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Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy General Discussion Thread

Couple possibilities:
1) She's a hologram. She'll update from the 2370s combadge to the mid-2380s one fairly early on, following activation.
2) The production team didn't want to reveal the "new Starfleet insignia" as of yet, and used the old style in early marketing.
3) The production team changed their mind on what Starfleet symbol would be used. Either for all of Starfleet or just the Janeway hologram
4) The production team were fine with the Voyager badge, until Alex Kurtzman kicks down their door and carefully explaines how much money has been made from selling all the new badge designs they've merchandised since 2017.
 
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I mean, lower decks doesn’t have a split delta *shrug*

The design style is so simplified that maybe it does and we just aren't shown it, any more than we're shown the irises of the characters' eyes or their individual strands of hair. Look at how the rank pips are reduced to flat yellow dots with no 3-dimensional texture.
 
The design style is so simplified that maybe it does and we just aren't shown it, any more than we're shown the irises of the characters' eyes or their individual strands of hair. Look at how the rank pips are reduced to flat yellow dots with no 3-dimensional texture.

I think you guys misunderstand Daniel's comment. It's not that all of the new Star Trek Universe shares the same design motif (they don't), it's the exact opposite. Each show seems to have it's own costume, insignia, ships, style, etc. Even when they don't need to.

They're redesigning everything for SNW, even if they could've just used the Discovery designs.

They're coming up with new Starfleet styles in Prodigy, even if they could've worked closer to adapt the Picard or Lower Decks (especially since the show will presumably be centered away from Starfleet).

It's the same tactic as was done (for the most part) before, it's just more visible because there's more shows.
 
The design style is so simplified that maybe it does and we just aren't shown it, any more than we're shown the irises of the characters' eyes or their individual strands of hair. Look at how the rank pips are reduced to flat yellow dots with no 3-dimensional texture.
That's what I think could be happening: The LDS and the PRO badges are the same. The VOY badge came before and after for some reason.
 
I think you guys misunderstand Daniel's comment.

I wasn't addressing it. I was responding to Tuskin38.


Each show seems to have it's own costume, insignia, ships, style, etc. Even when they don't need to.

And why wouldn't they? All those things are the creations of artists and designers. They're entitled to exercise their creativity; it's the whole reason they're in the business to begin with. A lot of art is about exploring variations on a common theme.
 
The design style is so simplified that maybe it does and we just aren't shown it, any more than we're shown the irises of the characters' eyes or their individual strands of hair. Look at how the rank pips are reduced to flat yellow dots with no 3-dimensional texture.
Maybe the special Split Delta is meant as a special CommBadge for Holographic Assitants.

This way the crew can easily ID which person is a Hologram and and which is a regular flesh & blood person?
 
Nope. The LD badge and the Voyager badge were used concurrently, on two different uniform styles. Per Picard, the Voyager badge will be used by (some) in Starfleet until at least 2385, and eventually another will be used (in its place?), reminiscent of the All Good Things badge.
* 2349-2371 - Delta with round background (TNG badge)
* 2371-2385 - Delta with horizontal double-bar background (Voyager badge)
** 2380-2381 - Delta alone (LD badge)
** 2383 - Delta with odd split (Prodigy badge)
* 2399 - Delta with two vertical bars (Picard badge)

This isn't the first time we saw multiple Starfleet badges being used at the same time, by different ships. That would be the TOS era, which had about seven different patches worn at the same time. Discovery, ten years prior, showed us two concurrent badges.

Do we know for sure they didn't switch some time between 2378 and 2380, then back some time between 2381 and 2385?

Look at how the rank pips are reduced to flat yellow dots with no 3-dimensional texture.

Also, the corn.
 
So Paramount+ is having an exclusive showing of the first episode of PRODIGY at NYCC next week.

Anybody going?
(I'd wanted to but haven't got enough funds and still worried about big crowds)
 
Do we know for sure they didn't switch some time between 2378 and 2380, then back some time between 2381 and 2385?

We know that the Generations Badge was being used by the Titan crew and all those Class A Captains in 2380 and 2381. And then Picard shows it being used up into the early 2390s, so there appears to be no break in the use of the Generations Badge, even if there was another badge in use by certain ships in 2380-2381 and possibly a third one in 2383.

Until Riker showed up in the S1 finale, it was my assumption that they switched from the Generation Badge briefly to the Lower Decks Badge (perhaps as part of a failed uniform design), and would switch back in short order. Because the only other use of the Generations Badge in S1 was in a flashback and on a character who had been out of commission for some time. But the show has been pretty clear in the existence of two classes of officers with two separate uniform designs and two separate badges throughout Season Two.
 
Stop moving the goalposts. Was John Byrne drawing a story meant to be seamlessly inserted into the middle of one of Curt Swan's Stories? No? Because that's exactly what "Flashback" was. The whole point of the anniversary episodes was "slavish reproduction of what was done before". So I'm perfectly within my rights to believe they didn't do it right.

And I'm not making any comments on Prodigy, we are way off topic here.
Actually yes this has happened. When he does so he generally tres to match up layout design, but it will be in his own style. See also someone like Perez, whose tight detail work shows significant more detail than any generations previous artist was ever able to produce. Both artist have done this many times over their 40 plus years in the biz.
 
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And the warp effect isn't consistently portrayed in TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT. TNG used the warp effect from ILM. Which sweet Jesus even back in 87 I hated it. Legato who oversaw the first season of DS9's fx, produced a much sharper focused warp effect. That was typical of his work sharp detailed lines, and much darker shots. While Cury who then took over DS9 and was overseeing VOY approved a warp effect less obtrusive then ILM's but still much less detailed and sharp of Legato's (though Legato's style was used for almost all of DS9 run). And the effect in ENT was an increase of detail from what Curry oversaw on VOY, but still less sharp than DS9.

Sure its the stretch effect with a glowing flash, but it has been portrayed differently in each show even when shows had the same FX producer overseeing them.
 
Let's gooooo

I'm excited

Oof I forgot the spoiler tag (mod please add and pin it like the other show forums?)
 
Let's gooooo

I'm excited

Oof I forgot the spoiler tag (mod please add and pin it like the other show forums?)
I've merged the main thread from Future of Trek with this, as I'd intended to do when the new forum was created. Hope you don't mind.
 
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