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Star Trek: Prodigy is really really good
kayajay
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I love it. I REALLY love it.
It's a Star Trek series, with beam phasers, an actual Starfleet looking ship...and SO importantly, it's a breath of fresh air from the dark misery that Trek has become over the last few years.
Star Trek always used to have joy, as least for me, but it's been genocide, murder, TRIBBLE, violence...after a JJ-Verse film and an episode of Disco, I feel depressed, because it's just so miserable. Dark does not equate good. I don't know when that started in television, because compare SG-1 to Universe...
Now, I want to Protostar. I'd give anything for that to be added to STO, instead of ships like the Tooth. It's somewhat Emissary...which I never actually cared for in the game, but this design is gorgeous and photographs so well from every angle.
It's say that it's more like a Nova-size, can land, it's the only time I've ever appreciated a glass bridge and what price Kate? I'll admit, her voice has changed over the years, but I adore that she's doing this. It gives me hope that she'll do STO too, ESPECIALLY if we get a Prodigy themed episode.
I know, I know...a lot of people are going to slag this off as being a kid's show, but I'll watch the four episodes already out on repeat, over four seasons of Disco.
It's EPISODIC! I've missed that so dearly. It's well-written, thought-through, it's TREK as I know it.
I mean, the idea of a Medusan being there was genius!
I am honestly expecting Strange New Worlds to be as dark and depressing as Disco, but I'll hold out my hopes that it'll be more akin to the joy of Prodigy.
Pounce on me if you like, but I don't want the 32nd Century, with producer-driven ship designs, mass extinction "storylines" and underdeveloped "characters".
Fingers crossed on Janeway cameoing, on the Protostar appearing and real stories making a return to STO, instead of just waves and wave of enemy ships.
Unnecessarily gatekeepy title changed. — WingedHussar
It's a Star Trek series, with beam phasers, an actual Starfleet looking ship...and SO importantly, it's a breath of fresh air from the dark misery that Trek has become over the last few years.
Star Trek always used to have joy, as least for me, but it's been genocide, murder, TRIBBLE, violence...after a JJ-Verse film and an episode of Disco, I feel depressed, because it's just so miserable. Dark does not equate good. I don't know when that started in television, because compare SG-1 to Universe...
Now, I want to Protostar. I'd give anything for that to be added to STO, instead of ships like the Tooth. It's somewhat Emissary...which I never actually cared for in the game, but this design is gorgeous and photographs so well from every angle.
It's say that it's more like a Nova-size, can land, it's the only time I've ever appreciated a glass bridge and what price Kate? I'll admit, her voice has changed over the years, but I adore that she's doing this. It gives me hope that she'll do STO too, ESPECIALLY if we get a Prodigy themed episode.
I know, I know...a lot of people are going to slag this off as being a kid's show, but I'll watch the four episodes already out on repeat, over four seasons of Disco.
It's EPISODIC! I've missed that so dearly. It's well-written, thought-through, it's TREK as I know it.
I mean, the idea of a Medusan being there was genius!
I am honestly expecting Strange New Worlds to be as dark and depressing as Disco, but I'll hold out my hopes that it'll be more akin to the joy of Prodigy.
Pounce on me if you like, but I don't want the 32nd Century, with producer-driven ship designs, mass extinction "storylines" and underdeveloped "characters".
Fingers crossed on Janeway cameoing, on the Protostar appearing and real stories making a return to STO, instead of just waves and wave of enemy ships.
Unnecessarily gatekeepy title changed. — WingedHussar
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I would not - Harry Potter was not designed purely for kids, like Prodigy likely is being...I can't see young kids reading books 4-7 given the content in them, whereas the first three are (mostly) more age-appropriate.
Then again, I used to play Diablo 2 and watch Armageddon when I was 10, so I'm not exactly a good authority on what is age-appropriate for kids.
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
It was never designed to be pitch to a specific audience *if there's evidence that says otherwise, was never aware of it*
Now, it is divided now, and Prodigy attempts to close that gap, it attempts, attempts...it is not there yet.
But last week's showing left me...aimless, and now with the break coming up after the 5th part airs this week, and takes a month break and a few weeks, keeping that attention span should be important for maintain that interest, but that will suffer somewhat for not being consistent.
Good luck...on trying to keep that up.
It's my only shining light, so I'm keeping the candle burning. STO used to do that for me, until the influx of Disco, but I've high hopes...well, I'm basically putting all of my eggs in one basket, because there are literally no other baskets.
Oh and officially...Murf is my favourite new Trek character, in 24-years. I'd have him as a BOFF in a heartbeat :-)
Personally i would have loved to see Voyager not being episodic. It would have given a lot more depth to the show if it didn't have a reset every episode.
There are things i like and dislike in discovery, mostly in character focus and development. But that is a debate on its own.
Nah, I like it.
And the Protostar is hot, and reminds me a lot of the original Star Cruiser. Of course, the Star Cruisers are way too big to make the Protostar a variant of it. But just a Protostar would mean almost no space barbie.
One huge reason not to like the crew.. they left the kitty behind.
