Lower Decks is so great, they very cleverly exploit some continuity stuff while creating some genuine Trek style action. I watched the pilot of Prodigy but wasn’t interested.
This was a fun explainer about the new show and many of the things I like about it, including characters like Chapel and Number One who have been one dimensional in the past. I feel like this is the essential difference between TOS and SNW - the characters who were grudgingly allowed by network tv then still had very little to say or do.
I do disagree with you (and everyone in SF or comics) about the necessity of continuity. Pike is a special case because of his ties to the pilot of the entire franchise I suppose but I feel like the last several years of Discovery (not to mention the kelvin verse) have shown us that we should not plan on things turning out how we expect them to.
Overall, I enjoy SNW probably as much as Discovery already, and I like it a lot. I also love Lower Decks. Trek is so large and sprawling and multigenerational now that I think creators should just make the best stories they can that are relevant to now, without worrying too much that some day player once was given a line about not being able to travel faster than Warp Nine or some nonsense.
Lower Decks is so great, they very cleverly exploit some continuity stuff while creating some genuine Trek style action. I watched the pilot of Prodigy but wasn’t interested.
This was a fun explainer about the new show and many of the things I like about it, including characters like Chapel and Number One who have been one dimensional in the past. I feel like this is the essential difference between TOS and SNW - the characters who were grudgingly allowed by network tv then still had very little to say or do.
I do disagree with you (and everyone in SF or comics) about the necessity of continuity. Pike is a special case because of his ties to the pilot of the entire franchise I suppose but I feel like the last several years of Discovery (not to mention the kelvin verse) have shown us that we should not plan on things turning out how we expect them to.
Overall, I enjoy SNW probably as much as Discovery already, and I like it a lot. I also love Lower Decks. Trek is so large and sprawling and multigenerational now that I think creators should just make the best stories they can that are relevant to now, without worrying too much that some day player once was given a line about not being able to travel faster than Warp Nine or some nonsense.