Spoilers Star Trek: Scouts Discussion Thread

[F. King Daniel]

According to Trek central, it's a series of YouTube animated shorts, aimed at children.

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[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I've thought before that the academy could have a prep school. I suppose a scouting group similar to scouts and guides makes sense, too.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Considering Very Short Treks and Prodigy failed this seems an odd choice to make but it could be a very cheap way to entice younger viewers to the franchise, give them a gateway they can then build off of as they grow up.

 

[Boo-khat!]

Until CBS/Paramount makes an official announcement, we should take this with a grain of salt.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Considering Very Short Treks and Prodigy failed this seems an odd choice to make but it could be a very cheap way to entice younger viewers to the franchise, give them a gateway they can then build off of as they grow up.

Prodigy wasn't a failure. The Hageman Brothers said the reason Netflix is dropping it has nothing to do with ratings. It's simply that the license is running out. And Very Short Treks isn't even a consideration.

 

[NCC-73515]

I'd like it to be set around Children of Mars

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Prodigy wasn't a failure. The Hageman Brothers said the reason Netflix is dropping it has nothing to do with ratings. It's simply that the license is running out. And Very Short Treks isn't even a consideration.

Fair enough. I wasn't aware of its ratings I just took the optics of its cancellation and removal from two services as not a success story but I did wonder if the Nickelodeon side would be a problem factor.

 

[The Gatekeeper]

Knowing absolutely nothing about this show (I've not even clicked the link in the OP) I'm declaring it to be obnoxiously woke, insidiously left wing, that Kurtzman is defiling the Trek franchise's corpse, and anyone who watches and supports this series is also defiling by association. BOLO my YouTube video in which I go into detail into all this and how the very concept violates canon to the extreme along with my desire that what the Trek franchise really needs to do is an adaptation of the old DS9 novel Station Rage by Diane Carey in order to properly make Star Trek pure again.

 

[Firebird]

Knowing absolutely nothing about this show (I've not even clicked the link in the OP) I'm declaring it to be obnoxiously woke, insidiously left wing, that Kurtzman is defiling the Trek franchise's corpse, and anyone who watches and supports this series is also defiling by association. BOLO my YouTube video in which I go into detail into all this and how the very concept violates canon to the extreme along with my desire that what the Trek franchise really needs to do is an adaptation of the old DS9 novel Station Rage by Diane Carey in order to properly make Star Trek pure again.

Somewhere, Rob Burnett is apoplectic with rage over the franchise daring to try something new again.

And I think that's just neat.

 

[Zombie Cheerleader]

I've thought before that the academy could have a prep school. I suppose a scouting group similar to scouts and guides makes sense, too.

We have Sea Scouts as part of the Scouts America (formerly the Boy Scouts of America) and a youth auxiliary of the US Coast Guard. There also used to be Air Scouts. Both for older teens.

 

[No Grave Dug]

Considering Very Short Treks and Prodigy failed this seems an odd choice to make but it could be a very cheap way to entice younger viewers to the franchise, give them a gateway they can then build off of as they grow up.

Very Short Treks didn't fail. COVID-19 filming protocols made them impossible to do because they were filmed using the standing sets in between seasons with minimal to no pre production (IE stories made to use them as is in the state they were left in meaning things were done for less cost.)

If not for COVID-19, Short Treks would have continued.

 

[Zombie Cheerleader]

Very Short Treks didn't fail. COVID-19 filming protocols made them impossible to do because they were filmed using the standing sets in between seasons with minimal to no pre production (IE stories made to use them as is in the state they were left in meaning things were done for less cost.)

If not for COVID-19, Short Treks would have continued.

Very Short Treks was the goofy animated shorts.

 

[No Grave Dug]

Very Short Treks was the goofy animated shorts.

Doh! You're correct. Yeah those were garbage. My mistake.

 

[tomalak301]

Doh! You're correct. Yeah those were garbage. My mistake.

I would love more Short Treks. The Very Short Treks I forgot existed. That was the worst thing ever associated with the Star Trek Brand and should be forgotten entirely.

 

[The Gatekeeper]

I would love more Short Treks. The Very Short Treks I forgot existed. That was the worst thing ever associated with the Star Trek Brand and should be forgotten entirely.

Wow, really? They were just harmless fun. If you didn't like them fine, but to call them "the worst thing ever associated with the Star Trek Brand" is really over the top hyperbole of the highest order.

 

[tomalak301]

Wow, really? They were just harmless fun. If you didn't like them fine, but to call them "the worst thing ever associated with the Star Trek Brand" is really over the top hyperbole of the highest order.

One of the episodes' main story was about snot. It was disgusting.

 

[Turtletrekker]

One of them's main story was about snot. It was disgusting.

Yeah, that was the only time that Star Trek has ever activated my gag reflex.

 

[Tiran O'Saurus]

I liked the one with all the holodecks.

 

[Tosk]

but to call them "the worst thing ever associated with the Star Trek Brand" is really over the top hyperbole of the highest order.

I mean...something has to be the worst thing ever associated with the Star Trek brand.

Why not choose them?

 

[Boo-khat!]

The thing I really disliked about the VSTs was that they gave the impression that they were actively making fun of TAS instead of honoring it for its anniversary, which was supposed to be their intent. Imagine if in 2023, CBS made a special tribute for the 30 year anniversary of DS9 that was filled with stupid snot jokes and dumb humor?