Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?
See, I knew I should’ve paid more attention to what they were saying around “Zee.”
It really was good to get a Zero-centric episode.
The Nobodies being reckless thrill-seekers was a nice story element - I always wished Saru had gone through something similar following his vahar’ai.
I think the episode did about as well as could be expected when it comes to conveying the concept of gaining senses for the first time, and then willingly giving them up. Heady stuff for a kids’ show.
By the way, did Gwyn refer to Zero as a he in the log?
I had the chance to keep an ear out for this as I watched, and I think the line is, “I think Zee’s safe with us until we do.” They’ve used the nickname a handful of times through the season so far, but it’s susceptible to unclear pronounciation.
It was a fun twist - it was good to see something that will carry forward from what was otherwise a fairly standard hijinks episode.
It’s also good to see Maj’el getting involved in said hijinks like a good Vulcan.
Wow, Tarka was a chatty sonofagun.
Honestly? I think that’s probably exactly what they do.
Nostalgia sells, which is why TOS stuff specifically has dominated the merch market for years. And older fans, unfortunately, are probably more likely to have money to burn.
I find merch interesting these days…what do people even want? I feel like action figures are a thing of the past. Are prop and costume replicas where it’s at these days?
I wonder if they’ll tie that directly in to Lower Decks with a Doctor guest appearance.
Dr. Erin is canon!
Well, canon-er, since she got a brief name drop in a Lower Decks episode.
I was briefly concerned that they were treating time travel and quantum realities as the same thing, but I’m glad they addressed them separately in Chapter 15.
I’m gonna have to disagree with Maj’el - I don’t think either the Bell Riots or Cochrane’s warp flight are examples of causal time loops.
Of all the possible references to legacy characters they could have made, Edward Larkin was not on my Bingo card…
All in all, I think it’s a pretty good setup for a season. Time travel nonsense is a pretty big swing for a kids’ show, so I’m curious to see how it all plays out.
I think making Dal have a hard time adjusting to student life and not being at the centre of the action makes a lot of sense. As much as he clearly has room to grow, I wonder if there will ever be an opportunity for Starfleet to tailor their material to his personal learning style.
I haven’t seen the season yet, but the description here seems very in-line with what we saw in “Picard.”
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A disturbing number of people seem to be unwilling or unable to curate their feed.
Total Archer move.
Regarding a third season, I know you have said it’s possible. What is your level of confidence? Is this now just like any other show on Netflix awaiting a season pickup if it does well?
Kevin Hageman: I would guess more than doing well. We don’t know anything about season 3 yet. But what from what I see of Netflix when they do pickup shows for a season 3, which is very rare, it’s not about doing well, it has to do gangbusters.
Dan Hageman: Most things only get 2 seasons.
Kevin Hageman: I think it’s going to be a real challenge. And I think it has to be bigger than just the Star Trek audience watching it as much as they can. It’s about breaking into kids who are [not already fans]
Dan Hageman: But let’s also put it into perspective. Lower Decks is five seasons, but those seasons are 10 episodes. Ours is 20 episodes. We got 40 episodes. It’s a lot of content out there. So it kind of comes down to: are there large watch-throughs of the season? Where’s the appetite? Do people want more Prodigy? Obviously, Kevin and I want more Prodigy. But happy with how we left things off at the end of the season 2. We feel like there’s a nice place to stop, but also a new adventure to pick up if we want to.
Kevin Hageman: Doing a show like this is not cheap, doing 20 episodes. So, my hope is we get a great-sized audience, but if it’s not big enough to warrant another season, there’s always option B. Which would be, let’s do a 90-minute animated film, the sequel which could start the film franchise.
individual discussion threads for each episode that come out one or two a day,
BRB adding this as an option
Personally, I prefer option 1, if enough people are going to participate.
At this point, I’m giving up on the linear channels, and am keeping my attention on the app.
Of course, the app doesn’t seem to contain information about what’s “coming soon,” so the season might just…appear there one day.
Not sure what to say here besides, “wow.”