About this episode

The episode reviews the third installment of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, discussing character dynamics and themes.

And we're back with a review of the third episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1, "Vitus Reflux, "as Caleb, Darem, Genesis and the rest of the cadets find themselves up against those jerks over at the War College... and yes, that does include Tarima, the Betazoid with the mysterious power inhibitor... Speaking of which, we talk about the question many of you have been asking -- are Betazoids empaths or telepaths or all of the above? We also hit the Replimat for some Cold War fun and we have a really good Red Shirt from DS9!

Topics covered

• Star Trek
• Starfleet Academy
• episode review
• Betazoids
• Cold War
• Red Shirt

Keywords

• Starfleet Academy
• Vitus Reflux
• War College
• Betazoids
• empaths
• telepaths
• Cold War
• Red Shirt

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Starfleet Academy

Books & works: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, DS9

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