Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy General Discussion Thread

[Christopher]

Of course Animation wouldn't look as good as today, but the stories were for the most part consistently good.

It's not about "today" -- even with modern CG animation techniques, there's still a wide range of difference in animation quality between different shows, because the same factors of time, money, and skill are as relevant to the results as they ever were. My point is that Prodigy is one of the very best-looking animated shows currently around, because it has the time and budget to get it right.

 

[The Wormhole]

I was hoping Prodigy's first season would actually end this year.

It still could. Assuming Lower Decks does premiere in August, it would finish in October. If Prodigy comes back the week after Lower Decks ends, it will get all ten remaining episodes aired by year's end.

 

[Kor]

I just started watching. It strikes me as somewhat "Star Wars-ish" with all the weird aliens as well as the robots.

Kor

 

[dupersuper]

I just started watching. It strikes me as somewhat "Star Wars-ish" with all the weird aliens as well as the robots.

Kor

Weird aliens? Brikar? Tellerite? Medusan? Caitian? Kazon? Photonic life form?

 

[Markonian]

Just looked up on Memory Alpha. We really have to wait till December for the rest of S1. Do children have enough patience for significant gaps between episodes?

 

[Christopher]

Do children have enough patience for significant gaps between episodes?

As I mentioned before, lots of Netflix kids' shows release their seasons in two blocks months apart. And I remember a lot of Nickelodeon shows, including Avatar: The Last Airbender, having really long gaps between seasons or partial seasons.

Of course, on commercial TV, kids' shows would just keep airing reruns in between new seasons, and apparently kids were more tolerant of reruns than adults -- I certainly watched the same episodes over and over without complaint at that age. I wonder if kids today rewatch streaming shows of their own volition.

 

[137th Gebirg]

As you said.

 

[The Wormhole]

Just looked up on Memory Alpha. We really have to wait till December for the rest of S1.

I doubt that's accurate at all. According to them, all the remaining season 1 episodes are dropping on December 31st. None of the Trek shows drop the whole season (or half season) on the same day, and even ignoring that, December 31st is a Saturday and since fall 2018 Thursday has been the day for new Star Trek episodes.

Also, looking over the other shows on MA, they say all of Lower Decks season 3 is dropping on December 31st, meanwhile they claim all of Picard season 3 and SNW season 2 will be dropping on December 31st of 2023. Which we know is inaccurate since Picard season 3 at least has already been announced for a February 2023 premiere. I suspect December 31st might just be a default placeholder MA uses if there is no premiere date announced, and they apply the appropriate year to that date.

Don't know why they can't just not put any airdate in at all until one is announced. Especially since that is exactly what they are doing in regards to Disco season 5. But who really understands MA's thought process on anything?

 

[Tuskin38]

Two of the first words we hear Jankom say in the Tellarite language came from two different Trek novels.

https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1545861094434119680

 

[Christopher]

Two of the first words we hear Jankom say in the Tellarite language came from two different Trek novels.

https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1545861094434119680

Hunh, I'd forgotten all about coining that word. It's the third time a modern Trek show has canonized a term I introduced in the novels, and I believe it's the second one from The Buried Age, the first being "contact specialist," which I coined for Deanna Troi's other job responsibility besides counseling. (Discovery referred to Saru as a "first contact specialist.") The other one was "cosmozoan" for spacegoing life forms, which I did not invent but introduced to Trek literature in Titan: Orion's Hounds. It was spoken in DSC's third-season finale, IIRC.

 

[publiusr]

I finally got to watch the one hour event on Nick: something for everyone!

 

[Ron M]

Of course, on commercial TV, kids' shows would just keep airing reruns in between new seasons, and apparently kids were more tolerant of reruns than adults -- I certainly watched the same episodes over and over without complaint at that age. I wonder if kids today rewatch streaming shows of their own volition.

As a father of three elementary-age children, I can confirm that they do--though, of course, now they have the choice to choose which "reruns" they want to watch, rather than being subject to the networks' scheduling of them like we were in the old days. (They'll just skip over rewatching episodes that weren't their favorites.)

 

[Christopher]

As a father of three elementary-age children, I can confirm that they do--though, of course, now they have the choice to choose which "reruns" they want to watch, rather than being subject to the networks' scheduling of them like we were in the old days. (They'll just skip over rewatching episodes that weren't their favorites.)

Okay, thanks. Now I know... and knowing is half the battle.

 

[captainmkb]

I doubt that's accurate at all. According to them, all the remaining season 1 episodes are dropping on December 31st. None of the Trek shows drop the whole season (or half season) on the same day, and even ignoring that, December 31st is a Saturday and since fall 2018 Thursday has been the day for new Star Trek episodes.

Also, looking over the other shows on MA, they say all of Lower Decks season 3 is dropping on December 31st, meanwhile they claim all of Picard season 3 and SNW season 2 will be dropping on December 31st of 2023. Which we know is inaccurate since Picard season 3 at least has already been announced for a February 2023 premiere. I suspect December 31st might just be a default placeholder MA uses if there is no premiere date announced, and they apply the appropriate year to that date.

Don't know why they can't just not put any airdate in at all until one is announced. Especially since that is exactly what they are doing in regards to Disco season 5. But who really understands MA's thought process on anything?

someone who is overeager to have every release date read by automated coding templates put that is as placeholder when there is null data. i don't understand why it's been allowed to stay like that either.

 

[The Wormhole]

Complete and Total Speculation
Given we now know Lower Decks is returning on August 25, its finale should air October 27. I see one of two things happening, either Prodigy will return on October 27 with the Lower Decks finale, or the week after on November 3. Which would mean the Prodigy finale would be either December 29 or January 5, after which I suspect another month long break before Picard returns in February.

 

[tomalak301]

I was a little surprised we didn't get anything on Prodigy today. If Picard, Discovery, and SNW are coming back in 2023, that would be Prodigy is coming back sooner rather than later. Would have liked to see a new trailer, or a teaser at least.

 

[Uhura's Song]

I was a little surprised we didn't get anything on Prodigy today. If Picard, Discovery, and SNW are coming back in 2023, that would be Prodigy is coming back sooner rather than later. Would have liked to see a new trailer, or a teaser at least.

IDK, let LD have some time in the sun.

It may be so good they'll have to Ready Room it.

 

[The Wormhole]

I suspect we'll get a new Prodigy trailer on September 8 for Trek Day.

 

[Char Kais]

Star Trek Prodigy Nielsen ratings:
(rank is in "Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts")

2022-07-08
1x01 1x02
P18-49 rating: 0.05
P2+ (000s): 196
Rank: 86

2022-07-15
1x03
P18-49 rating: 0.04
P2+ (000s): 180
Rank: 104

1x04
P18-49 rating: 0.04
P2+ (000s): 198
Rank: 96

2022-07-22
1x05
P18-49 rating: 0.04
P2+ (000s): 216
Rank: 120

1x06
P18-49 rating: 0.03
P2+ (000s): 147
Rank: 127

Nickelodeon moved Star Trek Prodigy 1x06 to the "Nick at Nite" nighttime programming block.

 

[Campe]

Man, could you find some actual relevant numbers? It’s a streaming show repurposed for broadcast. Most people who want to watch it had already watched it.