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A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms Betrays Its Audience And Turns Back Into A Nihilistic Game Of Thrones Show
By Joshua Tyler
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms spent four episodes building up endless amounts of audience goodwill by being exactly the opposite of every previous Game of Thrones show. It positioned itself as a simple story about genuinely good and kind people doing good things in a beautiful, relaxing, perfectly shot and framed pastoral setting.
And then it threw it all away.
The show’s fifth episode, titled “In The Name Of The Mother,” is what it’s been building up to all along. A battle in which seven good men face off against the worst villainy that Westeros has to offer. The audience was primed for heroic combat, in which the show’s loveable main character, Duncan the Tall, would finally show us what he’s capable of, presumably with some sort of dazzling display of sword skills taught to him by his beloved deceased master, Sir Alfred Pennyworth.
We were ready for a half-hour celebration of heroic jousting, fencing, and flashing chain mail. We were ready to leap out of our seats and pump our fists as Duncan the Tall knocked that psychopath out of his armor and won one for the good and kind, the merciful and just, with superior strength and skill. We were ready for him to surprise everyone, to show the world that good can triumph over evil, and that it can happen in a setting where you can actually see what’s going on.
A Franchise Built On Death And Gore Returns To Its Roots
We got none of that. Oh, Duncan won, sort of, but in a way that might as well have been a loss. What we really got is a reminder that while you may have thought you were watching something refreshingly different, this is still Game of Thrones. The franchise that brought you the Red Wedding. The franchise that murdered all the best Starks. The world set you up for the heroic triumph of Daenerys, only to murder her in cold blood at the last minute for no good reason other than some vague handwaving about fascism.
This is Game of Thrones, the franchise where good people suffer for no reason, where beloved characters lose their heads, where everything is rot and filth and nihilism. That nice, clean show about that lovable knight you’ve been watching up til now? It was all a smokescreen, a bait and switch, so it could drag you right back into that pointless, stinking Game of Thrones hell.
When the trial of seven starts, Ser Duncan is knocked out cold in the first three seconds, allowing the show to avoid the battle and give us a 20-minute flashback (the entire episode is only 34 minutes long) of Duncan’s childhood, in which he lives in garbage and makes money by both murdering and robbing dying soldiers. It culminates in a scene where the camera lingers for nearly a minute, with an almost debauched sense of pleasure, over a little girl who used to be his friend as she very, very slowly bleeds out, spitting and dying and suffering in front of us after having her throat cut.
It’s All A Smokescreen
With that bit of pointless nihilism over, Ser Duncan wakes up in the middle of the battle, lying in a muddy puddle. The trial of the seven is still going on around him, but almost none of it is visible to the audience. Instead, we mostly see a bunch of mud.
Like the Battle of Winterfell that took place in the dark so you couldn’t see any of the actual battle, the trial of seven takes place entirely in a thick fog. The show’s producers claim this was because they don’t have enough money in their coffers to show a joust, but if you’ve seen any of the series The Pendragon Cycle, which operates on a micro-budget compared to the one mustered up by HBO for a Game of Thrones show, you know that’s total crap. The Pendragon Cycle routinely shows big battles, and they don’t hide them behind a smokescreen. This is just what Game of Thrones does. It teases the audience with something awesome, then shoots it in a way that never shows anything awesome.
After missing most of the battle, though, Duncan’s awake and ready to fight. Now, after that flashback, we know that what’s driving him isn’t goodness and decency, but standard Game of Thrones anger and filth.
Fortified with hatred for the world, Duncan gets involved in the fight, mostly by falling down in the muck and getting brutally stabbed out of nowhere a lot. Soon, there’s another knight wading around in the mud with him, and they’re both a mass of blood and gore, but they begin half-heatedly stabbing and hitting each other.
Many more minutes of mud later, Duncan collapses again and lies there staring at a puddle through his one remaining good eye before getting back up and punching his opponent in the face until he gives up. Some brains fall out of a heroic character’s head, everyone looks like hell, and there’s nothing enjoyable or pleasant in any of it. Just mud and gore. You thought you were watching A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, but really it’s still season eight of Game of Thrones, and everything sucks, and there’s no way out.
