12-26-2021, 10:33 PM
And we’re back
Got the 99 cent a month deal for two months so I binged all the eps so far (like five but they aren’t that long). It’s like Star Wars Rebels meets Star Trek Nemesis. It’s not quite working for me. It needs more Easter eggs.
Some slave kids find a starship - the Protostar - and use it to escape the mines. The kids are punks. I hate the lead kid. He’s doesn’t know what species he is. Then there’s a Tellurite engineer that’s a course grunt and a medusan in a bot body that’s telepathic and kind of the Spock/data/seven/tool figure. These two species recall TOS. The rest of the crew are new species, a rock thing ala Ben Grimm only she’s a little girl, a slug that doesn’t talk and a cool gal, the daughter of the villian, who I think is that weird race from the Kelvin timeline (I’ll check that later). The saving grace is the Janeway holo.
The Protostar has two warp engines and a mini-star powering it so it’s a suped up starship. The animation is top shelf cgi so a visual treat. The story flounders however. It’s trying to be the gateway for a new generation of trekkies and service the fandom at the same time. Too much to ask.
The first Ep is in 2 parts and spends a long time to get to Janeway. The last two eps I watched was also in two parts - exploring a class M planet full of carnivorous hallucination inducing weeds - you’d think that might be something I’d enjoy but it missed its mark.
I’ll keep watching just because I’m loyal to the franchise and the eps are short and mindless, but it’s not feeling very trek to me. When it starts getting more trek I’ll get into it but so far, it’s feeling like the first big miss of Paramount+.
Got the 99 cent a month deal for two months so I binged all the eps so far (like five but they aren’t that long). It’s like Star Wars Rebels meets Star Trek Nemesis. It’s not quite working for me. It needs more Easter eggs.
Some slave kids find a starship - the Protostar - and use it to escape the mines. The kids are punks. I hate the lead kid. He’s doesn’t know what species he is. Then there’s a Tellurite engineer that’s a course grunt and a medusan in a bot body that’s telepathic and kind of the Spock/data/seven/tool figure. These two species recall TOS. The rest of the crew are new species, a rock thing ala Ben Grimm only she’s a little girl, a slug that doesn’t talk and a cool gal, the daughter of the villian, who I think is that weird race from the Kelvin timeline (I’ll check that later). The saving grace is the Janeway holo.
The Protostar has two warp engines and a mini-star powering it so it’s a suped up starship. The animation is top shelf cgi so a visual treat. The story flounders however. It’s trying to be the gateway for a new generation of trekkies and service the fandom at the same time. Too much to ask.
The first Ep is in 2 parts and spends a long time to get to Janeway. The last two eps I watched was also in two parts - exploring a class M planet full of carnivorous hallucination inducing weeds - you’d think that might be something I’d enjoy but it missed its mark.
I’ll keep watching just because I’m loyal to the franchise and the eps are short and mindless, but it’s not feeling very trek to me. When it starts getting more trek I’ll get into it but so far, it’s feeling like the first big miss of Paramount+.
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