Star Trek: Prodigy

Star Trek: Prodigy has been a lot of fun in a quick Star Wars Rebels -y way as, among other things, one Star series looking at another. More alien aliens, a sinister parent and a shiny dark robot secondary villain, scruffy space colonies, but also this small misfit crew figuring their way through some classic Trek situations. (Also Dee Bradley Baker in the main voice cast! As the happy little rainbow slug thing!)

One particular comparison point - making the communicator translation system hugely important to these various aliens who otherwise couldn’t understand each other, unlike Wars aliens who generally can while speaking alien languages with or without subtitles, which highlights the importance of being able to communicate.

Oddities include a very helpfully slowed down Borg threat to make them kids’-show-friendly followed some of by the most badass Romulans ever.

A smallish largely automated starship that can function with a crew of half a dozen follows Picard 1-2 in dodging the Trek number of expert crew ready to answer questions, and fits here better due to the lack of sorta-responsible adults.