Game Of Thrones Hates Its Audience, And Always Has
Except this is worse. Because the show’s first four episodes showed that the people making it know exactly what their audience wants and are totally capable of giving it to them. They’re just not going to do it. They’re so obsessed with gore and sick, they’d rather spit in the face of their viewers than give them anything uplifting, beautiful, and heroic. This is a show that hates its audience and wants them to suffer even more than it wants to hurt its characters.
It’s a sickness, and one with only a single cure. Give up and go watch The Pendragon Cycle. There’s nothing worthwhile left in Westeros.
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ChatDJT has entered the chat …. Nicki Minaj honored her new favorite POTUS this Presidents’ Day with A.I.-generated photos of Donald J. Trump riding shotgun with her.
Check out the pics … the fake DJT is swagged out in gear fit for a Barbz — pink jacket and bedazzled jeans with a lot of bling hanging from his neck.
If you look closely, you can see that the original image appears to have featured Nicki’s husband, Kenneth Petty. A reflection that looks a lot like Kenneth is seen in the window behind the A.I. Trump’s head.
Looks like even Nicki’s hubby is taking a backseat to Trump these days. Sorry, Kenny!
As we reported … Nicki referred to herself as probably Trump’s biggest fan last month and — wouldn’t you know it — the next day she revealed she was gifted a “free” Trump Gold Card, giving her a fast pass to citizenship.
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Fieri tells EW he’s “got a million” catchphrases — none of which he expected to stick. But there’s one he hears everywhere he goes.
By Chris Snellgrove
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While many Star Trek fans dislike various characters in Starfleet Academy, the one they hate the most isn’t one of the main characters. Like members of the early Discovery bridge crew, she has a name, but almost nobody watching actually knows it. To them, she’s mostly “the girl who ate her comm badge.”
This character (who is actually named Pickford) has only appeared in three episodes so far, and she’s always in the background, being generally useless. So useless, in fact, that you might find yourself wondering why the writers put such a stupid character in their prestige sci-fi show. Now, some Star Trek fans have a compelling theory about Pickford: that her stupidity is just an act, and she’s secretly a spy for Nus Braka!
The Woman Who Knew Too Little
In the very first episode of Starfleet Academy (“Kids These Days”), Pickford stood out in the worst possible way, nervously admitting to the Doctor that she had swallowed her comm badge. Critics pointed to this as an example of the new show having the kind of broad comedy more suitable to a Saturday morning cartoon than a new Star Trek show. After all, this was a character training to be the best of the best, but she appeared to have the wits and intelligence of a toddler in her first appearance.
She doesn’t acquit herself very well later, either: in that premiere episode, she has a full-on meltdown after Nus Braka’s pirate attack. Later, she’s rude to the holographic SAM, and in the most recent episode (“Come, Let’s Away”), she had another panic attack in a tense situation and had to be escorted off the bridge. So far, Pickford has revealed herself to be rude, stupid, and completely useless in almost any situation, prompting a growing number of Star Trek fans to ask why she was put in the show in the first place.
A Secret Spy?
Apart from just being annoying, the biggest issue with Pickford is that she doesn’t seem to be Starfleet material. Sure, she’s in the academy and wears the uniform, but she seems to have none of the emotional and mental discipline you’d expect from a future Starfleet officer. This is in direct contrast to Starfleet Academy‘s Big Bad Nus Braka, who presents himself as a goofy joke (complete with cackling monologues about time being an origami chicken) but is secretly hypercompetent.
That competence was on full display in “Come, Let’s Away,” an episode where Starfleet asks for his help in defeating nefarious villains known as the Furies. Braka pretends to cooperate, but he manipulates the situation to his advantage and has his flunkies destroy a Starfleet vessel. Later, he disables and ransacks an entire Starbase, which is quite the accomplishment; sure, the Klingons in Discovery took out a base, but now, a simple space pirate was able to obtain the same accomplishment as one of the fiercest space empires the galaxy has ever known.
In “Come, Let’s Away,” this is presented as evidence that Nus Braka is a criminal genius, but some fans aren’t buying it. A growing number of viewers believe that the only way this skeezy pirate is able to so consistently outwit the smartest people in the quadrant is because he has someone on the inside, feeding him information. The primary suspect, surprisingly enough, is the girl who fed herself a comm badge!
