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The third animated Star Trek series has now premiered and revealed a different take on things than any that have come before it.  Undoubtedly, ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ is intended for a younger audience, but like most things, that doesn’t mean it needs to be dumbed down or dull.  *Warning! Spoilers Ahead!*
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The history of the United Federation of Planets, as seen in the Star Trek universe, is told through the stories of the men and women of the Federation’s galaxy renowned Starfleet. But just how did Starfleet, and the Federation, come to be?
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Alan Dean Foster returns to the world of Star Trek, no doubt following the screenplay, but this time around fails to enrich the story. Reading the Into Darkness novelization is exactly like watching the film, but with words.
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Created by the visionary storyteller Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek is a franchise that has endured for nearly fifty years. Alan Dean Foster holds the “story by” credit for the first ever Star Trek movie, The Motion Picture. It is therefore fitting that a man who was there at the beginning of Star Trek was present again for its new launch to write the novelization of the 2009 film, Star Trek.
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They exist to die. The nameless drone, the faceless soldier, the girl who doesn’t have a name, the guy who isn’t in the credits – we’ve all seen them, and forgotten about them just as quickly. They must exist, albeit briefly, for us the audience to care about the leading women and men of what we are watching, or reading. Expendable characters prove why the story exists.
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