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The purest and most adventurous Star Trek programs to date are Prodigy and Lower Decks. A great introduction to Star Trek for all ages is Prodigy. The show defies condescending treatment for its viewers. The teenage characters in Prodigy behave like actual children amid trying circumstances. Their guides are several iterations of Star Trek: Voyager's Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). Star Trek: Lower Decks' deep-cut humor honors Star Trek's odd and unusual elements. Driven by previous pain, inner critics, ambition, and a great need for acceptance and friendship, Lower Decks' primary characters are subtly sophisticated.
Star Trek: Lower Decks transforms the raw material given by decades of canon into glittering tale jewels. Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy are fervent love poems to Star Trek. Lower Decks explores the foundation of Star Trek, searching for the most obscure and profound references and polishes the raw material given by decades of canon into shining jewels of story featuring shockingly varied people. Through cooperation, compassion, and connection, Star Trek: Prodigy learns how to resist despair, misfortune, and persecution and embraces Trek's more general themes with youthful protagonists whose worldviews get changed by Starfleet's principles. Lower Decks and Prodigy are both true, focused Star Trek regardless of their appearance or intended audience.
Good and bad is that the rest of Star Trek in 2024 is entirely Animation. The only Star Trek series left this year are Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy, both well-received animated programs; the five last seasons of Star Trek: Discovery closes the chapter on live-action Star Trek series for the year. Though fan initiatives to save Lower Decks are well underway, Star Trek: Lower Decks is believed to finish with its fifth season on Paramount+, unlike Star Trek: Discovery prior. Following the Netflix model, Star Trek: Prodigy will be picked up by Netflix and season 2 drops all 20 episodes concurrently on July 1.
Star Trek: Prodigy and Star Trek: Lower Decks are real presents to fans that challenge the narrative of Star Trek as animated series. Lower Decks expands canon with excursions to Ferenginar and Orion and brings back alien races such Catians from Star Trek: The Animated Series. While live-action would make it challenging to assemble Star Trek: Prodigy's ensemble of alien children, Animation allows Dal R'El (Brett Gray), Gwyndala (Ella Purnell), and the rest of the USS Protostar's ragged crew to come to life. With grandiose visuals and massive, multi-ship space battles, both shows fly above the confines of live-action Star Trek.
Star Trek animation's demise might be just around around 2024. Earlier this year, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was renewed for season 4 while Star Trek: Lower Decks was announced as canceled following season 5, set for a fall 2024 release. Originally scheduled to show on Paramount+ in late 2023, Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 was acquired by Netflix for a summer 2024 release. Though fervent fan campaigns to save both animated Star Trek shows—Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy—both are presently running their last seasons.
Apart than that, the lineup of forthcoming Star Trek series does not feature any animated ventures. Though it's obviously not assured, Netflix has the choice to carry on Star Trek: Prodigy for season 3. It will take two years minimum to create a third season of Star Trek: Prodigy, even if Prodigy performs sufficiently to warrant a continuance. Although the cancellation of Star Trek: Lower Decks was not intended, the animation technique does not call for the inclusion of a decent wrap-up such as that in Star Trek: Discovery. While a one-off film would offer Star Trek: Lower Decks a fitting ending, only one so-called "Long Trek" has been created thus far and it isn't animated.
Star Trek: Section 31, starring Michelle Yeoh as Star Trek: Discovery's Emperor Philippa Georgiou, remains the only prospect for additional live-action Star Trek in 2024, with Star Trek: Discovery season 5 in the rearview and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 scheduled for a 2025 release at the earliest. Written by Craig Sweeny and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, Section 31 concluded filming in March 2024 and yet lacks an official release date. Though science fiction shows like Star Trek usually demand a lot of post-production, it's likely Star Trek: Section 31 will still show on Paramount+ before the end of the year.
Star Trek is still going strong with forty television episodes (and one probable film) scheduled for 2024. It's a terrific time to be a Star Trek fan even without another live-action Star Trek planned for this year given the rest of 2024 offers the much expected comeback of Star Trek: Prodigy and the ongoing adventures of the USS Cerritos' Warp Core Five in Star Trek: Lower Decks. It's just unfortunate to see Star Trek: Prodigy and Star Trek: Lower Decks reach their early ends since both of these outstanding animated programs have regularly produced top-notch, character-driven Star Trek stories deserving of continuing.
With multiple animated series supporting its live-action TV shows and films, Star Trek currently boasts both best and worst animated series.
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