History Recap / StarTrekProdigyS1E20SupernovaPart2

* PercussiveMaintenance: A quick gag in the denouement subverts this when Jankom gets ready to DropTheHammer on a simulation, only to then shift his arm into a set of pincers that he uses to precisely unscrew a bolt, showing that Jankom is taking his education (somewhat) seriously.

** The ''Enterprise''-E herself was thrashed within an inch of destruction in ''[[Film/StarTrekNemesis Nemesis]]'' as well, and survived that after being towed back to drydock. Eventually, with the ''Enterprise''-F from ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' being announced to be making its canon debut in ''[[Series/StarTrekPicard Picard]]'''s third and final season, the show's Instagram later reveled the ''E'' did survive past this event and was taken out of service two years later.
** Whether or not the ''Defiant'' got away was initially left up in the air. Her predecessor, the original ''Defiant'' being "adrift, but salvageable" in ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' and then back in service in ''[=DS9=]'' comes to mind, even if it was just a blatant case of StatusQuoIsGod. Eventually, the ''Defiant'' being a museum ship at Athan Prime in ''Picard'''s episode "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS3E06TheBounty The Bounty]]" put her survival to rest.

-->'''Janeway:'''[...]But, one year ago, not one of them had ever heard of the United Federation of Planets. Yet, by fate engineered by their own ingenuity, they set their compass to Starfleet and, without their intervention, I cannot say with certainty all of us would be sitting here this day.\\

* BittersweetEnding: Holo Janeway and the ''Protostar'' have been destroyed, Gwyn leaves the others to go to Solum and unite her people, and the other prodigies won't be accepted into Starfleet Academy. On the other hand, Admiral Janeway pulls enough strings to make them Warrant Officers under her command, hinting that she's got big plans for them, and there's hope for Chakotay and the ''Protostar'' to be saved.

* FreezeFrameBonus: The shuttlecraft that rescues the crew after they crash-land in the bay bears the registry number "NCC-74656-A". "74656" is the registry number for ''Voyager'', suggesting the "big plans" Janeway has in store for our heroes is a newly-commissioned ''Voyager''-A instead of another ''Protostar''-class.[[labelnote:*]]Confirmed by a recent trailer.[[/labelnote]] It also serves as a CallForward to the ''Voyager-J'' seen in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', and it was mentioned in a FreezeFrameBonus in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' that the original ''Voyager'' was decommissioned upon returning to Earth (destined to become a museum, according to Admiral Janeway from the alternate future in "Endgame"). ''Picard'' later confirmed she was placed in the Fleet Museum with the ''Enterprise''-A and the ''Excelsior''.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Zero is given a new containment suit built to Federation standards, which means Zero now has proper hands instead of one hand being a claw.

* FreezeFrameBonus: The shuttlecraft that rescues the crew after they crash-land in the bay bears the registry number "NCC-74656-A". "74656" is the registry number for ''Voyager'', suggesting the "big plans" Janeway has in store for our heroes is a newly-commissioned ''Voyager''-A instead of another ''Protostar''-class. It also serves as a CallForward to the ''Voyager-J'' seen in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', and it was mentioned in a FreezeFrameBonus in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' that the original ''Voyager'' was decommissioned upon returning to Earth (destined to become a museum, according to Admiral Janeway from the alternate future in "Endgame"). ''Picard'' later confirmed she was placed in the Fleet Museum with the ''Enterprise''-A and the ''Excelsior''.

* ContinuityNod:
** This is not the first time the crew of a ship have had to deal with the possibility of not being able to take a sapient hologram crewmember with them when evacuating the ship. The same scenario was discussed on ''Voyager'' in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E6EyeOfTheNeedle Eye of the Needle]]", where they had no means of beaming the Doctor out when the possibility of rescue presented itself.
** Dal uses Gwyn's {{Malaproper}} phrase "cat boots" from the first episode, which she corrects to "cahoots".
** The kids becoming Warrant Officers under Admiral Janeway is reminiscent of Wesley being made an Acting Ensign on the ''Enterprise''-D after not making the cut in his entrance test in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E18ComingOfAge Coming of Age]]".

** Whether or not the ''Defiant'' got away was initially left up in the air. Her predecessor, the original ''Defiant'' being "adrift, but salvageable" in ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' and then back in service in ''[=DS9=]'' comes to mind, even if it was just a blatant case of StatusQuoIsGod. Eventually, the ''Defiant'' being a museum ship at Athan Prime in ''Picard'''s episode "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS3E06Bounty The Bounty]]" put her survival to rest.

* UncertainDoom: Remember how the ''Enterprise''-E and the ''Defiant'' were among the ships being torn apart from last episode? So ... did they survive or not? Eventually, with the ''Enterprise''-F from ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' being announced to be making its canon debut in ''[[Series/StarTrekPicard Picard]]'''s third and final season, the show's Instagram later reveled the ''E'' did survive past this event and was taken offline two years later, but whether or not the ''Defiant'' got away is up in the air. It's worth noting that starships have come back from near-destruction before; the first ''Defiant'' being "adrift, but salvageable" in ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' and then back in service in ''[=DS9=]'' comes to mind, even if it was just a blatant case of StatusQuoIsGod. The ''Enterprise''-E herself was thrashed within an inch of destruction in ''[[Film/StarTrekNemesis Nemesis]]'' as well, and survived that after being towed back to drydock.[[invoked]]
* WhamEpisode: The ''Protostar'' is destroyed, and Holo Janeway along with it. With her last act, Holo Janeway creates a temporal rift to the future, one where she, Chakotay and the ''Protostar'' have yet to be sent back to the past. The crew joins Starfleet under Janeway's command to find them, though Gwyn leaves to find Solum so First Contact won't be as disastrous this time around. There's also the UncertainDoom of assembled starships, possibly including the ''Defiant'', the protagonist Starfleet ships in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine previous series]].