How dare they?
Start em young
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2025
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Exec: We need to sell products but our audience are all over 30 and are swimming in debt.
I don't think the people watching this show are going to be the ones paying for paramount plus subscriptions
I watched... I have no idea what to say as I don't have or know any pre-schoolers.
I usually dislike "back in my day" comments, but when I was a pre-schooler I watched TNG. Did I understand anything? Not at all. Did it instill a lifelong love of the franchise? Possibly.
Prodigy was an excellent show, I guess it's also "for kids" but older ones, I thoroughly enjoyed it as an adult. Scouts, from what I can tell from those 8 bizarre minutes, is more at the level of Discovery in terms of quality of writing.
If I'm not the target audience it's bad. No one else should enjoy the franchise I like in a way I don't want to
Is such a bizarrely stupid stance to take.
I think it’s less “I’m not the target audience” and more if you’re going to do a Star Trek [insert genre/target audience] show, do it right.
It’s certainly possible to create an intelligent pre-school show that isn’t painful for adults to watch. Take Bluey, for instance. Toddlers love that show, but it also has a cult following among the adults that watch it with their kids, and the style doesn’t look like every single other kids television series on the air.
In comparison, Scouts has a cheap-looking generic style I’ve seen before, and the plots we’ve seem are absolutely brain-dead and superficial. Sure, maybe we don’t need the kids to talk at length about the subspace plasma inverter matrix manifolds or whatever, but that doesn’t mean the show can’t be more than just bright colors and barely coherent plots. It just doesn’t do any justice whatsoever to what Star Trek is.
Hate to be negative, but I have to agree. Bluey is a great example, and Sesame Street is another. There are shows like that I’d be happy to have a toddler watch. This just seems to offer a convenient distraction to allow parents five minutes of peace in exchange for familiarizing their kids with the Star Trek brand from a young age. Cynical and disappointing.
It is wild to see the entitlement of some segments of the fanbase. These people would shit and piss their pants if they were comic book fans.
More evidence that the current showrunners have no idea what to do with the franchise.
Next: a Trek-themed cooking show.
While I personally have no interest in watching a youtube show for three year olds, as a new uncle, I hope the show will be a good entry point into the franchise for my niblings once they’re old enough to get something out of it.
As for a cooking show, don’t threaten me with a good time. Let’s see Latinum Chef Romulus’ reaction when the challenge ingredient is leola root.
“It’s a rawwwwwwwwwww”
- Senator Vreenak
You guys are all imaging good shows that stick with the established characters and don't retcon the universe, your imaginations are far better than what would actually be created.
The most exotic and amusing chef on the show - Neelix, would be absent. Data is back and well (no explanation offered) and cooks up a plate of synthetic oil, writers not knowing he can taste and wants to study and be part of human culture and make things his friends can also enjoy. Tilly has a meltdown because she's done the recipe wrong and everything's burnt - everyone who tries to help her also cries, but then they come together, "actually it's even better burnt".
Tell me you wouldn't watch at least 30 minutes of Riker failing to scramble eggs.
I mean I would. But I think Riker is the kind of guy that makes breakfast the morning after, sans replicator - for that personal touch. So I think he'd have no trouble scrambling some eggs.
Yeah being a good cook is serious turn on for a lot of people. And those people are often better lovers too.
But...we've seen it. It happened in an episode. Dude can't cook eggs.
I think you need to rewatch to refresh your memory. They comment on how he's an accomplished cook that's why they're keen to try the eggs he's making. However, on that occasion they are alien eggs from an 'Owon, that he's never cooked before, and those are notoriously not to everyone's taste. While none of the human staff could handle them, Worf loved them.
I guess that's the orthodox interpretation, that it's the eggs that were bad. But like, if you actually watch what he's doing, he just vaguely pokes at them while they burn to the bottom of the pan, and then he serves them while they're still liquid. And they don't call him an accomplished cook, the closest anyone gets is elevator shaft saying "Ooh, a practiced hand!" in response to Riker pouring the eggs into a pan.
Starring Captain Pike? I'd watch.
There is a Q episode in My Little Pony, it's not half bad.
Are you referring to Discord, the Lord of Chaos? Or something I'm not familiar with?
Yes, yes i am.
There are, in fact, multiple episodes with Discord. He's an amazing character.
My kid lost interest in the show, never got far enough to see the others.
Your kid might be defective. May want to take him back for a new model.
Lol kidding.
Omg, i just watched this trailer. ...
"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee"
Source? Like is there seriously a Star Trek series aimed at young kids coming?
The first two episodes are already available on youtube. From what I understand they’re very short, like 3 or 4 minutes each.
"Energizing the romulan rubber ducky" is not something I expected to hear on a kid's show
Usually they would have saved that gritty stuff for DS9.
Trash. But still better than DSC
Man, it must be exhausting being actively tedious about a television show that isn’t even being made any more.
it still hurts
Imagine they looking other Star Trek series thinking they are family friendly and see The Naked Now episode.