Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy General Discussion Thread

[137th Gebirg]

Yes, that episode made things even more murky.

 

[DEWLine]

Whoops.

 

[The Wormhole]

Per Picard, the Voyager badge will be used by (some) in Starfleet until at least 2385,

2391, actually. Rios was wearing it when he had his fateful encounter with those androids.

 

[NCC-73515]

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.

What we saw so far:
2349-2379 only one common badge
2380-2391 3 different badges
2399 only one common badge

 

[The Old Mixer]

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[Tim Thomason]

What we saw so far:
2349-2379 only one common badge
2380-2391 3 different badges
2399 only one common badge

That we know of. We may have not really seen Support Fleet ships. Or the three fleet structure may have been an experimental idea of the 2380s that was not in use before.

We barely see Starfleet in 2399.

 

[Bornin1980something]

We barely see Starfleet in 2399.

Because it isn't Starfleet!

 

[Tuskin38]

Because it isn't Starfleet!

Yes it is.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Yes it is.

And it always has been.

 

[NCC-73515]

It's a reference to what Picard said when the interview escalated

 

[Bornin1980something]

It's a reference to what Picard said when the interview escalated

 

[Tim Thomason]

It's a reference to what Picard said when the interview escalated

I thought it was funny. Some people
don't like jokes.

 

[fireproof78]

Perhaps the joke isn't funny.

 

[Tuskin38]

Yeah I realized that a while later.

 

[BillJ]

What we saw so far:
2349-2379 only one common badge
2380-2391 3 different badges
2399 only one common badge

Well, they changed in 2371, from the TNG variant to the Movie/Voyager/DS9 season three thru seven variant.

 

[The Overlord]

Nearly every previous Trek show had its own uniform, and most had different badges. The pilots, TOS, TMP, the later movies, TNG season 1-2, TNG seasons 3-up, DS9, the TNG movies. The frequent changes never made sense in-universe, but it's the prerogative of costume designers for a fictional production. That was as true 30 or 50 years ago as it is now.

And Starfleet using more than one uniform design at a time has been canon ever since "Charlie X" showed the Antares crew in pilot-style uniforms.

The crew here are civilians though, not Star Fleet officers, I assume they wear civilian clothes with a badge.

 

[Christopher]

The crew here are civilians though, not Star Fleet officers, I assume they wear civilian clothes with a badge.

I think the conversation here has been about Holo-Janeway's uniform and badge and how it fits with the uniform trends in the other shows.

 

[NCC-73515]

And how she had different badges on the poster and in the trailer

 

[fireproof78]

She downloaded a skin pack.

 

[Tim Thomason]

And how she had different badges on the poster and in the trailer

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