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[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Start em young

[-] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

If I'm not the target audience it's bad. No one else should enjoy the franchise I like in a way I don't want to

Is such a bizarrely stupid stance to take.

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

I think it’s less “I’m not the target audience” and more if you’re going to do a Star Trek [insert genre/target audience] show, do it right.

It’s certainly possible to create an intelligent pre-school show that isn’t painful for adults to watch. Take Bluey, for instance. Toddlers love that show, but it also has a cult following among the adults that watch it with their kids, and the style doesn’t look like every single other kids television series on the air.

In comparison, Scouts has a cheap-looking generic style I’ve seen before, and the plots we’ve seem are absolutely brain-dead and superficial. Sure, maybe we don’t need the kids to talk at length about the subspace plasma inverter matrix manifolds or whatever, but that doesn’t mean the show can’t be more than just bright colors and barely coherent plots. It just doesn’t do any justice whatsoever to what Star Trek is.

[-] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Hate to be negative, but I have to agree. Bluey is a great example, and Sesame Street is another. There are shows like that I’d be happy to have a toddler watch. This just seems to offer a convenient distraction to allow parents five minutes of peace in exchange for familiarizing their kids with the Star Trek brand from a young age. Cynical and disappointing.

[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

It is wild to see the entitlement of some segments of the fanbase. These people would shit and piss their pants if they were comic book fans.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

More evidence that the current showrunners have no idea what to do with the franchise.

Next: a Trek-themed cooking show.

[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago

While I personally have no interest in watching a youtube show for three year olds, as a new uncle, I hope the show will be a good entry point into the franchise for my niblings once they’re old enough to get something out of it.

As for a cooking show, don’t threaten me with a good time. Let’s see Latinum Chef Romulus’ reaction when the challenge ingredient is leola root.

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

“It’s a rawwwwwwwwwww”

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[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You guys are all imaging good shows that stick with the established characters and don't retcon the universe, your imaginations are far better than what would actually be created.

The most exotic and amusing chef on the show - Neelix, would be absent. Data is back and well (no explanation offered) and cooks up a plate of synthetic oil, writers not knowing he can taste and wants to study and be part of human culture and make things his friends can also enjoy. Tilly has a meltdown because she's done the recipe wrong and everything's burnt - everyone who tries to help her also cries, but then they come together, "actually it's even better burnt".

[-] sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 months ago

Tell me you wouldn't watch at least 30 minutes of Riker failing to scramble eggs.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I mean I would. But I think Riker is the kind of guy that makes breakfast the morning after, sans replicator - for that personal touch. So I think he'd have no trouble scrambling some eggs.

[-] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah being a good cook is serious turn on for a lot of people. And those people are often better lovers too.

[-] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Starring Captain Pike? I'd watch.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 7 points 3 months ago

Exec: We need to sell products but our audience are all over 30 and are swimming in debt.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

I don't think the people watching this show are going to be the ones paying for paramount plus subscriptions

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

I watched... I have no idea what to say as I don't have or know any pre-schoolers.

I usually dislike "back in my day" comments, but when I was a pre-schooler I watched TNG. Did I understand anything? Not at all. Did it instill a lifelong love of the franchise? Possibly.

Prodigy was an excellent show, I guess it's also "for kids" but older ones, I thoroughly enjoyed it as an adult. Scouts, from what I can tell from those 8 bizarre minutes, is more at the level of Discovery in terms of quality of writing.

[-] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

There is a Q episode in My Little Pony, it's not half bad.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Are you referring to Discord, the Lord of Chaos? Or something I'm not familiar with?

[-] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago
[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

There are, in fact, multiple episodes with Discord. He's an amazing character.

[-] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Omg, i just watched this trailer. ...

[-] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 5 points 3 months ago

"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee"

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Source? Like is there seriously a Star Trek series aimed at young kids coming?

[-] tenacious_mucus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

Yes. It’s called Star Trek: Scouts.

[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 12 points 3 months ago

The first two episodes are already available on youtube. From what I understand they’re very short, like 3 or 4 minutes each.

[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago

"Energizing the romulan rubber ducky" is not something I expected to hear on a kid's show

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago

Usually they would have saved that gritty stuff for DS9.

[-] Slartibartfass@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago

Trash. But still better than DSC

[-] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago

Man, it must be exhausting being actively tedious about a television show that isn’t even being made any more.

[-] cuchi@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Imagine they looking other Star Trek series thinking they are family friendly and see The Naked Now episode.

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of Mariner jettisoning herself out the holographic airlock saying, "Fail me, fail me, fail me."

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