There is one thing all Starfleet officers have in common. They all went through intense training at the "Starfleet Academy" before serving in their respective starships.
Learning how to communicate with alien cultures and fixing a starship were both part of the experiences in the Academy. So, no matter who your favorite "Star Trek" character is, they were once cadets at the most celebrated training facility in the universe, Starfleet Academy.
I think that the communication classes would be my favorite, and maybe even do a study abroad program in Jupiter would be fun. Either way, joining the Starfleet Academy would be like getting accepted in any of our Ivy League universities—but with a way cooler job at the end. And, instead of taking Spanish classes, you would learn Klingon.
Other than that, it's like any other university, where SWAG is an essential part of showing your pride. You know, like how everyone seems to have a Harvard sweatshirt even though there's no way all these people went to Harvard. Anyway, these fresh items will show people you're fit to be a live-action pilot at any starship.
Popfunk Star Trek: Starfleet Academy T Shirt & Stickers
What's more fitting for a student than a deal? Nothing. This t-shirt comes with free stickers! Wear this red shirt to class and use those stickers to decorate your favorite water bottle. That is the ultimate college look. Plus, it shows that San Francisco pride.
BSW Star Trek Starfleet Academy "2161 Ex Astris Scientia" Premium Hoodie
School isn't school without your favorite hoodie. Many students wear only hoodies and jeans year round. And, that's still better than the incredible amount of students who wear sweatpants, or even pijamas. Besides if all you do is study and play video games this is your uniform.
Alumni Starfleet Academy T-Shirt
Prove that you aced the Kobayashi Maru Scenario and passed every flight simulator test thrown your way. This alumni t-shirt shows you have the wisdom to portray a Starfleet officer with the likes of Walter Koenig, William Shatner and George Takei. Just make sure that you don't confuse your Starfleet alumni shirt with the one from your actual school during the reunion.
Ata-Boy Star Trek Insignias Collectible Buttons
Again, any stereotypical college student has a backpack covered in pins and buttons. I'm sure young Pavel Chekov-like cadets would also cover their bags with cool buttons if it didn't infringe with the uniform regulations.
QMX Star Trek Starfleet Academy Class Ring Replica
You deserve a class ring. Even if your training on exploring new worlds and fighting federation enemies mainly consists on a pc game released in 2000, yes I'm talking about the Klingon Academy. This is the perfect accessory to show off when you want to prove that you are both a Trekkie and a dedicated scientist, or engineer, or explorer, or whatever you are.
Star Trek: The Starfleet Survival Guide
This is like a "Starfleet for Dummies" kind of book. But, let me tell you, it is good. Going to school means reading a bunch of books anyways, so might as well read one you are actually going to enjoy. According to the Amazon description, this book will alow you to learn all the basic skills a Federation officer needs. Like "mapping countless solar systems, greeting new species and establishing ties with civilizations large and small." Basically, this book turns you into the next Commander Chekov.
Star Trek Starfleet Academy Delta Emblem Raglan Baseball Tee
All schools have sport teams. Which means that you will need to rock some game-day approved attire. This is exactly what baseball tees were made for. This tee includes the Delta emblem, and is one of the comfiest t-shirts you could own.
Star Trek Starfleet Academy Parrises Squares Champion T-Shirt
Since we are on the subject of school sport many are not expectations, but jocks, even at the academy. Granted, they might not be as obsessed in who the captain of the football team is as regular American universities, but sports require a degree of discipline and effort that I'm sure Starfleet appreciates. So, whether you were a jock at your own school, or the captain of the chess team, you can wear this awesome shirt and show who's the champion of parrises squares.
Deluxe Star Trek Starfleet Academy Certificate
Nothing says "graduate" like a diploma. Most of us spend thousands and thousands of dollars (and end up in debt) just for that piece of paper. Thankfully this one is pretty cheap. You can get a Starfleet certificate proving that you are done with your warp studies and Klingon language classes even if you have no idea how to say "hello." Either way, you can put it up in a frame and start collecting degrees without the debt and stress that comes with college.
