Read this Star Trek: Starfleet Academy review to see if the episode “Come, Let’s Away” is worth watching.
Episode 6 of Starfleet Academy delivers one of the season’s most intense chapters yet, blending romance, psychological drama, and high-stakes sci-fi action into a chaotic training mission gone wrong. What starts as a routine cadet exercise aboard a derelict starship quickly spirals into a game of life and death. In this recap and review, we break down the USS Miyazaki disaster, Tarima’s emotional arc, the debut of the terrifying Furies, and how the episode’s explosive ending reshapes the future of Starfleet.
About Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
- Season 1, Episode 6: ”Come, Let’s Away”
- Directed by Larry Teng
- Written by Kenneth Lin & Kiley Rossetter
- Synopsis: During the cadets first training mission on an abandoned ship, they encounter a dangerous enemy.
- Airdate: February 12, 2026
- Starring: Holly Hunter, Stephen Adekolu, Kerrice Brooks, Stephen Colbert, Karim Diane, Alexander Eling, Troy James, Brit Marling, Sandro Rosta, Alex Somerville, Kaleb Tekeste, Jeff Teravainen, Dale Whibley,
Oded Fehr and Paul Giamatti
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Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Episode 6 ‘Come, Let’s Away”
Recap Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026): S1E06 – “Come, Let’s Away”
Episode Six of Starfleet Academy begins with the song UFO by Oliva Dean.
Caleb Mir (Sandro Rosta) and Tarima Sadal (Zoë Steiner) are making out, and I’m surprised how intimate it is. Definitely more action than your typical teenage TV show would have. She tells him about her first time with a guy who’s part Deltan. The same race as the bald alien telepath, Lt. Ilia from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. They laugh as she explains the complicated rituals around having sex involving tambourines and milk. Suddenly, the scene shifts to a field of flowers on a far-off world. It’s a Betazoid mind palace. She reaches out for a stuffed animal. It’s his Teddy Bear Scrap. The same one that was with Caleb when he was a boy at his mom’s sentencing. They’re in a mind palace because she wanted him to feel safe. But he’s furious that she was able to pull the painful memory from him without permission.
She apologizes, but he complains about her “weird Betazoid thing.” Tarima says if he can’t accept her for who she is, they should just break up. Frankly, if these scenes are supposed to show themin love, it’s going very badly. They keep fighting over petty things, and it’s really annoying. I am actively rooting for them to break up. Just then, there’s an announcement to go to the joint training exercise in the Atrium.
Joint Training Exercise Begins at the Starfleet Ship Graveyard
Later, the Academy cadets and the War College cadets gather to look at a spaceship graveyard for their assignment. Captain Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter) explains the exercise. Two teams will conduct a joint training exercise on the USS Miyazaki. Usually, Starfleet names the ships after scientists or main characters from the show. Still, this ship is either named after famed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki or a Harry Potter/Star Trek fanfiction story by William Raymer.
Anyway, the ship was a prototype for a Singularity Drive to replace warp drives after the Burn. When it was first activated, it killed the crew and was left to drift. The simulation they’re going to run has them splitting up to reactivate life support and restart the ship’s computer in 60 minutes. The Blue Team is sent on board under the command of Tomov (Jeff Teravainen). The Red Team stays on the bridge of the USS Athena to provide operational and logistical support.
Cadet Conflicts and Federation Doubts Surface
As they prepare, B’Avi (Alexander Eling), a Vulcan student at the War College, says the ship holds deep meaning for him. He used to read about the ship’s adventures in a comic book called “Tales From The Frontier.” Those stories inspired him to join the War College. Caleb bristles at the idea. He says it’s all “Federation propaganda” to brainwash kids into joining “Big Brother Starfleet.” This part is confusing to me. If he hates the Federation so much, then why is he in the Academy? This feels out of character.
