Okay, so this isn't the variety show, but it is a rambling bonus. And today we're talking
about prodigy and it's not me and Rob. Instead, it's Kay. Say hello Kay.
Hi everybody again.
So this is the first time you've been on the Untitled Trek show and that might be because
you don't watch Star Trek.
Yeah, it sounds a bit interesting, but the things I've heard like kind of don't.
Fair enough. Now let's be honest about this. You do tend to side with mummy when she says
something don't you?
Yeah.
Okay. And what does mummy say about Star Trek?
That she doesn't like it.
Fair enough. And does that then make you think I probably won't like it as well?
A little bit.
It's fair enough to say that because we all learn about the things and the shows we like
based on what people tell us. And your mum is someone you look up to. So of course you're
going to think that. So we have just watched episode one of Star Trek prodigy. Now Star
Trek prodigy, as you will have heard in the latest Untitled Trek episode, which was out
last week is a Star Trek series that was made by Nickelodeon and was aimed purely at children.
So your generation. Okay. So people born your era that may not have been introduced to Star
Trek.
When I saw the top, when it started, I was like, Oh Nickelodeon, I might like this because
I like watching Nickelodeon stuff.
Yeah. Well you have watched a lot of Nickelodeon stuff over the past few years, especially
as we've got streaming stuff. You've watched a lot of stuff on it. So that's a good thing.
Now so the people get an idea of what sort of person you are before we talk about it
then Kay. Do you like science?
Oh my God. I love science.
Do you like maths?
Maths is my favourite subject of all time.
Okay. Do you like doing sport?
It depends of what sport it is.
Okay. And just very quickly tell the listeners, you're 10 years old, tell them what interests
you have. Okay.
Okay.
So what are your favourite things to do right now?
My favourite things to do right now are play roadblocks.
Okay.
I hang out with friends and sometimes go on my laptop at the moment and search up some
characters that I have an interest in at the moment and trace them.
Okay. And what characters are the main ones you're doing at the moment?
It's called Sanrio and my favourite characters at the moment are Karomi, My Melody and Cinnamon
Roll.
Okay, cool. So everyone that's listening to this at the moment now knows the sort of person
you are. Okay. And I'm going to just ask you straight up, have you ever watched any Star
Trek before?
No.
Are you sure? Because I know that you've watched a couple of bits or you've come in when I've
been watching Star Trek.
With that alien thing.
Not with Prodigy, no, but any Star Trek at all. Have you ever seen any? And not whether
you don't have to have seen a whole episode.
I've seen something that starts in like a spaceship.
Ah, right. So yes, the Star Trek you've seen little bits of has been one called Deep Space
Nine and they're based on a space station. And that's the little bits and they, every
time you've seen it, they've been sat in a kind of a bar or a restaurant bit that's going
going on.
Yeah.
But that's all you've ever seen. Yeah. And what do you know about Star Trek?
That is about aliens and space. That's all I know.
That's fair enough. Okay, cool. Everyone now has the idea of who you are, what you know
about it. So let's go into talking about Prodigy. And I guess the first question will be, did
you actually enjoy episode one of season one of Star Trek Prodigy?
It was all right. Not the best thing I've ever watched, but it was all right.
Okay. What did you enjoy about it?
Well, that was a funny moment near the end where one of the characters spoke and it was
very unexpected.
So that part for people that are following along with that episode, they have just got
on board what we now know as the USS Proto Star or Prodigy, whatever it is. And Rock
Tuck presses the button and turns the ship on and the universal translator turns on.
And yes, Rock Tuck goes from being like this.
Strong and tough.
Hey, hey, my little kid.
So that was a funny moment for you. Any other bits in it that kind of stood out to you that
were like, this is interesting or this is fun?
I really liked the cat part with the little orphan cat.
The cat prisoner, yes.
Yeah.
And do you get the idea that Gwyn, one of the main bad characters or what we portray
as bad, do you get that really she is bad when she takes in that little cat or?
To be honest, of that part, I kind of think she has a warm heart because to be speaking
to someone you've never met before that's young and scared, that is really nice.
OK, and me and me and Rob joked about this, but do you really think there'd be an alien
out there called Gwyn?
