The most threatening of the pair is a droid so much like General Grievous, I’m just going to call him that. He comes complete with Star Wars knockoff henchmen. Our biggest bad is a shadowy figure who seems a lot like Palpatine. That’s especially true of the show’s villains, which are blatant and obvious knockoffs of various Star Wars baddies.

Everything’s Star Trek in hereĮverything outside the show’s hero ship, the USS Protostar, feels like you’re in the Star Wars universe. Better still our characters, who outside the ship feel like random Rebel Alliance fighters, begin acting like creatures and personalities which might actually exist in the world of Star Trek. The ship interior, though radically different in design from any Starfleet ship we’ve seen before, still has the right Star Trek feel and all the right bleeps and boops. Inside the Federation ship, the series actually begins to feel like Star Trek. It’s not until they find the ship that anything about Star Trek: Prodigy feels at all like Star Trek. Sent off hunting this threat, Dal and a new friend accidentally stumble upon a buried ship, a Starfleet ship. Around him swirls a nebulous subplot in which the prison planet’s overlord wants to use him to capture a rebel. Our hero is one of the oppressed and unwilling workers, a purple kid of indeterminate species named Dal. Most of the action in the animated show’s first episode takes place on a prison planet, where slave labor is being used in intense mining efforts.

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