Thats the best Chance trump can give to Platner

Who knows the American flag better? The person who is constantly surrounded by it, grew up in it, and has its lens of statue-esque perfection pointed directly at them every day. Those, that the system points its mask of benevolence at. Even while it conspires to starve them and force them into slavery in prison.

Or does the daughter of another land, oppressed at the hands of the puppet dictators we installed? Or those who had American soldiers in their cities and homes?

Who feels the flag more? Is it those who chose it? Moved their lives and everyone they knew. To start a new life for themselves, who could’ve gone anywhere else, if they could get there.

Is it someone being an asshole to a stranger, to own the libs? The boogie man the multi-billion dollar propaganda engine screamed to hate.

Academy is about building back those ideals, structures, treaties, etc. that made ST feel like a utopia. It takes work to over come the prejudices, animosity, and bad habits of generational trauma and backwards thinking. Regardless of whether the show ends up being good, I can’t think of many messages that we today need to see demonstrated more clearly.

Episodes 4 and 5 of Academy are the best so far (5 is most current at time of writing).

The whole separating the child from the mother is turned in the first episode, and that tension creates character motivation in both the child and the captain who carries it out. Who admits on screen later that episode that it was a huge mistake and it’s why she leaves Starfleet for 20 years. At the period in time that the separation happens the federation has pretty much fallen apart because of the burn (due to some unexplained physics phenomenon warp technology failed over a hundred years earlier). So yeah it may seem like the federation was a utopia by our standards, but it was really a demonstration of a cooperative rather than competitive future (Communism v. Capitalism). And even in that future nothing is perfect, shit happens, you have to deal with it and do the hard work of building strong community.

One of the most central lessons of the whole franchise is sumed up in the kobyoshi maru, a test from the 22-2300s era of trek that is a literal unwinnable scenario. The lesson: it possible to make no mistakes and still lose. Pick yourself up and do your best.

This could be every month if we adopted a 13 month calendar of 4, 7 day weeks. Works out very cleanly with only 1 extra day per year.

I was using Nova until about a year ago I switched to Niagara launcher. The interface is clean, intuitive and fast