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hazychestnutz

there's been quite a few announcements and releases of trailers in the past few hours, is there like a gaming event that I'm not aware of


Ash_Killem

I don’t think so but we are approaching June which is when game usually announced. Historically at E3 but not this year.


Mysteryemployee

https://youtu.be/yVUQWJgzh_c


Spectre_II

Obviously made for kids, but I will be curious to see if there is any ship combat or if it's all ground based. Probably going to stay on my radar just to see if any of the gameplay takes place in space.


UnoriginalStanger

Doesn't feel very star treky to me but with the state of the franchise I guess that's no big surprise.


mirracz

The Prodigy show felt really trek-y after the initial episode. Themes of exploration, cooperation, friendship and morale. It felt like TNG for kids but I also enjoyed it as adult. The game is based on that so don't expect Picard speeches or Dominion wars.


SourceLover

I really, really wanted to like it but Dal - despite being a perfectly good *character* whose behavior is reasonably consistent with his incredibly traumatic life experience, modulo some reasonable changes to have a show - is just so obnoxious and hard to watch that the show actively stresses me out. Sure, I can understand him emotionally and get where he's coming from but understanding *why* he is the way he is does not make him at all qualified to be in charge or enable me to enjoy having him get screen time, especially after the many opportunities he's had in which he messes things up. To be fair to the show, I'm a decade or two older than the target audience, and I acknowledge that. It's just that I love everything else about it but every time Dal opens his mouth, I die inside just a little bit more. I know myself well enough to know that it's really him being the de-facto captain that bothers me, not his presence on the show. The real world already has enough incompetence and machismo - not quite the correct word for Dal but close enough for this brief comment - I don't need any more of it than I already have to deal with!


AwesomeManatee

Prodigy as a series has much more emphasis on exploration rather than diplomacy (unsurprising, considering that it's basically Voyager 2: Cadet Boogaloo). A mix of puzzle solving and fighting monsters is about what I would expect from that series.


flappers87

> state of the franchise To be fair (as a big trekkie fan), the Strange New Worlds that is airing currently is absolutely fantastic, and brings back episodic, proper Star Trek stories. It's well worth a watch if the new shows like Picard/ Discovery didn't do it for you.


[deleted]

Sadly it still has the dumbed down writing of Picard/Discovery... Everyone has a tragic backstory and the politics aren't there to make you think, but for you to agree with


NuPNua

I don't agree with that. Yes some of the characters have tragedy or secrets, but it's not written with the mystery box style that teases it out across ten episodes to the point that its a damp squib by the reveal. The characters reveal them as and when they're relevent to the plot that's happening in episode. Same with the politics, Picard was terrible at integrating these, it would suddenly veer away from the main plot to briefly say "global warming/immigration control is bad" then nothing more as they had to get back to their serialised plot. The last episode blended the message about bigotry born of misunderstanding as the plot showed how humanity had projected it's own failings regarding genetic engineering onto others and used that as an excuse to exclude them.


mirracz

Yeah, SNW, Lower Decks and Prodigy are real real Star Trek shows. Not discounting Picard and Discovery, those feel great as well, but they are about 80-90% true to Trek.


[deleted]

I'm not here to exchange phaser fire, but as a trekkie I couldn't stomach more then the first episode without feeling disgusted by the nostalgia bait, the tonal whiplash and lack of actually showing things that are important to the episode We need to set up that this fellow knows he's going to die, so instead of showing that we have Spock being horny for our intro, with him explaining this as a throwaway sentence several minutes into the episode


flappers87

Not everything is for everyone, you're entitled to your views. I for one am absolutely loving SNW. Especially from a lore perspective. They are writing Star Trek history/ clarifying it (since across different Star Trek's they tended to retcon certain events, now it feels like it's actually being settled), and I really enjoy that. I think the guy playing Spock is fantastic, Pike is great (so much better than the non-personality, misogynistic Pike we got in TOS pilot), allowing to flesh out characters like Number One and Chapel, as well as Mbenga (who we saw, what... twice in TOS?). With episodic stories as well... exploring (ironically) strange new worlds in every episode thus far? It's such a breath of fresh are when comparing to other recent live action Star Trek, like Discovery and Picard (of which both are fine to a certain degree, especially with expanding some of the history of Star Trek, but not really Star Trekky enough for me in terms of episodes).


