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(Spoilers for Prod and Pic)Just finished Prod and have a thought. (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by worfamerryman@beehaw.org to c/startrek@startrek.website
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So the ending of Prod was basically the same as Pic. It’s a little annoying to basically see the same plot in two shows that aired like a year apart.

Did they ever comment on how similar the endings were?

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[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Given the very long timelines in making an animated show, Prodigy’s storyline for the season would have been done, and in this case the dialogue was recorded, while Picard seasons three was still being developed.

We know that Kurtzman instituted monthly meetings to short out plots and use of legacy characters sometime while Prodigy was producing the first season because there were mentions in interviews about sorting out the use of Okona between Lower Decks and Prodigy.

Asking why Picard was able to go forward with a very similar storyline is reasonable. One inference is that somehow those in charge hadn’t really taken into account the overlap in audience between a live action adult targeted show like Picard and Prodigy as a family oriented offering.

[–] goGetF1@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

It’s not the first time either. Lower Decks had Riker swoop in to save the day in a finale after Picard did the same thing.

[–] flamingmongoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean?

[–] VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably the whole 'linked ships taken over by the badguys' thing. It happened in Lower Decks, too.

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I forgot about lower decks having that ending.

[–] passinglurker@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Lower decks had a

spoilerrogue AI attacking a starbase
, but no mass fleet hijacking.

[–] askryan@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I wish this had been addressed, but I feel like it would be easy to see Fleet Formation as a response to both the PRO and LD incidents. If you have a ship that's compromised (like the Protostar or one of the Texas class ships), Fleet Formation lets you immediately deprive that ship (or any other infected ships) of autonomy by locking it into a unidirectional control from Starbase One. If it really can override anything else, that would mean that in the event of a Living Construct or whatever, Starfleet could just lock everything in Fleet Formation and the ending of PRO would never happen. But I guess they didn't anticipate a threat coming from inside Starfleet.