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'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2 (variety.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What are they going to do if season one flops?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Prodigy" has demonstrated that they're willing to cancel something they gave an early renewal to.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Prodigy is boring. There, I said it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Confused John Travolta

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

being alive to see the controversy first hand when they first redid the klingons after the first movie and again after discovery has taught me to smile at fan controversies. lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What was it they said back then? They're from the South or some such?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Or as Worf once put it, “We don’t discuss that with outsiders.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think the show runner was saying they're from a different sect of Klingons at first and then they backpedaled as hard as they could almost immediately. Lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I also couldn't really get into it.

I can understand the appeal, but it wasn't really for me.

One day I'll definitely finish watching it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I’ll do a marathon, with the last two seasons of Discovery. One day…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How far did you actually get into Prodigy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kobayashi Maru I think, maybe halfway through whatever came after

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I find Kobayashi is around where it starts to pick up. I'd say just watch the rest of season 1 before deciding if you want to continue, but at the very least, if you're worried about wasting your time, to episode 11 (frames the plot for the rest of the season) or episode 13 (the most classically Trek episode of the season, honestly).

Unfortunately, Jankom Pog never goes away, but somewhere in late season 1, he gets less useless at least and earns the right to be more annoying that Neelix. Also, if you've been finding Rok an annoying helpless child up to this point, she becomes a much better character (probably the most useful crew member) after episode 8 through a slightly O'Brien-esque process.

Season 2 is great and worth having watched season 1 (not to say season 1 is bad, but season 2 is way better).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I greatly appreciate your reasoned analysis, and I am now eager to try again. (Serious reply.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I would like to second this, particularly the line "through a slightly O'Brien-esque process."

😭😭😭

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Hey you give me as much Jason Mantzoukas as possible.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully nothing because every first season of a new ST series is a flop.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Strange New Worlds season one was excellent

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That's true it was excellent and an outlier for the franchise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I agree. DS9 season one honestly wasn't too bad (obviously not SNW season 1 caliber), though mainly because it didn't have a weird blackface episode.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Being a direct spin-off of Discovery helped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ohhh. I quit watching that. It was decent but also so dour. Edgy. Depressing.
I'd watch for more Tig Notarro though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Honestly, in most cases, studios should just guarantee 3 seasons because that's how long it takes to really find if a show will actually get any sort of following.

To be honest, I feel like streamers keep trying to gun for a The Office or Last Airbender level hit, but don't realize that those shows wouldn't have survived today under the current metric by which they evaluate a show's success. They ignore the whole point of streaming: a show should have more time to find success - potential fans will get to it when they get to it.