Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy General Discussion Thread

[Richard S. Ta]

Prodigy is coming to Blu Ray on November 12th. I wonder if this means Netflix liked the performance because I have been told on multiple occasions that netflix shows do not come to physical media.

A few do. As mentioned above, The Crown and Stranger Things. More recently Sandman saw a physical release.

If they think enough people will buy it, basically. It’s Star Trek so it’ll shift enough units to justify a physical release, or at least so they hope.

 

[tomalak301]

I went to the Trek convention last week and talked to Aaron Waltke (And Bonnie Gordon) a lot. It was so fun to pick his brain about the season in a more casual setting and just do what I wanted to do at the convention, celebrate Star Trek Prodigy. He's a pretty cool guy and they've been impressed by the response and are optimistic about a season 3. Granted, that's really writers-speak right now, but having that experience and getting to know him is something I won't forget for a long time.

 

[MFB]

Can anyone confirm if this bluray set works in North America?

Star Trek: Prodigy: Season 1 Blu-Ray Collection [2023] [Region A & B & C] https://a.co/d/gCCt3C4

It's the international release but the description says it's Regions A, B and C. I want to get Prodigy S1 on bluray and I'm considering getting this instead of getting the NA release which split season one into 2 parts. Getting this also less expensive that getting the 2 NA S1 sets

That UK set will work in North America (Region A). All blu-ray releases of season 1 worldwide contain the same discs. I myself imported the first half of season 1 form the US and the discs worked fine with my Region B player.

 

[trekfan_1]

That UK set will work in North America (Region A). All blu-ray releases of season 1 worldwide contain the same discs. I myself imported the first half of season 1 form the US and the discs worked fine with my Region B player.

That's what I thought, thanks for the confirmation. I will go with this set then. Even with shipping and currency conversion , it's still less expensive importing the UK version to Canada, than importing thecI.US version. Plus it's all in one set vs needing to make 2 purchases. The only difference is shipping time which is not a biggie for me since I can watch it for free ( with ads) on the CTV app in Canada. The Season 2 release I will probably get the NA version in November. This way I will have 2 "complete saason sets".

At the end of the day, I will have both seasons of Prodigy digitally purchased on itunes ( already have S2) plus the blurays ( complete S1 UK version, and complete S2 US version.)

That should have me set for life for Prodigy. Unless we have a season 3 of course, crossing fingers .

 

[Tuskin38]

 

[Ogrebear]

Just thought of a head canon for why the Protostar's Virus Weapon was both 'made safe' by Starfleet but also the huge battle had to happen to preserve the timeline:

Starfleet staged the battle - all the ships that answered where known to Janeway and the crews, thus only those ships jumped to 'help' Protostar, they all had skeleton crews, and the Virus was 'adjusted' so none of the ships where firing on full power, which is why none of the ships there actually destroyed, just badly damaged.

The Allied ships that came in did so to beam off the skeleton crews once life support etc started failing, as lifeboats could not be launched without being targetted.

Sure, lots of ships inc Enterprise, Defiant, Sovereign, etc etc were damaged, but that was simply fixable*, and the timeline was preserved.

*unless this damage is why the Enterprise-E was 'not available' to fight the Borg- it was not Worf's fault after-all.

 

[Wouter]

Just thought of a head canon for why the Protostar's Virus Weapon was both 'made safe' by Starfleet but also the huge battle had to happen to preserve the timeline:

Starfleet staged the battle - all the ships that answered where known to Janeway and the crews, thus only those ships jumped to 'help' Protostar, they all had skeleton crews, and the Virus was 'adjusted' so none of the ships where firing on full power, which is why none of the ships there actually destroyed, just badly damaged.

I think it's much simpler: Starfleet just isolated the weapon (like a virus scanner can put a file in "containment") so it's present-day vessel (Voyager-A would not get affected), and/or Voyager-A had effective countermeasures. Note that Voyager-A launches after the battle of the end of season 1 and is filled with the latest technology, including slipstream drive but probably also updated anti cyberweapon measures.

For example, see how Starfleet could make its shields resist Dominion weaponry after early encounters, and did likewise with the Breen weapon later.

The battle in season 1 of Prodigy predates Starfleets' measures from season 2, so no need to "stage" anything. They aren't aware of the weapon and don't have effective counters yet.

 

[Ogrebear]

You are wrong there, the Protostar they ‘neutralise’ the weapon on is the one they sent back into the past AFTER the battle at the end of S1.

Thus the battle had to take place to maintain the timeline, therefore it makes sense that the modified the Virus to make the Starfleet ships only fire on low power or to cripple rather than destroy.

Thinking about it they could not have had skeleton crews due to there being no way to do that and maintain the timeline, but I head canon thousands of lives where saved by changing those power levels and no ships destroyed.