Hiding In Plain Sight
Why do people think Nus Braka has a spy within Starfleet? For one thing, he has shown up whenever Chancellor Ake takes her students into space; this was explained in the first episode (he tracked Caleb’s transmission), but in the second episode, he seems to know enough about the Furies and their plan to coordinate an attack that destroyed a Starfleet ship and crippled a Starbase. He was likely coordinating with the Furies and possibly with his spy, which might be why he attacked a Starbase that focuses on researching (as Nelrec says) “classified things.”
Obviously, there are many characters that could be potential spies for Nus Braka: Genesis is still very mysterious and seems to share the space pirate’s Daddy issues. Nelrec is continually disillusioned by working with Starfleet, so he might very well team up with Chancellor Ake’s biggest enemy. Heck, even the Doctor may have become disillusioned enough (or just reprogrammed) to change sides, and since multiple versions of this character exist in the galaxy, Braka might have even replaced the Voyager Doctor with a copy loyal to him.
However, I agree with the fans who think Pickford is a secret spy: antics like swallowing her comm badge are a great way to ensure that nobody thinks she is smart enough to be a double agent. Plus, her frequent meltdowns could just be a convenient way to take her out of the action. For example, she could have easily communicated with Nus Braka in “Come, Let’s Away” after being escorted from the bridge, transmitting to the pirate once she is in her quarters and away from prying eyes and ears.
Is Starfleet Academy About To Redeem Its Worst Character?
There is no definitive proof that Nus Braka has a spy, and he may very well just be the criminal mastermind he presents himself as. But now that the Federation has placed him at the top of their Most Wanted list, it stands to reason we’ll see more of this villain going forward. Honestly, it would be downright shocking if we don’t get some big reveals in the season finale, and a secret spy update would be the biggest reveal of them all.
Right now, all my latinum is on Pickford, if only because it would be such a delightful heel turn: how cool would it be if the dumbest, most incompetent cadet turns out to be the biggest traitor since Seska? This would redeem Starfleet Academy’s throwaway character in the most unexpected way and give us a new villain to hate. If nothing else, she and Nus Braka could have an earnest, onscreen debate about the most pressing question in the galaxy: what tastes better, a comm badge or an origami chicken?
Miss J Alexander claims that Tyra Banks has yet to visit him following the stroke that left him wheelchair-bound in 2022.
The former “America’s Next Top Model” judge opened up about where he stands with his former boss in the newly-released Netflix docuseries, “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.”
In the emotional reveal, Miss J confirmed that former co-stars Jay Manuel and Nigel Barker did show up at his hospital bedside to support him during his recovery.
And as the runway icon continues to reflect on his healing journey, speculation is also mounting about the possible return to television of “ANTM.”
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Miss J Alexander Says He Spent Five Weeks In A Coma After Stroke
Miss J’s misfortune began on December 27, 2022, when he suffered a stroke that rendered him unable to walk.
Speaking in the new Netflix docuseries, he recalled the traumatic events. “I had a stroke,” he said. “I woke up, I didn’t know where I was, other than the hospital.”
Revealing the full gravity of the ordeal, Miss J explained that he spent more than a month in a coma.
“I spent five weeks in a coma. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t talk,” he recounted.
The model also addressed his relationship with Banks, noting that although she expressed interest in visiting, she has yet to do so.
“She just sent me a text that she wants to come and visit me,” said Miss J. “But no, not yet.”
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‘Reality Check’ Reveals Which ‘ANTM’ Stars Came To See Miss J Alexander After Stroke
While Miss J says Banks has yet to come check in on him, the beloved runway coach has not been without support from old “ANTM” colleagues.
Among those said to have visited him during the early days of his recovery are Manuel and Barker.
Both “America’s Next Top Model” alumni reflected on the emotional toll of seeing their longtime friend hospitalized.
“It was just such a terrible shock, and really upsetting and horrifying and scary,” Barker said. “I don’t know whether he even wanted me to see him in that way.”
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Directors Of The Netflix Docuseries Say Miss J ‘Didn’t Want Sympathy’
Despite the severity of his condition, creators of the Netflix series say Miss J made one thing clear during production: he didn’t want to be portrayed as a figure of pity.
Directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan recalled meeting the former “America’s Next Top Model” judge for the first time after his stroke.
