So this is basically the newest season of Star Trek Prodigy
Star Trek: Starfleet Scouts in development
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That's a huge insult to Prodigy:
The two first "episodes" are below:
This is basically Bubble Guppies with a tiny Trek veneer.
^^^ This seems more accurate.
Hmmm.
Is JR perhaps James T. Kirk's descendant, James R. Kirk?
Roo is vaguely similar sounding to Uhura.
Sprocket. He's the merger of Spock and a rocket (hence one metal arm).
They're probably clones. They're also just having fun on a holodeck (being subtly trained by Section 31 or something).
Is JR perhaps James T. Kirk's descendant, James R. Kirk?
Roo is vaguely similar sounding to Uhura.
Sprocket. He's the merger of Spock and a rocket (hence one metal arm).
They're probably clones. They're also just having fun on a holodeck (being subtly trained by Section 31 or something).
Yes.
I kinda predicted something like this 
I really hope it's not gonna be the exact same story structure in every episode though
I really hope it's not gonna be the exact same story structure in every episode though
Well, I've seen every canonical piece of Star Trek ever made, so I will check this out and watch it at least once, but I am otherwise largely indifferent to it.
Do pre-schoolers use X/Twitter?
I thought it was used primarily by preschoolers? Though I'm basing that mainly on the quality of the interactions.
I can understand how you might draw that conclusion.
I really hope it's not gonna be the exact same story structure in every episode though
Preschoolers want stability. They want/need a certain amount of regularity in their lives (it gives them a sense of security).
Given the target audience of pre-schoolers, I doubt that would ever happen.I'd like to see it get less goofy over time, so kids get hooked at the teletubby level and then stay for more interesting stuff. They could even make a crossover with PRO
I'm getting Paw Patrol vibes here.
Yup. That trailer was enough.I think I'll be skipping this one
I'm 41.
Watched the first one. I like meatballs.
Yeah, this show is the equivalent of action figures.
Wow, I think I somehow completely missed that this was going to be a thing, so I was pretty surprised seeing this pop up yesterday. I understand that I’m not the target audience, but still, why does it have to be so damn stupid and unimaginative? Is the assumption that just because the audience are little kids that the plot has to be non-sensical bullshit? I would recommend anyone watch a show like the brilliant Bluey, which is also made for pre-schoolers and still manages to be super creative, heartwarming and oftentimes surprisingly deep and meaningful … and still is a ton of fun for little kids. I guess Bluey might be a bit of an outlier, but still, I would have hoped that if there has to be a version of Star Trek for pre-schoolers, it would have been something that attempted to be a bit more intelligent. What’s also jarring is the inclusion of stuff like the “Romulan rubber ducky”, that I have a hard time imagining any kids getting.
But also, could that art style possibly be any blander? If you were to take out the Starfleet deltas, this would be indistinguishable from any random cheaply 3D animated kids show these days. But then again, maybe that’s the point. They want to make sure that parents at a glance recognize that this is nothing too crazy; just something safe like all those other shows you let your kid watch on their iPad.
I don’t suppose we need a new forum dedicated to this show, do we?
But also, could that art style possibly be any blander? If you were to take out the Starfleet deltas, this would be indistinguishable from any random cheaply 3D animated kids show these days. But then again, maybe that’s the point. They want to make sure that parents at a glance recognize that this is nothing too crazy; just something safe like all those other shows you let your kid watch on their iPad.
I don’t suppose we need a new forum dedicated to this show, do we?
Yeah, Paw Patrol is the better comparison. Though even Paw Patrol is a deeper show, with some character arcs and light serialization (at least in the sense of say TNG, where guest characters will pop up again from time to time). It of course helps that the individual stories are slightly longer (two per episode, so probably about 11-13 minutes when excluding commercials/credits).
I get nothing here. No idea of the characters of the three kids and how they're different. No idea of where they actually are. It just feels like slop, right down to the fact the two shorts are functionally identical other than one having a meatball asteroid, and one having a soap asteroid.
Yeah, Bluey is pretty much the gold standard for a show targeted at young kids which isn't awful for parents to watch. It's notably not produced in America, though, and has a very slow-paced vibe which is quite different from what this is trying to be.
This is very much in the Paw Patrol/Blaze and the Monster Machines/Rusty Rivets vein, though somehow even more frantically paced.
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No joke: Bluey is one of the best-written shows on TV. I don't even have kids; it's just a great show.
Based on the first two episodes, I'm not sure what purpose Scouts is serving. If it's trying to get kids into Trek, I don't think it shows or tells them enough about Trek to do form a bond beyond the brand name. If it's trying to educate, it's not really doing that. It's a generic series of shorts with a delta logo and an occasional name drop. Maybe it'll change—significantly?—as more come out, but as it stands it feels more like slightly off-brand merchandise than anything else. I'm not offended it exists or anything; it's just "Mostly harmless" at best when they could've aimed higher.
Has someone already done the usual obligatory acknowledgement that Roddenberry would've hated it? I can knock it out just in case.
“I just didn’t want space cadets running all over the Enterprise saying things like, ‘Golly gee whiz, Captain Kirk!’ You know, like Archie and Jughead going to the moon. There are enough limitations just being on Saturday morning.”—Roddenberry, speaking to SHOW magazine, quoted in The Fifty-Year Mission
That said, he would've had the same objections to Prodigy too, and Prodigy rocked, as did many other things Gene would've hated. Still, worth noting that many of his objections to early versions of TAS could've been discussing this "show" where the kids routinely say things like "Great galaxies!"
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