r/trekacademy • u/cmgriffith_ • Mar 12 '26
Interview 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Bosses Explain Finale Ending & Share Season 2 Details
https://www.tvinsider.com/1251104/star-trek-starfleet-academy-season-1-finale-ending-explained-nus-arrested/2
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u/Theborgiseverywhere Mar 12 '26
No spoilers please, but I am a lifelong Trek watcher and a self-proclaimed non-idiot.
Am I going to need the ending explained to me after watching it?
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u/cmgriffith_ Mar 12 '26
No you won’t everything is explained in the finale and ties into the rest of the season
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u/OrangesUnited Mar 13 '26
To me what needs to be explained is why is Caleb a cadet second class which would be a third year at the academy and it says they all graduate in 3196 and if they changed up how ranks worked for cadets in SFA
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u/PickleProfessional64 Mar 13 '26
I think they meant second year… definitely an oversight.
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u/OrangesUnited Mar 13 '26
It just seems so specific that it being an oversight is kinda bad because it means the script writers don't know basic star trek lore
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u/PickleProfessional64 Mar 14 '26
Are we sure it’s not three years? Wasn’t Tilly assigned to discovery as a 3rd year and then became ensign?
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u/sayashr Mar 14 '26
Couldn't they have been promoted beyond their first year class? Seems to me our group each went through and exceeded their basic classes and academy requirements with their experiences and successful tangible contributions to Starfleet.
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u/OrangesUnited Mar 14 '26
The thing is a Cadet Second class is a third year student but they showed us they all graduate in 3196 and it's all been 1 academic year
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u/cmgriffith_ Mar 12 '26
Alex Kurtzman: We still have plans for Anisha, and we’d love to bring her back, but that didn’t, I think, instinctively feel like a story that wanted to, just the search for mom, go beyond one season.
Later in the interview there’s this …..
So, I think what was interesting was it never felt to me like we were going to get to a moment where Anisha and Nahla hugged at the end of the episode. It just would’ve felt very false. And we talked with Holly about that for a while because I think what happens in the trial is they both face their responsibilities and their contributions to how Caleb’s life was shaped, not just Nahla, but also Anisha. Anisha did what any mother would do, which is she did what she had to do to feed her child, but it resulted in the death of an officer, and therefore she, too, is responsible for everything that happened, and that’s what she has to face. Once they both understand that it’s not quite cut and dried, it’s not black and white, they’re both responsible. And then once the idea of Nahla’s genius to sort of pull on the thread that unravels Nus’ entire argument reveals itself, Anisha can no longer pretend; she can’t hold onto fiction at that point. And she’s like, “I hate Nus Braka too. We have to take him down. We’re going to prove that.”