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[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, this has bugged me more the more I've thought about it. I think it undercuts the urgency of the entire season, which repeatedly emphasized how important it was to send the Protostar through the wormhole and making things exactly the way they were in season one.

Except it's apparently fine for Solum to never have its disastrous civil war, and never train soldiers to go back in time, even though that was absolutely critical to the story.

It seems like an effort to have their cake and eat it, too. Even if you can make it work logically, I don't think it works thematically.

It's hard to characterize mergers of this type as good news, but if Skydance is actually going to be "creative-first", it might be the least-bad of the potential outcomes that have been in play over the last year or so.

The interview goes into how Voyager-heavy this series is, so I suspect it was very deliberate.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's actually from season one...I don't remember them getting into it too much, but

Season 1 spoilersIt seems Starfleet liked the quantum slipstream drive enough that they built their own version of the Dauntless from Voyager's records as a testbed. There are some subtle differences in the design.

To be honest, I have no idea how they even calculate what "makes money" in the streaming era. With ad-supported TV, I can see how you could calculate the relative value of each viewer, but for a streamer? I'm baffled as to how you would even do that math.

If Paramount had better infrastructure for a tween audience, and/or if the original plan to air it on Nickelodeon had come to fruition, maybe things would be different.

Ben Sisko, eat your heart out!

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry you're so enraged.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 11 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Firstly, I should point out that it's completely possible to sing the praises of one show without crapping on another.

With that out of the way, I agree it's a damn shame Paramount+ cancelled Prodigy. I think it was probably the "right" decision on paper - the Hagemans themselves have said they were shown the numbers, and they weren't great - but that probably speaks to the inadequacies of their platform. It doesn't seem to be a good place for children's programming.

Regardless of whether we get more Prodigy, I hope it was well-loved by its target audience, and I hope that it helped to create a new generation of Trek who can carry on with "Starfleet Academy" and the other series as they grow up.

In fact, if anyone has kids who have been watching it, I'd love to hear what they thought of it.

I think it's a fine idea that requires a certain degree of community and camaraderie that I'm not sure exists in the Lemmyverse yet.

As a group, we're good at sharing articles - often stuff that makes us mad (and there's plenty of that to go around) - but less good at just...hanging out and shooting the shit.

I don't know what the solution is aside from, "be the change you want to see."

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had the same reaction, and decided it was an unacknowledged site-to-site transport.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Agreed on all points.

Jellico's line about not being able to supply new combadges across the fleet was a pretty funny way to acknowledge the badge inconsistency with the "Picard" flashbacks - I'm going to try not to think about that too hard.

I'm disappointed that we'll never get a chance to see Elnor in one of the sailor suits the cadets wore on this show.

One thing that's going to bug me for a while is how Solum can progress peacefully without contradicting season one - Ilthuran isn't exactly on track to become the Diviner at this point.

With a title like that, I was half-expecting a clip show...

I was also thinking that Hologram Janeway might borrow the mobile emitter and pull a switcheroo with the Admiral, but it turns out the Doctor can just do it himself.

 

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