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After 26 year , Star Trekhas finally fixed one of its biggest Starfleet Academy problems . InStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 5 , episode 19 , " The First Duty " , Wesley Crusher ( Wil Wheaton ) is now a Starfleet Academy cadet and a member of Nova Squadron , a flight squad made up of elite plebe that also include Sito Jaxa ( Shannon Fill ) , Nick Locarno ( Robert Duncan McNeill ) , and Jean Hajar ( Walker Brandt).Locarno convinces the rest of Nova Squadrun to cover up the expiry of teammate Josh Albert , who expire when Nova Squadron do the dangerous Kolvoord Starburst tactical maneuver . Wesley speaks up , and Nova Squadron is disband .
Star Trek : Deep Space Ninereturned to Starfleet Academy and introduced Red Squad . This fresh crop of eliteStarfleet Academy cadetsis eager to show themselves to Admiral Leyton ( Robert Foxworth ) , to the point thatRed Squad inadvertently tolerate a Changeling coup of Starfleet to succeedinStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 4 , episode 10 , " Homefront " and episode 11 , " Paradise Lost " . Red Squad try and fail to redeem themselves inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 6 , episode 22 , " Valiant " . Cadet Tim Watters ( Paul Popowich ) appoint himself Acting Captain of the USS Valiant after the elderly officer are killed , and he leads Red Squad into a fatal disaster .
sole : Star Trek : Prodigy co - executive manufacturer Aaron J. Waltke breaks down what separates TNG ’s Nova Squadron from DS9 ’s Red Squad .
Star Trek: Prodigy’s Nova Squadron Fixed Starfleet Academy’s Elite Cadets Problem
Prodigy’s Nova Squadron Learn To Embody True Starfleet Ideals
Star Trek : Prodigyfixes the fault made by previous elite teams from Starfleet Academy with its own edition of Nova Squadron by showing thatthe ego - driven arrogance of Starfleet Academy ’s preceding elite squad can be overpower . Prodigy ’s Nova Squadron is a team of up - and - coming cadets assigned to the USS Voyager - A under the control of Admiral Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) , and includesStar Trek : Prodigy ’s breakoutVulcan cadet Maj’el(Michaela Dietz ) , human Zeph ( Sunkrish Bala ) , and Grom ( also Michaela Dietz ) , a Lurian . Like the 2360s variant of Nova Squadron fromStar Trek : The Next Generation , the 2380s Nova Squadron is extremely skilled , and they have it away it .
Star Trek : Prodigy ’s new Nova Squadron is elect , but notelitist .
Unlikethe earlier Nova Squadron , Star Trek : Prodigy ’s Nova Squadron is tempered with benignity and humility . Despite Nova Squadron ’s initial skepticism of Dal R’El ( Brett Gray ) , Maj’el ’s dangerous undertaking with Dal and the other cadet prove that Dal ’s original skills can actually back up his jactitation . When the chips are down , and Grom is out , Captain Chakotay ( Robert Beltran)points out that Dal can fill in for Grom . Star Trek : Prodigy ’s new Nova Squadron is elite , but notelitist , so they can give Dal a chance , and succeed because of it . There ’s no scandal , no dire desire to prove their Charles Frederick Worth . These Nova Squadron cadets in truth are the best of Starfleet ’s next division of bomber .
Star Trek : The Next Generation ’s Nova Squadron returns in a flashback to Lt . Beckett Mariner ’s ( Tawny Newsome ) time at Starfleet Academy inStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 4 , episode 10 , " Old Friends , New satellite " , with Robert Duncan McNeill , Shannon Fill , and Wil Wheaton reprising theirTNGroles .
Will Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Also Have Elite Cadets?
Starfleet Academy’s Elite Cadets Can Be Flawed AND Heroic
With the upcomingStar Trek : Starfleet Academyfocusing on new cadets inStar Trek ’s 32nd one C , it remains to be seen whether the custom of Nova Squadron and Red Squad will be upheld in the far succeeding era ofStar Trek : Discovery . Starfleet Academypromises to be about a new interlingual rendition of the school , rebuilding itself afterThe Burn decimated StarfleetinStar Trek ’s thirty-first century . If Lt . Sylvia Tilly ’s ( Mary Wiseman ) squad of cadets inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 4 , episode 4 , " All Is potential " , is any indication , some of these cadets have n’t even met the great unwashed outside members of their own species . Building an elect squad will take hard body of work .
As long as cadet ' egos do n’t get out of hand , as they did forStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s Red Squad , orStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s Nick Locarno , experience an elite trajectory squadron inStar Trek : Starfleet Academycan give plebe something to strain for . Red Squad was a goal for Nog ( Aron Eisenberg ) , and being a appendage of Nova Squadron count to Wesley Crusher , just as it does forStar Trek : Prodigy ’s Nova Squadron cadets . IfStarfleet Academydoes have a Nova Squadron , hopefully they ’ll follow the precedent set byStar Trek : Prodigy . Elite plebe can be blemished and immature , and still farm into promising youngStar Trekheroes .
