Indeed, the tone represents such a significant departure the “Trek” label becomes somewhat arbitrary, with composer Michael Giacchino’s score representing the best part of the whole exercise.
While there’s obviously a space-faring aspect to all that, the relationship to “Star Trek” - with its martial qualities involving starships, captains and their crews - is especially tenuous. There’s even what plays like an homage to the movie “Galaxy Quest,” an affectionate “Star Trek” sendup, one of those meta moments likely to sail over the heads of kids. There’s plenty of action, and the animation is appropriately slick. The characters are colorful, with a group of misfit teenagers escaping from a mining colony outside of Federation jurisdiction aboard a Starfleet ship, under the sort-of leadership of the resourceful Dal (Brett Gray).ĭal is being sought by the villainous Diviner (John Noble), who believes he possesses knowledge that will help identify “fugitive Zero,” with various adventures presumably in the group’s future as they voyage across the galaxy. That leaves the program’s stand-alone merits, which based on the first few episodes appear fairly weak.
