[Nate the Great]

Whoa, what a subject jump! I agree, more nonhumans would be nice, but I'd like to suggest that there be more of species we've seen before, and less people that represent their entire species, a la Morn.

You don't think cadets have interesting lives? I trust most of you either are in college or remember it. Those days were the most ... intense ... of our lives. Anything can happen. Everything will happen, in one form or another. Remember that Starfleet Academy is more than just another college. They regularly go to the moon and all over the Earth to experience new places, to come face-to-face with who they are and what they want to be. Granted Saved By the Bell in Space would be a bad direction for Trek, but what about something serious? How do these Ensigns learn all that they do? How do they see the legends of Starfleet? How did they get to the Academy? How do they deal with scenarios they've never seen before, like death, putting your fate in another's hands, being forced to make other people trust you because you're Starfleet and you're trained to do these things. That's drama, it's exploring the human condition, which is what I thought Trek was all about in the first place.