[Crimson Dynamo]

After a first season of dismal ratings and widespread hatred from fans,
Paramount has finally stepped up and pulled the plug on Star Trek: Starfleet
Academy. The show is cancelled.

Starfleet Academy’s second season has already been shot and completed, so
that will air to a disinterested audience on streaming at some point, but
afterward, it’s finished. CBS and Paramount issued a joint announcement today,
confirming the second season will be the show’s last.



Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (premiered January 2026) has faced backlash
from critics like Elon Musk and Stephen Miller, who labeled the show "woke".
Critics cite themes focused on social change, diverse representation—
including the franchise's first openly gay Klingon—and a "liberal arts"
approach as departing from traditional Star Trek.

Themes and Values: The series is accused of prioritizing "corporate
wokeness," focusing on emotional safety, trust-building, and liberal arts
college values rather than traditional space exploration.

Diverse Representation: Starfleet Academy features a diverse cast,
including the first openly gay Klingon character, cadet Jay-Den Kraag, who is
depicted as gentle and science-minded.



The Paramount+ series has received over 8,400 one star reviews on IMDb
with fans slamming it for pushing DEI, ‘woke’ characters and LGBTQIDP+
storylines.

https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/...r-two-seasons/

Instead of making a show that people will like, these clowns make a show that they think will make people like them

when will they learn

[Glenn.]

What is woke

[bots]

with tv shows, people simply switch off if they don't like it. No-one is forced to watch anything

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

What is woke

A gentle Klingon sounds pretty Woke tbf.

Tbh, the trailer with the weird woman spinning around on the chair put me off checking the Show out as she looked like she was going to be really annoying.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by bots

with tv shows, people simply switch off if they don't like it. No-one is forced to watch anything

Of course but if your job is to make them watch...

[bots]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Of course but if your job is to make them watch...

Well, obviously they have failed if the show has been cancelled.

[Livia]

How many times do you have to watch people fall on their face before one of them thinks, hang on... I think I know where we went wrong.

[bots]

The last 2 Star Trek shows produced by paramount have been "politically correct" nonsense. Most people stopped watching the show years ago

[Cherie]

Did anyone watching Star Wars wonder about any of the actors sexuality No wonder its tanked, people want to watch good TV and escape real life dont need PC pushed down our throats at every turn, time to wise up

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Did anyone watching Star Wars wonder about any of the actors sexuality No wonder its tanked, people want to watch good TV and escape real life dont need PC pushed down our throats at every turn, time to wise up

I did always wonder about C-3PO

[Glenn.]

It hasn’t suddenly gone woke (still waiting for OP to tell us what “woke” is), it’s just not centred around certain types of people anymore and that’s clearly the problem.

[Cherie]

Modern family says hello

who knew Klingons were people

[Livia]

Eventually people will wise up and realise audiences are sick of their agenda. And please, someone show Glenn how to look up a word on the internet so he doesn't keep asking the same question. Unless he already knows what 'woke' means and is just asking to be confrontational.

[arista]

[CBS and Paramount issued a joint announcement today,
confirming the second season will be the show’s last.]


I blame the American Writing team.

They got this series wrong.


Star Trek, back in 1966 when it started
was Fantastic.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Killed Doctor Who as well

Go woke, go broke

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by Livia

Eventually people will wise up and realise audiences are sick of their agenda. And please, someone show Glenn how to look up a word on the internet so he doesn't keep asking the same question. Unless he already knows what 'woke' means and is just asking to be confrontational.

Asking someone who uses it for everything to define it isn’t confrontational, it just exposes whether they actually can. When a word gets thrown at anything people don’t like, it stops having any real meaning. So if someone’s confident enough to use it constantly, they should be able to explain what they mean by it.

Go back to “ignoring” me.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

It hasn’t suddenly gone woke (still waiting for OP to tell us what “woke” is), it’s just not centred around certain types of people anymore and that’s clearly the problem.

I think with Starfleet Academy it had an uphill battle by being a teen Show.

Most Star Trek fans are obviously in the older demographic, therefore it got rejected.

I actually think that the Woke debate was the secondary reason as to why Starfleet Academy struggled in the ratings.

[Glenn.]

Yeah we all know how the older generation loves progress.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

Yeah we all know how the older generation loves progress.

I just think that the teen aspect was always going to be a killer for this particular Show.

Knowing your audience is a huge part of market research, something that Paramount+ clearly sucks at looking at the fact that there is a teen Star Trek Show out there.

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I just think that the teen aspect was always going to be a killer for this particular Show.

Knowing your audience is a huge part of market research, something that Paramount+ clearly sucks at looking at the fact that there is a teen Star Trek Show out there.

Star Trek has always shifted tone depending on the audience it’s trying to reach, that’s not new. The real issue is whether the show was actually marketed and positioned properly. If people didn’t connect with it, that’s less about it being aimed at teens and more about how it was presented and whether it gave existing fans a reason to care.

And to be fair, broadening the audience isn’t bad strategy, it’s how franchises stay alive. The problem is when the execution doesn’t match the intent, not the idea itself.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

Yeah we all know how the older generation loves progress.

We are all the older generation to someone ...

[Redway]

People like LT should be banned from using the word “woke”.

[Nicky91]

Star trek has always been inclusive though?

In terms of other races, species, cultures


But it is more the recent times there is this anti-woke agenda from the far right


Oh well cancelling starfleet academy isn't too bad, since more focus needs to go to the Janeway series to make that similarly fab as Picard was

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by Redway

People like LT should be banned from using the word “woke”.

Think it needs to be censored on here, especially when those constantly trolling with it, don’t even know what it means.

[Nicky91]

The whole Voyager cast deserves that same treatment the TNG cast got with Picard

And also some unfinished storylines tbh, regarding Tom and B'Elanna their daughter Miral, and an opportunity to see Captain Seven in action with her own ship

Also that kazon cardassian hybrid whose name btw is Sessen, the child of Maje Culluh and Seska

That now derelict borg base from the endgame series finale episode