Star Trek: Prodigy

[Drunk Monk]

I wish. It would be nice to get into concerts without having to clean puke buckets. 

I haven't heard back.

[Drunk Monk]

The Journey Continues: Star Trek: Prodigy Renewed For Season Two

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BY 
STARTREK.COM STAFF

NOVEMBER 8, 2021 10:00 AM PST

 

StarTrek.com


More adventures await the motley crew of the U.S.S. Protostar. Paramount+, the streaming service from ViacomCBS, today announced that its new animated kids series Star Trek: Prodigy has been renewed for a second season. Produced by the Nickelodeon Animation Studio and CBS Studios’ Eye Animation Production, Star Trek: Prodigy is already a hit amongst Paramount+ subscribers, and had the top-performing premiere day out of any original animated kids series on the service.
Season one of Star Trek: Prodigy premiered on Thursday, Oct. 28 with a one-hour episode, exclusively for Paramount+ subscribers in the U.S. New episodes of the first half of season one will continue to roll out weekly on Thursdays through Thursday, Nov. 18. Following a mid-season break, the remaining five episodes of season one’s first half will be available to stream weekly on Thursdays, starting on Thursday, Jan. 6. The 10-episode-long second half of season one will be available on Paramount+ at a later date next year, to be announced.
The Star Trek: Prodigy voice cast includes Kate Mulgrew (Hologram Kathryn Janeway), Brett Gray (Dal), Ella Purnell (Gwyn), Rylee Alazraqui (Rok-Tahk), Angus Imrie (Zero), Jason Mantzoukas (Jankom Pog), Dee Bradley Baker (Murf), John Noble (The Diviner) and Jimmi Simpson (Drednok).


WATCH: Star Trek: Prodigy Official Trailer
 

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Star Trek: Prodigy currently streams exclusively on Paramount+ in U.S. and Australia, and is coming soon to Paramount+ in Latin America and the Nordics as well as to Nickelodeon international channels, which are available in 180 countries globally. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave. Prodigy is distributed by ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group.

I am curious about this show.

[Greg]

If the show boldly goes where no man has gone before how come there are always people there when they arrive?

[Drunk Monk]

[Drunk Monk]

And we’re back

Got the 99 cent a month deal for two months so I binged all the eps so far (like five but they aren’t that long). It’s like Star Wars Rebels meets Star Trek Nemesis. It’s not quite working for me. It needs more Easter eggs. 

Some slave kids find a starship - the Protostar - and use it to escape the mines. The kids are punks. I hate the lead kid. He’s doesn’t know what species he is. Then there’s a Tellurite engineer that’s a course grunt and a medusan in a bot body that’s telepathic and kind of the Spock/data/seven/tool figure. These two species recall TOS. The rest of the crew are new species, a rock thing ala Ben Grimm only she’s a little girl, a slug that doesn’t talk and a cool gal, the daughter of the villian, who I think is that weird race from the Kelvin timeline (I’ll check that later). The saving grace is the Janeway holo.

The Protostar has two warp engines and a mini-star powering it so it’s a suped up starship. The animation is top shelf cgi so a visual treat. The story flounders however. It’s trying to be the gateway for a new generation of trekkies and service the fandom at the same time. Too much to ask.

The first Ep is in 2 parts and spends a long time to get to Janeway. The last two eps I watched was also in two parts - exploring a class M planet full of carnivorous hallucination inducing weeds - you’d think that might be something I’d enjoy but it missed its mark.

I’ll keep watching just because I’m loyal to the franchise and the eps are short and mindless, but it’s not feeling very trek to me. When it starts getting more trek I’ll get into it but so far, it’s feeling like the first big miss of Paramount+.

[Drunk Monk]

And we’re back from a short break. E6 finally pays out with the Easter eggs. Now this feels like trek again… finally. And the ep title? Kobayahi. I know, I know but it’s great. The punk mod protagonist that I disdain discovers the holodeck. After visiting some previous setting (Amok time anyone?) he takes the ol’ Kobayashi Maru instructing the computer to pick a crew and we get 3 from TOS, and 1 from TNG & DS9 respectively. Their lines are built from clips from the original shows, which I didn’t catch on to for a bit but then it became a game to guess their source (a fellow Den contributor answered recently). The aforementioned return of Chakotay gives the end of the ep a major twist, and now a huge story arc is revealed. It’s like Picard just commanded ‘engage!’ and now being a loyal Trekkie I’m fully engaged.

[Drunk Monk]

E6 was meh. It did tease the major story arc, but mostly dissed a ferengi character, which always struck me as racist Star Trek. I mean who is the ferengi a metaphor of? Looks like the villain is the bastard child of the terminator and the iron giant. 

I’m guessing they conceived this as gateway trek. Trek has gotten so huge, like Doctor Who, that it’s hard to find an entry point for next gen viewers (Tara has this issue although she watched DW). It’s like this is trek for beginners using rather hackneyed characters: the punk kid, the hawtty, the wise advisor, the barbarian noble savage, the linebacker girl, and the goofy indestructible pet. Janeway is the only interesting character although the hawtty and advisor are cool. The pet is okay. 

If you’re going to watch animated trek, TAS and TLD kick ass on P.

[Drunk Monk]

E7? Bother I’ve lost count. Another meh ep. 

The El was titled Time Amok which got my hopes up that there would be a Pon Farr but that had nothing to do with it. The Protostar overloads in a tachyon cloud sending everyone into different time signatures and there’s only 10 mins until a warp core breach. The engineer is in the fastest time so it blows right away. For the character in the slowest time, it’s years it seems. Meanwhile the villain bot somehow gets cloned by the replicator. Whatever. 

Not really into this show - it’s the first P+ ST dud.  Lame Nickelodeon. But eps are only 24 mins long so I’ll keep watching.

[Drunk Monk]

E8 or maybe 9 - the final conflict of the season has begun. This was part one of a continued next week. Not too revealing. Predictable. The crew uniforms up. And a dark Janeway holo appears - that has potential but I think it’s a ruse. 

What the hell is Murf anyway?

[Drunk Monk]

Season finale. Meh. At least the Medusan finally revealed itself. The teaser for next season was good enough that I will watch it assuming I'm still subscribed to P+ by then, but this is the worst ST series so far. It's too Nickelodeon. It's going for more of a space videogame vibe than it is ST. 

Holo Janeway gives a nice closing speech about it all, but not enough to redeem it. 

It was really just about E6. That's the only one worth watching. 

Not D00M recommended.

[Drunk Monk]

I hate this show. But I'll watch more...

[Drunk Monk]

Hold the phone… Titania joins the cast? Okay alright I’m back in…

[Drunk Monk]

E11: Non-holo Janeway appears. The Protostar was Chakotay’s ship and he’s missing. The kids are still annoying. It’s colorful however and the eps are short.

[Drunk Monk]

E12 Titania! Man, she is killing it. It’s a minor role that wouldn’t totally been missed had I not been on the lookout.

Non-holo Janeway is now a tea drinker - no more signature coffee - akin to Picard’s decaffeinated earl grey. 

But most of all - Borg. 

Still not loving this show but it’s fresh Trek, like the methadone of trek.

[Drunk Monk]

E13: A good one! The Protostar crew arrive at a planet where the Enterprise failed the prime directive and the planet’s culture emulate the crew but in a messed up way. The leader does a hysteric Kirk impression and everything is twisted like the names and terms ‘live logs and prosper’ 

Very amusing.