April 14, 2026

KURTZMAN-ERA STAR TREK CONCLUDING: Sadly, The End Of Star Trek Is Now Official.

During the 53rd annual Saturn Awards in March, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds executive producer and co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers said that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ sets were in storage, giving hope that the spinoff about Captain James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley), Star Trek: Year One, could happen. Those hopes are now dashed with the Enterprise sets being torn down.

Meanwhile, an online petition to save Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has topped 42,000 signatures. Unfortunately, the USS Athena’s sets being torn down means that there’s no chance Paramount+ could reverse course and greenlight Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 3.

42,000 signatures, huh? Fewer Than 40,000 People Watched Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

Paramount recently canceled Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, the final Star Trek series still in production. Most assumed it was due to low ratings, but no one guessed just how low those ratings were.

Mike Stoklasa, noted YouTuber and friend of Rich Evans, recently revealed during a Red Letter Media re:View that he has a source close to the production of Starfleet Academy. According to Mike, his source told him the series has only been viewed 400,000 times. That’s 400,000 views in total for the entire series.

There are ten episodes of Starfleet Academy. 400,000 divided by ten is 40,000. That means the entire show was watched by fewer than 40,000 people.

“I heard from my source… The entire first season of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, not individual episodes, the entire season total views, about 400,000. Not per episode. Cumulatively, the entire series. About 400,000 views. Which is an average of maybe 40,000 views per episode.” – Mike Stoklasa

If Mike’s numbers are correct, not only does it mean that Starfleet Academy is one of the most colossal failures in the history of streaming, it also means that most of the show’s defenders are bots. It means that the petition to resurrect the show is also fake, since it has 10,000 signatures. Unless you’re willing to believe 1/4 of all the people who watched the series actually found out a petition exists and then went through the trouble to sign it.

Exactly. At the end of the original Star Trek’s second season, despite averaging about eight million viewers a week, NBC “received some 114,667 [snail mail] letters between December 1967 and March 1968, including 52,151 in February 1968 alone.”

Found via Ace of Spades in this post, which is well worth a read: DEI Actress: DEI Has Become a Bad Word in Hollywood and We Have to Use Different Words Now to Push Our DEI Grift.

Posted at 8:37 pm by Ed Driscoll

THEY KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING AND THEY KNOW WHAT HE IS:

Posted at 7:55 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THAT EXPLAINS IT:

Posted at 4:40 pm by Stephen Green

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

JONATHAN TURLEY: Disaster Tourism: California and Other Blue States Become Go-To Destinations for Econ Sightseers.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the “first partner” of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), is under fire for stating that she takes her children to conservative and Republican states so that they can see misogyny and racism firsthand.

Putting aside her hellscape phantasm, California may be a draw for a different group: curious economists in the mood for disaster tourism.

Just as people travel to Hawaii to see volcanic explosions in real time, they can visit California to see economic implosions. California is a laboratory for students to see what happens when you ignore basic economic principles outside of the classroom.

California is now the leader in the economic race to the bottom, as its politicians drain away what remains of decades of accumulated social capital, revenue and residents from their state.

Exit quote: “Beyond these politicians who find success in failure, the only group looking at a rosy future in California is the rising class of robotic workers.”

Make sure to decorate your luggage appropriately when visiting California for a little disaster tourism:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

TO BE FAIR, MILEI IS RIGHT ABOUT PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING:

Posted at 3:33 pm by Stephen Green

BE TOLERANT, THEY TOLD ME, OR ELSE:

Posted at 3:02 pm by Stephen Green

JOANNE JACOBS: It’s a marathon, not a miracle.

As founder of the education nonprofit Mississippi First, Canter saw her home state start getting serious about meeting higher expectations in 2008. That change included state power to take over low-performing districts, A-F grades for schools and districts based on student achievement and challenging new learning standards.

The state’s literacy law passed in 2013: Schools screen students’ reading skills three times a year and report progress to parents. Students can’t read adequately by the end of third grade are held back a year. The law meant “everyone in the system would be in a hellfire hurry to teach children to read,” writes Canter. “No one wanted children to fail.”

Accountability works — who’d have thought?

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green