These are the 2025 Emmy awards.
Not sure why a July 2024 release didn’t meet the cut off date for that year’s awards. Perhaps since the Emmys were originally for a standard September to June television broadcast schedule, July streaming releases get bumped to the next year.
I’m so very glad to see that Prodigy’s excellence continues to get the acknowledgment it deserves from within the creative community.
This Individual Achievement award is determined by the animators’ guild not an open Emmy vote. Having the winner for each of the show’s two seasons demonstrates the respect the work has within the animation community.
It would be cool to have an AMA with one of the longtime group of tie-in writers for the franchise.
They’ve seen the evolution of TrekLit from the end of the TNG movie era through the Relaunch book universe and back to standalones.
I’ve watched most of the first season of Absentia. It’s intense and dark. It’s also more of a British or European style thriller in that it keeps you in the dark with genuine ‘who done it?’ rather than ‘how done it?’
Interestingly Violo was co-creator and senior writer of Absentis but didn’t get as much producer credit. Seems her talent moved her up into creative control more quickly than the WGA stepwise progression in titles allows.
It has its ups and downs but many of us view it as the strongest live action first season in this era.
For older fans, episodes 5, 6 and 8 seem to be the favourites so far.
In fact episode 8 is so important for 90s fans, that I would argue that it’s worth hanging in until then at minimum.
I have no issues with the ‘dots’ given this is the 32nd century. It really puts the fine point on assigning physical labour as a disciplinary measure.
The lens flare is part of a directional code that’s getting dated at this point. I notice that in the premiere - which Kurtzman directed himself - he went for long camera pans with fewer jump cuts, and fewer lens flares.
As long as Osunsami remains the supervising EP and supervising director in Toronto however, I don’t think that it’s likely we’ll see Kurtzman’s own style of direction reflected in the shows.
Oh! That is an interesting pair of indicators.
Nemechek tends to draw the old guard. If he’s seeing his reach increase, it would be a leading indicator for a shift.
Thanks for this.
I think I should focus on finishing Resurgence.
Giametti has said quite unequivocally that he is not in this episode.
Big bridge scene with the senior officers.
You’re right!
And I’m very curious to see where this takes the curmudgeonly Doctor we’ve come to love as fans.
After the Doctor’s rapid development in Voyager, his relatively frozen state of psychological evolution — through Prodigy and on for 8 centuries — needed an explanation.
At a meta level, I don’t think that fans would have accepted a very differently tempered Doctor at the beginning of the show. So, this allows both the writers and Picardo to take the character into new experiences and development.
As an aside, American screenwriters are so stuck on trauma being necessary for character development that it sometimes feel they are celebrating it or suggesting it is necessary for greatness. It’s good to see instead a situation where a significant trauma causes a lasting paralysis in development that might never be overcome without taking emotional risks.
Why it didn’t really register that SAM will now be the Doctor’s daughter — formed by an environment where he shared his preferences and 800 years of experiences — I can’t say.
That’s on me. But surely, this will be a wild ride for all.
The Makers stated that she would retain both sets of memories.
Not sure how that would work but she’s not an organic being. Perhaps her original memories would have been encoded and available for access as she matured.
10/10. No notes.
In my view, perhaps the strongest episode yet.
Just goes to show that YMMV remains a truism.
I wonder why the old TOS fans like me are less impatient with fundamentals of human existence being presented through the growth of young adults?
Sincerely, resilience in the face of trauma is something many 30 and 40 year olds struggle with. I didn’t see this as sophomoric at all.
So, I wonder why episodes like this aren’t landing as well for folks 20 or even 30 years younger than I…
Oh, it definitely did contradict established continuity — certainly more than Spock having had a foster sister or Khan descendants that we hadn’t heard of previously.
TNG initially presented a stable and peaceful utopian civilization. Picard and his officers spoke repeatedly about this in the early seasons.
There were long term stable borders with the Romulans, established relations with the Klingons but no major armed conflicts in the lifetimes of the senior officers.
‘Yesterday’s Enterprise’ was given as the exemplary lesson on how the alternative, more violent, alternative history would have played out but even that was quite far back, with the Enterprise-C.
The Ferengi were in early TNG a new and mysterious alien group on the borders.
The Borg was the most disruptive threat in generations, one that required new technology and new more military forward leadership approaches.
And then suddenly it turns out there has been a major ongoing border conflict with Cardassia, marginalized refugees from occupied planets living in camps bordering Federation utopia, and Starfleet has had its serving crew in armed conflicts.
How can you sincerely argue that isn’t a ‘major change?’
Are you seriously suggesting that IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes weren’t review bombed globally?
Any rating that has a distribution of 38% 1/10s has no credibility whatsoever, zilch.
And the alleged non US ratings aren’t vettable.
I loved the Relaunch novelverse but I also love the new shows.
It’s unfortunate that the IP holder decided that for the books — unlike Star Trek Online — the storytelling in the alternate timeline couldn’t continue.