I mean...something has to be the worst thing ever associated with the Star Trek brand.
Why not choose them?
Was the Section 31 movie not already taken?
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Was the Section 31 movie not already taken?
How many times have they now tried to aim their stuff towards younger audiences? I mean... did that ever work?
The snot one wad really bad, but it did make a valid point about cultural norms and the difficulties in overcoming cultural differences.
The rest were harmless fun, and Spock's "she had cheated on me many times" is the defining line of Ethan Peck's version of the character
Imagine. Someday our moderators will have to create a form for this.
Maybe they can combine it with the Section 31 forum. Call it "Baby Trek General Discussion"
I was thinking more about a dedicated section for the animated shows.
Except it's accurate.
All of Star Trek is harmless fun. And VST is the absolute worst of it. Ah, I had forgotten about Section 31. But I still think it's CLOSE.
Will this be another kids show that only 40 plus year old Trekkies watch? 
Still it's crazy how they think to appeal to kids they always need to do shows with kids characters. When I was a kid I like GiJoe which had adult characters, Speed Racer, who was young but Speed was not a child. Transformers for not kids. Also maybe aim higher. Instead of grade school kids, try and do something kids in junior high school would like instead. That 10 to 14 year old demographic .
Still it's crazy how they think to appeal to kids they always need to do shows with kids characters. When I was a kid I like GiJoe which had adult characters, Speed Racer, who was young but Speed was not a child. Transformers for not kids. Also maybe aim higher. Instead of grade school kids, try and do something kids in junior high school would like instead. That 10 to 14 year old demographic .
That's not what I was wondering tho. Of course people were entertained. But did Paramount's attempts at drawing kids and teens to the Trek franchise with "targeted at a younger audience" work? From what I know about Trek, it's mostly Trekkie parents who make their kids watch Trek and introduce them to the franchise that way, not kids watching shows like Prodigy on their own accord and thinking "oh Star Trek is so cool".
People think Star Trek is cool?
The larger problem is that Paramount muffed the roll out. It was supposed to utilize Nickelodeon and draw kids in that way. What we are seeing with young people is more a draw in things that are older (vintage) and checking out Trek that way. Be great if they ran Prodigy and TAS on Nickelodeon and see how that goes.
People think Star Trek is cool?
The larger problem is that Paramount muffed the roll out. It was supposed to utilize Nickelodeon and draw kids in that way. What we are seeing with young people is more a draw in things that are older (vintage) and checking out Trek that way. Be great if they ran Prodigy and TAS on Nickelodeon and see how that goes.
That's my point, I can't see kids thinking Star Trek is cool, no matter how many "targeted at younger audiences" shows Paramount tries to throw at them. Trek may have gotten out of the "basement nerd" corner in some ways, but it's still far from being cool.
I'm not optimistic, for one reason, and one reason alone: Prodigy was good, and Prodigy failed to get the viewership they wanted. That means Paramount saw Prodigy as a failure, and want to distance themselves from some aspect or another of it.
This show seems like it's going to focus on slightly younger characters and viewers. I expect that it will be an extremely "dumbed down" version of Star Trek - to the point that nearly no adult will want to watch it unless they have a kid of preschool age.
Maybe it will help get a new generation of kids interested in Star Trek, even if it holds little for superfans like us. But even if it's a smash hit with little kids, I'm not sure what the kids graduate into, presuming Prodigy stays off of Paramount+ after the Netflix licensing is over. Other modern Trek is very much "for adults" in a way that the earlier eras were not quite.
This show seems like it's going to focus on slightly younger characters and viewers. I expect that it will be an extremely "dumbed down" version of Star Trek - to the point that nearly no adult will want to watch it unless they have a kid of preschool age.
Maybe it will help get a new generation of kids interested in Star Trek, even if it holds little for superfans like us. But even if it's a smash hit with little kids, I'm not sure what the kids graduate into, presuming Prodigy stays off of Paramount+ after the Netflix licensing is over. Other modern Trek is very much "for adults" in a way that the earlier eras were not quite.
Could work, have something like a tik tok type of episodes, maybe 5 -10 min
Which is honestly the principal reason it should be brought back. They likely will never do it, though. It's in its strange state of limbo floating between Netflix, Nickelodeon & CBS/Paramount.
I have little to no hope that PRO is coming back. And I say this as someone who thought it was the best of the five shows CBSAA/Paramount+ was producing. SFA in the 32nd century is the closest we're going to get to that formula.
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