@cstross Worse, they made a Star Trek series that is Harry Potter or Gossip Girl with the serial numbers filed off.

@cstross OTHER
Star Trek movies are barely worth watching, if there is nothing else on the telly. Police Academy movies weren't, even when I was a drunk young man.
I don't think this is a crossover that would play out as well as Hollywood hopes.

Besides, wouldn't the attitudes of Police Academy result in immediate cashiering from the Federation, let alone Starfleet?

@cstross Love would be a strong term. It's amusing but I find some of the characters are particularly annoying whiny teenagers. Also a curiously emotional Vulcan student. That said this is when the Vulcans & the Romulans have unified so maybe not so strict about that.

@cstross If it was actually that I might even give it a go. Just the once...

@cstross

It's turned out to be entertaining. Two things to note, and they're not spoilers, but provide background that you really won't know unless you watched "ST: Discovery".

1. This is about 800 years after ST:TOS.
2. There was an event called "The Burn" where ships actively using dilithium went BOOM. This led to the balkanization of space, including the reduction of power projection by Starfleet.

@cstross Unfortunately not, because a movie about wacky cops, helping a very serious, no nonsense time traveling star ship crew re-populate whales in the future, by distracting all those shady government science guys on their trail with crazy antics, would be just too perfect.

@cstross I won't even consider content from Kurtzman. That man couldn't find decent writing with a map and a guide. What he's done to Star Trek is a crime against art.

@cstross Now that's a crossover I'd like to see.

@cstross WTAF!

@cstross Michael Winslow on the bridge doing the exact same bit he did in Spaceballs

@cstross it was bold and refreshing move to make the Klingon the whacky one that does all the sound effects

@cstross Stop watching tv.

@cstross Watched the first episode as it was free on Youtube. It's okay, but not good enough to get a Paramound Plus subscription just for that. I'll watch the rest of it when Strange New Worlds has a new season up.