But he quickly gets to work on hacking the life support system, and it turns out many of them have bet for and against the team jump-starting the system in less than 60 seconds. He gets it going, and they suddenly get warnings of a cloaked ship and a hostile alien race boarding the USS Miyazaki.
USS Miyazaki Mission Turns Into a Hostage Crisis
The leader, N’Duwo Skra (Stephen Adekolu), hails the Federation and says he and his Furies are claiming the ship for salvage. They’ve captured the cadets and demand 30,000 bars of Latinum in five hours, or they’ll eat the young men and women. These guys are new to Star Trek, and they’re already my new favorite villainous race. Creepy, weird, and terrifying.
Admiral Vance and Braka Enter High-Stakes Negotiations
Admiral Charles Vance (Oded Fehr) does a Skype call and says they’re getting the money together, but the Furies have a habit of eating hostages. There aren’t many options except one. The Venari Ral, led by Nus Braka (Paul Giamatti), kicked them out of Sector 119. She needs to work with him to find the weapon they used on the Furies.
While they’re deliberating, the cadets break free and seal themselves on the bridge. However, Tomov is captured and eaten while protecting them. Someone quotes a famous general who said, “The needs of the many outweigh the few.” Of course, this is a reference to Spock in Wrath of Khan. No time to mourn him, though. They don’t know the ship is being jammed to stop transporters, but they figure something is giving the Furies a tactical advantage. SAM interfaces with the computer and communicates with it.
Tracking the Cloaked Ship and Restoring the Miyazaki Computer
Meanwhile, back on the Athena, they see the body being shot out of the airlock and panic. She brings Barak on board, and Giamatti is in rare form. He’s funny, charismatic, and terrifying as he taste tests a variety of tequila from the replicators. The pirate says there’s no negotiating with the scavengers because they’re wracked in pain and only get sadistic pleasure from hurting others. At first, Ake tries to get his help by offering humanitarian supplies. Nus isn’t interested in that. Turns out his father used to beat him “hourly,” but he taught Nustopher that controlling traffic is the most important thing. Braka wants the Federation to stop supplying dilithium to Taygeta I so he can control the shipping lanes. There’s a weird scene when he seems to imply that the two were intimate. It’s a strange continuing theme with her old male friends. The Klingarite demands to be treated with respect.
At the same time, Genesis Lythe (Bella Shepard) figures out how to track the cloaked ship using the debris. She and Darem Reymi (George Hawkins) make plans to pilot a probe through the remains of the starship looking for the enemy.
Comic Book Clues and System Reboots
Meanwhile, Sam (Kerrice Brooks) boots up the computer. Unfortunately, it doesn’t know the crew is dead and refuses to follow the commands of the cadets. So they decide to use the comic books to get the system up to speed. It realizes that the crew of the Miyazaki was on a rescue mission when something went “terribly wrong,” and the “crew did not survive.” What a coincidence, they had copies on hand! While the ship is processing the historical archives, Tarima Facetimes Caleb and finds out the cadets are alive.
Tarima’s Betazoid Abilities and the Dangerous Implant Reveal
At the same time, Braka is playing mind games with Eke about sacrificing her son to save a ship. He claims she’s in a trauma loop and playing it out with Caleb. They’re interrupted when the captain is called to the bridge.
Tarima’s brother, Ocam (Romeo Carere), tells them that she can go deeper than other Betazoids and accidentally damaged their father’s auditory cortex when she was young. That’s why she has the psilosynine-dampening implant to keep her powers under control. The writers referenced psilosynine several times with Troi in The Next Generation. It’s a fascinating and moving explanation of how powerful she is. She wants to remove the implant to talk to Caleb, but The Doctor says it could put her in shock or kill her.
Sonic Weapons, Sector Politics, and Braka’s Hidden Agenda
That’s when Nahla reveals that she thinks the trader’s playing mind games but can’t figure out what. But they’re out of time, and The Doctor temporarily disables the inhibitor so she can contact the cadets again.
