"Star Trek: Prodigy 1x7 "First Con-tact" Review" Topic

"review: The thing that's gonna be a problem for a viewer like me is that I'm not the target audience, and so will be asking questions the show is either going to address later or possibly not at all, and that's hard to swallow. The Ferengi character introduces the biggest stumbling block yet, and the episode makes no effort to explain the apparent difficulties.

This is a series that begins in the Delta Quadrant. The Delta Quadrant, as very emphatically stated in Voyager, is too far from the Alpha and Beta Quadrants (where the majority of the franchise takes place) to make casual journeys practical. There's always the chance of random transplanting (as Voyager itself represented), and of course a few Ferengi in The Next Generation did exactly that (which, too, was featured in Voyager). But the chances of a Ferengi raising Dal, who we find in the Delta Quadrant, ending up in the Gamma Quadrant (no hint of close association with which was ever uttered in Voyager or Deep Space Nine), it just complicates things too much, with again, no attempt at all to throw existing fans a bone in untangling it…"

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