Speedy Pros Faculty Vehicle Starfleet Academy Zinc Metal License Plate Frame
I know I've been going on and on about everything students need. But, we have stuff for your favorite Trekkie teacher too. Because we all know they'd rather be working at the Starfleet Academy than in some other school where you can't use the transporter to beam wherever you want, and replicators to have your favorite meal for lunch every day. Plus, they can use this for their car while blasting the "Star Trek" soundtrack by Ron Jones, and feel like they are driving through the CBS Studios.
No matter how you wish to show your Trekkie pride, we all know that you would have aced the Academy. Although I am thankful we do not have to go through those training exercises that leave you in the middle of the desert for months in order to see your survival skills. I think that the Starfleet Academy experience overall might be more fun in theory than in practice. But hopefully someday we do have the means to create starships and explore where no ship has gone before.
Curious to hear from ex-lovers who've been there, Redditor Lishasquarepant asked:
"What caused your last break-up?"
These Redditors found they and their significant other were no longer on the same page.
"Simply, we grew apart."
– catetheway
"Same, I feel like Michael Scott everytime I try to start another relationship. 'No question about it, I am ready to get hurt again.'"
– Gthew
Happier Apart
"Same. We loved each other like siblings, not spouses... Ugh! Lovely man though who now has a fab girlfriend. We are good friends and much happier apart."
– MoxieHasKnottyBits
No Regrets
"Same. And it f'king sucks, but that’s life. It’s been a year and I still hate every second that she’s not in my life, but at the same time I know she’s happier now than she would’ve been if we stayed together."
– throway35885328
Having no communication is the worst part.
Silent Partner
"He slowly got distant. I believe he lost interest and didn't dare be honest with me about that."
– GaiaNatur77
The Late Blame Game
"I had that happen as well, but then he pinned it on me being distant and not affectionate enough."
"My guy, if you pull your hand away every time I try to hold it, I'm gonna stop trying to hold it. And if I ask if something's up and you repeatedly tell me everything is fine, I'm going to believe you. Don't wait till I'm at my worst moment and then reveal you had issues with me for 3 months and break up with me for it being 'my fault.'"
– Billielolly
"Everything Is Fine"
"Oh man, the asking repeatedly and getting a 'nothing' reminds me of a story."
"My friend used to ask her ex this every time he was unusually quiet. He’d always say he was fine, then at one point, told her to stop asking because it was making him feel weird."
"So she did."
"Six months later he initiated a divorce because she didn’t care about his feelings anymore."
"Like…don’t ask for sh*t then get pissy when you get what you want."
– TheRealJackReynolds
And then there are those who were not invested in the relationship for a long time.
The Struggle Is Real
"He seemed to struggle with the concept of not f'king random people."
– spanglesandbambi
Leaving The Problem
"He moved to his country because he missed his family. So he only sent a WhatsApp message saying he was going to stay there. I would have preferred a call at least to break up a marriage."
– kattia12
New Life
"Something similar happened to my cousin. He married her in the US, they had a baby together.. a few years go by, he misses home, goes back to visit.. His family had an arranged marriage ready for him 🤦🏻♀️ He ended up with a new wife and new baby. Hasn’t came back."
– MysticalMom7
A Foreign Custom
"It just seems so surreal that a grown a** adult with a wife and baby would leave his family behind for an arranged marriage. I'll never fathom the mentality."
– ro0ibos2
Ouch
"I wasn't having sex near as often as she was."
– YourWordsMatter
Breaking up is hard to do.
But a good thing to remember is that love can be found again and the new relationship can be even better than the previous one.
And that's something that can't be recognized until you look back in retrospect.
We all have to kiss a few toads.
Redditor TractorLoving wanted to hear about the things many of us have seen that left us shaken and a bit scared, so they asked:
"What's the most creepy thing you've ever witnessed?"
