Star Trek: Prodigy (New Series)

[Evilchumlee]

That's just looping back to it's appeal solely being that it's a TNG cast reunion, however you describe it. Yes it's nice to have them back, no it's not inherently meaningful or interesting because of it or even new. Plenty of shows have done reunions over the years.

Fair enough, but I would counter with I don't really think all media needs to be "new".

We got a fun story with a reunion of characters we are invested in to go on an adventure one more time, while also serving as a potential (hopeful) passing of the torch.

It may not be some crazy innovative story, but it was... good.

And I would much rather than hired competent writers who worked with continuity rather than ditching anything.

I don't disagree. I wish we had that when they decided to make Discovery.

It's certainly not impossible to do a Voyager reunion while keeping Prodigy intact. At the same point, I don't think losing Prodigy is a great blow. I feel like Prodigy was always kind of throwaway, in it's very nature as a kids show.

I don't have any empirical data here, this is a "hunch", but I don't think Prodigy did what it was supposed to do... get children interested in Star Trek. I think it got adult viewers who were nostalgic for Voyager to watch because, Janeway. Not gonna lie... that's why I watched it at all. I would have not bothered with a kids a show, but they got me with Janeway.

If the show had an amount of success due to the Voyager references... well... wouldn't it make more sense to just go ahead and do... Voyager?

It's clearly the same thing that happened with PIC.
Season 1
Paramount: "This is NOT a TNG reunion!"
Fans: "NO WAY RIKER AND TROI CAME BACK! YOOOOO!

Season 2
Paramount: "Ok, this still isn't a TNG reunion. But like. Here's some references."
Fans: "NO WAY GUINAN AND Q! THAT'S AWESOME!"

Season 3
Paramount: "Ok, ok, we fucking get it. Here's a TNG reunion."
...to the most well-received entry into Star Trek since Discovery relaunched it.

I'm happy to send Prodigy to the same purgatory as TAS... it's there. It exists. Consider it if you want to.

[Crazedwraith]

Prodigy is back! Season 2 dropped on netflix today and I've watched the first couple of episode and really enjoyed them. There's quite a lot of recapping and exposition but plenty of character and plot in those first two as well as it sets everything in motion.

Somethings I'd forgotten:
* The kids aren't in the Academy but some kind of prep school for the Academy.
* Ascenia the evil Vau n'akat from the future is still at large .

The EMH is back and it's nice to see him. He's toned it down but he's still pretty arrogant and brings up his holo-novels. It's unclear why Janeway need to bring him along as of yet. She already has a Medical Doctor the tellarite Noum, who is still present. In fact Janeway's senior staff selection is weird. She has just her XO and two medical Doctors and they seem to be manning bridge stations no less.

Admiral Janeway (Vice Admiral no less) is still captaining a ship which is weird at that rank but I guess par for the course, she was last season as well.

Gwynn's separate (for now) plotline is good but the drawback of sending her there in a shuttle with just one redshirt for back up was obvious and quickly apparently. I am impressed with how well John Noble portrays the younger version of her dad as such a different person.

[NecronLord]

There's a line in one of the episodes that Jelico wants her behind a desk again, so it seems that she is just doing what Kirk did in TMP and taking over a ship from time to time.