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Friday Fun Thread for February 17, 2023

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Star Trek: Picard season 3 has begun, and as a lifelong fan, having seen episode 1, I am truly excited.

The new series seem to have each picked out an audience, per this fan comment I'm paraphrasing from an io9 commenter:

  • Strange New Worlds for ST:TOS fans

  • Picard for ST:TNG fans

  • the upcoming Section 31 for ST:DS9 fans (probably)

  • Prodigy for fans of Voyager

  • Lower Decks for fans of the entire Star Trek canon including those rare gems who still adore The Animated Series from the 70's

  • Discovery for fans of the Star Trek 2009 cinematic series (original commenter said "for people who hate Star Trek" and another said "for people who love Star Wars".)

I hadn't even heard of half of these. Isn't Prodigy a drum and bass band?

Is there just a lot of studio money pouring into star trek after the movies? I always thought Enterprise dying early killed off the TV shows

Prodigy is a Star Wars: Clone Wars-style CGI cartoon airing on Nickelodeon and Paramount Plus. It's definitely, obviously for kids, somewhat twee, but the concepts and ethics are very Star Trek.

Paramount is desperately trying to make their streaming service impossible to give up before they have to start making a profit by raising their rates. Star Trek is the P+ cash cow.