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Star Trek: Prodigy

Season 1

"Lost and Found"

• Dal's first onscreen escape attempt, while unsuccessful and poorly thought through, does have him pull off some impressive stunts with a loading vehicle.
• An Easter Egg shows the specs for the photon torpedo, taken exactly from the TNG Technical Manual, which is a deep cut worthy of Lower Decks.
• Our heroes' successful escape may have involved a lot of bumbling, but they still managed to make it epic.
• Despite being small and undermanned, the Protostar proves herself a Pint-Sized Powerhouse by unleashing some impressive Beam Spam.

"Starstruck"

• Thanks to Hologram Janeway's instruction and Zero's quick thinking the crew pull off another epic escape, this time from an exploding star.
• The fight between Gwyn and Rok-Tahk in the shuttlebay while a new shuttlecraft was being fabricated around them.

"Dreamcatcher"

• The vines trick most of the crew, but Dal and Gwyn see through the illusions. For Dal, there's nothing the vines can show that is real enough to trick him, while Gwyn can tell her father is being too nice.
• Dal once again shows off his Badass Driver skills while saving Zero.

"Terror Firma"

• Despite only having access to "non-essential" systems Janeway is still able to fend off the vines with the ship's cleaning system. Also counts as funny.
• When a large vine construct turns out to be immune to phasers Gwyn figures out that setting it on fire will work.
• The superorganism is capable of moving landmarks around to confuse its prey. How do the crew find their way back to the Protostar? Dal and Gwyn realize that they can navigate by the stars since those are well beyond the vines' power.
• The Protostar reveals why she's so coveted by pulling an Hyperspeed Escape from the Diviner at Ludicrous Speed. It even comes with a Transformation Sequence as her third nacelle emerges, signalling that something epic is about to happen.

"Kobayashi"

• For his go at the simulation, Dal tells the computer to fill his crew with the best officers it has. Cue (albeit in hologram form) Communications Officer Nyota Uhura, Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher, Security Officer Odo, and Science Officer Spock. Later, we even see Scotty take over as Chief Engineer from Jankom!
• Following a lengthy failure montage, Dal enacts a strategy that almost successfully completes the simulation’s objective. The Kobayashi Maru. Which is designed to be an unwinnable scenario. Which only one other known officer (Kirk) has managed to beat, and only because he cheated. If Dal hadn’t hit the wrong button at the last second, he would have made history.
  • Special credit goes to Hologram Spock for beaming Dal and himself onto the bridge of the Klingon ship and calmly nerve pinching several members of the enemy crew.

"First Con-tact"

• Dal sticking his com badge on the crystal so it can be beamed back to the Cymari, effectively out-playing his old Evil Mentor.

"Time Amok"

• Within minutes, Zero had figured out the nature of the problem and was well on the way to implementing a solution. Too bad they ran out of time...
• Gwyn venting Drednok into space.
• Though it took months or maybe years, Rok taught herself the necessary theory and engineering skills to bring back Holo-Janeway and build a new warp matrix. It must have been a harrowing experience, but Rok gained huge confidence and possibly a new calling.
  • This would be impressive if she were the age of her cohorts. It is even more so, given that she’s only 8!

"A Moral Star, Part 1"

• The Reveal that the crew fully expected The Diviner to betray them, and had planned accordingly. The rare Cliffhanger where the heroes come out on top.
• The fact that Murf is so indestructible that he is able to contain a protostar inside himself.

"A Moral Star, Part 2"

• Dal figures out how to wire his commbadge into the Caitain child's electronic shackle, turning the entire shackle network into a Universal Translator. This not only allows them to quickly explain to everyone what is going on so they can get to safety, but also allows the prisoners to organize and fight back within minutes, quickly taking the mine and the REV-12, defeating Drednok in the process.
• And who is the one to take out Drednok? The adorable Caitian kid.
  Caitian Yeah! We now have a voice! Good for us! Bad for you!
• Thanks to Gwyn, Janeway gains the ability to be solid and uses it to easily smack the Diviner around, disappearing every time he tries to swing back before finally pulling one of his life support tubes to leave him gasping for breath and unable to fight.
  • Janeway was also never under the Diviner's control. The whole thing was a ploy from the start!
• Mixes with Nightmare Fuel. Zero removes their containment suit and reveals their true form to Mind Rape the Diviner into submission after who knows how many times the Diviner forced Zero to use the same method on others, it's a nice case of The Dog Bites Back.
• In a villainous example, the Diviner's plan has the potential to destroy Starfleet completely, something that not even the Burn would accomplish centuries later.

"Let Sleeping Borg Lie"

• Doctor Noum actually managed to make Admiral Janeway give up coffee. While it could probably also qualify as medical malpractice, the fact that someone cut Janeway off, lived to tell, AND got her to go along with it (no matter how reluctantly), you have to admit that it's pretty impressive.

"Supernova, Part 2"

• Starfleet has been searching for any survivors from the Protostar's destruction, but given that she blew up during a protowarp jump, the search could literally last years given how much distance the ship covered before the core detonated. The meeting is interrupted by a junior officer running in to announce that the kids made it back to Earth. Janeway runs outside to join a crowd of Starfleet officers watching the kids get picked up from where they ditched in the Golden Gate.
  • To clarify: the kids made it to Earth in a shuttle that had only the most basic survival equipment and didn't even have navigational controls, meaning they flew across interstellar space to a planet that they had no directions to in a short range shuttle with no guidance system.

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