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Warning: SPOILERS For Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's Series Premiere - "Kids These Days"Star Trek: Starfleet Academy honors a very deserving and beloved icon from Star Trek: Enterprise. Directed by Alex Kurtzman and written by series creator Gaia Violo, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's series premiere, "Kids These Days," brings Starfleet Academy home to San Francisco after the USS Athena survived an attack by Nus Braka (Paul Giamatti).
One of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's brilliant innovations is that the USS Athena is also Starfleet Academy itself. Captain Nahla Ake's (Holly Hunter) starship docks in San Francisco and becomes Starfleet Academy's campus. The USS Athena itself contains the cadets' dorms, classrooms, and specific areas named for some of Starfleet's greatest heroes.
Along with the James T. Kirk Pavilion, and the Wall of Heroes emblazoned with the names of dozens of Starfleet legends, the USS Athena also has a special area pleasingly named for one of Star Trek: Enterprise's icons, Ensign Hoshi Sato (Linda Park).
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Officially Honors Enterprise’s Hoshi Sato
One of the USS Athena's central hubs in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is the Sato Atrium, an homage to Star Trek: Enterprise's Hoshi Sato. In Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's premiere, the Sato Atrium was where elective and club activity sign-ups were held, with The Doctor (Robert Picardo) soliciting new members for his Opera Club.
Ensign Hoshi Sato is a pivotal but largely unsung Star Trek icon. Because Enterprise retconned Captain Jonathan Archer's (Scott Bakula) NX-01 as the first Starship Enterprise in the 22nd century, Hoshi was one of the most important members of the inaugural Starfleet crew to explore the galaxy in the 22nd century.
The original Starship Enterprise's Communications Officer, Hoshi Sato was a genius-level linguist who understood 40 languages, including Klingon. Hoshi's work aboard Enterprise helped inspire the development of Starfleet's universal translator, and Sato was pivotal to numerous First Contacts by Captain Archer.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds established Hoshi Sato as the inspiration for USS Enterprise's Communications Officer, Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding).
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy films on the largest sets ever constructed for Star Trek. Naming the massive and impressive Sato Atrium after Enterprise's Hoshi is a long-awaited tribute to a character who has long been an unsung hero. In the 25 years since Star Trek: Enterprise premiered, Hoshi has become an icon and an inspiration.
Star Trek: Discovery Honored Enterprise’s Captain Archer
Star Trek: Enterprise was not looked upon kindly by many Star Trek fans during its original run on UPN from 2001-2005. Because it only lasted four seasons, Enterprise was derided as "the show that killed Star Trek" since it was the last new Star Trek series for 12 years until Star Trek: Discovery.
Star Trek: Discovery season 4 began with the unveiling of the Archer Space Dock.
Fittingly, Star Trek: Discovery homaged Star Trek: Enterprise, including modeling season 1 and 2's Starfleet uniforms after Enterprise's blue jumpsuits. Star Trek: Discovery season 4 began with the unveiling of the Archer Space Dock, a brand-new 32nd-century facility that builds and refits Starfleet ships like the USS Discovery-A and the USS Voyager-J.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a direct spinoff of Star Trek: Discovery that heartwarmingly continues the adulation of Captain Archer, Hoshi Sato, and their crew a thousand years after the NX-01 Enterprise's pioneering voyages.
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