Well, it has been awhile but Star Trek Prodigy returns to the Touchbase. After being inexplicably cancelled by Paramount+, Netflix picked up the 2nd season of the show which dropped back in July.
It took until last week for Andrea and I to begin to catch up.
Star Trek Prodigy is a computer animated series designed to put Star Trek in front of a Nickelodeon audience.
Our rag tag group of rebellious runaways from season 1 (Dal, Rok Tahk, Jankom Pog, Murf, and Zero) are in training as Starfleet warrant officers and are recruited by Admiral Janeway on a mission aboard the new starship Voyager. The mission involves research and exploration of the wormhole created by the implosion of the starship Protostar at the end of season 1.
Janeway's trying to thread a needle that will allow her to rescue Captain Chakotay who is stranded 52 years in the future without disrupting the timeline.
Guess what almost goes right but then doesn't?
Things go badly as anyone who has read Temporal Mechanics 101 would expect. Dal has not read Temporal Mechanics 101.
After being the ostensible head of his runaway group last season, Dal is having some trouble following the Starfleet company line.
Meanwhile on the planet Solum, Dal's (not his) girlfriend Gwynn is having trouble uniting her people to prevent her planet's civil war that will lead to it's destruction in 52 years. It doesn't help that Dal's misadventure 52 years into the future is erasing Gwynn from the timeline.
There are some fairly complicated time travel shenanigans going on here.
Who doesn't love a good time travel shenanigans story?
This being Netflix, all 20 episodes of Star Trek Prodigy are available now but Andrea and I are in no hurry to rush through this, taking in about 3 to 4 episodes at a time.
This series remains interesting and engaging, a most imaginative addition to the Star Trek mythos.
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TV about TV:
Over on You Tube, I'm following a series called Everything You Need To Know About Saturday Night Live. One thing I hate about these types of You Tube videos is how they take 30 minutes to tell you maybe 15 minutes worth of information. But not this series. Each installment is a tight 15 minute segment that chronicles an individual season of SNL listing the guest hosts, who joined or left the cast and summarizing relevant backstage drama.
If you want to know more, this series is part of the Saturday Night Network which includes the Everything You Want To Know episodes but also other videos with interviews and more.
For a high level overview of SNL, Everything You Need To Know About Saturday Night Live is just the right length with just enough detail.
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And that is that for this week's touchbase.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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