As the colony rebel and smart aleck, Dal’s already got a reputation as a troublemaker, which puts him on the radar of the colony owner, The Diviner (John Noble) and his extremely competent older teen daughter, Gwyn (Ella Purnell). But he’s got ambitions to escape and get off planet to see if he can discover more of his own kind, and a future that he can choose.
The main protagonist is Dal (Brett Gray), an orphan boy of unknown species stuck doing manual labor in a remote mining colony. Tara Bennett gave the first half of Lower Decks Season 2 an 8, writing that it gained "even more confidence in mixing comedy with away mission hijinks and character progression."
In addition to live-action series Discovery and Picard, Paramount+ also has another animated show, Lower Decks, on its roster.
What about Star Trek's other animated series? The pilot, “Lost & Found,” is an engaging one-hour premiere that ably sets the stage for the core ensemble: a rag-tag group of mining colony refugees who accidentally discover, and escape in, the long-hidden Federation ship, the USS Protostar. An original CG-animated half-hour series made as a joint enterprise with CBS Eye Animation Productions and Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Prodigy has the slick look of a high-end movie but is scripted with a tone that caters to a tween sensibility.Ĭreated by Kevin and Dan Hageman ( Trollhunters), Star Trek: Prodigy is set in 2383, which lands post the Voyager series in the Trek story timeline. But the latest, Star Trek: Prodigy, is unique to the whole franchise for being the very first series created within the mythology for a younger audience. Overall this is a smart, thought-provoking thriller that will grab the audience’s attention from early on and make us want to see the event coming.If you’re a Star Trek fan, you’re existing in a full-out Trek-aissance with the variety of Trek universe series already here and coming soon to Paramount+. This is the type of thriller the audience can invest in, which is always going to be the test for any thriller. The child being the one that could be seeing the end borrows the Knowing formula, minus the mad over-the-top disaster scenes or crazy Nicholas Cage. It has hinted ideas of the supernatural, being on the run and a father-son relationship, all of which Midnight Special gave us. Prodigy will make you think of Knowing meets Midnight Special we can see both of these films being borrowed from here. The military figures are solid but where we keep doing the same hiding routine, we don’t get the best glimpses from their performances, and along the way, we get the character that shows both sides of the argument even if they are the generic figures which aren’t hard to perform as. An early performance from Embry Johnson gives us a character that we understand, as he has been isolated from true communication, which shows with the delivery of the predictions. Prodigy has a performance from Cory Kays which makes us believe that his character goes on a learning curve about parenting and moving on with life we understand this journey because of his performance.
However, we don’t get the full panic which could easily come from this story, and the end of the film is left feeling slightly anti-climatic because the story focuses more on the journey than what is going to happen. This does show us how different sides would react between knowing what would come from the events and worrying about not knowing what might happen. We know a big event is coming, but we don’t know what, which keeps us wanting to know just what could it be we have had two events which included a global blackout, where people each had different visions, with some keeping it secret from the rest, much like Flashforward in places. When it comes to any film that wants to use the story to balance the unknown of a messenger, this will offer the idea of God talking to Caleb, or whether it is an otherworldly being.