Star Trek: Prodigy

We talked about this last time, but Lucy is played by Ella Purnell, who has been in a ton of wonderfully nerdy things.

You may know her as Gwyn in Star Trek Prodigy, Jackie in Yellow Jackets, and Jinx in the Netflix Arcane series.

She's great.

She's in

And then you've got Lower Decks.

God knows Prodigy was after...

Lower Decks is like post Voyager, isn't it? Yeah.

And then Prodigy is a little bit later down the line post Voyager.

And at the end of Prodigy is the start of the Picard timeline with all the fucking androids going nuts.

Yeah.

So it does all kind of tie together in a kind of weird Doctor Who wibbly wobbly fucking way.

honest.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, so Lori and I met when we were covering Star Trek Prodigy.

Okay.

And we were sitting in the green room of, the virtual green room-

daredevil and disney and them they it's a similar sort of thing yeah that they had the auditorium of five years before disney could do it the second disney could do something with daredevil they did

yeah i mean and again i i'm curious about how the merger plays into it because i know there is some stuff there but whether or not you know netflix why they didn't want new prodigy I don't know, but I know they wanted to keep Prodigy 1 and 2.

They wanted to keep Prodigy.

And the thing is, the reason that it left Prodigy is because they have to wait three years before they can put it back

on

Paramount+.

So whenever Prodigy left Netflix, count three years, and that's when Prodigy will show up on.

I don't know why it was taken off.

So I want something to talk about.

But if you think that was bad, try and watch Prodigy with a kid and explain him having to explain Voyager constantly.

Why does that lady care about that man? Yeah, neurodiverse, gone, are extremely expensive, their own fault.

and they shouldn't have been there because the Federation had never had contact with the Gorn until the episode where Kirk karate chops the Gorn and then throws the rock at him or gets the rock thrown at him the cast is great absolutely no complaints says Ian Stewart and I agree with you Jack Grime has asked do I play Star Trek Online no You guys have absolutely no idea how busy I am.

And they almost think it's a homage or something, you know, that it's showing love for the original series.

And I'm like, no, it doesn't actually, what you're doing is stomping on the original series constantly.

Power Ranger Donnie well the season 4 finale is my second strongest strange new episode of season 4 behind Orders of Magnitude and Orders of Magnitude wasn't a bad episode either but again it had really bad parts of it and parts that again just didn't make sense but it's not science fiction it needs to be better than science fiction the puppet episode is my weakest yeah I think most people agree with that um Chloe says, I enjoyed season three of Picard, Prodigy, Lorax, the first two seasons of Strange New Worlds.

I was on a roller coaster of Strange New Worlds from the beginning.

You know, some kids shows are great.

Star Trek Prodigy.

made for a younger audience, also suitable for an adult audience.

But CBeebies is like, it's specifically for young children, for toddlers.

And to be honest, under Kurtzman, they've done it again and again.

I keep saying Prodigy was perceived really badly.

It wasn't written badly.

It wasn't made badly.

This doesn't sound like that to me.

This really sounds like there's an awful lot of legacy characters in there, whereas maybe one or two would have been a bit of fan service.

But actually, if you don't know the backstory of SG-1, would this series make sense? Is this a bit like Prodigy, whereas you don't know Voyager? It's actually big chunks of that series, doesn't really make sense.

It was badly conceived from that point of view.

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That's

a good pick.

And the episode I picked is Star Trek Prodigy Season 1, Episode 16, Preludes, which is the episode that explains why he constantly refers to himself in the third person and constantly says his name over and over again throughout the course of the show.

Because when he's... uh woken up by the maintenance bot on the telluride sleeper ship it will only acknowledge him if he starts by saying his full name so he and it's implied that he is like the only one awake for quite a long period of time and so i think it just becomes second nature to him to uh to speak that way

Lucy is played by Ella Purnell, who has been in a ton of wonderfully nerdy things.

You may know her as Gwyn in Star Trek Prodigy, Jackie in Yellowjackets, and Jinx in the Netflix Arcane series.

Yeah, Jinx, uh, bothered the shit out of me, but she was acted very well, so well done, Lucy.

Lucy.

And we know this eventually leads to Wesley reappearing again.

We see him in Star Trek Prodigy.

We see him in Star Trek Picard.

He's currently heavily featured in a book I'm reading.

Let's talk about Some trivia.

So as most of us probably know, this was Wil Wheaton's final appearance in the TNG series.

But like I said, we'll see him later in Prodigy and Picard, Lower Decks.

He's in there briefly.