| Episode: | 2 | | | Writer: | Noga Landau & Jane Maggs | | | Director: | Alex Kurtzman | | | 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
