Star Trek: Prodigy.

It's not Lower Decks.
Sheesh.

Guess there's a new one.

OK, that just made me sad about dead actors.

Edit:

That was quite a treat for the fans. It was a little wonky trying to piece together enough dialogue to get Spock to say as much as he did, but overall, well done. At least they got the look of the Klingons right. I'm guessing Chakotay and his crew are stranded somewhere in the Delta quadrant. Why you would want to go back after being stuck there for so long I have no idea.

It made me a little sad, but they did give them credit for their roles.

https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-prodigy-has-been-back-1-episode-and-has-alre-1848315493

A more detailed review for law abiding folks that can't watch it yet.

Thoughts:

Oh yeah, did anyone else think the song that Dal played kind of sounded like Thunderstruck?

Oh yeah, that part was hilarious. Solid Kelvinverse reference.

Want to know what episodes they used to piece everything together?
https://blog.trekcore.com/2022/01/star-trek-prodigy-review-kobayashi/

I have subtitles on, always. it didn’t just sound like Thunderstruck. It was Thunderstruck.

I couldn't quite tell if it was Thunderstruck or they hired someone to emulate the song because maybe they didn't have the rights to use the song.

They always list the songs in the credits.

No one's mentioned that the Protostar is from the future?
They flash back to 17 years ago.
The bad guys say they've been looking or the Protostar for years even then.
So, you can go ahead and round it up to 20 years ago for when they started looking for the Protostar.
Prodigy is only 3 years after Lower Decks.
17 years from where they are now takes you to season 3 of TNG.
Chakotay hadn't even joined the Maquis, much less re-joined Starfleet, and risen up to captain.
So...Protostar can time travel.
Chakotay sometime even further in the future from now (fancy future uniform on him) tests the proto-drive, and gets flung into the past, and into the Delta Quadrant.
But....where's Chakotay and his crew now?

Ohhhh!!!
Once they figure out Protostar is from the future, they can't come home to Starfleet because of temporal prime directive, so they have to dance around the edges.
It keeps them from (directly) interacting with the other shows like Discovery!

I mentioned it in spoiler quotes, yeah. Seems like the Protostar launched in the present or the near future, then ended up in the past somehow. Some interview with the producers hinted there were time travel hijinks afoot. But was the Diviner that cloned himself 17 years ago from the future/present too, or did he just have a feeling the ship would be somewhere on that planet if he went looking for it? Guy's gotta be called "the Diviner" for some reason, right?

I watched it again. The sound clips didn’t sound as wonky the second time around. I like @Diacanu basically calling it a new version of “Trials and Tribble-ations.” That fits.

Obviously Qwen’s father is trying to find water, duh.

They did it?!

They really went full-bore and put *that* <spoiler> in!?



This continues to be the most entertained I've been by official Trek in 20 years and I still haven't seen a single episode!

A new species, one that bases its survival on manipulation of harmonic resonances that shape their environment and enable communication. I love that their gift was a song.

Dal bothered me less this week. He's starting to learn now, and I also felt bad for him because he finds that his surrogate mother figure actually sold him into slavery. We also get a new piece of information regarding the initial attack on the Protostar and its Starfleet crew.

Gwen and the others back up Dal not because of his swagger, but because they trust him, and they stuck with him when everything went to shit.

Floor pie.

This episode gets a very good 9/10 from me. I like the direction in which we're moving.

Trust me do not listen to @14thDoctor. This episode is cute and fun, but ultimately hollow and worthless.

The pitch for the episode went basically like this: "let's get the audio from a bunch of dead (or nearly dead) Trek actors and put their animated avatars in a bad holodeck Kobayashi Maru simulator."

So, as a Trek fan, it was somewhat fun to watch and the fan service was voluminous, including a reference to that stupid game that Riker played in that goofy TNG episode where everyone got addicted to the game.

But from a critically objective standpoint, it's gimmicky and hollow. Callbacks in a multi-decade franchise are inevitable, but if this is what Trek has become, I'm worried. This episode is the equivalent of a bunch of old farts at the barber shop talking about the good old days, with little or nothing to offer for the present day.

Explore strange new worlds? Boldly go where no one has gone before?

Nope. Let's rehash previous franchises to keep the fanboys happy.

They introduced a new rule of acquisition.

Don't be an idiot.

FTFY.

The A story was cute and fun and fanservice-y, while the B story advanced the plot and made me give a shit about the premise.

"Some kids find a crashed Starfleet ship and get it running?" Meh.

"Some kids steal a Starfleet ship that used to be captained by Chakotay (current whereabouts unknown), the main computer and the Janeway hologram are missing critical information about how the ship ended up where it did, and there's some timey-wimey fuckery afoot?" I'm interested enough to actually watch the next episode now.

There's a really solid show here, it's definitely worth the watch, IMO. Dal is my least favorite character, but he's not nearly as annoying as he was when they started.

The season is 20 episodes instead of the usual 10-13, so they can really slow-boil the arc.

"Floor pie" really charmed me.

Do you think they intended the Simpsons reference?