Check Out 14 Preview Images From ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Season 2 (2024)

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I would have to say, I really liked Prodigy S1. Even though it is animated, it has a live action feel to the show and the story has been good. And the opening theme is great, perhaps the best music of NuTrek, not counting the Picard S3 closing credits haha!

I see nothing yet scheduled for Canada. Too bad, because I did re-sign back up to Netflix for the first time in about 10 years to watch their take on the Three Body Problem. Hope they announce something soon for us fans north of the border.

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“The characters felt like real characters and not just archtypes or caricatures. They actually care about canon and nothing feels out of place like it does in Discovery and SNW. They use fan service but once again when it feels appropriate and lot less of it compared to awkwardly throwing in Kirk on SNW or their strange use of the Gorn.”
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“Prodigy feels like its own thing on one hand but a loose sequel to Voyager on the other to draw older fans like me in but without having to know anything about that show for younger and newer fans. But it captures the spirit of classic Star Trek that frankly I wasn’t sure we would ever get again.”

All very well stated, and I wholeheartedly agree about the irony that this “preteen/teen” show feels more grown-up, well written and overall well rounded than any of the other recent shows! 👏😎 (Just imagine if they could’ve made it an actual live-action show! 👍👍)

“So it’s very surprising for me a show designed for preteens have captured my heart and attention again I haven’t felt since Enterprise went off the air.”

I think a lot of people agrees with you! :)

And I know I said this before but I am happy you have finally loved something in the modern era out of the gate.

“There is very little depth in the stories and just doesn’t have the same glow in the story telling and the themes you got in the golden age of Trek from 1966-2005. With a few exceptions here and there very little of it hasn’t come close to what made those classic shows and movies so special for me.”

It’s very funny reading statements like this, because there were people who said the exact same things about the old spin offs shows back in the day when they compared them to TOS. A great example came from this very board from an article written by Mark A. Altman (which I’m sure you and everyone knows) who literally wrote a piece called “Star Trek Lives” back in 2006. I always love reading past Trek articles and reviews and found that one a few weeks ago.

Annnyway, I bring it up because in the article, he was very busy praising JJ Abrams and how the first Kelvin movie was going to redefine Star Trek as we know it (apparently) and he literally called all the spin offs at the time including TNG and DS9 as ‘outdated’, ‘bland’ and would be forgotten in a few years time. He literally called them ‘unwatchable’…in 2006. He was convinced the spin off shows just didn’t live up to what TOS was at the time and no one was going to even care about those shows anymore once this brave new world of the JJ Abrams brand of Star Trek started lol.

It’s pretty comical today considering he wrote that nearly 20 years ago and YET not only does he himself talk about those same old shows with much higher esteem and praise today, he talks about them more than any of the new shows (not counting Picard season 3 since it brings back the type of Star Trek he was denouncing back then) and including the Kelvin movies.

But it really does prove that as fans A. nostalgia always has a way of catching up to everything eventually (which is how many looked at TOS itself 20-30 years ago of course) and that B. views can just change in time (and the old shows, ironically, have all aged very well and why they are still so popular). But the same way you talk about all the old shows today and how modern Trek can’t hold a candle to them I will guarantee you many will be saying the same thing about Picard, Lower Decks, Discovery and etc in 20 years time when whatever is next in the iteration will be seen as grossly inferior. And I know others in fact do like those shows now but of course many of us still loved the old shows back then too.

But of course that’s after fans hail the next thing as the ‘savior’ of the franchise as many did believe the Kelvin movies and even Discovery would do before they start dumping on it when it doesn’t reach that height, ie, Disney Star Wars lol. Yes that too will have just as many gushers in time as well. Time truly is a flat circle in fandom. ;)

Now all that said, you know I don’t disagree with some of your issues. I like SNW more than you but as I have always stated the canon issues and the forced fan service does it no favors, but it does really feel like Star Trek. I love LDS but get why others hate it too.

But I will say even though there is certainly a division in the fandom it’s not as bad as it was just a few years ago when it was just Discovery and Picard or the dreaded days of STID lol. And no matter what, say what you will about Star Trek fandom, it’s nowhere close to the vitriol of where Star Wars fandom is these days. I mean you see what is happening over The Acolyte, yikes!!!! Discovery almost feels like TNG in popularity compared to how that’s being treated lol.

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