things.

With season 2 of SFA already done filming, and featuring a cliffhanger, I hope showrunners Kurtzman and Landau pull a Discovery and tie up all the loose ends with reshoots now that the series is officially canceled.

I hate that season 2 will mark the end of Starfleet Academy's run, but I enjoyed the daring moves the series made.

Regardless of its cancellation, SFA will go down in history as introducing the first gay Klingon, Karem Diane's Jay-Den Kraag, and the first female Jem'Hadar, Lura Thok (Gina Yashere), which furthered Gene Roddenberry's vision of equality and representation as well as Star Trek's IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.

Dave Cullen (Ireland) ... https://youtu.be/wpsPHhP4zu8

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[Syne]

Dumbasses approved a second season before the first even aired.

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I think the main problem is that any current Chart system being used to identify if a series is worth showing is currently flawed.

Star trek in recent years tends to go for a 10 episode per season plan, where as the crap that people are watching that are getting the top spots is literally numerous episodes for bingeing.

It's Quality versus Quantity and the way the chart is cooking the books is based on how many episodes of a given thing are being watched at any given time.

To make it fair it would require looking at only shows that have 10 episodes per season to see where Star Trek Academy actually fitted.

[Syne]

No, it's a quality problem.

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Jon Del Arroz Talks Trek
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VIDEO EXCERPT: The entire internet was just laughing at it. Yesterday, a couple of the shill media were out there, sort of like, "Oh, this is so sad. They took a bold swing and were brave." No, they didn't.

They did it just like a 2018 LGBTQ fest and didn't care about doing anything else [good writing and ideas beyond just the SJ message]. And it showed and fans reacted to it. I saw a Hollywood reporter of Variety saying that it was a divisive show. It's like you were the ones who were making it divisive, because everybody in fandom that I talked to universally hated this -- and this is people on any side of the political aisle I've seen. They knew this was crap. It was the definition of slop.

And it was a very expensive lesson in slop for this studio. And so it wasn't divisive whatsoever. The only people trying to make it divisive were the Robert Picardos of the world who were out there attacking fans over not liking the show.

And of course the Kurtzman media networks out there were trying to push this type of thing, and blocking fans and attacking fans and removing us from groups and the like, in order to try to create this quote "divisive culture". They're the opposite of everything they stand for, which is the diversity and inclusivity.

You're not allowed to have opinions that are not the same as their little in-group. And that's exactly what they want everybody to be like. It's a homogeneity scenario. It's not a diversity and inclusiveness scenario. They're all liars about even what they want.

So, this is what they're saying after the cancellation got announced. So, they have a joint statement.

"We're incredibly proud of the ambition, passion, and creativity that went to bringing Starfleet Academy to life. Please clap everybody. This series introduced audiences to a bold new group of characters, welcomed familiar faces, and expanded the Star Trek universe in new and exciting ways. We're grateful to Alex Kurtzman, Nova Lando, Gaia Violo, and the entire casting crew who pushed the storytelling boundaries in the spirit of Gene Rodenber's vision."

You're not, though. This is why I hate these corporate statements, because you canceled it. If you actually cared about this bold new vision or whatever, you'd go for it. You would actually push its continuance, anyway, because you think it's important. But you don't because you know it's not. You know it was crap. I wish they'd just say so.

"We look forward to sharing the upcoming second and final season with everyone, continuing to celebrate the cast crew and all that was accomplished with this series."

Oh my gosh. Such a very sad / funny corporate statement where it's just complete lies. But this is what corporate does, right?

https://youtu.be/SP6cCvzphQk

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