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Star Trek Prodigy CANCELLED
eazzie
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Ahead of it's previously announced second season Star Trek Prodigy has been cancelled and will be removed from Paramount + and Nickelodeon in a matter of days.
https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/06/star-trek-prodigy-cancelled-paramount-plus-removal/
https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/06/star-trek-prodigy-cancelled-paramount-plus-removal/
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WHY?!
Numbers. Viewers. If it was getting tons of views (especially from new subscribers) they wouldn't be cancelling it, they would be renewing it for more seasons.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
According to the article, they're still going to finish producing season 2 though. The show isn't really being cancelled, it just won't be broadcast on Paramount+ and Nickelodeon.
In other words it is being cancelled. Being cancelled doesn't mean you don't finish the season. Rome is a prime example of that, as is enterprise
Exactly. It means they are only finishing what's basically already been made, but aren't renewing it for additional seasons.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Sure I was annoyed with season 1 being spread out over 2 years, but all I can really hope for now personally is that season 2 finishes with an actual conclusion to the story.
Surprised also that we have not got the ship in game by now, but that itself probably comes down to haggling with the creators by cryptic for its use..
The issue with getting anything from Prodigy is having to negotiate with Nickelodeon AS WELL as Paramount. All the other Trek shows that came out weren't in partnership with another company, and thus much easier to get permission to bring into STO. Prodigy was made in partnership with Nickelodeon, which means partial ownership belongs to Nickelodeon as well.
This is why you NEVER partner with other companies, and if you do, you don't let them have ANY say in how things are done for the show.
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I wish I had given it a chance when it was on Paramount+ but I was busy watching all the other live action Star Treks and not the animated fare. I am upset that they decided to take the tax write off for it instead of keeping it on Paramount+ and the writers had completed S2. For a while they advertised that Paramount+ is the place for ALL Star Trek. Now, they have broken their word and they need to rethink this decision.
AFAIK tax write off means it gets obliterated. Not just not continued anymore; but any trace of it wiped off of the company. Complete erasure. Like with the Batgirl movie. Unlike that though it already had aired so the first season can still be seen.
STO probably could not even sell things from that show anymore because of that.
A somewhat snarkier article elsewhere claimed that the merger meant that CBS's streaming future was no longer hanging by Star Trek threads alone and so they ditched the more problematic ones (Prodigy because of the demographics surprise embarrassment, and DSC because of the entrenched fissure in the fanbase that is still a sore point with many), but usually that kind of rant-article is not particularly reliable so I would suggest taking it with a grain of salt.
Whatever the real reason, the show was too good to be chopped like that.
Wouldnt surprise me
Syfy gave the same excuse for cancelling Stargate Atlantis, except it was that they were attracting a majority of women viewers over men rather than an age thing. It didn't make any more sense to me then: if you're attracting a different audience than you expected, then tailor the ad buys to the audience you're attracting.
But yeah... ... this is probably the real reason.
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I didn't know about that. I was under the impression that they decided to focus more on the upcoming Stargate Universe and just go to made for TV movies to continue Atlantis. Which they never did. And Stargate Universe fell on its face as they tried to treat it like Battlestar Galactica and go wall to wall drama. That didn't work, and had characters you just couldn't get into other than maybe Eli. Now if they continued with the formula that worked for SG-1 and Atlantis, and including humor to break up tension, it may have survived more than two seasons. The premise of SG:U was good. The problem was the execution.
Yellowstone and its spinoffs and the current live action iterations of Star Trek (Both Strange New Worlds and Picard) seem to have put them on the Streaming map, so yeah, they'll do cuts, but I doubt they'll be cancelling Live action STar Trek given the first two episodes of SNW S2 have made Nielsen's Top 10 In Streaming:
‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Hits Streaming Top 10 Again; Pushes Paramount+ To New Milestone
https://trekmovie.com/2023/07/20/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-hits-streaming-top-10-again-pushes-paramount-to-new-milestone/
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More seriously, this was actually quite a good episode, very Trek. They get into an issue that is then investigated with all the Starfleet resources at their disposal, and a solution found that isn't "blow it up with a photon torpedo" (which got especially grating in VOY because they weren't supposed to have that many torpedoes - Janeway specified in the pilot that when they used up the 38 they had, there was no way to get more). I also appreciated the fact that they didn't know why they were singing, they didn't like that they were singing, and they needed to stop the rapidly-spreading phenomenon before the Klingon ships arrived to blow it up (with disastrous consequences).
The songs also served the purpose that they generally serve in good musicals - character exposition that isn't clunky speeches about "this is who I am". In the counterpointing songs "I'm Ready" and "I'm the X", for instance, we learn both how Spock became the more-Vulcan-than-Vulcan fellow we will come to know in later years, and why Chapel still pines after him (she blew it, she knew it, and he's not changing his mind). And "How Would That Feel" and "Keeping Secrets" saved us just pages of dialog about La'an learning to lighten up a little.
I felt that the grand finale, "We Are One", had some rather clunky and on-the-nose lyrics, but not everything can be golden. And speaking of golden, the bit in the finale where they hailed the Klingon ship explained why the Klingons felt dishonored by the phenomenon. Had they been singing opera, they'd probably have been fine with that, but...
What are your feelings towards the franchise's long history of musical outbursts and tangenital silly episodes? Personally, I don't see Subspace Rhapsody doing anything completely outside the realm of recognition. However if you're not a fan of Our Man Bashir, Bride of Chaotica and Fistful of Datas etc then your point of view makes more sense.