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Well, I watched the first episode of the new Star Trek show, Starfleet Academy (free on YouTube if you want to see this thing yourself). Overall I'd say the show seems morally confused. It opens with a sequence that suggests a major disaster has created a crisis where civilians are starving, $Main_Dude's mother got caught up in crime solely to avoid starvation, and jailing her (thus separating her from her son) was a moral wrong so grave that the captain responsible ended up resigning over it. But also, the son himself, age 8 at the time, was already a skilled con artist, pickpocket, and hacker, who expertly escaped immediately after his mother's sentencing, and one timeskip later he's in prison in his own right with a rap sheet longer than your arm, all of which would seem to suggest that he spent his early childhood being explicitly trained in the criminal arts, probably by the mother herself.
Naturally, the aforementioned captain has decided to fix her past "mistake" by tracking this guy down, making a deal to get him out of prison, and forcing him to attend Starfleet Academy, against his will and under protest, and the main plot of Season 1 will reportedly follow his efforts to find his mother, who broke out of prison herself during the timeskip but hasn't been seen or heard from since.
There are plenty of other things to point and laugh at with this show - a non-violent Klingon named Jaden, a hologram who was programmed to act like a socially awkward teenager and attend school instead of just being programmed with knowledge and maturity directly, the Dean of Students being played by Stephen Colbert - but that fundamental confusion just kills it for me more than anything else.
Wait, why?
Apparently holograms are their own "race" now? Also they got the guy who plays the Holographic Doctor from Voyager to come back, and they're setting up a mentor-mentee relationship, which makes sense if you can get past the absurdity of a holo-teen student existing in the first place.
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