Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Every verdict, newest first. 13 on the record.
Mr. Know-It-All has scored Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 9 times on the Know-It-All Index, averaging 6.6 out of 10, from a low of 4 to a high of 9.5.
The reviews
News Star Trek: Starfleet Academy March 2027, Bill Nighy, and a Sophomore Year
I was in the Empire Stage for the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con. Starfleet Academy season two has a date, two new guest stars, a new cadet and a theme. Here's everything they said.
October 10, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Why Moving One Episode Would Have Transformed the Whole Season
The better version of Starfleet Academy was already in there. Move the episode 9 rupture to episode 3 and five other systems start working almost automatically.
March 23, 2026 →
4/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Rubicon Exposes a Season Built on Borrowed Weight
The season one finale is all payoff with nothing underneath it, and once you ask what the payoff is paying off, the whole season's structure gives way.
March 16, 2026 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Emotional Checks This Season Never Wrote
The penultimate episode finally works in one storyline, and the moment it does, you can see exactly why so much of the rest of the season hasn't. A structural read on "300th Night."
March 7, 2026 →
6/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Season's Most Frustrating Almost
The best episode of the season so far hangs its entire emotional weight on the Doctor, and it still can't decide whether it earned that weight or borrowed it from Voyager.
February 27, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Starfleet Academy Debate: Kirk Cheated a Test, Genesis Broke Starfleet, and Why That Matters
Genesis is not young Kirk all over again. One of them changed the rules of a simulation. The other falsified her way into the Academy and powered up a warp core to cover it. Those are not the same category of action.
February 24, 2026 →
5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Command Rot and the Leadership Test the Show Refused to Take
A cadet commits fraud inside Starfleet's command pipeline, a prince walks away from a throne, and somehow none of it is allowed to land. A breakdown of the hour where the show blinked.
February 21, 2026 →
9.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Furies Bring Real Stakes and the Show Finally Becomes Star Trek
A competent enemy, clear geography, earned sacrifice, and real cost. After five weeks of critique, this is the episode that made me stop reviewing and start watching.
February 13, 2026 →
5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy When Average Is Worse Than Bad
An episode built on Sisko's legacy left me feeling oddly empty, and the reason exposes how this show behaves when it gets uncomfortable.
February 6, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Legacy Klingons Can't Carry the Weight This Show Refuses to Hold
Vox in Excelso is the strongest episode of the season, and that's exactly the problem. A production audit of how Starfleet Academy references Klingon weight without ever carrying it.
January 31, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Is This Show Fixing or Failing Trek?
Salty Trekker, Danny Dorknight and Lore joined me to fight about episode 3. We agreed the plant was the most Star Trek thing the show has done, and then spent the rest of the night arguing about whether anything in it was earned.
January 24, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Right Lesson, Solved Way Too Fast
Episode 3 finally reaches for a real Star Trek solution and lets the cadets solve their own problem. Then it sprints past the discomfort that would have made the solution mean something.
January 22, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy When Overproduction Smothers the Story
I waited a day before recording, because I finished the premiere knowing something wasn't lining up and I didn't trust myself yet to say what it was. It turned out I wasn't reacting to the story. I was reacting to the way the show puts itself together.
January 16, 2026 →