Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy 1x12 - "Let Sleeping Borg Lie"
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In FC, when the crew as working on detaching the deflector dish, individual drones kept glancing up at them before the Collective decided they were being sufficiently suspicious to warrant interrupting the drones' work. The cube could've just decided that Gwyn need only one drone's worth of additional scrutiny before writing her off, and it wasn't worth delaying the rest of the group to also look at her.
It almost makes one wonder if Pog was supposed to be a different alien entirely and then something got changed later…
It's nice to see the Borg be threatening and ominous again. With the only other exception of ENT they've been defanged since the late '90s. This was a solid episode and now we have a timeframe for Admiral Janeway's mission aboard the Dauntless. A stardate in the 61000-range means it's 2384.
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I think it’s a subtle nod to the biodiversity of Tellarites we’ve seen across all the shows. Some have three fingers, some have five, some have tusks, some have sunken eyes, etc. Just like humans have different eye, hair and skin color, it seems Tellarites are even more broad in how their phenotypes express themselves.
Yep. ENT Tellarites are my all-time favorite design but even TOS showed us two different types of Tellarite looks with the sunken eye appearance in Season 2 while one season later they look more human but with shaggier hair and the distinctive Tellarite nose.
He’s also a juvenile, which I don’t think we’ve seen outside of one episode of Discovery. If Pog’s beard and tusks grow in, maybe his eyes grow more sunken as he gets older.
Yeah. They are not exactly consistent.
Well, Klingons in DSC looked different from every Klingon we'd seen before. Blame the Augment Virus reversal attempts or different bloodlines and ethnic appearances within the Empire but they're Klingons as well.
Also, I like how the Borg in this episode have more of a TNG appearance and less of a VOY and movie look. I appreciate how PRO is meshing the different ship and alien look aesthetics and not ignoring any one specific aspect of Trek's visual history, much like LD but on a more refined level.
Maybe he's a Northern Tellarite.
Well, that might not mean anything.
For example, in humans, there is a percentage of small people who reach adulthood without gaining growth spurs like other humans, so they end up 'stuck' with much smaller bodies than the average human.
Maybe Jankom is similar in that regard... or its just a different growth cycle for Tellarites so Jankom will get taller, but at a later date (or he might not if he has a medical condition which will stunt his growth).
Was that an assimilated Rocksteady?
It was alright. The Borg voice was rather meh I thought. I would have kept with the original. I assume assimilation nodules would be too much for a kids show since those kids would be Borg after they were touched.
Holo Janeway mentioned that a neurolitic pathogen disabled their nanoprobes, so I suspect that the Borg on this particular cube couldn't just assimilate an organic being via tubules like they did in FC and on VOY and needed a specialized chamber for assimilation to take place.
I like the implication that after endgame the borg were all dormant - but it's the kids that woke up the collective again.
So it's unlikely that this cube is the same one that later turns up in PIC season 1?
Another great episode and a fantastic reintroduction of the Borg.
This is definitely the artifact! I felt they escaped too easily, but the Borg weren’t exactly operating at full capacity. Loved the diversity in the depiction of the Borg.
I’m a bit surprised that there was no sign or survivors of the relay station but perhaps the telluride officer will show up next week.
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This is definitely the artifact! I felt they escaped too easily, but the Borg weren’t exactly operating at full capacity. Loved the diversity in the depiction of the Borg.
I’m a bit surprised that there was no sign or survivors of the relay station but perhaps the telluride officer will show up next week.
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You mean the Denobulan lieutenant? He got away in an escape pod.
I wonder if this is Icheb's former cube.
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