Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy 1x01/02 - "Lost and Found"
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yeah, resistance was frustrating, especially after rebels, which was really good.
here we go again, discussing about canon.
Well, replicators ARE a thing in the Star Trek universe.
I know, but his transformation showed none of the traditional Replicator VFX and more "Go Go Gadget" transformation.
The hovercraft reminds me of the ones in The Matrix 
Dal has cute eyes and ears. Does the Na'vi tail do anything?
Facial animation could be better, but the scenery looks great
The look of the colony reminds me of Elite Force II
Pog looks too cartoonish for my taste
The medusan box looks pretty much like the one in TOS
Zero can hover without legs
The ship launches by falling, like the Franklin in Beyond
The first orange Starfleet ship shields, I think
Lamest phaser sound ever
Murf will probably be most people's favorite
The best part was the ship itself, it just looks great!
Dal has cute eyes and ears. Does the Na'vi tail do anything?
Facial animation could be better, but the scenery looks great
The look of the colony reminds me of Elite Force II
Pog looks too cartoonish for my taste
The medusan box looks pretty much like the one in TOS
Zero can hover without legs
The ship launches by falling, like the Franklin in Beyond
The first orange Starfleet ship shields, I think
Lamest phaser sound ever
Murf will probably be most people's favorite
The best part was the ship itself, it just looks great!
Same tech that made the asteroid collector unfold in Disco S2
So more Go Go Gadget tech.Same tech that made the asteroid collector unfold in Disco S2
It is a children's cartoon, for crying the fuck out loud.
Okay, first of all, I want to say that yes, I'm not the target audience but that I genuinely enjoy watching some cartoons even if they are aimed at a younger audience, and even children's cartoons can have a broader audience if written well.
And I gotta say...well, the first episode didn't exactly wow me. A lot of it looks like it's trying (and failing) to be a Star Wars cartoon, even the bad guy kinda looks Darth Vader-ish.
In some ways I might have liked it better if it was not a Star Trek show, because right now the only connections are the ship, Holo-Janeway and that one Kazon.
And to be clear that's not because I don't think it's "good enough" to be Star Trek, but rather that I really REALLY don't want Star Trek to gain a monopoly on TV Science Fiction. So when I see a show like this, which (so far) has only very strenuous connections to the franchise, I cannot help but wish it would be an independent show instead.
Maybe the following episodes will have more Star Trek stuff, but like, they don't even have a main-character who is an established species or anything.
But I do like that it's apparently set in the Delta Quadrant.
And I gotta say...well, the first episode didn't exactly wow me. A lot of it looks like it's trying (and failing) to be a Star Wars cartoon, even the bad guy kinda looks Darth Vader-ish.
In some ways I might have liked it better if it was not a Star Trek show, because right now the only connections are the ship, Holo-Janeway and that one Kazon.
And to be clear that's not because I don't think it's "good enough" to be Star Trek, but rather that I really REALLY don't want Star Trek to gain a monopoly on TV Science Fiction. So when I see a show like this, which (so far) has only very strenuous connections to the franchise, I cannot help but wish it would be an independent show instead.
Maybe the following episodes will have more Star Trek stuff, but like, they don't even have a main-character who is an established species or anything.
But I do like that it's apparently set in the Delta Quadrant.
You might wanna looks up Medusans and Tellarites.
And which one of the main characters was either of those species?
Was the brown guy a Tellarite?
I thought that was easily one of the best premiere episodes in the franchise. I think one of my favorite aspects of the whole thing is that it's not trying too hard to prove that it's Star Trek. I only watched one episode of Lower Decks and its need to bombard the audience with a million references put me off right away. With Prodigy initially being more distant, it makes moments like the Diviner mentioning the Federation or Rok discovering the combadge feel special. Almost giving Starfleet this mythic status.
I'm wondering if a motivation of at least a couple of the characters trying to get to the Federation will be to find out where their people come from.
What SHE'S doing. The composer of the score is Nami Melumad. Michael Giacchino wrote the theme only.
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It's not like live action Star Trek's ever been particularly accurate where real science is concerned anyway.
They actually do, as noted. Zog is a Tellarite, though he looks more Talaxian. Zero is a Medusan, which was a species seen in TOS...sort of. The sight of one supposedly drives a person mad so we don't really know what they look like.
Well, that's the point. This isn't supposed to have broad connections to Star Trek at the moment. It is supposed to be that introductory type piece for kids (and apparently adults) to the larger world. So, the main characters are the audience stand ins for people learning about the Federation from the Star Trek avatar in Janeway.
I'm not big on giving grades, but as for my own assessment of the episode(s)...the show isn't as unwatchable as I was afraid it was going to be; sticking with it won't be a chore, and I'm interested to see where they're going with the premise.
But yeah, the whole style veritably screams Star Wars.
But yeah, the whole style veritably screams Star Wars.
The Big Bad was kidnapping kids from around the galaxy, right? He mentioned that he and his daughter were the last of their species, am I correct?
I thought of Through the Spidey-verse Miles when I watch Dal so maybe it's just because we haven't really had Trek done in a modern 3Dish animation style (LD seems more traditional to me.)
I wouldn't necessarily characterize it as 'extra mass'... more like mini parts which are usually lying inside his body and might be travelling through the arms internally to assemble into a canon (or other technology) where the hands are.
It could be early form of programmable matter even... or nanotechnology of some kind... not necessarily a replicator tech... or just basic molecular fabrication perhaps?
Given that we can already make computers which are smaller than a grain of rice and have metamaterials which can assemble into shapes that we want, imagine just how much more advanced the technology would be in the future... even from a species that doesn't have UFP technology.