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Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy 1x11 - "Asylum"

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Enjoyable.

Until now, I was hoping Jankom Pog is Tellarite by nurture and Talaxian by nature. Perhaps Talaxian families were part of the Tellarite generation ship. Kinda like the Tellarite Martians in the novels.

But the scanner identifies Jankom unequivocally as Tellarite. Perhaps the Talaxians and Tellarites are same type of species, like how Mintakans and Vulcans are vulcanoids. “Porcinoids”, “Suilinoids”?

Edit: I’m rewatching the Janekotay scene and we see a big-haired officer (from behind) in the Protostar uniform. Could he be a Kazon?

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Based on his appearance, he's gone a bit loony from isolation. Perhaps he proclaimed himself, <fan fare plays> a Super-Admiral! :lol:
Or at least a Corporal Captain?

Edit: I’m rewatching the Janekotay scene and we see a big-haired officer (from behind) in the Protostar uniform. Could he be a Kazon?
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With those double jointed knees? More likely a Xindi reptile.
 
I don't know if I can ever get used to Nickelodeon animation...thought the show was just average...didn't like the whale saving at beginning that part was so corny...
 
Timeline of this series is totally incomprehensible. I don't understand comission date of Protostar. Nothing doesn't fit.

Ships take several years to build in the Trek universe, and registries don’t equate to years built one-to-one. There are too many examples of when they don’t line up to assume that.

If you want to pretend they do, the standard theory is the registry is the year they started building, not the year it was complete. So with NX-76884, that would mean the ship had been under construction for a year or two when Voyager returned — perhaps as a new fleet of rescue class — then retrofitted with new technology from the Delta Quadrant. Then it launched in 2381 or 82 with Chakotay as captain.

In VOY “The Omega Directive”, Harry Kim outright discusses using a protostar to open a wormhole between the alpha and delta quadrants to expedite ship travel, so Starfleet was already thinking about it.

As for the rest of the timeline, it’s outright stated in episode 10 that the Protostar and the villain were lost in time, and Chakotay’s garbled distress call mentions going through a temporal anomaly. So of course it wouldn’t make sense without time travel.
 
Edit: I’m rewatching the Janekotay scene and we see a big-haired officer (from behind) in the Protostar uniform. Could he be a Kazon?
They're a bird person, you can see a beak
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the phaser emitters on that station looked like tractor beam emitters
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Ships take several years to build in the Trek universe, and registries don’t equate to years built one-to-one. There are too many examples of when they don’t line up to assume that.

I would say, like the US Navy, SF registry numbers are laid out in advance, in order of planning and approval.

Of course we use different prefixes like DDG and CV, etc and there are many CV #'s that were never used because the ships were unfinished/scrapped or cancelled altogether.


One of T'Char's race maybe? I just watched TAS not long ago and completely forgot about the legs.
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But she's an unknown to the Federation, and Dal is clearly a being of great interest.
Yes, but the kind of interest that is implied by having a similar reaction as to the Omega module may not be a positive thing. To me, it looked more like a warning in the sense of "extremely dangerous, watch out and contact your nearest police station".

the last time that a computer reacted like this onscreen was to the highly sensitive Omega particle as discussed above. This is either *something* or *nothing* as far as I can tell. Maybe Dal’s Ferengi mum (despite everything, she is still his mum I guess) knows more than she is letting on? :shrug:
It remains a mystery how Nandi got Dal in the first place, and why the Diviner bought him and did not get rid of him when he turned into a serial escapee. Maybe he was there specifically to give Gwyn someone to perfect her "Federation standard" (English, I suppose) through conversation, or maybe the Diviner knows what Dal is and he had another purpose. On the other hand, Drednok seemed to have it in for Dal specifically.

I don't know if I can ever get used to Nickelodeon animation...thought the show was just average...didn't like the whale saving at beginning that part was so corny...
Though I enjoyed the episode and it did a lot in terms of setup for the rest of the season (giving a reason why the good guys are now chasing the protagonists), I agree that the whale thing wasn't exactly the best part of it. Seems they are a bit young to decide what a completely alien (to them) ecosystem needs. The whole sequence looks like an excuse to reference the relevant parts of The Voyage Home and Into Darkness.

Timeline of this series is totally incomprehensible. I don't understand comission date of Protostar. Nothing doesn't fit.
The timeline hasn't been explained yet, but what is clear is that the Protostar was put into service after Voyager returned (with a lot of data on experimental and alien designs for "ludicrous speed" drives) and before the series started.
The Protostar must have travelled at least once in time (backwards) or at least, the Diviner and co firmly believed that it went back in time. That is why they were looking for it for many years before the series starts and well before it was completed.

What is certain is that Chakotay encountered an anomaly (either something that caused time travel, or the result of the Vau N'akat travelling back from 50 or so years in the future), the ship got boarded by Drednok, and after that a number of Vau n'akat went (further?) back in time to search for the ship until it suddenly turned up in Tars Lamora, a few years after it actually was commissioned. What exactly happened when the ship was boarded, why the Vau N'akat "lost" it again and what happened to Chakotay is one of the larger mysteries of the show. But I'm confident they have answers for those kinds of questions.
 
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Really enjoying your input on this series @Wouter which helps me and I am sure others to follow it. :techman:

Here is the cutest Star Trek scene that I have ever seen, btw:
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I hope that we get to see a live action Dal someday, but I think that he might be hard work for the prosthetics department and makeup team. I laughed when the Starfleet officer thought he was Talaxian… :guffaw:
 
It’s official…I really like this show. It’s definitely it’s “own thing” within the franchise, but it’s managed to also be distinctly Star Trek. This was a very triumphant return. Lots of fun with a clear, direct plot. All the characters lock for me, too.

As many others have said, it’s great to see Chakotay again, and I’m looking forward to finding out what happened to the mission.
9/10
 
Nothing fits. Yes sorry.

I’m sure they’ll explain more as the show goes on, but if you pay close attention to the clues they’ve been dropping, the timeline makes perfect sense.

Chakotay goes out on the maiden voyage post-Voyager, around 2381 or 82. Chakotay goes through an unstable time anomaly and is sent 50 years forward in time, lands in a post-apocalyptic Solum where the Protostar is captured, loaded with a future Trojan horse weapon, then sent back in time through the same time anomaly but gets lost, landing a little too far in the past. The Diviner follows, spends years searching for it, creates Gwyndala, keeps searching until Dal and Rok discover it by accident in 2383.
 
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