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.

 

[Akiraprise]

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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[Akiraprise]

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.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

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.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Surprisingly, no Christmas episode about shooting a Christmas present asteroid with an ornament cannon or some such thing.

 

[Cap'n Calhoun]

Surprisingly, no Christmas episode about shooting a Christmas present asteroid with an ornament cannon or some such thing.

I'm going to laugh if one comes out Saturday morning.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe they'll do New Year, instead.

(It'd be kind of odd if they did do the first technically Christmas episode - one that was about Christmas, not just using it as a metaphor or mention. And finally out-cheese the Star Wars special?)

 

[Cap'n Calhoun]

Everyone's so busy prejudging Starfleet Academy or commenting on the potential Kurtzman contract renewal, and yet so few are asking the important question... Whither Star Trek Scouts?

Over a month since the last new episode. Last week they didn't even bother with their #1701st recap episode. What will tomorrow bring?? By which I literally mean tomorrow, since Saturday is their usual release date.

 

[NCC-73515]

Let it die quietly and disappear from all records

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

If no new one today, perhaps they'll release the second set of 10 between the end of SFA and the start of SNW season 4.

 

[Cap'n Calhoun]

If no new one today, perhaps they'll release the second set of 10 between the end of SFA and the start of SNW season 4.

They're just giving us time too absorb the appearance of JR and Roo on the wall of heroes in Academy. /jk

 

[Cap'n Calhoun]

Anyone live-tweeting this?

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"Started streaming 2 hours ago" as of this writing, so it must be looping through them?

 

[Cap'n Calhoun]

We're actually moving on past asteroid blasting...?

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Holodeck Rescues #1, apparently coming Friday.

Description:

The Star Trek Scouts, JR, Roo, and Sprocket are on a mission to save a cosmic creature separated from its family! They use rocket boots, a tricorder, and a replicator in an epic volcanic eruption rescue to bring the animal back to safety and complete another epic rescue mission!

The Star Trek Scouts are here to help! Join JR, Roo, and Sprocket as they go on exciting holodeck adventures to rescue baby animals across space. Watch them work together on amazing missions, saving the day and helping new friends along the way. Together, they learn, grow, and boldly go!

 

[David cgc]

Holodeck Rescues #1, apparently coming Friday.