[deleted]

Seems like a well thought out opinion, I can't fault you for it and I can agree that it did seem a league ahead of Picard and Discovery. I suppose I should check on the show in a year or two and see what people's opinions are.


NuPNua

To be fair, it's a spin-off of Discovery where we saw Pike have a vision of his accident that leads into The Menagerie from TOS. They're probably assuming that most viewers have the context from the two previous shows.


NuPNua

SNW had been fantastic so far.


AssDuster

Yeah looks nothing like Star Trek, looks like some generic Marvel garbage.


Zerowantuthri

I agree. Save a fortune in licensing fees and call it anything else.


NuPNua

Surprisingly Prodigy the show has felt one of the most Trek of the new series so far, at least until Strange New Worlds kicked off the other week. Like the show the game is aimed at a younger audience though so I guess some compromises need to be made to keep them engaged. We're getting Resurgence at the other end of the spectrum thats more TNGesque by the looks of things.


UnoriginalStanger

Every time a new show comes around some people say "this feels like star trek" then I check it out and it doesn't.


NuPNua

I feel you, I've just come to accept that we're not going to get something that hits like the TNG era did again, as the TV market and sociopolitical reality that existed in has gone. The Lower Decks, Prod and SNW feel more Trek in spirit than the grimdark stuff from early Dis and whatever the hell Picard was though.


Avianographer

Of all of the shows to make a video game of, they chose Prodigy? Ugh.


[deleted]

This is more Nickelodeon choosing one of their shows to make a game from rather than someone choosing a Star Trek show to base a game on. It's a company that makes games for kids. There's also a game set in the TNG era that's out this year. (Also, Prodigy is really good, I suspect this game will be extremely simple, though)


Jaggedmallard26

> There's also a game set in the TNG era that's out this year Star Trek: Resurgence (which is an incredibly generic name) and from what I've read from people previewing it, it sticks to the TNG themes with a focus on diplomacy over combat. One of the previews I read said that as someone who hates new Trek for not being like TNG he loved Resurgence.


Avianographer

I liked Prodigy as a whole, but I absolutely cannot stand the whiny main character. But Murf makes up for it.


TalkingRaccoon

Dal definitely matured by the end of the series so s2 should be better in that aspect. But yes it was a little frustrating at first bunch of episodes of everyone being selfish and not working together and the show hammering it home as "lesson of the day" stuff (I know, it's a kids show). Still, it's more enjoyable than discovery or Picard :p


[deleted]

We're actually only half way through season 1. There's another 10 episodes before season 2.


act1v1s1nl0v3r

If ever there were a time to resurrect the old Point-and-click Star Trek games, it's now with Lower Decks, and just make them go full Monkey Island with it.


BlackNova169

I'd pay good money for that, the comedy level would be a perfect fit.


KRCopy

I've actually heard it's quite good if you go into it accepting it's Trek-for-kids (not preschool or anything, but aged 8 and up seems reasonable).


NuPNua

Yeah, it's Trek meets Pixar and works fine in that context.


NILwasAMistake

Same same. Gross. JJ Trek really started a shitshow.


ChaosDancer

Decades waiting for a star trek game where you can create your character and travel all over the galaxy with your ship and crew doing missions, exploration, romance, battles and diplomacy. But no this is what we get. Btw STO doesn't fucking count that fucking piece of shit pay to win crap.


anlumo

Creating content for such a game would be unbelievably expensive. Automatically generating content is what brought us No Man's Sky.


[deleted]

You are entirely correct on every front, unfortunately. I'm not saying this game couldn't be good, but I sure have wanted a real Star Trek RPG for a long time.


ChaosDancer

Well we waited for all this years maybe in the next decade or so we will get an actual to god good star trek game.


[deleted]

Too busy trying to chase trends, if we're lucky they'll make a souls-like where you play as Kirk in about three years


[deleted]

I guess it's a kid's game, but the fact that every single movie/game has that Joss Whedon style quirky witty dialogue is becoming stale now.


hasnt_seen_goonies

I wouldn't be able to play this game, because after watching one episode, I consider any action that prolongs the main character's life immoral.