The latest episode of Star Trek: Prodigy has some big reveals for the series!
As we warp towards the season finale for season one, what does all of this mean for the story going forward?
Thankfully we’ve got four more episodes after this one, so we’re in safe hands.
This is our complete review of Star Trek: Prodigy Episode 15. As such, here is your SPOILER WARNING.
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With Last week our Protostar crew heading into the Romulan Neutral Zone, Romulans stopping the Dauntless, we definitely had an interesting cliffhanger, and this episode thankfully gets straight into it.
The surprise appearance of Admiral Edward Jellico was already announced ahead of time.
Still, having Ronny Cox reprise his role from Star Trek: The Next Generation is fantastic. It’s also good to see that Jellico has not changed one bit.
Though i do feel like i am watching Senator Kinsey, more so than Jellico, then again, I’ve spent more time with that character in multiple episodes of Stargate SG-1.
Are anyone of you Stargate fans by the way? I know this is Star Trek,
Common, that is also another great franchise.
Imagine a cross-over! Nope, we had that episode.
Jellico has a point. The Romulans are untrustworthy and usually up to something else in Star Trek.
He is proven right in this very same episode. The Romulans try to steal the Protostar. It also connects with Star Trek: Picard.
Or rather the events that led up to the series. Janeway’s log, a bonus story for the series Prodigy, reveals that Admiral Jean-Luc Picard is currently overseeing the Romulan Relocation Mission due to the impending Supernova.
I think this is an excellent way to use a character like Jellico. In the Star Trek books,
which continued the story before the new modern era, Jellico eventually became Commander in Chief of the Federation Starfleet.
So it’s interesting that he might be in a similar role here.
We get a cool new planet in this episode, Nobel Aisle, which is some free haven for unregulated scientific experimentation, which includes Genetic Engineering!
We meet Dr Jargo(?), a rogue Geneticist who knows where Dal is, and that the Proteges of Dr Arik Soong genetically engineer him.
For those who might need a refresher, Arik Soong was a Soong during the Enterprise Era that experimented with Genetic Engineering
ut was ultimately locked up by United Earth and, after some episodes relating to augmented humans, decided to go into cybernetics instead of eugenics,
which would lead to the Soong fascinating with artificial life, and eventually lead to Data and the Soong-Type Androids or Lore and the Coppelius Synths.
I like this twist. It gives us an augmented character in Prodigy but doesn’t just tie it directly to Soong but indirectly in a way that makes canonical sense.
It also makes Dal more unique as augments go, blending so many different species instead of just augmented humans;
with some, we can make out, including even weird ones like Tholian and Species 8472 showing up there, which is somewhat wild.
So one big bombshell at the end of the mid-season finale of prodigy’s first season was that the Diviner and Drednok were sent from a post-apocalypse Solum, their homeworld,
which had been destroyed by Civil war after first contact with the Federation, into the past to destroy the Federation.
The Diviner and Drednok did this by finding the protostar, infecting it with the living construct to destroy the Federation.
But the Vau N’akat Order did not put all their eggs in one, and they sent other members back in time to destroy the Federation and save their planet from itself,
and now we know who else is secretly a Vau N’akat, Ensign Ascencia.
Finally, the revelation about Ensign Ascensia is proven true. We’ve known for some time that there was something different about this character.
If you’ve been watching Prodigy closely, you’ll also be aware of this.
She storms into The Diviner’s quarters aboard the USS Dauntless and demands they change.
The big revelation is that Ascensia is a member of the Vau N'akat species. Yes, the same species as Gwyn and The Diviner.
Conveniently, she’s been storing a Drednok unit in flat-pack mode.
Where he is disguised as the table onboard the ship. We’ve got to ask ourselves how that was allowed to get onboard. But I can see all Vau N’akat being sent back in time to get their Drednok unit.
We get a look at a Romulan Spec Ops team, and in a mark of some great continuity,
they have similar outfits and identical weaponry to the spec ops team we see of the Tal Shiar in Star Trek: Picard!
This is cool to see, and just adds some nice little connectivity between the shows, which we got in some ancillary media adjacent to Prodigy in the Star Trek Logs on Instagram,
audio recordings of Admiral Janeway talking about the Romulan Relocation Mission of Admiral Jean Luc Picard in Romulan Space
We even get these Romulans doing a little Star Trek 2009 reference as they skydive off a long strut.
I love it.
I will say it is weird to see a Romulan Kill Team be taken out by a newly made augment and Murf in his new form, but we kinda just have to go with it.
Though it is nice that now Murf has become the new security officer of the protostar.
That's going to be interesting..
Speaking of Murf by the way...
They put him in a Hamster Ball and it just reminds me of something from BEN10, if any of you remember that series!
I'm getting old.
Overall this was an interesting episode of Prodigy. It did some things I really enjoyed, and some things which I did not enjoy so much.
The connectivity which Prodigy is continuing to do with other shows is amazing and I have to give credit to the writers for that,
by writing within these boundaries but using such boundaries to further inform their own story.
It inter-connects our Star Trek Universe and amplify it even more.
This is a kids show, but just think, when these kids grow up and they get to our age, or say your age if you're watching this,
they're going to be able to watch this show again, and watch shows like The Next Generation
and it all connects nicely for them.
They're going to watch Next-Gen, they'll see Jellico for example, or they will watch Voyager,
they'll see Species 8472, or watch Picard and see the Romulan Team,
it all connects and makes a better story for them!
So, it works out, and it's amazing.
I am just going to have to get past Murf being this fully shapeshifting powerful entity at the moment.
Him being indestructible was fine, but able to defeat trained Tal Shiar operatives with ease is a little too far in my book.
The augment stuff seems to have resolved in this episode alone. Dal is an Human Augment,
which is why Federation wants him, which we learned in episode 11 at the relay station, due to Augmented Humans being illegal in the Federation,
with Augments locked away in a facility with notable exception being Julian Bashir.
Ooo, a cameo! I wonder if that will happen!
Whether we will get some more story here relating to Dal’s upbringing, and these “Protege’s of Arik Soong”?
Did they travel deep into the Beta Quadrant to get away from the Federation after defecting? How did Dal then end up with the Ferengi Nandi? Cast out as a failed experiment? We will have to see.
And another plot thread or atleast reveal that happened was the Ensign Ascensia reveal, which I am glad was done sooner rather than later.
As now, we have sometime to deal with this.
Is it going to be instant that she is throwing around the ship next week? I don't know.
There is a lot heading towards Prodigy's two-part season finale,
Which means we've got four episodes left, dam that means we're going to be busy!
So overall, still looking forward to what the future has for the story of Prodigy, and where we will be taken with it!
So, what did you think of this latest episode for Star Trek: Prodigy? Personally, I am still loving the Admiral Janeway content and seeing what the USS Dauntless is up too.
Now with the revelation of Ensign Ascensia and Drednok being back, I can’t wait for the next episode.
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