Spoilers Star Trek: Scouts Discussion Thread

[Cap'n Calhoun]

Common Sense Media calls it like it is:

2/5
Formulaic preschool series lacks depth, fan service.

The show misses the mark for its audience and expectations. Meant for preschoolers, Star Trek: Scouts grabs their attention with bright colors, loud sound effects and fast-moving images. However, it doesn't go deeper than that. The show is formulaic, with the same conflict in every episode. While this makes it easier for younger kids to follow, they will also outgrow it quickly. Despite its connection to Star Trek, there's little of that series in it. While the franchise might draw parents in, it won't keep kids watching.

Violence & Scariness
2/5 a little
There are asteroids incoming in every episode, and a ticking time bomb for impact. Alarms blare and create a sense of time pressure. However, there's little sense of dread.

Star Trek: Scouts TV Review

Formulaic preschool series lacks depth, fan service. Read Common Sense Media's Star Trek: Scouts review, age rating, and parents guide.

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[Cap'n Calhoun]

Number nine. Number nine. Number nine.

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[David cgc]

I don't even want to watch it to make fun of it anymore.

 

[Cap'n Calhoun]

I don't even want to watch it to make fun of it anymore.

It would be hilarious if this ended up like Star Wars: The Clone Wars where it starts out almost painfully bad and then five years from now people are saying "Yeah, but if you can make it past episode 60 it's awesome!"

Very, very unlikely, but it would be pretty funny.

Disclaimer: Despite several attempts based on numerous recommendations, I've never finished Clone Wars season 1.

 

[Is It Over Yet?]

I don't even want to watch it to make fun of it anymore.

Lord knows I have been watching way too much Paw Patrol lately and that is practically Shakespearean compared to Scouts. I am not sure what the point of it is even supposed to be. There are zero educational or learning elements. There is not any basic counting, alphabet, singing, dancing, or anything to keep a toddler occupied. They blow up some ridiculous asteroid in 4 minutes every single episode. WTF does "Learning, discovering, and boldly going" mean when they do none of it?

 

[NCC-73515]

You learn life lessons, like cookies are destroyed by milk, but not by sprinkles. Gonna be on some test later at school, I'm sure.

 

[Cap'n Calhoun]

This one is at least slightly off the usual formula, but only because the usual formula is so rigid.

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[Is It Over Yet?]

Not sure what the plan is for this show going forward but giving the Scouts an antagonist to play off rather than just a random piece of space debris is a step in the right direction. They even beamed plausible tools at the asteroid in an effort to bust it up.

 

[Adventerprise]

They had Finn already. Maybe the nemeses will team up.

 

[Cap'n Calhoun]

This is the first asteroid that they note as being intentionally launched toward the Scouts. Not that I'm really expecting an overarching plot here, but it's at least possible that this is the in-universe reason the Scouts are deflecting so many asteroids.

Halfway through the order of 20 episodes, so I guess this was the season mid-point in any case.