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That might be based on Robert Meyer Burnett talking about Season 3 after apparently getting an advanced preview. He’s been a critic if New Trek since the JJ-Movies and has no love for Discovery, or even Strange New Worlds. He has come out saying that what he saw in Season 3 felt like actual Trek and potentially the best Trek he’d seen in years.

I would love…love…. for all this to be true, but I’m still approaching S3 with caution. Apparently Kurtzman has been kept away from this, and only Raffi is been retained from the earlier cast (so Borg-Jerati likely won’t appear if true). It could be a completely different show. It might actually be good?! Imagine that, another OK Trek show. If only they could just get rid of Discovery and replace it with something half decent…things would be looking up…if true.

That's exactly where I heard it. Expectations still tempered though.

Is Season 3 staying with Prime Video or moving to Paramount+?

Radio Times mentioning a release on Prime in the UK. With any luck that means we're also getting it on Prime.

One pleasant bonus in that article is the absense of Wil Wheaton in Season 3. I guess he didn't manage to whine his way back on for another silly pointless cameo. If true, he'll have to content himself with shilling for sub-par Trek on Kurtzman's "Ready Room" show. After his showing on Season 2, I honestly hope he never gets to appear on Trek again.

Don't tease me with the promise of no space Legolas.

He is also just a bit of an angry nob. I definitely wouldn't be too bothered with his critical opinions.

So the Titan crew got a little introduction on Twitter.

7 is 1st. officer and went through some new Starfleet fast track program.

I thought Starfleet would usually just fast-track people due to extreme need, like during the Dominion War when Nog got bumped right up to Ensign earlier than expected. His War record is likely what got him his early Lieutenant pip aswell. Is Starfleet short of people again? Otherwise I don't understand the need for a fast-track program.

Garak did allude to something like that existing but then again it's Garak. I don't see a specific fast track program being needed when you can go from newly commissioned ensign to captain of a starship in about five years. Maybe they'll introduce a Starfleet Officer Candidate School program. It is a bit strange that everyone seems to have gone to Starfleet Academy in San Francisco when we know for a fact there's at least one other campus.

If the Dominion War Starfleet was anything like US Military from about 1945 to 1970 some people were in for a surprise during the post war reduction. Experienced captains wanting to stay on could find themselves lieutenants in the post war Starfleet. I know of one instance of a man who was an American Army colonel during the Korean War who really wanted to stay in during the post war wind down and the only position he could get was as a master sergeant, which is a pretty significant change, and he ended up as a sergeant major in Vietnam by 1968. Those details might be wrong but the gist is right, he's mentioned in the book Chickenhawk.

If they copied the ideas to the extent he claimed DC Fontana probably deserved a credit for any episode elaborating on Number One's backstory since it's allegedly lifted straight from a book she wrote about Number One. There s a difference between an Alien homage using Star Trek characters and lifting characters and plot points straight from Alien and calling it your own.

If a Star Trek: Rolumus series comes out in a few years chock full of real fake doors and throuple marriages Chabon absolutely deserves the blame a story credit.

Number One's backstory is supposedly lifted from Vulcan's Glory.

I think Garak was just teasing Worf while practicing his professional lying abilities to pass the time. Once he had convinced Worf to sponsor his application to the Academy, Garak then proceeds to mess about with him, claiming that he’s so awesome that he could instantly get promoted ahead of Worf to the rank of Commander. At which point Worf realizes what Garak is up to.

Getting fast tracked to a bridge command role does seem like a stretch, but at least with Seven we know she spent years as part of a Starfleet command structure on Voyager. Still, “Captain” or “First Officer” isn’t the first thing that comes to my mind with Seven. Chief Engineer? Sure. Chief of Security? Maybe, she was all “action heroish” in S1. But, gonna wait and see. If the writers know what they are doing with Seven (and overall) then it might work. Maaaaaybe