Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1-06: Come, Let's Away (Quick Review)

Episode:

6

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Writer:

Kenneth Lin & Kiley Rossetter

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Director:

Larry Teng

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Air Date:

12-Feb-2026

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures I'm watching Come, Let's Away, the sixth episode of Starfleet Academy.

Director Larry Teng is back after directing last week's Series Acclimation Mil, but co-writer Kenneth Lin is new to the show. He's not new to Star Trek however, as he did several episodes of Discovery, including The Sanctuary and Whistlespeak, while the other writer, Kiley Rossetter, worked on Picard episodes Assimilation and Võx. 

Disco writers teaming up with Picard writers is interesting, but I'm more curious about what happens when Lower Decks writers team up with Prodigy writers. What does an episode co-written by Mike McMahan and Aaron Waltke look like? Or failing that, they could just write episodes separately again! I'd be okay with that.

Anyway, this review is going to have SPOILERS for the episode.

Star Trek: Discovery 5-06: Whistlespeak (Quick Review)

Episode:

61

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Writer:

Kenneth Lin & Brandon A. Schultz

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Director:

Chris Byrne

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Air Date:

02-May-2024

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures I'm watching Whistlespeak, which probably isn't about an expedition to the peak of Mount Whistles, but I've been wrong before. I was way off with my assumptions about the last episode, Mirrors.

Discovery used to have 13-15 episodes each season, but they slashed that to a miniscule 10 episodes for its final year, which means that I'm already past the halfway point. That's kind of crazy, as it feels like the season's only just started. Either the episodes so far have been well-paced and engaging, or barely anything's happened yet. Or both.

Alright, there will be SPOILERS below, for this and for earlier stories from series like Star Trek: The Next Generation and Strange New Worlds. But mostly this.