Starfleet Academy

And 2278, in terms of the Star Trek timeline, was seven years after Star Trek, the motion picture, And seven years before the events of the Wrath of Khan.

And according to the chronology at that point in 2278, Savick hadn't even entered Starfleet Academy.

That would come three years after in 2281.

So if they would have had the little kind of cute cameo nod with Savick behind Bozeman time-wise, that would have thrown the chronology in into disarray because of like where it would fit.

It was like, what would have happened with Morgan Bateson after this episode? What would he have done? I know we've gotten some stuff in, you know, in novel form and stuff like that.

But I started thinking like, what was the next episode of TNG after this? Hear me out here.

The next episode is the first duty where Wesley Cressor's team has an accident at Starfleet Academy and Picard offers to help a Starfleet investigation what happened and begins to suspect they're hiding something.

Just saying how cool would it have been if morgan bateson was actually there at starfleet academy kind of getting caught up And like he hears about this and maybe you know There's a moment between him and picard and maybe he gives some advice to picard because something similar happened to him I'm, just gonna throw that out there would have been great to have a little bit of follow-up him acclimating to the you know and the crew He could have made a comment about how his crew is doing after jumping ahead and maybe trying to reach out to like you know old family members i don't know what do you guys think would that have been kind of neat kyle i

Now, interestingly, the way he spoke about it was it made it sound it was more like Space Force, and it could definitely feed into Space Force, but the text of the thing that was signed made it clear that this is a NASA-led thing, so more like civilian.

This is actually very similar to something that was in Jared's Project Athena stuff that was leaked, where they basically talked about setting up a US Starfleet Academy.

I'm not sure those exact terms were used, but hey, Starfleet Academy, I'm all about it.

I would totally teach there if it was in San Francisco, if they would let me.

you know, come on, it's the future that we want, Starfleet Academy, right? Anyway, that will create, the idea is that, yeah, you'll have an academy where people can learn and there will be some sort of agreement for public service as well coming out of that.

Speaking of public service, one person's public service who's ending, well, at least with the Astronaut Corps, is Johnny Kim, who, you know, astronaut, SEAL, medic, doctor, whatever.

He is stepping back from his astronaut role.

They immediately announced, eight days later, they were establishing the United States Space Academy.

It reminds me very much of the Star Trek Starfleet Academy.

So what I envision is former, I mean, I'm sorry, not former, but future Space Force members going to this academy, training to go on these journeys to the moon and Mars and who knows where else by then.

But it's going to look something very similar to something we would see in Star Trek with a different type of technology.

That's the one that to me, when I looked at it, I went, all right, this is very clearly going to be about one thing, and that's space cybersecurity and space, U.S. space capability.

All right, because I was going, great, we're making Starfleet Academy.

It's about time.

My reaction to this is a giant nerd.

So this is not a direct pathway to the military necessarily, nor do you have to be in the military necessarily to join the Space Academy.

Again, this is going to be a NASA-led federal thing.

So I actually am not totally far off on thinking of this as Starfleet Academy.

I'm just like, all right, go me.

That was scrambled.

Like they need, like, like I could see a Starfleet Academy need in like a, a, a re scrambling area post beaming, you know? But that's funny.

I'm curious what their point that is.

Cause yeah, I, I, yeah.

That chick right there.

How do we get that chick a promotion? This chick, unfucking-phased, boys, right? Starfleet Academy levels of unfazed, this chick be over here.

And said, "Okay." [laughs] I think that's a threat.

I think this woman just threatened the sheriff.

They immediately announced, eight days later, they were establishing the United States Space Academy.

It reminds me very much of the Star Trek Starfleet Academy.

So what I envision is former, I mean, I'm sorry, not former, but future Space Force members going to this academy, training to go on these journeys to the moon and Mars and who knows where else by then.

But it's going to look something very similar to something we would see in Star Trek with a different type of technology.

They immediately announced eight days later they were establishing the United States Space Academy.

It reminds me very much of the Star Trek Starfleet Academy.

So it- what I, uh, envision is former, I mean, I'm sorry, not former, but future Space Force members going to this academy, training to go on these journeys to the Moon and Mars and who knows where else by then.

But, uh, it's gonna look something very similar to something we would see in Star Trek, with a different type of technology, and we're gonna get into that in a minute.

Harren is that ever so Stephen Moffat brand of character where smart equals rude.

It turns out that they all tested well, and that was how they're able to get into and get through Starfleet Academy.

Normally, these three officers would have just been transferred off the ship eventually.

The problem would just solve itself by making the problem go away.

Out here, With just the four of them, Celis could get everyone killed.

Janeway assures her that it's okay to make mistakes.

But Celis tells Janeway that the only reason she got through Starfleet Academy was because, as a Bajoran during the Cardassian occupation, Starfleet felt it important to get Bajorans serving in Starfleet, and so her teachers always tended to give her a passing grade despite her mistakes.

If this were written today, this would have entirely different connotations, I swear to god.