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Star Trek: Prodigy
Air date: 7/1/2024
Written by Kevin & Dan Hageman & Aaron J. Waltke
Directed by Sean Bishop
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Previous episode: Touch of Grey
Next episode: Ouroboros, Part II
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Karl Zimmerman
So here we are, at the beginning of the end. Acensia has a plan to invade the Federation, and the gang must hatch a complicated, multi-part plan to defeat her, which includes a "brain team" (Zero, Maj'el, Rokk-Takk, and Wesely) on the ship to do calculation, and a "body team" (Dal, Gwyn, Jankom Pog, and Murf) on the surface, to input the data. While this is all happening, Chakotay captains the Protostar with Holo-Janeway's help, while real Janeway relies upon her crew on Voyager. The episode ends with Acensia defeated and the season seemingly solved - only to have the Loom appear en masse, threatening to unwind all of reality.
It's all great, save for one issue: Acensia has been a caricature - a one-note villain who never shows any hint of deeper motivation other than pure evil. Clearly she's not just that, given her younger version isn't like her. Yet we never get a hint of nuance here. Fine for a kids show, I guess, but The Diviner was so, so much more in Season 1 than she is here.
Also, it was a nice moment near the end when all the other Vau N'Akat gave their strength (or whatever it was) to help her defeat Acensia, but I was left wondering how it happened. Like, they all just appeared out of nowhere. Made emotional sense, but not really logical sense within the plot.
Still, a great episode, with a great climax to an entire season of plot arc. Only wait, there's one more!
Sebastien Andre Roblin
I agree, they have leaned more into Acensia's sheer villainy and less into what informed it--would not be hard to wrench some pathos from being a version of herself that has seen her civilization utterly destroyed and become a fanatic as a result. The telepathic-strengthening thing at the end felt like a new thing to me, they really should have established it before they were going to have it save the day here. But also, the scene's logic made no sense: why would those many individuals that suddenly arrive at that platform not simply rush forward to push Acensia away rather than very slowly channel psychic energy? Without knowing ahead of time of plot armor, the failure to just dash forward and help her seems insane. But these complaints aside, I did enjoy the episode and its complex multi-layered battled.
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