Yep. I’m going to guess Janeway figures out the real situation by episode 5 or 6, but by then The Diviner has turned on her. I’m okay with her chasing them down for a few episodes — that’s part of the fun. Hunt for Red October wouldn’t have been a very good movie if everyone figured everything out by the first act.
Indeed.
In fact, dragging out the Dauntless not understanding the situation until the end of the season seems like a bit of a stretch.
Prodigy does Trek right if you ask me, so let's hope the writers won't be dumbing down the crew like the live action had a tendency to do.
After all, there are many ways the Protostar could make contact with the Dauntless explaining the situation without opening subspace communications and allowing the weapon's activation.
Its possible that as the Dauntless catches up to the Protostar and Janeway hunting them, Janeway could notice they are doing 'good deeds' and behaving like Starfleet officers and this could directly contradict the potential lies the Diviner could be feeding Janeway (if he wakes up fine).
Gwyn was less affected because she saw a mere glimpse of a reflection... the Diviner on the other hand was exposed directly to Zero's real form in massive intensity - so I don't think he should be given a 'free pass' to recover so easily (Telepathic or not)... unless his species have something in their biology that would make them more resistant to Medusan real form.
Yes it does. As we should have assumed from the beginning, but people have dark imaginations I guess?
I think the problem with the people assuming the worst was because of lack of context. In episode 10, the Diviner was shown to have been left on Tars Lamora without his suit mumbling to himself and drawing some stuff in a circlular pattern.
For someone in his condition, he shouldn't have been able to feed himself, etc... so at least showing him with his suit on and maybe a few of the Watchers watching over and tending to him (with some food supplies in the background) would have given us proper context and prevent people from assuming the worst.
Maybe that last scene was rushed, hence it didn't have much of a context to start with. Trek wasn't always too good at wrapping things up by giving us context... but I'll give Prodigy a pass on this one due to the nature of the show and the fact its allowed to make occasional mistakes - plus, time constraints and rendering all of that could have been a pain (I do 3D animation, and trust me, you want to simplify things as much as you can - but at the same time, I try to make sure to relay proper context).
