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Star Trek: Starfleet Scouts in development

Wow, really? They were just harmless fun. If you didn't like them fine, but to call them "the worst thing ever associated with the Star Trek Brand" is really over the top hyperbole of the highest order.
The snot one wad really bad, but it did make a valid point about cultural norms and the difficulties in overcoming cultural differences.

The rest were harmless fun, and Spock's "she had cheated on me many times" is the defining line of Ethan Peck's version of the character:lol:
 
Wow, really? They were just harmless fun. If you didn't like them fine, but to call them "the worst thing ever associated with the Star Trek Brand" is really over the top hyperbole of the highest order.

Except it's accurate.

All of Star Trek is harmless fun. And VST is the absolute worst of it. Ah, I had forgotten about Section 31. But I still think it's CLOSE.
 
Will this be another kids show that only 40 plus year old Trekkies watch? :) Still it's crazy how they think to appeal to kids they always need to do shows with kids characters. When I was a kid I like GiJoe which had adult characters, Speed Racer, who was young but Speed was not a child. Transformers for not kids. Also maybe aim higher. Instead of grade school kids, try and do something kids in junior high school would like instead. That 10 to 14 year old demographic .
 
Were people entertained?

Prodigy was regarded well

That's not what I was wondering tho. Of course people were entertained. But did Paramount's attempts at drawing kids and teens to the Trek franchise with "targeted at a younger audience" work? From what I know about Trek, it's mostly Trekkie parents who make their kids watch Trek and introduce them to the franchise that way, not kids watching shows like Prodigy on their own accord and thinking "oh Star Trek is so cool".
 
That's not what I was wondering tho. Of course people were entertained. But did Paramount's attempts at drawing kids and teens to the Trek franchise with "targeted at a younger audience" work? From what I know about Trek, it's mostly Trekkie parents who make their kids watch Trek and introduce them to the franchise that way, not kids watching shows like Prodigy on their own accord and thinking "oh Star Trek is so cool".
People think Star Trek is cool? :vulcan:

The larger problem is that Paramount muffed the roll out. It was supposed to utilize Nickelodeon and draw kids in that way. What we are seeing with young people is more a draw in things that are older (vintage) and checking out Trek that way. Be great if they ran Prodigy and TAS on Nickelodeon and see how that goes.
 
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