In an interview with Netflix Tudum, Sivan explained that their early conversations shaped the way his story was ultimately told in the series.
“What was important is not framing Miss J as a survivor,” the director said. “He is not his health. First and foremost, he’s a diva who just shattered every single glass ceiling.”
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‘ANTM’ Rumored To Be Returning For Cycle 25
Another bombshell to emerge from “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model” was Banks’s suggestion that the show may be headed back to television.
“I feel like my work is not done. You have no idea what we have planned for cycle 25,” Banks said, according to Entertainment Weekly.
The long-running modeling competition wrapped its 24th cycle in April 2018. A few years later, Banks was already expressing interest in bringing the show back to air.
“I feel that we should at least end at 25,” Banks told ABC in 2020. “We’re seeing if that could happen.”
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Miss J Alexander Teases Comeback After Stroke
In “Reality Check,” Miss J reunites with Manuel and Barker, as the trio reminisces on their years in the “ANTM” spotlight.
The veteran judge grew emotional while acknowledging that he no longer commands the runway the way he once did.
But despite the physical challenges he continues to face, Miss J made it clear that he has no intention of letting his story end there.
“I’m the person who taught models how to walk,” he said. “I taught models how to walk, and now I can’t walk… Not yet. [But] I’m determined to walk. I’m sure you’re going to see me again. It’s not over for me yet.”
Adrianne Curry on Tyra Banks
She Doesn’t Give a F*** … And I Respect It!!!
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If you’re looking for an apology from Tyra Banks for “America’s Next Top Model’s” controversial practices, you’ll be waiting a long time … and Adrianne Curry-Rhode loves that about her.
Adrianne, who won the first cycle of the ’00s reality competition, shared a video Monday saying that Tyra “will not bend the knee and I respect that.”
The way Adrianne sees it … Tyra genuinely is not sorry, so why should she apologize?
“What? Do you want her to lie? Lie and say how bad she feels?” Adrianne asked.
As you know … ‘ANTM’ is back in the zeitgeist lately because of the new Netflix docuseries, “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.”
In the docuseries, old transgressions are dug up … perhaps most notably, Shandi Sullivan‘s traumatic experience, which was filmed on the show.
While ‘ANTM’ seemed to frame Shandi’s “drunk shower sex” as an act of infidelity on Shandi’s part, Shandi says it was sexual assault.
Tyra has basically passed blame onto other producers, but according to Adrianne … at least Tyra’s not being fake.
In her video, Adrianne leaves a message for Tyra, saying, “Keep on being yourself — which is someone who doesn’t give a flying s***.”
Lexi Marvel and Sophie Rain have become two of the most recognizable faces linked to the viral Bop House, but according to the duo, fans still can’t tell them apart. From social media comments to real-life encounters, the influencers say they’re constantly mistaken for one another, with some followers even convinced they’re related. The confusion has only intensified since Marvel stepped into the Florida-based content house shortly after Rain’s departure, fueling comparisons that continue to dominate online conversations. Here’s what both creators are saying about the mix-ups, the Bop House transition, and why neither Lexi Marvel nor Sophie Rain is bothered by the resemblance.
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Fans Constantly Confuse Lexi Marvel And Sophie Rain
Lexi Marvel says mistaken identity has become a regular part of her daily life, especially when she’s out in public. “It happens in public more than people think. Someone will walk up and say, ‘Sophie, I love you,’ and start telling a whole story about a video they watched. When I say, ‘It’s Lexi,’ they look shocked, then they laugh and ask for the photo anyway,” Marvel told The Blast.
She added that the confusion doesn’t stop online either. “People will even tag me in edits and write captions like I’m Sophie, then argue with each other in the replies. I try to keep it simple and say, ‘Lexi here,’ because it’s not worth making anyone feel dumb,” she admitted.
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Social Media Has Been Calling Them ‘Twins’ For Months
Followers have been comparing the two creators across platforms for nearly a year, often questioning whether they are related because of their similar features.
Under an August Instagram post from Lexi Marvel, one user wrote, “Wow, you two are twins, wow,” while another added, “Looks like they are sisters,” alongside comments like “Wait, there’s two of them” and “Hi twins.” One even asked, “She has a sister?” The ongoing comparisons have become part of both influencers’ online identities, with fans frequently referring to them as “twin sisters.”
