One of the things that stands out - pun intended - about Starfleet Academy, is that the directors and production crew aren’t trying to hide the differences in height.

Holly Hunter isn’t afraid to let it be seen that she doesn’t even come up to Sandro’s shoulder.

Unlike Patrick Stewart who seemed to want more orange boxes deployed to minimize his height difference in Picard than has even been necessary in the constraints of old standard definition in TNG, the actors are comfortable being different in height and the directing style is working with it.

The villain of season 2 is not just a person. In a very classic Trek sense, it is more an impossible dilemma that we find ourselves in as Starfleet.

I’m guessing more conflict between the academy and the war college.

Hmm, I'm gonna go with something prime directive related.

@ValueSubtracted as long as it’s not the goddamn Borg…

At first glance I thought Kasq was a Borg cube.