I've lost track of the number of things that have creeped me out in life.
I barely leave the house.
From the bushes...
the lion king disney GIFGiphy"When I was about 12 I was sleeping on my trampoline with a friend and we heard the bushes move behind us, we flashed our flashlight to the bushes and a mountain lion was laying there stalking us, I have never run so fast in my life."
Fortherecord87
Voices
"Finding my dad dead in his recliner. I swear I heard his voice when the coroner came for his body."
PolesawPolska
"My granddad knocked over my great-grandma's ashes in his car accidentally, and to this day swears he heard her laugh, loud and clear as if she was standing next to him. She had a hugely wicked sense of humor and would have found this (and my very stressed granddad carefully collecting her ashes back into the container before my grandma saw) very funny."
Tanyaaahhh
From the Sea
"When I was serving my time as an engineer in the merchant navy we used to have to clean out what is called 'sea chests;' they're basically big filters for seawater that we would pump in to use as coolant and if the pumps were on when we were dockside we'd find all sorts of things like bottles, fish, crabs etc."
"One day we opened up the chest, pulled out the filter, and immediately saw this gold shiny thing which turned out to be a Rolex watch. Usually, we'd just dump out the filter but with the mitigating circumstances, we went through it thoroughly and found a piece of a shirt with cufflink still attached and last but not least a nicely rotted finger."
"The police ended up closing off the dock and dredging it but never found anything on the end." ~ MarkyBhoy101
Terrified
Watching I See You GIF by TravisGiphy"This guy followed me home. Said he saw me there often and named a few local spots I go to sometimes as places he sees me. It’s been about a year. Never saw him again. I was terrified for a little while for sure."
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Stay vigilant out there kids.
People are watching and some of us don't notice.
Back Up Creep
Scared Homer Simpson GIF by reactionseditorGiphy"I was in a restaurant years ago on lunch break. At the time I was a very thin 25-year-old woman. There was this big creepy guy sitting there who would NOT stop staring at me from the moment I walked in the door."
"I mean just open face staring without blinking for the entire 15 minutes I was eating several seats away. I asked for a box and left early to get away from him. As I walked out he said, 'You shouldn't be out alone. Someone's going to grab you and steal you away." 100% convinced creepazoid had someone locked up in his basement."
xain_the_idiot
'Youth in need'
"Was working in a restaurant. Nice place. That night we held a charity dinner for a 'youth in need' type of house. The guy representing the house, a worker there, was such a nice and kind man. Every teen there was only saying nice things about him. A good soul, that was giving everything he could for these teens."
"At one point they gave a big check to the charity. I must guess an amount they rarely received. Well under the excitement, that poor man had a cardiac arrest. Dropped there on the stage, cheque in hand. He couldn't be brought back. He died. Seeing this was already bad enough, but the kids everywhere in the restaurant screaming and crying for hours after... haunting."
Agronut
Inside the House
"One random night in middle school I woke up and had the odd feeling that something or someone was present in the house and coming towards my room. I was scared so I closed my eyes to pretend to be asleep. I could faintly hear something come into my room and it felt like someone was standing over me, looking to make sure I was asleep. I laid on my back, eyes shut, until the feeling passed, and ended up falling asleep. I woke up in the morning to find out that our house was robbed."
ThatOtherOtherGuy3
There in lies the rub...
"Well dressed 50 something business dude on a quiet Chicago L train reading a Wall Street Journal. Pretty woman with long curly hair dozing in the seat in front of him, her hair dangling behind the seat. The guy is rubbing and playing with her hair while reading his paper so I figure she's his wife or girlfriend who just wanted some space to nap."
"He is now intently rubbing and fondling her hair and not reading anymore. Suddenly she snaps awake and pulls in her hair like a bug was in it or something. She gets off at the next stop, he continues reading. They didn't know each other at all."
mtzuker
Why do people feel the need to overshare?
People really need to discuss boundaries.