Others expressed how much they loved the duo, with one fan writing, “You two are the best duet.”
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Sophie Rain Says The Comparisons Don’t Bother Her
Sophie Rain says she experiences the same mix-ups in real life and online, but she takes it all in stride. “People mix us up in real life and in comments, and it doesn’t stop. Someone will run up and say, ‘Lexi, you killed it,’ and they are being so genuine.”
She added that she doesn’t see the resemblance as a negative. “It doesn’t bother me, because it’s not mean ever haha,” she said. “Lexi is beautiful and talented, so being compared isn’t an insult.”
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The Confusion Intensified After The Bop House Transition
The resemblance became an even bigger topic of conversation after Sophie Rain exited the Florida-based Bop House in late July and Lexi Marvel joined shortly afterward.
Rain addressed her departure publicly in August, saying the decision was entirely her own. “Leaving Bop House was my choice, and I have zero regrets,” she said.
She also made clear there was no tension between the two creators. “I think Lexi’s talented, and she’s going to bring her own energy to the house. It’s not about replacing me, it’s about keeping the brand fresh.”
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Bop House Fame And Viral Content Fuel The Comparisons
Lexi Marvel, a Puerto Rican influencer with more than 2.5 million Instagram followers, was formally introduced to the Bop House audience on August 10, quickly becoming part of its viral content ecosystem.
Since then, side-by-side videos and coordinated outfit posts featuring both women have continued to spark debate among fans. In one clip that amassed nearly 200,000 likes, the pair appeared together in matching loungewear, prompting comments about their nearly identical hair color, facial features, and styling.
The Bop House, formed in 2024 and often dubbed the “Gen Z Playboy Mansion,” has amassed more than 5 million followers on TikTok, with its creators building lucrative subscription businesses across multiple platforms, making any roster change a headline-worthy moment.
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“It’s ok for you to stay quiet in the face of blind stupidity, meanness and lack of empathy. But maybe you’re not okay,” Mehcad Brooks wrote on social media.
Last year, Prime Video added another action crime thriller hit to its catalog thanks to the British series, The Assassin. Featuring Keeley Hawes opposite Freddie Highmore in his first television role since the end of his shift on The Good Doctor, it was hailed by critics as a captivating-if-flawed mother-son spy story, earning a 74% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Though audiences were far less impressed overall with a 43% rating, an immediate rise to #1 on the Prime Video charts in the U.K. made a second season feel quite likely, especially with Highmore’s Edward en route to finally meet his birth mother.
Season 1 followed Edward to Greece as he hunted for answers about his parentage, bringing him face-to-face with his supposed mother, Julie, a former assassin. Before he could learn more about her and his father, however, her violent past caught up with her, sending them both on the run. With Julie’s quiet life upended, they had to navigate a shadowy conspiracy that placed the family in grave danger and roped in Edward’s fiancée, Kayla (Shalom Brune-Franklin). With the first episode outperforming the highest-viewed episodes of other buzzy Prime Video U.K. original series, like The Girlfriend and Harlan Coben’s Lazarus, development on Season 2 got underway back in November in hopes of a pick-up for more.
Sure enough, the streaming service has now confirmed in a new report that The Assassin would be coming back, with the dynamic duo of Hawes and Highmore in tow alongside a returning Brune-Franklin as Kayla and Devon Terrell as her brother, Ezra. Series writers and creators Harry and Jack Williams are also back at the helm, and they have a story laid out for Season 2. It’ll begin with a small jump, picking up after a calamitous trip to a currently unknown part of Northern Europe that opens a new rift between Edward and Julie. Exactly where their massive falling-out came from is unknown, but it’s enough to send them on their separate ways. Alone again, Julie slips back into her old ways as an assassin and begins dating again, while Edward goes on a honeymoon with Kayla that also goes horribly wrong. It all forces the two back together to take on the Spanish criminal underworld, assuming they can repair their relationship.
