Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy 1x13 - "All the World's a Stage"

[Borgminister]

Oh my God what a love letter to TOS, shades of Galaxy Quest. Garovick! Top notch production values and score, animation, everything, and a cliffhanger ending to boot! I can't believe what I just saw, simply magnificent for a kiddy show. Amazing...

 

[cooleddie74]

This was as big a love letter to TOS as "In A Mirror Darkly" in ENT, just executed with a gentler hand and more love for a younger audience. This episode was just beautiful.

 

[Deks]

actually Jankom didn't stop it from poisoning the place. what Jankom did was fix the shuttles long range transmitter, allowing it to act as a signal booster for their commbadges. which is why the trio could tell Zero and dal what the source of the illness was.
they actually didn't stop it from poisoning the place.. which is why the Enderprizians phasered the cave opening shut (to prevent the toxic materials from continuing to spread and keep any of the locals from entering the most contaminated area) and they left behind one of the Protostar's medical field kits of the sort Zero used, to make more antitoxin. if anything with the shuttle dropping directly into the toxic lake, it probably would get worse since it isn't just a small drip of contamination any more. but perhaps without that drip the 'eruptions' might happen less often.

Without the drip, the eruptions would probably stop alltogether because the shuttle ended up falling into the pit and was submerged... so any remaining plasma would have likely burned off.
Problem is, the kids likely didn't know how to better deal with the subsequent radiation/fumes that the cave was still full of (perhaps fully trained SF crew would have been able to do that).
So, the next best thing was to seal off the cave - which to me seems superficial. I'm hoping the kids and the Protostar managed to fully contain the plasma and fumes to the mountain and stop it from potentially finding its way into the local water supply.

Also, that cave was full of dilithium. Might be worth to access it again if these people develop Warp capability (which will probably happen sooner than later)... but in that case, they'd need environmental suits to access it or find other deposits (unless they develop a power source which doesn't need dilithium - which is more than doable.

a lot closer than when they started the series at least, though federation ships are known to roam quite a long way from their home borders when doing exploration missions.

TOS Enterprise was going all over the galaxy if the dialogue was any indication. Warp speed in some instances was insanely fast at the top said speed being about 1000 Ly's per day.
Sure, with that, you can easily cut across the galaxy within a year (with latest estimates the Milky way is about or more than double the size of previous estimations - aka 200 000 to 250 000 ly's).

Some suggested that those episodes with exceptionally fast Warp drive took place in alternate realities (not prime universe)... but given that a lot of the places newer Trek is revisting or referencing from TOS (some of which is very far away), it stands to reason the prime universe SF explored those same areas, or in the prime universe they were much closer than in those hypothetical alternate realities with faster Warp.

pretty much agree. something happened to the shuttle that threw it too far from the Enterprise for Spock to narrow down the search, and eventually kirk had to just write it off as MIA.

Likely. SF isn't short on encountering random anomalies or even entities that could be 'playing' with it for experimentation.
A shuttle is far more vulnerable than a fully crewed larger ship.

definitely helps narrow down the locations. and romulans would be interesting, though i suspect not given that it would be yet more groups to have to explain to the younger viewers. but then, i didn't expect the Borg from last episode to show up either.

Explaining Romulans to new/younger viewers would take all of few second of dialogue like holo Janeway did with the Borg... so its not really an issue.
But I suspect it won't be the Romulans as they don't necessarily venture out of their space too much, and given the mid-season promo we saw which featured Okona on the Protostar (and Murf hatching)... I think Okona might have been the person to rescue Frex.

 

[Wouter]

definitely helps narrow down the locations. and romulans would be interesting, though i suspect not given that it would be yet more groups to have to explain to the younger viewers. but then, i didn't expect the Borg from last episode to show up either.

Apparently one or more Romulans will show up at some point in the season (stated by the showrunners), though there is no context and it could be part of a holodeck simulation.

 

[jackoverfull]

actually Jankom didn't stop it from poisoning the place. what Jankom did was fix the shuttles long range transmitter, allowing it to act as a signal booster for their commbadges.

ah!

which is why the Enderprizians phasered the cave opening shut (to prevent the toxic materials from continuing to spread and keep any of the locals from entering the most contaminated area)

indeed. And why garrowick didn’t think of it then?

definitely helps narrow down the locations. and romulans would be interesting, though i suspect not given that it would be yet more groups to have to explain to the younger viewers. but then, i didn't expect the Borg from last episode to show up either.