I don't know if aliens exist, so I'm not sure about that.
Oh, fair enough. Fine. I'll accept as an answer.
I do believe they're out there though, so.
That's a good thing to think.
But not like an alien that's humanish, like something that's not our species.
OK, that's fine. Now, going back to Prodigy, then, would you carry on watching the next
episode to see, am I going to really get into this or did episode one just put you off?
I think I'd watch like part two because part one was the one we watched.
So I think I should watch part two just to see if I properly, properly like it.
OK, so I think for me, and this is just from my point of view, so remember, we're interested
in what you think, but feel free to use any ideas that I have that might match your ideas.
But for me, I think the first episode, as fun as it was, it felt a little bit slow and
it could have done with getting to the spaceship sooner than it did.
I agree with that, but I kind of disagree because of the part where what's the bad guy's
name, the big, big bad guy.
Oh, what, the one, the robot one?
Is his name?
So you've got the, oh, no, that's a good, Fugitive Zero is the good guy.
That was the big spherical robot thing with legs and arms.
The bad guys we've come across at the moment, there's the big robot called Dreadnock.
He'd got the red eyes.
And then you've got the, I don't think it was called the Diviner, something like that.
And that was the one that was floating around in the bubbly stuff.
And you said, why is he floating around?
And well, that's a great question.
Yeah.
So which one did you mean bad guy wise?
Um, the Zero guy, I keep forgetting.
Oh, so Zero guy is a good guy then.
So Fugitive Zero, we find out is a good guy.
Oh, okay.
Which is why he's followed or they have followed Dow and Rock Tuck to the spaceship that they've
just discovered.
Can I make a prediction?
You can certainly make a prediction.
I predict when that is, I predict when is gonna actually join the good side and they're
gonna try and get out.
Yeah.
Of, of, uh, the place that they're trapped in that one of the characters was talking
about.
Right.
Yes.
So of course what you get from the first episode and you're talking about there is that Dow
says there's no escape from this planet.
Do you really think he's going to let us go?
Yeah.
Giving us the idea that actually once you're on that planet, you can't leave.
You agree with that?
That's a tough decision because there's two options.
Yes.
They can get out and no, they can't because there's always a possibility of things.
And that's exactly what they want you to believe with Dow you see.
And that's what they've set that character up.
He believes that one day he will succeed and he just keeps on trying and trying, doesn't
he?
And is that a good role model?
Do you think for kids or a bad role?
I think it's a good role model because the fact that he has the courage to keep on trying,
even though sometimes he's failed.
Yeah.
Is actually really good for kids because for example, if they were struggling in a math
lesson and just gave up, but then they thought of that, then they thought of Dow, then they
would be like, Oh, he didn't, he didn't give up.
He's, he kept on trying.
So I think it's good for kids like me.
Awesome.
Now this is a really weird question, but for our listeners, it will make sense.
I think it'll make sense to you as well.
If I hadn't told you that that first episode was Star Trek, would you have known that it
was Star Trek?
I would have thought it was something completely random.
Well, yeah, yeah, actually I think it's like, Oh, a new show.
Wonder what this is about.
Oh, it's about space.
I would never have thought it was about Star Trek.
Yeah.
I'm really glad that that's what came across to you because obviously for me, for Rob,
for our listeners, we've grown up and we watch Star Trek and we know Star Trek.
So we knew that this, a, we knew that the show was about Star Trek because it's called
Star Trek Prodigy.
But by the end of it, when we see that spaceship they've discovered, that spaceship is straight
out of Star Trek.
It's the same design that you expect of Star Trek.
Yeah.
But for someone who's never watched Star Trek, you have no idea if that show is actually
about Star Trek.
And even now, if I said based on the show that we've just watched, can you tell me anything
about what the Federation is?
I don't know what Federation means.
Fine.
Okay.
So I think for the listeners, that's a key point about Prodigy.
Prodigy is designed to bring new people into the Star Trek universe, but episode one is
so light on Star Trek.
It's almost like it's a super way of easing you into something completely new because
at this point you've got no idea about what Star Trek is still, but you've got a show
that you've said, I kind of liked it and yeah, I will watch the next episode to see what
happens.
