Night of the Hats

  Star Trek: Starfleet Academy From the start, a regular Star Trek show has a starship visiting planets, and thus a regular episode is one in which they arrive at a new location, encounter a situation, and attempt to resolve it. Following this they then move on, the continuity between locations lesser or greater depending on the particular show and the style at the time. Perhaps the largest and most successful alternative is Deep Space Nine , though as a port of call at an important and politically sensitive location, an early episode template would be essentially the inverse; someone comes to visit the station and creates a situation that requires resolving, following which they move on. Starfleet Academy is partially built around a training ship, the Athena , and as well as heading out in space plays host to more than one event on site. Co-located with the War College in San Francisco they do go to places and people come to them, with situations that need resolving. Due to...