Starfleet Academy’s dark new episode changes the series’ stakes

Starfleet Academyis packed with silly college hijinks, like a prank war between rival schools and a faculty dinner filled with bizarre rituals. Episode 6, “Come, Let’s Away,” starts in that same spirit. The Starfleet Academy and War College students are competing in a training mission as they try to reboot systems on the derelict Starfleet ship, the USS Miyazaki. It’s an opportunity for more verbal sparring between brooding Starfleet cadet Caleb Mir (Sandro Rosta) and the Vulcan War College bully B’Avi (Alexander Eling), and even some betting among the faculty about which group will win. Then events take a serious turn.