Star Trek: Prodigy - Season 1 Review, Part 3

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I've reached the halfway point of Star Trek Prodigy's first season! Every other current Star Trek series is getting just 10 episodes a season now but Prodigy is going crazy with massive 20 episode seasons... that are split down the middle, giving us 10 episodes a year. In fact I'm just going to call this its own season and write a little season review thing at the end.

I'll be writing about these three episodes:

• 1-08 - Time Amok
  
• 1-09 - A Moral Star, Part 1
  
• 1-10 - A Moral Star, Part 2
  

There will be SPOILERS here for Prodigy and other Star Trek series, but only up to the point in time these episodes were released. So if you haven't seen anything after episode 10 you've got nothing to worry about here. Not that there is anything after episode 10 right now.

Star Trek: Prodigy - Season 1 Review, Part 2

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm writing about Star Trek: Prodigy! Or Nickelodeon: Star Trek - Prodigy, according to the logo up there. I'm going to be covering four episodes this time, which I have listed in a convenient list below for your convenience:

• 1-04 - Dreamcatcher
  
• 1-05 - Terror Firma
  
• 1-06 - Kobayashi
  
• 1-07 - First Con-tact
  

There will be SPOILERS, for these episodes and earlier ones, but nothing that comes after them. Partly because I wrote about each episode right after watching them and I didn't actually know anything else at the time, partly because I don't want to ruin anything for other people who are watching it for the first time.

Star Trek: Prodigy - Season 1 Review, Part 1

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm writing about the first three episodes of the first ever 3D animated Star Trek series, Star Trek: Prodigy! Well, maybe they're actually just two episodes, as it starts off with a double length story. Either way, what you're getting here is:

• 1-01 - Lost and Found (1)
  
• 1-02 - Lost and Found (2)
• 1-03 - Starstruck

Star Trek is far from the first sci-fi franchise to get a kiddified animated spin-off (RoboCop got two of them!), though Prodigy seems to be more of a Star Wars: The Clone Wars than a Stargate: Infinity, as it's apparently considered to be in-continuity. That means if they blow up someone's homeworld in it, it has to be blown up in all the serious grown-up live-action series too, that's just how it works. Prodigy's also far from the first Trek cartoon, though it does something the other series have been avoiding until now: it stars a crew of literal children. This is a very different approach to the one Star Trek: The Animated Series took, as the series deliberately avoided putting kids on the ship, trusting that young viewers would be able to latch onto the adult heroes just fine. I have to admit, it's not exactly filling me with hope and enthusiasm, but I'm trying to keep an open mind.

Okay, there'll be SPOILERS here for the two/three episodes and probably some earlier Trek series as well (like Discovery), but I'm going to act like I don't know a thing about what happens next. Because I actually wrote these reviews right after watching the episodes for the first time and I genuinely had no clue where it was going.