It got better, but it’s not for everyone. Like all Trek, they certainly had a meh start and a first season that was exploring what it should be.
I think the show is technically canon, but they don’t cover a lot of new stuff. There’s a bit of new stuff about Orions but even that is more about the Orion character being ashamed of her weird culture while serving the federation than it is about exploring what it means to be Orion and how their society works.
The show more about highlighting existing Trek, making a bit of fun about weird writing (like JanewayxParis lizard babies) and revisiting old tropes in comedic context (Janeway killing Tuvix to get Tuvok and Neelix back), and exploring the weird implications that have been built up over decades.
One positive thing is that while they do portray plenty of Starfleet as incompetent buffoons, the tone set is generally always positive, in that “normal people are dumb, bureaucracy sucks, but we’re all doing our best” way. Other shows (Discovery, Picard) which I like to call “dark Trek” sometimes focus on “wow humanity sure sucks, doesn’t it?” to give characters an excuse to experience drama, and I’m glad Trek is moving away from that. The positive view of the future is why I like Prodigy despite it’s target audience being 12 year olds.
LD is a show by fans, for fans, that doesn’t take itself too seriously. If you don’t like it when Trek does that (i.e. you hated the crossover episode or the musical episode in SNW) then you should probably skip this one. I think it’s fun, but I can see why other people don’t.
Agree with all of this. But just to add I was very lukewarm about this show at first but slowly warmed up to it progressively. But the SNW crossover episode really pushed me over into full fledged LD fan territory. Even went back and rewatched a lot of episodes and found new joys in them.
I watched the first 10-15 episodes, but I couldn’t continue because it was just so dialog dense. There’s maybe 10 total seconds of episode without someone talking, which made it feel more like an animated table read. That dialog is witty af, but just let me think and enjoy it for a moment here and there.
It got better, but it’s not for everyone. Like all Trek, they certainly had a meh start and a first season that was exploring what it should be.
I think the show is technically canon, but they don’t cover a lot of new stuff. There’s a bit of new stuff about Orions but even that is more about the Orion character being ashamed of her weird culture while serving the federation than it is about exploring what it means to be Orion and how their society works.
The show more about highlighting existing Trek, making a bit of fun about weird writing (like JanewayxParis lizard babies) and revisiting old tropes in comedic context (Janeway killing Tuvix to get Tuvok and Neelix back), and exploring the weird implications that have been built up over decades.
One positive thing is that while they do portray plenty of Starfleet as incompetent buffoons, the tone set is generally always positive, in that “normal people are dumb, bureaucracy sucks, but we’re all doing our best” way. Other shows (Discovery, Picard) which I like to call “dark Trek” sometimes focus on “wow humanity sure sucks, doesn’t it?” to give characters an excuse to experience drama, and I’m glad Trek is moving away from that. The positive view of the future is why I like Prodigy despite it’s target audience being 12 year olds.
LD is a show by fans, for fans, that doesn’t take itself too seriously. If you don’t like it when Trek does that (i.e. you hated the crossover episode or the musical episode in SNW) then you should probably skip this one. I think it’s fun, but I can see why other people don’t.
Agree with all of this. But just to add I was very lukewarm about this show at first but slowly warmed up to it progressively. But the SNW crossover episode really pushed me over into full fledged LD fan territory. Even went back and rewatched a lot of episodes and found new joys in them.
I watched the first 10-15 episodes, but I couldn’t continue because it was just so dialog dense. There’s maybe 10 total seconds of episode without someone talking, which made it feel more like an animated table read. That dialog is witty af, but just let me think and enjoy it for a moment here and there.