I think they will show up sooner or later, as Produgy is also serving as an introduction to Star Trek lore.

 

[DEWLine]

Canada doesn't get the Star Trek logo animation at the start of Prodigy. We did for SNW and LDS Season 3.

This omission is annoying.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

One question: Why is Jimmi Simpson still in the credits? Drednok was destroyed many episodes ago.

if anything with the shuttle dropping directly into the toxic lake, it probably would get worse since it isn't just a small drip of contamination any more. but perhaps without that drip the 'eruptions' might happen less often.

Or perhaps that last explosion (just as the Protostar beams everyone up and leaves) actually destroyed the shuttle? Can't be any more eruptions if there's nothing to erupt from.

 

[Saul]

I was a bit meh at the beginning of the episode but loved it at the end. The holographic bridge reminds me very much of an idea Doug Drexler discussed for his Enterprise J I believe.

 

[fireproof78]

One question: Why is Jimmi Simpson still in the credits? Drednok was destroyed many episodes ago.

Contracts are finicky things. Especially since this is still season 1.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Contracts are finicky things. Especially since this is still season 1.

I'm not following.

Drednok is dead. And does not appear in this episode. So logically speaking, Simpson doesn't belong in the credits. Seems simple enough.

Unless they're planning to somehow resurrect Drednok? Bit difficult after being torn to pieces by irate slaves...

 

[fireproof78]

I'm not following.

Drednok is dead. And does not appear in this episode. So logically speaking, Simpson doesn't belong in the credits. Seems simple enough.

Unless they're planning to somehow resurrect Drednok? Bit difficult after being torn to pieces by irate slaves...

Contracts are generally written for a season, depending on the agent. And contracts are rarely simple.

 

[Orac]

Cirroc Lofton was credited for every episode of Deep Space Nine yet only appeared in a handful of them.

 

[cooleddie74]

Anthony Montgomery wasn't shown in all 98 episodes of ENT if I'm not mistaken but he's also credited in all of that series' episodes.

 

[Wouter]

I'm not following.

Drednok is dead. And does not appear in this episode. So logically speaking, Simpson doesn't belong in the credits. Seems simple enough.

Unless they're planning to somehow resurrect Drednok? Bit difficult after being torn to pieces by irate slaves...

Not difficult at all. A different copy of Drednok was constructed by Protostar's own vehicle replicator in episode 8. Drednok could be reconstructed, it only takes the Diviner (or another Vau n'Akat) to get access to the right replicator. Moreover, the game Supernova also has a variant of Drednok (not 100% the same character, but should something like that appear in the main series, it would be Simpson who voices him). He could also appear in flashbacks or recordings.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Just had another thought:

The kids know that even the simple act of opening a hailing frequency will spread the Diviner's virus. But there's ways around that.

Spoiler: story idea?

What about sending out a physical object? Like a torpedo? Put a PADD in it that isn't connected to the Protostar's computer system, and program that PADD to send a message. Problem solved.

Or, if even that is too risky: Just write a damn letter.

 

[ToddCam]

I think Garrovick was beamed off the crashing shuttle, and a Tom Riker/William Boimler type duplicate was left behind.

 

[Wouter]

Just had another thought:

The kids know that even the simple act of opening a hailing frequency will spread the Diviner's virus. But there's ways around that.

Spoiler: story idea?

What about sending out a physical object? Like a torpedo? Put a PADD in it that isn't connected to the Protostar's computer system, and program that PADD to send a message. Problem solved.

Or, if even that is too risky: Just write a damn letter.

The letter is a good idea (it was jokingly suggested they put it on the side of a thermos filled with coffee, to be sure to get Janeways attention), other options are to drop someone off at a planet or installation (to talk with Starfleet pursuers) or to use an independent system for subspace communication or even another vessel/shuttle (however, they need to find one first; replicated shuttles may not be free of the problem) .

Approaching a Starfleet installation or vessel may be dangerous even if no contact is initiated (or explicitly responded to) by the Protostar, though. CR-721 attempted to download logs and that was apparently sufficient to wake the living construct.

 

[The Wormhole]

Drednok is dead. And does not appear in this episode. So logically speaking, Simpson doesn't belong in the credits. Seems simple enough.

If Simpson's contract specified he'd be credited for the whole season, then he's required to be listed in the credits for the whole season, regardless if he shows up or not. This sort of thing goes on all the time on TV shows.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

So they're still pretending that this is season 1, despite the huge gap?

 

[The Wormhole]

Legally speaking, this is still the first season.