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watching academy after suffering through discovery is such a relief.in a way, academy is anti-ent. where ent was made to appeal to the gooner npc masses, academy is made to appeal to nerds. thankfully it won't save kurtzman from being let go, that hack makes rick bermans work look good in comparison.Whoever gets showrunner after him better soft-retcon the discovery timeline to be part of the temporal cold war. maybe that's why cronenberg agreed to play old daniels.
>>98049534It's a bit of a shame that the show that killed nutrek is one that's really not that bad. I liked it more than Discovery, Picard and SNW at the very least.
oh shit this is /tg/ not /tv/i fucked up
>>98049683TO LATE, WHAT GAMES YOU RUNNING?!?!
>>98049712oh jeez. Fading Suns and Cthulhutech mostly, D&D5 for beer&pretzel oneshots. are any of the star trek rpgs worth it?
Best system for a TOS style monster of the week format?
>>98049534>academy is made to appeal to nerdsIt's made to appeal to the crowd that watches CW dramas. There's nothing nerdy about it.
>>98049683I havent been to /tv/ in years so its fine.>>98049712I started a solo game a very long time ago and need to find my notes so I can continue it. Set during the lost era though
>>98049534>>98049639I never thought I would see the day where /tv/ has the better takes than /tg/. Shit, am I going to stumble upon /v/ one day and find just the most astonishingly based take?
>>98052056If you've come to think Academy is a good show, you've wasted too much of your life watching nuTrek and destroyed your sense of taste. Go rewatch TNG and DS9 to reset your palate a bit.
Favorite beta canon elements to implement into your sessions?
>>98052068I don't, and neither does /tv/. The two anons I replied to love it, though.
>>98052080Force-field Belts!
>>98052068Academy and Prodigy Season 1 I like. Academy especially since it finally has self-contained episodes again instead of one storyline stretched over a season like discovery and picard did.Got all the old stuff on DVD and/or bluray too, big trekkie, watched all of it multiple times over the years.That's just how taste goes I guess. probably helps that I have no issues with homosexuality or any ethnicities. not to suggest you do but a lot of the criticism I've seen has been around that.
>>98052080Much of Star Trek Online
>>98052056>>98052091Love might be a bit much, I just think it was fine and had potential. I at least liked it more than the SNW season that also aired last year and was terrible. >>98052080I like going to different Starbases.
>>98052568I want each species/power to have their own unique look to starbases, so while the Federation bases have a general look (basically mushroom-like), I want to see, say, Andorian "curvy boxed" stations and Tellarite "rounded and green" stations.
>>98052518I'm so assmad that 99% of the stuff they do now is nuTrek garbage. They went to the trouble of creating a whole fucking set of assets for TOS and used it to make a short intro for a timetravel story that almost instantly dumps you into a bunch of Shitscovery content.
>>98052467Prodigy is fine, but you're bullshitting yourself about Academy. The fact that it's a poorly written and poorly executed throughline doesn't mean that the show isn't primarily about Caleb, his missing Mom, Holly Hunter, and Paul Giamatti. To a lesser extent it's also about the Betazoid girl and her lame drama. It's definitely not written like STD and Picard where they wanted to be Game of Thrones in space, but instead it's written like a shitty netflix drama instead where they introduce the premise in the first few episodes, waste time for the middle part, and then smash back to the real plot in the last few episodes.
>>98052663We get so few starbases in general which is a shame, much less alien ones. Seems like a neglected part of the franchise compared to ships>>98053049I dont personally care but it's safe to assume that once the last two seasons of this era airs they'll go back to more general stuff, it makes sense they'll throw in new ships from a new show as it airs.>>98053509> The fact that it's a poorly written and poorly executed throughline doesn't mean that the show isn't primarily about Caleb, his missing Mom, Holly Hunter, and Paul Giamatti.this is just how episodic shows do things now, they're still going to have a series through line, it's just some shows do it better than others.
>>98053570>this is just how episodic shows do things nowThat throughline takes up the majority of the screentime, and everything else isn't really self-contained. Not that it's actually a bad thing to put the cast of characters through their own arcs so they can reach the climax and be ready to assume their roles as part of a crew. They just did it poorly and they made the real plot of the show about a single character. So it's not really episodic and it's not self-contained, for the most part.
>>98053509I have favorite episodes again, just as you write, it's less serialization and I enjoy that. I don't actually care for any metaplot much, from the trial of Q to the Dominion War to Voyager coming home those were always narrative vessels to me, something to give the characters a reason to keep going, wow those who enjoy high stakes. the juice to me has always been the character studies, the single episode aliens with original philosophies, honorable mention to the space dwelling organisms. I grew up watching most of trek in sindication, so what you call "waste time for the middle part" is the actual juicy bit to me.Series Acclimation Mil is my favorite episode of Academy, watched it three times already, and it's of no consequence for the larger plot, just a comfy and interesting character study of SAM, the two Chancellors, the Doctor and Jett Reno my beloved. The Life Of The Stars is great too, it deals with grief and responsibility in a way I've only seen Trek do on DS9 so far, with little effect on the metaplot.Similar to the way I run my tabletop campaigns, I don't do world ending threats, I string interesting small concepts together and let the player characters decide what's most important to them individually so that we can have a comfy tavern round every month or two just talking about the experiences we made and what we learned.
>>98053654>Series Acclimation Mil is my favorite episode of AcademyThe kind of shit you couldn't waterboard out of most people. Sorry about your shit taste. Hope you can get better.
>>98054524i feel joy of my own accord, you feel anger based on strangers opinionsone of us is winning
>>98053654Series Acclimation Mil feel like it has all the elements of a character study of Sam, then 90% of it got tossed out the window so they can jerk off over Sisko.The ingredients are set up for a climax where Sam tells her "parents" to fuck off and they respond by trying to remotely terminate her, the Doctor has to perform emergency surgery to install some kind of firewall, and he's forced to ask Caleb to assist as the only other person with experience hacking Sam's program.Instant there's a vague "The Prophets could be jerks to Sisko so I guess I should learn to live with the other holograms being jerks to me."
>>98054606How sad for you.
>>98053570They didn't just throw in ships though, the actual storyline content is heavily woven through with nuTrek stuff. One of the plots is them importing one of the Shitscovery Klingorcs into the game as a villain for a whole arc of episodes. It's inescapable.The game was going downhill ever since they nixed the Foundry of course, but the nuTrek tie-ins have fully ruined it. Even when they produce classic content like TOS Movie uniforms they half-ass them and give them random-ass colour palettes that don't match the films or even each other, and half of each era's gear is locked behind premium currency you can only get by opening gambleboxes and locked to character - not even fucking account, specific character. STO is megadead man.
>Join trek rpg game>Want to play a cardassian because they're cool>Literally every other player is also a cardassian
