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I haven't watched STA. Is the captain really lounging in the chair and going barefoot?
Yes, but in context it's not a big deal. A lot of it is contrasting her with her peer, the chancellor of the war college, who is uptight. Ultimately, she's less military commander, or even explorer, and more chancellor of a school full of students and in that capacity it makes more sense to generate a relaxed atmosphere. When the situation calls for it, she can be serious as well.
She just has her own style, but people want to be negative because she's not Picard-ing hard enough or some dumb shit.
On the contrary it is a big deal, it makes Ake extremely endearing and likeable.
She reminds me of a few of my professors in both my undergraduate English program and my graduate religious studies program, all of them wonderful and safe-feeling people. She's the first school chancellor we've really seen in Star Trek and she feels very much like a university-level educator to me--with the whole starship command piece being additional to her main job.
"It's a school but also they go on starship adventures" sounds so dumb to me I can't believe it works so supremely well.
I was fully prepared to dislike this show (Disco was on shaky ground with me, but I was more or less on board, then they went to the 32nd Century; I was not a fan of that jump at the time and worried that SNW was going to be the only outlier in regards to Disco spin-offs that would be any good), and I felt affirmed in that feeling during the first few minutes of the first episode. But once the tone changed a bit I was happy to watch the second episode. Then we met Tamira and I just kind of fell in love with the show. Then they managed to take something sacred (the Sisko), pair it with my least favorite character (the SAM), and somehow making it a truly great episode AND making me come around on said character (thus proving that Tawny Newsome is an absolute treasure to this franchise--give me a LD/STSA crossover now!).
Creepy how close this is to my exact experience... I did really enjoy Disco 4+5 however, even though I also thought the whole "jump to the future" idea was a little contrived.
I don't even know the premise for the show... If the captain of a flagship was lounging in the chair, I would lose lock pretty fast. Apparently this is an academy and she is more like a professor?
I encourage you to watch it and form your own opinion (just make sure to get past the first ten minutes of the pilot, the tone shifts dramatically).
Captain Ake runs the Academy and commands the Academy ship, the Athena, which is used to do more hands on training but isn't the flagship by any stretch. She's more like a principal than a professor. The other main characters are cadets, with some strong supporting characters too.
IMO it's the first live action Trek show in the new era to come out firing on all cylinders and it's great to see.
The Academy is a fully-functional starship, so she's both the captain and the chancellor. She's 500 years old, is a bit of a hippy, and is happy to lounge around when they're not facing a crisis.
Jimmmy Kirk lounged around when there was a crisis so I don't know what these people are upset about
Riker happily slapped his ass down in the weapons console so he could chat up the prettiest subordinate on duty. Not sure why we’re suddenly supposed to be pretending Trek ever maintained a stern and solemn work environment.
Data's face here is like "Commander, you have targeted the warp nacelles on the Reliant and are preparing to fire."
😂
It's so odd how these criticisms are only directed at women...
There you go, accusing people of being sexiest and racist just because they have a meltdown every time some piece of media prominently features a woman or person of colour. I’m sure it’s just a highly predictable coincidence.
Just remember, Star Trek ships don’t have seat belts. Gonna be fun when someone slams on the brakes and Captain slouchy goes flying out of her chair, across the freshly waxed floor, and into the viewscreen. At least the nextgen crew knew to put carpet on the floors.
The Athena has inertial dampeners. The only reason she'd get hurt from curling up on the captain's chair with a book is in a combat situation. And we saw her put the book down when things got serious.
These ships all had inertial dampers, otherwise the crew would be paste during most maneuvers. Seatbelts would just cause a different kind of mess. And even if they didn't, are you suggesting Picard's grip is sufficient to combat those forces? Because he didn't have a seat belt, either. Maybe it was the force of his presence that you think was going to keep him seated?
I love this one because it looks like Rikers got Bohemian Rhapsody blasting over the sound system and everyone’s just headbanging along.
Beeeeelzebub has a devil put aside for meeeeee!
And where are the seat belts?
wouldnt matter if you are crashing into something at several km/s, YOUR seatbelt might even slice you in half if you suddenly stop due to inertia and momentum.
Whoosh.
Is that the sound of the warp drive in space? It certainly isn't the sound effect the explosions in space use.
If it wasn't for artistic license, they could have gone with what happens when the inertial dampers fail in the spaceships in David Weber's books, which is a more realistic outcome (assuming realism is what you're looking for in a setting with warp drives and inertial dampers), but writing off the crews of ships that don't matter to the storyline in a red paste probably wouldn't go over well in a family drama. About as well as people sitting around in a pitched battle with the occasional hum or shudder.
Just pointing out that the crew often goes flying around the bridge quite often in Star Trek, despite the “inertial dampeners” and I think someone sitting sideways in a chair probably wouldn’t fare too well in that situation. And that the slick mop-n-glo floors probably won’t help either. Thought used to go into the design of these ships, but now it’s all about “make it shiny and futuristic looking!” But honestly I think it would build some character into the show if it actually happened and Hunter’s captain had a good laugh about it.
I suppose if they'd been in a more relaxed pose they would have flown farther?
It's also been 800 years since then. It's the third millennium, the seat probably is the belt itself at that point.
oh hey its the guy from the article
More than one person dislikes the show.
woah wow its like they dont even realize theyre doing it wow