Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1, Episode 6 – “Come, Let’s Away”
The sixth episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy introduces a new type of warp drive, further complicating warp travel in the 32nd century. Written by Kenneth Lin and Kiley Rossetter, and directed by Larry Teng, the episode significantly raises the stakes as Nus Braka (Paul Giamatti) delivers a devastating loss to Captain Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter) and the Academy.
In the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 6, before the frightening alien-human hybrids—working with Nustopher Braka and the Venari Ral—launched their attack, Starfleet Academy and the War College sent their cadets to a starship graveyard for a training mission. The cadets, who would become Starfleet officers, were tasked with restoring power to the abandoned USS Miyazaki.
According to Captain Ake, the USS Miyazaki was a starship from the 31st century, used to test a revolutionary warp drive known as the Singularity Drive. The entire crew perished due to a chain of equipment malfunctions. Interestingly, a group of War College cadets had previously installed a program called “Tiny Fireflies” designed to activate the Singularity Drive.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s New Warp Drive Complicates The 32nd Century’s Warp Travel
As a long-time Trek fan, the Singularity Drive introduced in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy really throws a wrench into the already complicated rules about warp travel in the 32nd century. Remember how Star Trek: Discovery season 3 explained that ‘The Burn’ destroyed all the dilithium powering warp drives and reactors back in 3069? Well, this new drive makes you wonder how that all fits together now!
For 120 years, the United Federation of Planets struggled because they couldn’t travel at warp speed. This changed when Captain Michael Burnham and the crew of the USS Discovery discovered what caused ‘The Burn.’ Concerned about another disaster like The Burn, the Federation then started working on new and improved warp drive technology.
The final episode of Star Trek: Discovery showed the Federation embracing the Pathway Drive, a new technology being tested by the USS Voyager-J. However, Starfleet couldn’t mass-produce the USS Discovery’s unique spore drive, meaning only Captain Burnham’s ship could instantly travel using the mycelial network.
The recent activation of the Singularity Drive on the USS Miyazaki in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy offers the Federation a new way to travel faster than warp speed. While the drive failed over a century ago, it’s now working again, though it still needs thorough testing. This discovery could lead the Federation to repair the Miyazaki and seriously consider the Singularity Drive as a practical alternative for interstellar travel.
Which Warp Drive Is The Federation Using In Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
The new series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, is set in 3195, four years after the events of Star Trek: Discovery, and features Starfleet ships traveling throughout the galaxy using warp drive. However, the show hasn’t yet explained what specific type of warp drive technology Starfleet is currently using.
Did the tests of the USS Voyager-J’s Pathway Drive go well, and did Starfleet start using it? Also, what type of warp drive does the USS Athena have? In the first episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Nus Braka tried to steal Captain Ake’s warp drive, but the show never revealed what kind it was.
The starship Discovery continues to operate within the Star Trek universe and is sometimes mentioned in the series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. While Discovery normally uses a spore drive for faster-than-light travel, it also has a standard warp drive. Interestingly, the ship gains a Pathway Drive at some point, possibly during the refit described at the beginning of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
The unique Singularity Drive from the USS Miyazaki might become important in a future episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. It’s also odd that Nus Braka stole classified technology and weapons from space station J19-Alpha in episode 6 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, but didn’t attempt to steal the Singularity Drive, even though Nustopher previously tried to steal the warp drive from the USS Athena.
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