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@Wouter which helps me and I am sure others to follow it.
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…
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The Hageman brothers have said they would like very much to see Dal and Gwyn in live action, played by their voice actors. Let's hope it happens. I don't know how good the show is doing in terms of what CBS/Nickolodeon and co want out of it, because getting a season 3 greenlit would help to keep the characters relevant.
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.
That's an excellent explanation, though I think it is equally possible that the anomaly is the Diviner (and possibly other Vau N'akat) coming back through time to 2382 or 2383. The end result is the same: the Prodigy is captured but somehow Chakotay and/or his crew manages to make it disappear again (or the Vau N'akat accidentally cause the second round of time travel themselves).
While the Diviner believes the Protostar went years/decades back in time (from 2382/2383), it only recently surfaced so maybe it didn't travel back as far as he thought (or it even went - slightly - forward in time rather than backwards). Was it really there in Tars Lamora for 20+ years, without ever being found, or did it appear recently?
I agree SNW is very good, but I’d say that it is carried as much by the great casting. Personally, as far as overarching season and story goes, Prodigy has me a little more excited between the two.
I have the same feeling. Strange New Worlds has great cast/characters and atmosphere, but the individual episodes are hit or miss for me, so far. Prodigy is a bit more constant in quality IMO.
And I think that Una, for example, wasn't given nearly enough to matter this season (outside the one episode that was pretty much about her).
Thinking the Protostar as a weapon process through, now that it has infected a comm relay, does this mean that the virus is propagating throughout Starfleet? That has to be how it works. The Protostar obviously cannot touch every ship or station so to speak.
That's a good question, especially with a relay station being the target. However, I doubt that the rest of Starfleet was affected (too dark for this show; and the Dauntless obviously is fine). Maybe the weapon on the Protostar (in the "metamurfosis" teaser, Dal calls it the "living construct") needs to be relatively close for its attack to work (or tailor its attack to a specific target, in this case the relay station), and affected ships/installations can't directly affect other targets by themselves (or at least not get past the safeguards, such as they are with Starfleet, which the "living construct" obviously has no problem with). Though in that case, the Diviner would be very optimistic if he thinks he can destroy the entire Starfleet that way. He would need to be able to spread copies of the "living construct" to other ships to propagate it.
