I would love that. The show was done dirty by CBS—I can’t imagine it was the most expensive thing to produce. I am glad season 2 is still coming out and here’s to many more!
Don’t blame CBS Studios - they’re still making the show, and never stopped after Paramount+ (the “network” in this case, even though they have the same parent company).
I do really hope we get several more seasons of Prodigy. When I first started watching it I thought for sure it would the Trek I wouldn’t like, but I was very wrong.
True that. Discovery went down a path of increasingly ridiculous galaxy-spanning crises, which always got solved by the same crew…
I fucking laughed out loud when I called that “the burn” was straight up caused by some dude being extra lonely on a planet somewhere. And then the writers patted each other on their backs for such genius symbolism that I saw coming a mile away because that was just the kind of stupid I expected from Discovery by then.
Has someone made a crying montage yet? The show constantly has the characters get ultra-emotional as a crutch to add impact and tell the viewer “yo that’s super deep, feel some feelings now” and it didn’t work even once.
The show is excellently produced, and I enjoy a lot aspects of it, as well as some of the characters. But boy, I enjoyed the writing for all the wrong reasons.
This is the kind of thing I was very much hoping to see in this show. I’m almost as excited to see Rigel VII as I was to see Talos IV again in Discovery ‘If Memory Serves.’
I am definitely in the contingent that enjoys The Cage more than The Menagerie. I’ve been hoping that the dangling threads of that pilot would be woven back into new stories from the time I saw the first cobbled together restoration of The Cage in the 80s.
It feels as though Dr Erin MacDonald has earned her consultant’s fee helping them sort out the physics.
We’re out of the mess of the ever-expanding manifold time that Marvel and DC have bought into.
Beyond that version of infinitely branching manifold time / multiverse being offside, basically contradicting modern physics, it creates a situation where every possibility exists so nothing our heroes do matters, and nothing ever done to fix a time incursion matters either.
Instead we see that forks in the timeline can prune other timelines. Both branches can’t continue to exist, and the river of the timeline has some fixed events (time crystals) that pin it, pull it back to its original course.
So it would take something extraordinary, even on the Trek scale of extraordinary, to create a true ongoing branch. The creation of the Kelvin universe is associated with the Romulan Supernova. Knowing now that the Romulans have been interfering with human development over centuries and using temporal agents to do it, having a major disaster to the Romulans impact human history seems like a corollary. With a major event like a sun blowing up, we can say we’ve got a threshold for creating a separate sustainable universe.
As for TNG Parallels, I still love the episode, but perhaps we could reframe it as all the short run alternate timelines. For as unlikely as it was, Worf got back to his own timeline and Enterprise. Time fought back.
The Mirror Universe is some kind of true branch that happened much earlier, such that even the physics of light are slightly different.
Kovich’s explanation of branching universes suggests that they’re not common but also that as they increasingly diverge, it becomes less and less possible to corpse over and those who do may not be able to survive.
He noted that no contact had been possible with the Mirror Universe in several centuries.
The 24th century Kelvin Universe officer who came over to the Prime Universe in the 32nd century died, as would have Georgiou. But the Kelvin Universe was close enough that he was able to cross at all.
Not mentioned in the in the article or interview but DS9 of course also did an episode set in 2024 with no mention of the Eugenics Wars or WW3. Picard did reference its Sanctuary Districts though which was nice.
And yeah this was an issue in the pilot, when Pike summarized Earth history. Events spiral from the Second American Civil War into the Eugenics Wars and ultimately World War III.
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