Back with Eke and Braka, she confronts him with the truth that he lost control of Sector 119 and calls him a crybaby coward trying to use them to get rid of the Furies. Finally, he reveals that the cannibal aliens are part bat and sensitive to sonic weapons.
A nearby starship, the USS Sargasso, is modified and sent with an experimental sonic disruption beam. I’m not sure how that works in space without sound, but you can ask George Lucas. The disruption should be long enough to drop the jamming field and allow them to teleport the kids back to the ship.
Singularity Drive Activation and the Betrayal Twist
When Tarima and Caleb connect again, they apologize to each other before she tells him they need to reactivate the Singularity Drive. She says to tell B’Avi to run “Tiny Fireflies.” Just then, Lythe and crew manage to find the cloaked ship, Sam gets them access to Engineering, and the Vulcan tracks down the Singularity Drive system.
Eke finds out that the Sargasso was at base J19-Alpha with highly classified technology. She also finds out that Nus Braka sent an encrypted message to the cloaked ship. That’s when they find out it wasn’t a Fury vessel. It’s Venari Ral. Turns out Braka was working with the Furies the whole time! Frankly, this surprised me. I knew the guy was evil. But working with alien cannibals is a new low. They decrypt the message, which reads “They took the bait. Bon appétit.” Wow.
Tarima Unleashes Full Power in a Brutal Psychic Showdown
The Vulcan engineer starts the Singularity Drive, which drops the shields, but it also deactivates the force field around the bridge. The Furies break through, and there’s not enough time to lock on the kids with the teleporter. A blast knocks Sam out, and another blasts B’Avi through the chest. It looks like they’re about to become Krappy Patties.
Suddenly, Tarima rips the inhibitor out of her neck and screams. There’s a slow-motion shot of the Fury’s heads exploding as the Begazoid starts popping their heads like grapes.
The day is saved. Or so it seems.
Aftermath, Trauma, and Braka’s Ominous Threat
Vance does another Zoom call to reveal that without the Sargasso, the starbase was ransacked by Braka’s ships. USS Discovery and several other ships tried to save as many escape pods as they could, but it was a massacre. Nus Braka has become the most wanted man in the Galaxy, and the kids are going to need a lot of trauma counseling. Tarima is in a coma after her brain-blasting episode. It’s been a long and traumatic day for the Academy and the War College.
Back in Eke’s quarters, she gets a holographic message from Braka. He says his hatred of her and the way she looks down on him helped him. He promises that this is just the beginning and more is coming for her. He calls her “the best teacher I ever had.”
Overall: Watch Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026): S1E06 – ‘Come, Let’s Away”
Watch the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode “Come, Let’s Away” because it’s the most action-packed episode so far.
A lot of Starfleet Academy reviews complain that the show has low stakes. Playing pranks and getting back story about holograms and Klingon doctors. But this episode went in the opposite direction. Tons of action and threats from without and within. This is the first episode to really deal with the school’s effect on the Federation and its place in the universe. The acting in this episode is well-done, with Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti taking center stage.
The episode also raises the stakes by killing two characters. Even though they’re not the main cast, it’s a pretty shocking body count for “90210 in space.” Braka establishes himself as a major villain in the Star Trek universe. Not Khan level but definitely above Harry Mudd. This episode would have been better at 30 minutes since the hour-long runtime made it overstuffed with ideas and characters. The ending feels a bit random with a Deus Ex Machina ending that saves the day.
If anyone you know has dismissed the show as High School Musical in space, then sit them down for this episode. It’s easily one of the top five episodes of the inaugural season and well worth watching. And there are still four episodes left.
I’m giving this episode 3 out of 5 stars
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Click the link to read our review of the previous episode, “Series Acclimation Mil.”
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Reviews and Recaps:
- Episode 1: “Kids These Days”
- Episode 2: “Beta Test”
- Episode: 3 “Vitus Reflux”
- Episode: 4 “Vox in Excelso”
- Episode: 5 “Series Acclimation Mil”
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