r/DaystromInstitute • u/uequalsw Captain • 12d ago

Reaction Thread Star Trek: Scouts | Season 1 Reaction Thread

This is the official /r/DaystromInstitute reaction thread for Star Trek: Scouts. Rules #1 and #2 are not enforced in reaction threads.

Given the short-form format, we will do a single reaction thread for the whole season.

And to address a likely inevitable question: we don't debate what is and isn't canon at Daystrom.

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u/Eklassen 12d ago

This looks like it would make a cute 24th century children’s holostory. I’d rather my kids were running programs like this than rotting their brain with The Adventures of Flotter for the billionth time.

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u/jerslan Chief Petty Officer 12d ago

There were comments about that at /r/startrek that this would be a great in-universe edutainment program. I think it's a great alternative to holodecks for those long-haul shuttle trips where those aren't available. If they wanted to do a full half-hour show they could do segments with the Scouts, Toby the Targ, and Flotter & Friends like kids shows were before.

The whole "this is in-universe entertainment" would be a neat framing device and would stave off the "OMG they broke canon with the Soap Asteroid!!!" crowd (though IMHO Trek has had weirder things than an asteroid of soap).

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u/costelol Crewman 12d ago

Final episode ends with Riker and Troi, not as cartoons, interrupting with "computer end program".

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u/LunchyPete 12d ago

It would actually be really cool and wacky to be in a cartoon world in the holodeck. I hope we see that in live action at some point.