Star Trek: Prodigy: Star Trek: Prodigy (2nd half of Season 2)

November 7, 2024 10:15 PM - Season 1, Episode 1

Looks like nobody posted for the last half of the season (and possibly the end of the show?) so I thought I would do it. The crew of the Protostar and Voyager work together to address the dual threats presented by Asenscia's new technology on Solum, and the unraveling of the timeline.
posted by suelac (7 comments total)

I enjoyed the first season of Prodigy, but the second season just blew me away. I cannot understand how someone watched it and then said "We don't need to show this to people."
posted by Quonab at 7:36 AM on November 8 [4 favorites]

I thought that this was REALLY well plotted.
Also, like Lower Decks, it really benefited from the addition of a Vulcan.
posted by Spike Glee at 1:26 PM on November 8 [4 favorites]

This is far enough back that I'd need to go read a synopsis to rejig my memory, but I remembered really enjoying it!
posted by Atreides at 2:19 PM on November 8

I enjoyed the first season and agree the second was even better. Like Lower Decks it's fan-servicey in an intelligent way, and also like Lower Decks it embodies what I think of as the Trek Ethos far better than some of the other streaming Trek series. Naturally Paramount didn't know what to do with it and I am not holding my breath Netflix will order a third season, either, which is a damn shame.

Upon rewatch, it holds up really well. So nice for Chakotay to have something meaningful to do for a change. I'm not a fan of Beltran as a person but he's aces in this, as is everyone in the main voice cast.
posted by joseph_elmhurst at 3:31 PM on November 8 [3 favorites]

I did find the animation of the live-action characters to be frustrating. The animation for the kids all works really well, but I thought Chakotay's face was strangely stiff, Wesley just looked odd, and Beverly Crusher was completely unrecognizable.

But I'm not sure the plot made sense? If Gwyn went back in time and convinced her father to make friends with the Federation so Solum wasn't entirely destroyed by civil war, who was at Tars Lamora running a slave camp full of children?

Or did they jump from one timeline to another somehow?
posted by suelac at 4:24 PM on November 8

Yeah, I don't feel like any of the human characters "worked" for me. But the non-human designs were mostly pretty good.

With time travel AND multiple universes mixed in, I am not going to worry too much about consistency. The rare time travel story may be written so that the end result is supposed to be a thoroughly self-consistent at least in some ultimate iteration of the timeline (supposedly Primer was a good example of this but I never quite grasped it), but trek (and especially kid's trek) ain't that, or at any rate seldom aspires to be that; I'm sure there's some episode or other along the line that did try.
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 8:38 PM on November 8

This season made me cry repeatedly, and I mean that as the highest compliment. If the first season was about the characters coming together, the second season was about them becoming the best versions of themselves, and making sacrifices for the better of the group.

And yet, you also had HILARIOUS episodes like A Tribble Called Quest! Which was an absolutely fitting and wonderful addition to the Tribble canon. And of course Cracked Mirror - which disappointed me only because I would have liked to spend more time in the Tuvix universe.

I have been pushing this show on anyone and everyone I know that likes Trek, especially now.
posted by rednikki at 5:57 AM on November 11 [2 favorites]