Starfleet Academy (A Mighty Longing)

I said a while back that I was beginning to appreciate the lives of Sam and Dean Winchester.

Well, like that, I've started to have the same feelings towards Starfleet Academy.

Sure, we don't know a hell of a lot about what goes on in Starfleet, but I know I want to be there. I still have another week off school, and I love that, but then I'm going back. Then I have to put up with Media (possibly for a whole year if Critical Thinking doesn't pull through) and things will start to suck again. But imagine what you'd learn at Starfleet. Depending on the course, you could study languages of species we regularly interact with like Uhura does, or go down the logical path like Mr Spock and learn about how the ships navigate through space. Or how they work in the hull, like Scotty. Or just plain multispecies medicine like Bones.

A few times, we've seen kid geniuses fresh to/from the Academy. Most notable are Wesley Crusher and the lovely Pavel Chekov.

Wesley Crusher is one of my favourites.

Moony knows how I feel about Chekov already.

In the 2009 reboot, we see James Tiberius Kirk and his friend Leonard (Bones) McCoy outside one of the main Academy buildings.

And although it isn't much, everyone looks like they know where they're going. And of course, they're going to space. It takes Kirk 3 years to become Captain of the Enterprise, and Bones is chief of medicine, and they rock it perfectly.

You know when you're a kid, and after you've been reading about Hogwarts for a while you realise how stunningly boring your muggle school is? It feels like that. I want to go into space. I want to boldly go where no-one has gone before on a five year voyage in the Enterprise.

I want to work on the Bridge every day, or in Engineering, or the medical bay. Or Ten Forward, the bar in Next Generation.

Geordie is in the middle sat alone. Poor Geordie.

My point is, I suddenly have a desperate urge to be studying at Starfleet academy. I know it's pointless, and I have more chance at Hogwarts, but space has always fascinated me. And if I could ever get to here:

This pretty much sums up Bones' and Kirk's relationship in one frame.

Well, I'd be very happy. Why does Kirk always sit like that Spock isn't even in direct line.