High probability this is the title for the Nickelodeon animated series. Paramount/CBS filed trademarks for this and Section 31 together in January. It's about teens that find a Starfleet ship, and get it running like a jalopy. Feels like it's a post-Federation timeline if that's the case. Only in an apocalypse would Starfleet let Mad Max kids have a ship. Showrunner will be a guy who worked on Ninjago. Animation style will be CG instead of hand drawn. Planting the flag for the show now. If the title changes, I'll change it on the thread. Show won't come out 'til 2021 or 2022, but we'll hear and see stuff before then, I'm sure.
You can write in a starfleet ship floating about in all sorts of ways. It does not have to be apocalyptic. Maybe it is just an old ship that they put back together.
Yeah there are plenty of scenarios why an old Starfleet ship might be hanging about and salvageable, but what Dicky is saying is there's no way in hell Starfleet would let the kids KEEP such a ship if they got wind of it - even access to a TOS ship like an old Connie or Miranda in the TNG era still gives you phasers capable of vaporising entire cities on a planet... So either the kids head off into the unknown like Voyager, keep to regions Starfleet doesn't have any jurisdication/presence, or Starfleet doesn't exist.
"Starfleet ship" could be something like a runabout or other small vessel, which would be more likely for a group of kids to be able to restore and operate.
Or a highly automated ship, like the Prometheus class. Remember when two EMH programs in a Prometheus fought off multiple Romulan ships with full crews just by telling the ship to "engage multi-vector assault mode?"
Oberth or smaller. But then it's gonna be outmatched by everything. Unless it's only going up against old Rommie BOPs like La Sirena. Dayton will have to miss the space battles. Course, for this series to live up to the title, the kids will basically have to be McGyvers, so they can beat Klingons with some rubber bands, sticks and the prism out of some binoculars.
Oh, and the source of the info. Includes series description, but it's pretty much what's already been revealed. https://trekmovie.com/2020/07/23/st...revealed-for-new-nickelodeon-animated-series/ From the look of the logo, it feels like it's gonna be Jimmy Neutron style.
Ben Hibon is directing and co-producing. https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-prodigy-finds-director He directed the short "Codehunters", so here's that.
Plenty of surplus mine sweepers found their way into civilian ownership. You could hand them an NX that's been downgrade to freight tug.
Janeway's in it!!!! https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-prodigy-casts-kate-mulgrew-as-captain-janeway/ Guess that means none of these kids are gonna get promoted
That's amazing news. The actor and the character had so much potential, and the stupid writers squandered it all in Voyager. It would be so nice to see her, both of them, get another chance.
In spite of my snarky post, I do like Kate Mulgrew as an actor. She's very talented. Too bad Janeway was a train wreck. I'm just not sure they can rehabilitate the Janeway character without taking a big piss on some "canon", but I hope it works out.
So, is she gonna be made of meat, or a hologram? Cuz if she's meat, there goes my theory of it being post-Federation. Unless she pulls the Scotty-in-the-transporter trick, or something.
Video version of the reveal. They call her "the star", which implies she's Captain, which implies she's real. FF might not want to watch this clip, Kurtzman is in it, and I know Kurtzman killed FF's dad in front of him while laughing in clown makeup.
Goddamn, I thought I'd be the only one young enough to have watched that show. Took balls for a Nick show to kill off one of the leads like that. I was watching the Jessie Gender video on the announcement and she mentioned something I hadn't much thought about since I was new, but most fans of Trek only come by this fandom because we were brought into it by someone else--pretty much every Trek fan i personally know came by the series because their parents were fans or a friend brought them into it. I'm sorta an exception in that the ENT premier just happened to be the only new show to start after 9/11 and I was that damn bored to give it a shot but having discussion fodder with my crush was a huge bonus. But Trek ain't as easy for people to jump into like, say, Star Wars. Besides it's historically pedantic fanbase, TNG is a goddamn snorefest by modern standards. Hell, it was boring to me in 1997 when my aunt forced me to watch it. A kids show OTOH is one of the best ways to bring in new fans at a younger age without nearly six decades of baggage. Given how Voyager's popularity has gone gangbusters since Netflix, making Janeway the lead was a wise decision (my own opinions of that series notwithstanding).
especially when that lead was a young Jewel Staite. Didn't kill her off though, she just phase swapped with her "imaginary friend."
Kate Mulgrew gives updates. -Sounds like she's recorded the whole first season. -Says the animation is feature quality. -Says work is already starting on season 2. https://trekmovie.com/2021/01/24/kate-mulgrew-gives-star-trek-prodigy-progress-update/
I think they should set in the present day: a group of plucky kids finds a nuclear submarine and they fix it up to have adventures. Totally believable!
