Josh Reviews Star Trek Prodigy: Season Two

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Timey wimey stuff

Wesley — great — sweater — powers somewhat inconsistent based on plot

Time travel fun but a little too complicated

Voyager — Janeways, Chakotay, the Doctor, Voyager-A

I’d hoped this show would finally give fans some resolution to the Janeway-Chaktoay relationship, but nope.  Still just soulful longing but no actual romantic relationship.  Chakotay was stranded alone for years and he’s still not able to actually say what he feels?  Lame to me.

Lots of fun Trek references.  I also liked seeing Jellico again, still a jerk as always!  (The modern Trek novels also used Jellico in this role, and I enjoyed it there too.). I liked seeing Nova Squadron.

Mirror Universe.

The Loom — cool looking villains, visually (albeit a hair too reminiscent of the squids from The Matrix) — scary powers to erase people from time but here too their powers were only strong until the plot demanded our heroes somehow survive.

I do like that Prodgy works hard to give us great villains (something modern Trek has often struggled with).  Ascenscia (voiced by Jamila Jameel??) is a fun evil tyrant for our heroes to have to defeat.  I like that, in classic “make friends from our enemies” Star Trek fashion, the season one big bad (the Diviner, Gwyn’s father) is now an ally!

Exploration of Zero, a non-corporeal Medusan, getting a body and experiencing physical sensations for a time.  That was a great storyline this season.  (I loved that episode 8 was called “Is There in Beauty no Truth?”, a playful twist on the title of the Original Series episode that introduced the Medusans.)

I liked the Vulcan Ma’jel.  Funny that both Lower Decks and Prodigy wound up ending a smart, capable Vulcan young woman to their core crew, to great success both times!  (And I liked her name; a sweet homage to Majel Barrett.)

I loved the final moments catching up with Picard season one and the synth attack.  I like the show does what it can to show some Starfleet characters still holding onto their ideals (as opposed to the universe that Picard showed us in which Starfleet apparently sank into fearfulness and xenophobia).  Still, giving the most advanced starship to a crew of cadets is insane.  (DS9’s The Valiant showed us the dangers of this!)  But the show’s heart was in the right place.  I’d have loved a third season set in the Picard timeline, showing us these characters working to keep Starfleet’s hopeful idealism alive in a darkening galaxy.  That would have been cool.

Also, I like that it’s Gwyn, not Dal, who gets to be Captain in the end.  Gwyn is clearly the most qualified.  I liked that this season kept her front and center (even while she was periodically in jeopardy because of the timeline changes that threatened her existence, Marty McFly style).