Starting with Wesley Crusher and never-ending from there, Star Trek series have inevitably had their “kid” characters, veritably the young Robin to the rest of the show’s Batmen (or something). They have often been annoying, but as with many things, in retrospect become beloved. Allow me to rattle off: Wesley and Alexander Rozhenko, Jake and Nog, Naomi Wildman and Icheb, … oh, maybe not Enterprise, Adira, … huh, this crackpot theory is falling apart faster than I thought. Suffice it to say, if Picard and Strange New Worlds don’t have any kids in them, that’s balanced by not one but two “all kids” Treks, both Prodigy and Starfleet Academy.

Which is to say, a Sons of Star Trek miniseries branching off from IDW’s Star Trek and Defiant series is inspired. Surely someone in some medium has done a “Trek-kid” team-up story before, but I haven’t read it, so I’m happy to credit the IDW and Sons writer Morgan Hampton with the idea.