‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Team on Jay-Den’s Love Life: ‘All These Aliens Are Really Hot’

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Episode 4, “Vox in Excelso.”]

Jay-Den (Karim Diané) is not like other Klingons on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and the Thursday, January 29, episode highlights just that.

As flashbacks reveal, his brother knew that he had aspirations beyond those of other Klingons, to be a healer, and encouraged him; his father, however, did not seem to — until Lura (Gina Yashere) suggested that he actually set Jay-Den free with his reaction. Meanwhile, in the present day, Jay-Den grapples with a debate competition that ends up having bigger implications. A Klingon ship carrying eight houses to a refugee camp suffers catastrophic mechanical failure and his family is on board. The debate becomes whether or not the federation should intervene to help, and Jay-Den argues against it. Nahla (Holly Hunter) then brings him on the bridge to use his strategy to get the Klingons to accept help — by making them think they fought for and won a planet as the spoils of war.