Oh, not me. Look at Dreadnought and one of my favourites Deadlock...they just wouldn't work worked in a serial. It also helped when you invariably had a duff episode/writer for that episode, like Threshold. Episodic means they're telenovelas and some of them, I would love to have two-parters, or maybe even three. DS9 got away with it's serial last season, but again...the episodic episodes were so good. It naturally gave a way for some characters to be in the limelight and to tell stories that just wouldn't work stretched out. The Kira episodes were especially good, like Second Skin and those dealing with her old Resistance buddies and Winn.
And yeah, Prodigy is aiming pretty much all of its characters at a younger audience, but then previous Treks have done that too. Wesley was a child, Quark was comic relief, Neelix and Paris were like squabbling teenagers and there was so much camp going on through all the series. Mr. Mott, Morn, Rom massively, younger actors like Naomi and Nog...it was a mixed bag and there are some episodes very suitable for a younger audience, just like Prodigy is also suitable for an older one.
For me, I grew up watching He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats, Dungeons & Dragons and they're cult classics today. I know CGI has come a long way, but it's almost far more believable what happens in cartoon animation, then what happens with CGI. I'm totally getting swept away with the narrative and I just really appreciate it feeling like Star Trek as I always knew it.
At least Gwyn didn't leave Murf...and him cowering and terrified broke my heart. Fantastic animator.
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
If I had kids, I would be more leery about exposing them to Lower Decks compared to Discovery and Picard due to Naked Time. The first season and most of the second season should be OK for children. Discovery and Picard are a live action series where mature content is more likely to be present just like other primetime series. Lower Decks, on the other hand, is an animated series where some people have still not realized that it can and likely will contain mature content.
I actually just watched Lower Decks for the first time and it does remind me of Futurama. There was nudity (cheeky admittedly), dating, talk of sex (with Riker, Troi and their Horgon)...it wasn't any more graphic than say The Simpsons, but it does have an edge to it.
Picard though had some far stronger elements. Seeing poor Icheb's eye pulled out and cut off wasn't necessary and again, you had the blonde murdering Bruce and then sleeping with the captain, etc. It was few more steps up from Lower Decks.
I suppose maybe they have decided on age brackets for what's suitable for who, but as I say...I'm the happiest watching Prodigy at the moment. Trek, humour and nothing darker than it needs to be and before it gets unpleasant.
It is easier to forget every gruesome moment in Picard and Discovery when it has been almost 2 years since Picard and about a year since the last season of Discovery. Especially when it has only been a month since the last episode of Lower Decks.
However, murder and seduction are common place in lots of primetime TV series while some people are still under the illusion that cartoons are just for kids. If I am a parent, then I know that NCIS will have some gruesome scenes and might need to shield my kids from it. However, if I have not watched a cartoon in decades and never watched anime, then Rick and Morty looks like a science fiction cartoon to entertain the kids.
It used to be a real rarity, with extreme raciness in TNG, DS9 and Voyager. Obviously Deanna with the candles. Worf and Jadzia, Mirror Kira, Dax's wife...and really the only episode of Voyager that was a bit much (especially in the trailer, which looked more like an episode of Red Shoe Diaries) was "Blood Fever".
And yes, there was certainly darkness...but it always felt like family darkness and nothing TOO graphic. I'm only in my 30's now and my parents had no problem with me watching it...but I really didn't want my mum to have to see the Icheb mutilation episode of Picard.
Can you IMAGINE if their off-spring sporned a race who become spacefaring ;-)
I wish I could watch it. They had me at Janeway.
We dont know everything about it yet. But my god the reveal was awersome.
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Nope
The Third engine is a Protostar. Essentially the USS Protostar is carrying a Baby star in main engineering. Or as Dal said "Our warp drive has one heck of a kick"
The Computer calls it "Protowarp"
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
I was meaning they got inspiration from the Romulan Star Empire. Who use artifical quantum singularity technology. Essentially a black hole. Someone in Starfleet may have gone "Huh, wonder if we can use a actual star to power a ships propulsion system"
-First cloaking device? How about we also make it able to phase through matter, because why not?
-Issue with transporters? Dump the patterns into a holosuite simulation while we solve the problem, that'll be simple and fun!
-Borg invading? Hold my beer, I'm gonna aggro them to the holodeck, launch a 50's film noir program and shoot them with a holo-tommy gun!
-Need to defeat the Borg Queen? I'm gonna teach her empathy, or alternatively let myself be assimilated while I'm pumped with a neurolytic pathogen and I'll taunt her as we both die.
-Gotta avoid a power-draining asteroid field? Warping around it is for Kazons, we're gonna remove all the outer hull of our ship and navigate in using momentum and basic thrusters. Oh, and get rid of the whole viewscreen wall, I wanna see face-to-face and laugh at it while it punches holes into the bridge!
-Need to recover the Sword of Kahless from an Iconian flagship, under the nose of basically a very angry physical goddess? Let me call my uncle, my father (who's also the grand Nagus), his wife, the psychopath who killed Moogie in a simulation and I'll do it. Oh and bring me the 25th century resident badass... no, not to help fight, but just to be our chauffeur.