Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy 1x04 - "Dream Catcher"
- Thread starter Commander Richard
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I think it's two things:
- LDS characters talk much faster, which gives them time to say more.
- PRO has pretty overblown/lengthy action sequences compared to LDS, which fills up a lot of time with things other than plot/character development.
You are correct, and then there's the fact that Janeway opened the Shuttle/Cargo Bay door and then Jankom Pog put on his helmet long after the door was opened and exposed to the planet's environment/atmosphere, which defeated the purpose of wearing his EV suit.
They spent too much time staring at the wonders of the planet and not enough time prepping for what the environment of the planet is like.
Ergo, everybody got exposed to the hallucigenic spores that the plant like vines emitted.
It's basically "Strange New World(ENT)" as a late 24th century animated episode and with aliens and a hologram.
Thankfully it wasn't like the second series Space: 1999 episode, "The Rules of Luton"!
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I loved the Mass Effect: Andromeda aesthetic this episode had (tragically underrated game). The only problem now is that they've raised the bar SNW has to clear on how to depict amazing planets.
I give this 9 Andys.
I liked it quite a lot.
It took some building in the first few eps but now it feels like they are getting into some proper Trek storytelling.
Loved landing the ship.
Loved the Warthog/Argo The Next Generation. Looked like a batmobile tumblr too.
The redesigned tricorders/futuristic iPad was pretty neat. The phaser redesign I found odd, maybe cause it's a kids show, or future merchandising? Who knows.
Good episode tho.
Good cliffhanger.
Crashing the ship... THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!
I liked it quite a lot.
It took some building in the first few eps but now it feels like they are getting into some proper Trek storytelling.
Loved landing the ship.
Loved the Warthog/Argo The Next Generation. Looked like a batmobile tumblr too.
The redesigned tricorders/futuristic iPad was pretty neat. The phaser redesign I found odd, maybe cause it's a kids show, or future merchandising? Who knows.
Good episode tho.
Good cliffhanger.
Crashing the ship... THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!
Ah! Good catch!
I had an even more 'meh' reaction to it. I don't mean to malign other folks' enjoyment of this show, but I simply cannot understand how people are grading it 10/10, 9/10 (etc) compared with episodes like Best of Both Worlds, In the Pale Moonlight, or City on the Edge of Forever. The quality of Prodigy is simply nowhere close. The animation is nice, but the writing and storyline aren't particularly compelling. Mulgrew also seems wasted on this show so far. She hasn't had anything to do that was more than a standard voice actor could bring to the role. I don't know, I'm sure I am not the target demographic here, but I have honestly tried to give it a chance.
I concur that this is the best so so far. Really great premise of exploring a strange new world.
- Dal's annoyance for me is counterbalanced by his personal drive. His most ardent desire is to learn who his family is and see them again. All he knows is them from behind? Leaving?
- This may be deep interpreting but I find it interesting that Dal hallucinates Janeway after seeing his parents. Janeway may become a maternal figure to Dal over the series to help shape him into being a better leader.
- Janeway's quip about Murph keeping her company strikes me as a personal touch a mere training hologram wouldn't have. She knows her cadets personally.
- Gwen suggesting murph''s smarter than he looks reinforces my theory that Murph is somehow Starfleet, but is somehow transformed or nonverbal.
- The kids hallucinations are all interesting.
- Dal dreams of family.
- Pig dreams of a home and hearth. Mentions he comes from a colony ship.
- Rok-tak dreams of cute animal companions and is devastated they weren't real. She also wanted the party to stay together.
- Zero hallucinate the Engine, which is what I think is key to his purpose. A Medusan navigator is needed to steer the protostar's third engine.
- Gwen desires approval from her father but is wise enough to know she'll never have it. She's the most mature of the crew.
- The hirogen system eh? That can't be a mistake.
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Me personally, I just rank the episodes against the rest in that specific series. For example an 8 for Discovery might not be equal to an 8 for TOS since I consider TOS a far superior show in pretty much every way. A 6 for Prodigy is not necessarily equal to a 6 for Voyager, etc..
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What you said. A 10 for PRO is not the same thing as a 10 for TNG, TOS or another older series or film. Trek isn't judged the same way from series to series and movie to movie. I don't roll like that, and an excellent LD episode can still take a distant back seat to a simply good ENT episode I've loved since I was in my late twenties.
What you said. A 10 for PRO is not the same thing as a 10 for TNG, TOS or another older series or film. Trek isn't judged the same way from series to series and movie to movie. I don't roll like that, and an excellent LD episode can still take a distant back seat to a simply good ENT episode I've loved since I was in my late twenties.
Pity we never see Murph go out onto the surface. I wonder what it would have dreamt of...
Murph and Gwyn are now both on the surface... so we'll see what happens.
The elevated Thoron emissions have been known to jam Federation Tricorders, maybe that's why they couldn't detect the fauna properly.
Yeah, that's from Voyager's Basics if memory serves.
ok, but how do you do this with a new series like this one, three episodes in?
I guess we’ll discover soon enough.
nah, it was just an illusion. The tellarite structure remained as well.
