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//Why mun shouldn’t be let near muses :)

Discovery shows up and demonstrates what starfleet and the federation can actually be when you're not in constant survival mode to people who are not old enough to remember what it was like to live in easier times. They gave who they found in the future hope for something better and the ability to actually work towards that.

But the flipside to that is that they're kind of a mess to start with in ways that need institutional change and not just lip service. Disco was a catalyst, but they weren't a magical fix.

That's to say, i'm not Surprised the whole war college existence made some people uncomfortable. That's what they're growing Away from as an organisation. It's also not entirely unlike the story of how starfleet developed from military to start with.

The federation is still a wreck and starfleet is still rebuilding, this academy is their optimism for the future. This is their first generation of actual proper cadets in a Long time. It's genuinely a bit unrealistic that it's happening so soon after Disco's arrival if we're going to be annoyingly realistic about it. I assume that it would Not have happened so soon chronologically had they not been interested in retaining Oded Fehr and Tig Notaro as cast members.

I guess my point is, yeah that was a bit uncomfortable! From a narrative perspective, this makes sense for the era and what they're growing away from! But the very fact that they're moving onto an academy is literal proof that they're moving Away from that, and that this is the function of the show. The academy.

and then there's the eldritch monstrosity's who are adorable either way

and then there's a furry. or two... or maybe all of them.

and like the middle is like, modern-day werewolf type stuff :)

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