 

[trekfan_1]

I will be trying to get my sister into Prodigy. She's a Trek fan but has not seen it yet. Wil lend her my blurays when S2 is out. I'm.in Canada and its very hard to see Prodigy. The challenge willi be getting her not to give up after seeing how S1 starts. Which is kinda kidsy. The first few episodes does feel like a Pixar/Star wars show. By episode 10 it starts to change ( for the better). And season 2 is classic Star Trek.

 

[Christopher]

The first few episodes does feel like a Pixar/Star wars show.

I've never understood the Star Wars comparisons. Is it the "ragtag heroes banding together against an oppressive regime" thing? Although SW hardly has a patent on that.

Oh, well -- SW is itself a hodgepodge of homages to earlier popular culture, and even boasts about being a formulaic Hero's Journey narrative. So maybe it's a "tastes like chicken" sort of thing.

 

[fireproof78]

I've never understood the Star Wars comparisons.

Same here. It's definitely way outside of Star Wars for me, especially with the whole fugitive aspect of Dal, and then stealing a ship. It's very adventure based.

 

[trekfan_1]

^^ I think initially people see cute frenzy-ish side kicks and superficially compare some of the Prodigy gang to disney characters or the likes of R2D2, 3CPO, Jar Jar binks and Chewbacca from SW. It's intially set in a place, far far away. ( from the Federation)

Yes it's superficial. But that's the first impression many get.

My Boss , a Trek fan ,after seeing the pilot a few years back basically gave up on it . " Isn't that zero guy with the British accent kinda like C3PO? The gooy guy who can't speak understandably is like R2D2 right.?. etc.

For me , I did find it started a bit childish. But gave it time to see it's much more than kids running around to save the day. . and very much Star Trek at heart. It's grown to being one of my favorite Trek shows.

 

[fireproof78]

My Boss , a Trek fan ,after seeing the pilot a few years back basically gave up on it . " Isn't that zero guy with the British accent kinda like C3PO? The gooy guy who can't speak understandably is like R2D2 right.?. etc.

In the most superficial way possible.

I'm not all in on Prodigy but that has nothing to do with superficial similarities, real or imagined, with Star Wars.

 

[Christopher]

Yes it's superficial. But that's the first impression many get.

Which is sad, because it just shows that many people have a very shallow pool of cultural knowledge, so Star Wars is the only example they know, even though Star Wars is just a distillation of countless earlier bits of culture.

 

[Wouter]

You are wrong there, the Protostar they ‘neutralise’ the weapon on is the one they sent back into the past AFTER the battle at the end of S1.

They had it "neutralised" - not destroyed or even necessarily disabled - in their environment. That means, the Voyager-A was not affected by it. Think of how a virus meant for a Windows XP computer would not effect a computer running a much more recent version of Linux; the latter has a different way of working (so the virus likely doesn't work to start with) and also may have a far newer security system that is already aware the older XP virus exists, and thus can recognise and stop it.

When the Protostar was released back in the wormhole, it still had the weapon (dormant but ready to be activated by the Diviner) and Starfleet vessels didn't have a defence against it until very, very recently.

 

[trekfan_1]

One thing I found encouraging about a possible season 3, is that the showrunners recently said on the 7th rule podcast, that Prodigy is actually not very expensive to produce . I'm assuming they meant in comparison to other animated shows. If so, Netflix may be inclined to pick up another season if it's a close call for them on whether to renew or not.

Also, looking at other Netflix animated shows , it seems they run a bit more that 20 episodes per season. So I assume it could be another factor in Prodigy's favor in terms of overall cost.

 

[Christopher]

Also, looking at other Netflix animated shows , it seems they run a bit more that 20 episodes per season.

What shows are you looking at? In my experience, Netflix animated series tend to have short seasons, between 7-13 episodes. The Dragon Prince has 9-episode seasons released at intervals ranging from 5 to 12 months, which is frustrating because its storytelling, while good, is fairly decompressed, so the story doesn't have room to advance very far in a season. Skull Island's first season was 8 episodes, and most of them were barely 20 minutes, so they could've tightened the editing a bit and released the whole thing as a 2 1/2-hour movie. Voltron: Legendary Defender had six 13-episode seasons, two of which were split into releases of 6 and 7 episodes a few months apart.

 

[trekfan_1]

What shows are you looking at? In my experience, Netflix animated series tend to have short seasons, between 7-13 episodes. The Dragon Prince has 9-episode seasons released at intervals ranging from 5 to 12 months, which is frustrating because its storytelling, while good, is fairly decompressed, so the story doesn't have room to advance very far in a season. Skull Island's first season was 8 episodes, and most of them were barely 20 minutes, so they could've tightened the editing a bit and released the whole thing as a 2 1/2-hour movie. Voltron: Legendary Defender had six 13-episode seasons, two of which were split into releases of 6 and 7 episodes a few months apart.

I stand corrected . I was looking at the new Garfield , new Alvin and the chipmunks, the Loud House and a couple others on Netflix (Canada) that run 26 episode seasons. Failed to realize they are not Netflix originals.

 

[Tuskin38]

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[Ray Hardgrit]

That is awesome, I love that. Wesley Crusher played a role in the season after all!