Starfleet Academy The Most Important Star Trek Quote About Freedom, As ChatGPT Can
By Chris Snellgrove | Published
The second scene of Starfleet AcademyThe latest episode tried to be respectful Star Trek: The Next Generation with the Doctor quoting Aaron Satie, the world-famous judge Picard quotes in “The Drumhead.” Presumably, this bit of ambition was intended to pay homage to the Golden Age of Star Trek, thereby assuring skeptical fans that this wildly different sequel has not forgotten its creative roots.
Unfortunately, they failed. Not only does the Doctor leave out most of this quote, but he later insults the reader in a way that shows he doesn’t actually believe any of the words he says.
First, some context: in TNG In the episode “Drumhead,” the admiral is brought aboard the ship to help the Enterprise investigate whether the explosion was the result of sabotage. She is the daughter of a famous Starfleet judge, and is so determined to follow in her famous father’s footsteps that she suspects everyone, eventually putting Captain Picard in public for questioning. There, Picard humiliates and humiliates him by quoting his father (Judge Aaron Satie), saying that these are “some words I have known since I was a schoolboy.”
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The words in question are as follows:
“With the first link, a chain is formed. The first speech condemned, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, binds us all irrevocably.” – Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Picard went on to note that the words of Judge Satie serve as “wisdom and warning” because “when the freedom of any person is first trampled upon, we are all injured.” He was basically calling Admiral Satie for turning an unnecessary investigation (it turns out the explosion was accidental) into a drumhead trial where he would needlessly try to punish innocent people, including a young signer who turned out to secretly have Romulan parentage.
In the latest episode of Starfleet AcademyThe doctor in charge of hosting the debate competition named after the late, Chief Justice Aaron Satie, also quotes the same words to his students that Picard once quoted to Satie’s own daughter. There’s just one problem: you leave out a large part of the phrase. In the clip originally released on Paramount+, he moves from using the word “forbidden” to the word “we,” leaving out the phrase “first freedom denied” and the word “chains.”
“With i first link, i chain is something fake. I first speech is prohibited, i first a forbidden thought, all of us.” – Doctor at Starfleet Academy
The majority Starfleet Academy fans who noticed the mistake thought it was a sound editing mistake, especially because it seems like there was a moment where the word “chains” could have been spoken before the word “we.” Such an editing mistake would be a huge blow to the producers’ fault because it ruins what should be great, fan service. Star Trek: The Next Generation. Also, how much does NuTrek cost (Adoption again Strange New Worlds each episode costs between $7-$10 million to produce), of course wild to think that such a glaring audio error got past the editors of Paramount+’s biggest new show.
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Of course, even if the mistake was just skipping the word “chains,” that means the Doctor is still hiding what’s being said. Even if he it was necessary he said “chains,” he would have left out another part of the saying: “the first freedom is denied.” That may sound like nitpicking, but why not Starfleet Academy the writers do their best to quote one of the most famous lines and scenes from it Star Trek: The Next Generation if they are just trying to harass you?
On the whole, though, I might be giving those writers too much credit. At one point, to the shock of the class (and, presumably, the audience), the Doctor says that “speech and debate is not for chickensh*t,” causing a student watching (seriously, why do so many people in the 32nd century still wear glasses?) to question that a proud hologram is allowed to talk like that.
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This time, the Doctor gives a ride to the poor kid, telling him “I’ve been around longer than your entire family… I’ve earned the right to speak as I see fit. One day, you may earn that right too.” When the cadet groans, the Doctor wraps up their sidebar conversation with, “But alas, that day is not today.”
It’s meant to be a funny moment, compared to the course of a show that can never go long without dropping a punchline. But in an attempt to make the audience laugh (and excuse the Doctor’s odd swearing), Starfleet Academy the authors express that they do not understand (or perhaps do not care) anything else about the few words he was just quoting.
You see, this quote emphasizes how societies lose their fundamental freedoms when the “first speech” is “impugned” and that this is the “first link” in the chain that binds us all. But in trying to make an example of the cadet who questioned his foul language, the Doctor tells him that speaking however one “sees fit” is a privilege the Doctor has “earned” growing up. It is a “privilege” that a young man may “earn” in time.
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So, what is it, Doctor? Do you believe, as Judge Satie said, that all speech should be protected because as soon as we stop someone from speaking their mind, we are collectively imprisoning everyone’s thoughts and feelings? Or do you believe that only old people speak their minds and that these young people need to shut up and get the right to speak as they see fit?
Again, this may seem like nitpicking, but this scene is probably a microcosm of everything that’s wrong with it Starfleet Academy. It destroys a beloved legacy character (the Doctor) by making him a foul-mouthed hypocrite who can’t live up to what he said minutes ago. All this happened because the writers respected him Star Trek: The Next Generationcompletely ruined the symbolic quote while showing their ignorance of what it meant.
As a fan of the franchise since the ’80s (yes, The Next Generation it was my first series), I really search you will like it Starfleet Academyand I guess I should be grateful that the writers tried hard to include references to that era of the franchise. But what’s the point if they’re going to release an important quote like this from start to finish? Sorry, Bottom line: this is a Star Trek show in name only, and the older fans are sick of you trying to sell us a generic sci-fi joke that only touches on a better series that the writers (if any) will never know (and obviously. the will never) truly understand.
