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Geek History Lesson

Starfleet Academy

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This month the Star Trek series 40 years in the making, Starfleet Academy, introduces us to a new generation of Starfleet Cadets and the first new class in the 32nd century! Some familiar faces also return to the franchise. This week on Geek History Lesson we put our Starfleet uniforms back on (with the dust from The Red Shirt Diaries and Section 31), to boldly go where no podcast has gone before!

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0:00.0

If you lived in the 25th century,

0:14.3

27th, 28th, we're going as far into the future as humanly possible.

0:18.2

It's so funny because only one of those centuries is actually a century that was one of these shows were set in. Starflea Academy, I think is in the 32nd. I am a Star Trek Starfleet Academy. Now I'm Perra-Buzz! If you were lived in the 34th century. The 32nd. And you went to Starfleet Academy. Why do you keep moving it further? Because it's fun. If you went to Starfleet Academy, what would you major in? What would be your focus of study? First of all, I would go to Starfleet Academy in the 24th century because hopefully I'd be field commanded, promoted during the Dominion War, make it all the way to Lieutenant. Wow. Okay. Wow, you came with the guns blazing ready for this answer. Within two years, like Lieutenant Commander, Lieutenant Nog, field promotion. Yeah. He goes from cadet to full lieutenant in like two years. I get one of us as military experience and one of us is me. You know, it's so funny when I was a kid and I would watch Star Trek and I would say to myself, what, what would you want to do in Starfleet Academy? Um, you know, I always thought Jordy LaForge, the engineering. I'd always thought he had the best job. Yeah. Being an engineer, but like, he's the best job just being Lamar Burton. I just thought engineering kind of seemed cool. But I mean, come on. You can't go to Starfle. You can't be in the Starfleur. You can't be in the Star Trek universe and not want to command a starship.

1:27.5

It has to be command.

1:28.3

Bro, I wouldn't want to command a starship.

1:29.9

I don't want to be in charge of a vehicle. Then what are you doing? Veterinary Sciences? I mean, xenobiology would be very interesting. No, I mean, I would obviously do xenolinguistics and I'd be the translator. Oh, you'd be the Uhura.

1:41.9

Yeah.

1:42.3

Or I would be the person,

1:43.3

I would be the person

1:44.1

who would like,

1:44.7

you know,

1:45.0

or I'd be a diplomat.

1:46.7

Can you imagine me?

1:47.4

It's,

1:47.5

I'm sure. the translator. Oh, you'd be the Uhura. Yeah. Or I would be the person, I would be the person

1:44.2

who would like,

1:44.7

you know,

1:45.0

or I'd be a diplomat. Can you imagine me in charge of a starship? No. Exactly. Yeah. Well, you have control of the soundboard, not me. So I'm just going to say, red alert in the spirit of this week's episode. Thank you so much. Hello and welcome to

2:01.1

Geek History Lesson.

2:02.8

The podcast, Where One, Comic Writer in the spirit of this week's episode. Thank you so much. Hello and welcome to Geek History Lesson, the podcast where one comic writer from Canada and one TV writer from Kansas get together and talk about one topic for an hour. And today... It's called GeekHish Lesson. Did you say that name of our podcast? I said hello and welcome to Geek History. Oh, okay. Well Well, sorry about that because Warning. Self-destruct sequence has been initiated. Thanks, Rachel. Work core overload in four minutes

2:23.0

55 seconds. There will be no further audio warnings. I can explain we only have four minutes.

2:29.4

Go! Why are we talking about Star Trek Starfleet Academy today? First of all, because this is the 60th anniversary of Star Trek. So it's going to be a trek heavy year, which if you've been a long time, listener to the, you're, you're cutting time, way to, time does not move that fast. Three and a half minutes. Get off of my Starfleet. If you're a long time listener to the podcast,

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