Supplemental – Live From WonderCon: ‘Star Trek at 60: Starfleet Academy: Real Uniter or Faux Divider?’ Hosted By Larry Nemecek

About this episode

A live panel discussion at WonderCon exploring the controversies surrounding Starfleet Academy and its reception among fans and critics.

This week, we have a special supplemental podcast recorded live at WonderCon last weekend in Anaheim (so forgive the suboptimal audio). Our friend TrekLand’s Larry Nemecek was hosting a panel with a variety of podcasters and Star Trek superfans as participants, including our own Anthony Pascale. The panel was originally going to cover the online debates surrounding Starfleet Academy, but the show not getting picked up for a third season pivoted things. Here is the official description from the WonderCon schedule. Star Trek at 60: Starfleet Academy: Real Uniter or Faux Divider? Is it 2017 again? Star Trek turns 60 with a host of anniversary plans, but Starfleet Academy has bowed with more controversy than any recent series since Star Trek: Discovery’s heated first year. With SFA’s first season wrapped, “Dr. Trek” Larry Nemecek (The Trek Files, Portal 47) asks a host of Trek industry vets for their own takes on the series as well as the meta-reaction to it: Is that initial negative reaction by some critics and fans more about clickbait-chasing talkers and review-bombing than actual criticism and nuance? an we sense whether IRL armchair Trekkies feel as…

People in this episode

Host: Larry Nemecek

Guests: Anthony Pascale, Neal Hallford, Matt Jennings, Tony Kim, Giraffe

Topics covered

• Star Trek
• WonderCon
• Starfleet Academy
• panel discussion
• fan reactions
• media criticism

Keywords

• Star Trek
• Starfleet Academy
• WonderCon
• panel discussion
• fan reactions
• media criticism
• Larry Nemecek
• Anthony Pascale
• TrekLand

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Starfleet Academy, Star Trek, TrekLand, TrekMovie

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