Whereas star trek has long been engaged in trying to establish a futuristic culture away from contemporary trends and tones, it has not always followed it regularly – but in general, it has tried to adopt a broadly neutral tone and style of talking for Starfleet officers over the years, so when Starfleet Academy It comes with a lot of comfort, it’s not so surprising that some Travel Fans are a little worried.
But one of the stars of the show-sailor Alumnus Robert Picardo, who returns as the holographic Doctor Starfleet Academy-Beyond the series being written in our modern times, there’s an interesting suggestion as to why this is: these kids are here to learn how to be Starfleet officers, and aren’t arriving to the academy fully formed in that framework yet, so they need someone to teach them how. And this week’s episode, set around the Academy’s own debate club, will begin to teach them that…with the Doctor himself leading the charge.
“My first thought was that I was president of the debate club in high school, which is that I wasn’t a very good debater, but I cared a lot about it. That’s the first thing I thought of. It was like, ‘Oh, look at this. It finally came to fruition,'” Picardo recently told Collider about the Doctor’s role in leading Starfleet Academy’s debate lessons. “But I believe that, especially In our new show, the cadets talk like kids in today’s world and in their local language, but it’s important to note that it’s almost like the old star trek meets new star trek. We used to talk in a different way in the old series, that mid-galactic speech, so I think it’s important that when you’re presenting an argument in a diplomatic situation, you can speak in well-thought-out and well-planned paragraphs, not just, ‘Um, well, you know, like this,’ and that kind of thing. So, I guess the doctor was quite demanding [as a teacher]”
Of course, Doc has a long history of debate, beyond his charmingly annoying ability to shut out half the people’s ears. sailorThis includes fostering her growing passion for writing, which eventually leads her and Captain Janeway to legally advocate for the creative rights of holographic beings in “Writer, Writer”. But Picardo is also certainly right that it makes a lot of sense that the Academy’s new generation of cadets need to learn to code-switch, and finding the difference between how they talk among themselves as peers and how they talk as Starfleet officers is another good example of the show implementing that. star trek Lessons through your educational setting.
Cadet probably won’t come out of this episode immediately “mid-galactic,” as Picardo rightly notes, much to the dismay of some critics, but it’s still an interesting way to see the show’s distinctly contemporary voice fit in well. star trek lights.
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