BREACH! Star Trek Starfleet Academy: Kids These Days

Temporal Directive is a Star Trek fan podcast rewatching all of the Star Trek franchise in chronological order. That's right, everything!BUT… we are breaching our Temporal Directive to bring you a recap and discussion on the current episodes of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Join us in our temporal incursion as we review and discuss the Series Premiere, "Kids These Days". After being on the run since age 6, 21-year-old Caleb, a brilliant street kid, is offered the chance of a lifetime: to join the first new Starfleet Academy class in San Francisco in over a century. There’s just one problem – the person offering him the spot is newly-minted Chancellor Nahla Ake, the Starfleet captain who sentenced his mother to Federation prison 15 years ago… We're Australian, so this episode is marked as explicit only due to our casual swearing.Temporal Directive wants to talk about Star Trek, so if you want to join in the conversation you can email Garry & Tom at [email protected] or find them on Facebook (/TemporalDirectivePodcast) or Instagram (@temporaldirective) and send your thoughts on the episode of the week, or share how you came to love Star Trek.Live Long and Prosper.

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