We’ve been sort-of enjoying “Strange New Worlds, the prequel to TOS, but this looks awful. They don’t have GLP-1s in the 21st century?
[Update a while later]
Stephen Green almost watched a whole episode, so you wouldn’t have to.
[Late-morning update]
I watched 24 minutes of "Starfleet Academy" before I turned it off.
— Byl Holte (@SirBylHolte) January 15, 2026
I stopped it when the fat Klingon Jem'Hadar lady started verbally abusing the black male kid and the Klingon male kid.
Before that, there was a lot of talk about how people are hungry and have to steal food -…
[Early-afternoon update]
Wait a minute… pic.twitter.com/57NtaFPIUu
— Jon Del Arroz | Pop Culture & Gaming 🎮 (@jondelarroz) January 16, 2026
Steven Colbert is supposed to be in all episodes. Yucchh. I watched the first episode and didn’t see him; so far so good. Yawn. Worse than Lower Decks. A Klingon with Mommy issues? This not Star Trek, it’s Star Dreck.
Based on the actors portraying all the female Starfleet crewmembers in TOS, I had assumed that either through drugs or genetic engineering all people were physically optimized by age 25. Not to mention in the 2nd episode, Charlie X, we see physical exercise is a must requirement aboard a Starship.
OTOH it was a bit of a let down when I got older to realize just how much say Gene Roddenberry had about the female actors on the show. Quite a letdown from my pre-teen days with the thought that 23rd Century medical science had come through for everyone. Sort of like ST:TOS meets up with the Twilight Zone’s Number 12 Looks Just Like You
Or the possibility that the ST:Transporter can do amazing cosmetics…
Stephen Green almost watched a whole episode, so you wouldn’t have to.
I wonder what it would take to become a Sub-Space arsonist?
Strange New Worlds isn’t half bad. Although it utterly frickin mangles original Star Trek (i.e. TOS Star treck, and even a bit of Next Generation) continuity. I mean Ethan Peck as Spock is in nearly as many beds as Kirk from TOS. Who knew Vulcans were that randy outside Pon Farr? And on meeting Khan in Space Seed both would have to say “Damn your Granddaughter is HOT”. Actually Kirk might not due to alternate universe issues.
Honestly Enterprise’s T’pol mucks with the Vulcan issue almost as much.
But yeah even the adds on Paramount for Starfleet Academy are cringe worthy. This is NOT the Starfleet Academy that produced Kirk, Spock, Picard and countless others we love. Clearly the writers have no clue what West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs or even the USCG Academy at New London or Britains Sandhurst look like.. Heck I don’t think they’ve even seen an actual engineering school or college. They sem to be writing Beverly Hills 90210 in space without any of 90210’s redeeming values.
I had intended to mark part of my first paragraph as Spoilers but having pled it in pointy braces it just got eaten likely as bad HTML. It is a 4 year old show though so anyone fond of Star Trek has likely already seen those spoilers…