Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy 1x16 - "Preludes"

It could be any Prom class, it doesn't have to be the same ship.

The relevant parts from the episode:

SEVEN: The Starfleet ship is within range of one of the farthest sensors near the outer edges of the Alpha Quadrant.
JANEWAY: It must be on a deep space mission.

COMPUTER: USS Prometheus. Experimental prototype designed for deep space tactical assignments.

 

That episode is called “Message in a Bottle”

 

Quoting myself here, having rewatched Asencia's history lesson. She does start with saying "we were once the same age". So, in spite of Asencia looking quite youthful still (even taking into account the 17-years gap created bt the time travel), I think the similarity in presentation is deliberate and Asencia and Diviner were possibly shown together in two scenes (the second seemingly showing Asencia comforting a grieving Diviner) prior to the part about "The Order". So, I think the sequence implies that Asencia and Diviner knew each other (and were likely close; relatives or romantic interests or similar) already at the time that Prometheus-class appeared.

Thanks for the correction!

 

Why? It's currently being operated by six kids with no training. I have no problem believing it could be operated by two seasoned officers with Holo Janeway backing them up.

 

because if you only have a crew of two you don’t need that many chairs and beds.

 

Given holo-Janeway (and elevated permissions), the Protostar could run entirely on its own. But it was on a diplomatic/exploratory mission to the Delta Quadrant, you would want a decent number of experienced officers (and enlisted) there.

 

true. On the other hand this is the same Starfleet that didn’t think twice about the feasibility of using a fully automated ship for diplomatic missions only a few years earlier…

 

But that wasn't exactly a smashing success

 

Yes, we see a few people on the bridge when the Drednok's barge in.
There were also a handful of people in Protostar uniforms in that holo simulation that Janeway was watching of Chakotay.

 

That was amazing. Finally getting the backstory on how Rok and Zero ended up among the Unwanted. Finally getting the backstory on Pog and his pronoun trouble (dealing with that drone would make anybody neurotic). Finally getting the details on the Diviner's vendetta against Starfleet, and on why he would be searching for a ship that his own people had already weaponized against the Federation.

And Janeway finally getting an inkling that almost everything she thought she knew about the situation was precisely wrong. (And yes, that's an intentional allusion to Luke Skywalker's line to Kylo Ren.)