The axe has been swung, and Starfleet Academy will be no more once they show the second season whenever that will be, will it be shown?

Poor Stephen Colbert, first his late-night show gets the in the future boot and now he has lost the Starfleet Academy job too as it has already been filmed.

Personally, the axing is a great disappointment, I enjoyed tuning in every week, I didn’t watch like a teacher watching students doing an exam but as somebody who liked to follow what the characters said to each other and wonder what is going to happen next, an hour’s entertainment from the wild world that we live in.

The only thing I thought was really bad about the show was that it seemed the dialogue did not come through clearly.

People say Starfleet Academy is too ‘woke’, why? because they decided to show gays, lesbians and non-binary people/aliens?

It has been noted that there is a sharp rise in representation in TV shows from scripted to unscripted TV, maybe executives are making up for keeping them out of sight, out of mind for decades but having them in a TV show is not shoving them in our faces, they’ve always been around just relegated to a dark corner of room and now the light is all around the room, so everybody gets to shine.

There’s more to the world than straight, ‘normal’ people with fairly straight lives in terms of behaviour and thinking, so much so that it is impossible to squeeze everything into a TV show.

The fast forward button exists for any moments we don’t like seeing, skip what you don’t like and move on with the show.

People say the writing was lazy or awful, but it seems to be that way for every TV show for the last twenty or so years, everybody just complains either standards have slipped or we’ve grown older and we haven’t grown with what is our screens, we’ve grown attached to 1980s and 90s standards of television.

If you want really lazy television, the third Australian version of Gladiators was lazy, the games were great but Gladiators standing around a screen watching the action felt dull and there was no crowd to really make the action work as Gladiators or contenders can’t get amped up by silence.

Sometimes this world feels like we’re living in Pleasantville.

People hated Starfleet Academy from the moment it was announced, before any actors were announced, any plots were revealed and Starfleet Academy took a beating before it got out of the gate and once it did, then it was straight to Rotten Tomatoes to chuck them at the show.

There was a time during Discovery that I didn’t watch Star Trek because all the Facebook comments and YouTube videos didn’t make watching the show feel worth it, it was depressing and it started to feel that way again during the season.

So, fresh Star Trek will be off the air once Strange New Worlds and Academy episodes are shown, with no movies being in the pipeline, we’re back to the post-Enterprise days and fan films now have the opportunity to carry the flag once again for who knows how many years.

CBS and Paramount could once again find themselves in a situation that some people try to make their own versions of Star Trek by using pros and all of that, will people get mad if CBS and Paramount take action or will it be a case of been there, done that, brought the t-shirt?

Now that Academy is going and the YouTubers are taking credit, what happens next? Does CBS and Paramount get a new production team in and spend years developing new ideas, do the YouTubers get to sit in on the development process to make sure it is made to their satisfaction, or they start with their dramatics again?

Now back to Season Two.

What lessons will Chancellor Ake give to her cadets as they navigate the complexities of Starfleet life and finding out who they are as people/aliens? 

What did Caleb learn over the holidays while on travels with his mother? Anything that would come in handy in classes?

It will be interesting to see how far Caleb and Tarima go in their relationship, there was the feeling that Genesis was becoming of interest to Caleb too but considering Tarima’s powers, it is a bad idea for Caleb to go anywhere else besides if somebody risks their lives or at the very least their mental stability to wipe out some aliens to save you, you don’t need anybody else.

Now that Sam has a childhood and has evolved from her earlier existence, what comes next for both her and The Doctor?

Will Genesis still be the odds-on favourite to be a Starship Captain?

Will we see more romance between Jay-Den and Kyle?

Will we see Illa Dax again or another appearance by Sylvia Tilly? That would be nice.

Admiral Vance is popular; will we be seeing more of him in the season?

Will we see more of the Athena’s bridge crew, or will the cadets take a bigger role? will the cadets undertake missions on planets to solve problems set out for them?

Hopefully we get to see more of the War College, obviously they handled the gritter aspects of combat because let’s face it Starship crews are not jack of all trades, master of all so the War College graduates have more war experience.

There is so much to look forward to when Season 2 comes, it is a shame that we won’t get two more years at least to see it all play out.