Trek Movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n“So no, I love Professor Illa, who was constructed by me and Kirsten [Beyer] and she was meant to be the perfect shepherd for this story,” she continued.\u00a0“It was so important that we had someone who it made sense that she would have the only copy of Jake\u2019s book. A lot of intentionality went into who could this be? And then when we all kind of went, \u201cOh, you know, the Trill lifespan could be this long. This could be Dax,\u201d it really excited Noga Landau, our showrunner.”<\/p>\n
“It excited all of us,” Newsome added.\u00a0“And we went, \u201cOkay, yeah, let\u2019s make this Dax.\u201d And then, as I said, I was the last piece of the puzzle [laughs] when they said, \u201cOkay, and Tawny is going to do it\u201d it was quite a surprise, I think, for all of us. But I had really great support from showrunners and from Kirsten.”<\/p>\n
The introduction of the Dax symbiont in Starfleet Academy serves as another direct connection to Deep Space Nine, but it also raises questions about franchise continuity. Born in 2018, the Dax symbiont was 357 years old in 2375, when Ezri Dax became its ninth host during Season 7 of Deep Space Nine. Canon has established that Trill symbionts can live up to 800 years.<\/p>\n
With Starfleet Academy set in 3195, that would make the Dax symbiont approximately 1,177 years old. While technological advances or evolutionary changes could account for this extended lifespan, the episode itself never addresses how that gap is explained.\u00a0It\u2019s not a major oversight, but one that longtime Star Trek fans are likely to notice.<\/p>\n
With its nods to Deep Space Nine,\u00a0Series Acclimation Mil\u00a0has been deemed one of the best episodes of Starfleet Academy thus far. But what are your thoughts on the series as a whole?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, \u201cSeries Acclimation Mil,\u201d is a heartfelt tribute to Deep Space…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[213874,88,11878,32228,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-457681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-deep-space-nine","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-star-trek","11":"tag-star-trek-starfleet-academy","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}