Day: March 28, 2026

Nothing gold can stay, Robert Frost once wrote. Just enjoy it while it is here.

And so it goes with Star Trek as well. The new television series Starfleet Academy will last for only two seasons and then disappear. While I had originally thought that promising a second season before the first one aired was premature, it turns outs it was brilliant given the fickle habits of today’s viewers. Now the series has a chance to bring some closure.

I have enjoyed the first season. While it was not perfect, it was finding its way to tell a new story to a new generation of Star Trek viewers. At a time that Star Wars seems to have run out of steam, the new series showed that Star Trek still had more to say with a whole new cast of characters rather than endlessly recycling the past. I am hopeful that it can continue to do so even with this ending.

The series co-showrunners and executive producers, Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, wrote a few words that also quoted this bit from Gene Roddenberry that says a lot in these times:

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.