‘The Assassin’
Fleabag banner Two Brothers Pictures is producing The Assassin in association with All3Media International. In an official statement, Hawes hailed the series’ return as a chance to dig deeper and build on Julie’s history with Season 2, saying, “I can’t wait to step back into Julie’s world. To reunite with Freddie and our extraordinary cast, and to dive deeper into Julie’s life and her complicated relationship with Edward, is a privilege. There is so much more to uncover.” Highmore, too, heaped praise on the cast and crew in a separate statement, expressing plenty of excitement to get to match up with the BAFTA-nominated Hawes once more. “What fun it’ll be to get the gang back together – I can’t wait to be reunited with so many of the cast and crew. Harry and Jack have cooked up another spectacular adventure, and I feel so lucky to have the brilliant Keeley as a sparring partner once again.”
Series executive producers and Two Brothers partners Daisy Mount and Alex Merce also shared a few words on the official renewal, teasing many more twists to come in Season 2 that will keep viewers guessing.
“Reuniting with Keeley, Freddie, Shalom, and Devon is a real privilege as we dive back into the world of The Assassin – of course we couldn’t leave them sailing off into the sunset in blissful harmony. The second season is full of twists, turns and thrilling unpredictability – just like the characters at the center of it.”
The Assassin will begin filming Season 2 later this year. In the meantime, all episodes of Season 1 are available to stream on Prime Video in the U.K., AMC+ in the U.S., and Crave and CTV in Canada, with NBCUniversal having the rights in Latin America, HBO Max in France, Mediaset in Spain, and Stan in Australia. Stay tuned here at Collider for further updates on the series as it gets back to work.
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July 25, 2025
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Prime Video
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Paul Giamatti Defends Holly Hunter’s Bold Captain’s Chair Move in Star Trek’s New Spin-Off
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is the newest star in the galaxy of Star Trek shows, and it has attracted its share of controversy. Coming in for a surprising amount of criticism is the preference of Holly Hunter, who plays Chancellor Nahla Ake, to sit in her captain’s chair in an unconventional and decidedly informal fashion. However, Hunter’s castmates and fellow Star Trek alums have been quick to spring to her defense. Last week, fellow Starfleet captain Kate Mulgrew led the charge; now, it’s the turn of her on-screen arch-foe, Paul Giamatti.
Giamatti, who plays space pirate Nus Braka on the series, recently guested on The D-Con Chamber, a podcast hosted by Trek veterans Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer. The subject of Hunter came up, as Keating described her as “taking on the spirit of a cat,” and Giamatti gave her his full endorsement: “The first time I saw her do it, we went onto the set for the bridge, and she got in the chair like that, I just thought it was great. I’m sure there’s people who were outraged.” As a Trek fan himself, though, he didn’t share the outrage: “I’m an old Star Trek fan, and I thought, ‘That’s great.’ What a great thing that somebody is just gonna be that comfortable in there, and it’s a different kind of command stuff, you know.”
Who Is Nus Braka?
The hybrid offspring of a warlike Klingon and a contentious Tellarite (which Braka has referred to as a “Klingarite”), Nus Braka is a space pirate operating in the aftermath of The Burn, a galaxy-wide disaster that shattered the United Federation of Planets. He is first seen in the opening moments of the series, having masterminded the robbery of a Federation shuttle and the murder of its pilot. Put on trial by Ake alongside his accomplice, Anisha Mir (Tatiana Maslany), both he and Mir were sent to jail, separating the latter from her son, Caleb. A decade later, he’d escaped prison, leading the Venari Ral marauders in strikes against the still-rebuilding Federation. He comes into conflict with the new Starfleet Academy, which is led by Ake, and counts Caleb (Sandro Rosta) as a student as he searches for his lost mother. Recently, an encounter with the hostile Furies led Ake to seek Braka’s assistance…only to be double-crossed by the canny pirate.
Keating and Trinneer starred on Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005) as, respectively, Malcolm Reed and Charles “Trip” Tucker; they launched the podcast in 2024 after concluding their previous podcast, The Shuttlepod Show. Previous guests on The D-Con Chamber have included William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, and Enterprise captain Scott Bakula.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is now streaming on Paramount+; episode 7, “Ko’Zeine,” will premiere on Thursday. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
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January 15, 2026
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Paramount+
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Alex Kurtzman, Noga Landau
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Douglas Aarniokoski
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Alex Taub, Tawny Newsome, Kirsten Beyer, Jane Maggs, Kiley Rossetter
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The actress didn’t think the scenes were “very suggestive.”
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