Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 is now on Netflix, and Dan and Kevin Hageman offer an update on the future of Season 3, romance, and more.
ok, so I tried watching the first season of Star Trek: Prodigy a couple years ago, and just couldn’t get into it. i’m not a big fan of animated science fiction, just have never felt they can keep my attention, and it’s mostly just kiddie stuff. i can’t tell you the amount of times i’ve tried to watch clone wars, and just couldn’t get over thinking all the angular animation was ugly and offputting, i couldn’t concentrate on the story.
after all the press for prodigy season 2, i figured i’d hunker down and push myself to watch the first season all the way through no matter what. it can get a bit slow, but it looks fantastic, there’s a lot of eye rolling, but there was a kobyashi maru scene where they had scotty, beverly crusher, spok, uhura, and odo which was super cool, then came episode 13 “all the worlds a stage”, and i gotta tell you it’s the best scifi animated episode of tv i’ve ever seen, it kept hitting me in the feels over and over and over again, it was absolutely fucking delightful
just wanted a place to say this
The Kobyashi Maru episode made Prodigy amazing for me too. The sound editing alone was just astounding. As a former sound editor, I was blown away. And now see my spoiler above to find out where I am in season 2 because I was, again, blown away.
Thank you for your nuanced opinion. As we’re talking about taste here and me not having watched Prodigy at all* I’d quite like to know where you’re coming from.
Which Star Trek movie do you prefer? Would you rather be Picard, O’Brien or the Doctor?
*I’m currently watching all Star Trek from tosS1E1 up until the very end. Currently at VoyS7E22. Have seen them all before though. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Wrath of Khan O’Brien over Jean Luc, only because of the whole Borg thing
So rather be tortured in your own mind than being part of the Borg collective? I really don’t know. Torture vs ego death.
Wrath of khan is an understandable choice and it’s my number two. As a movie it’s the best I think, but I’ve always loved the political scope of The Undiscovered Country
Trauma from torture can be overcome. A lingering connection to the Borg is lifelong.
Interesting. I watched the first episode or two and just couldn’t get into it, but maybe I need to give it another try.
there’s definitely a vibe to it that kicks in after a bunch of eps, trek callbacks, trek cameos, and greater scifi homage (there’s even a shinning bartender scene snuck in) seems to be to 70% wow, and 30% alright this is filler i can fast forward, i’m an og tos trekkie, and some of the stuff just brought a tear to my eye
I forgot it was on Netflix, which is a service we don’t have, so I guess I won’t watch it. Maybe if someone buys me the discs - that’s how I originally got into Discovery.
I’m not going to read it because I haven’t finished season 2 yet, but I just saw The Devourer of All Things and holy shit…
spoiler
What they did with Wesley was fucking amazing. Driven half-crazy by not experiencing time in a linear way anymore and being abandoned by all the Travelers. I absolutely loved it. So much better than his cameo in Picard and it’s consistent because who knows how long has passed for him between those appearances.
Sweaters. All I’m saying.
I loved the sweater lines. Also, “I like this universe! My mom lives here!”
Hey, check out the spoiler trivia on part two of that episode. I totally didn’t get that Easter egg and I should have.
Sonofabitch, I should have known better when he said it was modeled from approximately 1967 (I think that’s the year he used).
