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2 |
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Writer: |
Noga Landau & Jane Maggs |
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Director: |
Alex Kurtzman |
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Air Date: |
15-Jan-2026 |
This week on
Sci-Fi Adventures I'm watching another episode of the 12th
Star Trek series,
Starfleet Academy. I think that's the right number.
Here's some trivia
for you, the series has had three writers so far and they've all been women.
Encounter at Farpoint was mostly written by D.C. Fontana,
Voyager's Caretaker was co-written by Jeri Taylor, and so on, but this is the first
Trek series to be established by female
writers exclusively.
The first episode was written by creator Gaia
Violo, but I've no idea if she had any involvement with this one. Typically the
creator will go on to run the series, at least for its first season, but in this case the showrunners are
Trek overlord Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. They also worked on the episode in other roles, with Kurtzman directing and Landau co-writing.
Landau has never written for
Star Trek, but she has had some experience running
Nancy Drew, which seems to have been successful enough. On the other hand, co-writer Jane Maggs has had plenty of
Trek writing experience, as she worked on
Star Trek: Picard's second and third seasons. They weren't the most acclaimed stories, in fact some are considered the absolute nadir of modern
Trek, but if you start at the bottom then the only way to go is up.
Warning:
SPOILERS
