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Prodigy's banner over Netflix HQ...
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News Star Trek Prodigy Cancelled, Season 2 to be shopped around
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After whatever happened between Netflix and Paramount to drop Discovery season 4 2 days prior to the premiere, I'm not so sure Netflix and Paramount are on the best terms. Or maybe Paramount just paid them a fortune to buy out the contract so all is good?
Either way, I hope Prodigy finds a home. The best modern Trek series.
Either way, I hope Prodigy finds a home. The best modern Trek series.
Netlfix still has the legacy Star Trek series in (parts of) Europe. They also stream Trollhunters, a Guillermo Del Toro animated show that was ran by the Hageman brothers.
Amazon hosts the Kurtzman era treks (or at least some of them) in Europe.
So there are still some links to both.
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I feel like Terry Matalas is the same way. Star Trek is fortunate in that they have some showrunners who are really passionate about the craft (I'm not sure if Kurtzman is, he's more of the Rick Berman prior to Voyager type).
Is that good or bad?
Yeah, but I was talking more administratively. You have the individual showrunners and Berman was paying the checks and having to deal with the studios. He wasn't really the showrunner of TNG (Mike Piller and Ronald Moore) or DS9 (Ira Steven Behr).
To be fair he wasn't really the showrunner of Voyager either – that was more Michael Piller, then Jeri Taylor, then Brannon Braga. But we all know Berman and Braga were thick as thieves.
With ENT it was more of a Berman-Braga co-showrunner relationship.
That's a common misconception perpetuated by the omnipresence of the "Bermaga" meme.
Are things looking any brighter on the Prodigy front then?
Seems like things are in a holding pattern right now. The second season is still in post-production, and the creators are confident that those episodes will find a home somewhere. They're still talking about additional seasons as a possibility.
Actually, that was typically UPN. I know Berman was supportive of Braga's idea to do Year of Hell as a season long story arc and have the changes made be permanent, it was UPN who said it could only be a two-parter and had to be reset at the end.
UPN and network suits were also the people who stepped in early in Season 1 of ENT and told them, and I paraphrase, "No, the transporter works just fine. You can't kill anyone off in an accident." Never mind that transporter tech in that series was 100 years younger than it was in TOS and even then McCoy was worried it was going to turn him inside out or scatter his molecules across known space and then some (and the G-rated ST:TMP depicted two pretty creepy transporter deaths as far back as 1979).
Network suits are great bean counters but lousy at the creative side of entertainment. They need to stay out of the sausage making process.
Network suits are great bean counters but lousy at the creative side of entertainment. They need to stay out of the sausage making process.
I find it crazy that they even cared about the minutiae like that.
I mean, I know they did. But gosh, what did they think they were doing?
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