Yeah.
And if I like the next episode, then I, then I might watch the next next episode and see
if I like that.
And then if I really like it, then I might start watching it and it will be a brand new
series for me to watch.
So I'm not watching the same things all the time.
So final thing I'm going to quickly ask you then.
Would you think it's weird that a TV show that was very popular with Star Trek fans
and that's both children and adults, that the studio, the people that made it, would
cancel it after season one?
Do you mean like, would they think it's not good and like,
Yeah, no, no.
So what really happened is that the company that made it called Paramount finished season
one and then said, we're not going to make a season two.
Why?
They said they wanted to put their money elsewhere.
Now thankfully a lot of adults, not children, but a lot, I'm sure there were children involved
as well, but a lot of adults said, this is some of the best brand new Star Trek to have
ever existed.
Yeah.
And they fought and now they've made series two.
And you're right.
I don't think we're going to get through there without getting scratched.
This is the bonus of going for a walk while talking on the microphone.
You get to hear us get stuck in places and we're in the woods at the moment.
So yeah, so Paramount said, we don't think it's going to make us enough money, so no
more.
And a group of adults got together who were really big Star Trek fans and said, but it
was amazing Star Trek.
Yeah.
And they fought and they won.
So now there's going to be, we didn't join the same prodigy, but there's another show
called lower decks, which sadly you can't watch, which is very funny.
And they've also canceled that after one season.
So we're fighting to have that rescued.
But the long and the short of it is, is the fact that you're willing to watch the next
episode says to me they've done a good job.
Is there anything bad about the show that you would say before we stopped talking?
Well, to be honest, you know, the main character, doll, doll.
Yeah.
I thought the voice was a girl and wait, was it the actor?
No, no.
So the actor who played doll, in fact, I can dial it up on my phone now.
Um, that's not a bad part.
It's just like something that I wanted to say.
You were confused, which bear in mind it's an alien.
So actually we could say gender.
So boy, girl binary neutral doesn't actually exist.
Couldn't we?
We could say, why would an alien actually have boys and girls?
That's a human thing.
Yeah.
But let me have a quick look and just check myself because I don't want us to get this
wrong.
So star Trek prodigy.
And we're looking for the main character, which was doll and it is by, by a person called
Brett gray.
It was a boy.
Now you've got to remember doll is meant to be a teenager or a younger child.
So there's a good chance that's why his voice is a little bit higher than you would expect.
Now I believe that is a mushroom that we're just walking past.
Hello mushroom.
But interestingly rock tuck is played by Riley Alasraque or key.
Can't pronounce that one.
You want to have a try at pronouncing it?
Wait, what Riley Alasraque.
That's as good as I think we're going to get with the pronunciation.
I think so.
So yeah, I understand that.
But is that the only negative you'd have then?
And it's not really a negative.
It's just a bit, it was confusing to know.
I got confused on how they can turn the gravity on and off.
It's space.
Yeah, but yeah, but I thought it just kept going and going and you couldn't turn that
though.
So that's the beautiful thing about star Trek.
So on earth we can't turn off gravity because the earth is a big planet and gravity is a
natural force.
Okay.
Yeah.
So if you're a star Trek, they've created spaceships and space stations that you can
control gravity on.
Wait, you can control the actual space gravity.
Not in real life, but in a show.
Why not?
Good point.
So give it a rate, let's say out of 10 and we'll come back to you and what we'll do,
we'll do another recording like this when you've watched episode two.
But right now episode one, you've seen it out of 10, what do you rate star Trek prodigy?
6.9.
Okay.
You're going with a decimal point score as well.
I like it.
Okay.
Well, you've heard that here then 6.9.
We will watch the second episode at some point soon and me and Kay will go for another walk
with the microphones and we will find out if that score goes up or it goes down.
Anything you want to say to the people listening to this podcast before we go, Kay?
I think if you're not interested in star Trek, I think you should still give it a go because
you never know what you might like and you might not like.
High five on that.
That is a brilliant way to end this.
Love it.
Cheerio everyone.
Bye bye.
See you next time.