#ma'jel prodigy

[fourforyouodo]

I soooo ship Ma'jel and Zero. I never would have thought they'd give Zero a love interest but it works so well, and it shows so much good in Ma'jel's character, having her be so empathetic and understanding even as she's a logical Vulcan. These kids are so cute together, I truly blushed at their hand-holding.

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek Prodigy "Ascension Pt. 2"

[marshmelonlover]

Something that gets me about Prodigy is how much the kids love Kathryn. They don't just save Chakotay for the Protostar, but also to bring him back to her, because they love her and because they know how much she loves him.

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: PRODIGY // S2E19 Ouroboros, Part 1

What if Chakotay never sent the Protostar back to Tars Lamora? What if all this time we sent it there? What if right now, today, the wormhole we make is the reason the others exist? From Chakotay to Solum and everything in between?

[mai-komagata]

vulcan kissing is back

thank you star trek prodigy!!

[elytra404]

if i had a nickel for every time i thought a show was queerbating me cause a sapphic ship had hints and serious tension but assumed it wasn't real cause i could only find a few tumblr posts shipping them and a lot more shipping characters in the pairing with men in the show and then it turned out to be genuinely gay and openly so in cannon id have 2 nickels

which isn't a lot but it's really concerning it's happened twice

[kari-izumi]

It's honest the best queer representation we've ever gotten in this franchise and no, I will not explain

A teenage vulcan immediately disobeying orders and going rogue at the risk of her own life for a telepathic blob in a mech suit (who now has a meat suit because they wanted to hold her hand so bad?!) was not the ship I expected but it was what I deserved

[devotedlittlefreak]

Prodigy SPOILERS I've just watched Cracked Mirror (such a great episode btw. Great season. ) and I wonder... does that mean there's several Mirror Universes ?

Like, in the DS9 mirror episode, the Terran empire is dead. Even if the rebellion succedeed, a new empire couldn't be as advanced in year 2380 something. It doesn't surprise me, that's kinda what they said in Disco S3, but idk... it's still interesting that's there's an alternate mirror universe where the Empire survive ig

Now on the episode, let me scream a bit

OMG MIRROR JANEWAY ! OMG THE REUNION BETWEEN PRIME JANEWAY AND CHAKOTAY! GOATEE MURF!!! ZERO AND MA'JEL AND GWYN AND DAL

Hmm.

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#822

I'm really loving the Zero x Ma'jel shipping moments in Star Trek: Prodigy. Reminds me of Spock and Ambassador Kollos in "Is There No Truth in Beauty?"

[annakie]

Prodigy S2 Spoilers up to episode 13.

So basically the first half of the season is showing Janeway becoming the kids' adopted mother, punctuated by that conversation between Beverly and Kathryn.

And the second half of the season so far has been Chakotay becoming the kids' adopted dad.

That along with the lingering looks every time Chakotay and Kathryn mention one another... I like where this is headed. A LOT.

And Prodigy is giving Chakotay character development and the care of writing that the character deserved all along. Like, as good as Kristen Beyer's books gave him, which is saying A LOT coming from me and how much I loved her post-Endgame books.

After 30 years, watching your ship (hopefully) become canon is a very beautiful thing.

And also I am especially just absolutely loving the dynamic between Dal and Chakotay. This relationship is what Dal needs to be shaped into the officer he can become. It's SO good.

And another thing... I cannot BELIEVE Wesley Crusher showed up and HOW AMAZING HE WAS. Like, Wil's performance was so fantastic and he was given SUCH great material to work with. This felt like who Wesley would be. And the sweater jokes... I was cackling all the way through. Honestly cannot express how much I loved those two episodes, being a Wesley Crusher teenage fangirl from the 80's/early 90's. More, please!!!

Also yay for the Tom Paris reference! And the Cerritos reference! And the Short Treks reference? And showing hints of Bev and Jean-Luc's relationship starting to unravel? Mycellial network reference?! Also Ma'jel!?! Such a perfect tribute! And her and Zero's relationship? And Zero having a body? And Gillian the whale!?

Edit: MARTOK REFERENCE! <3

OK I gotta stop before I just mention every single moment in the entire season so far.

Getting back to episode 13 now!!

[casualevan]

SAME

[simplybybea]

My cold-infused re-watch of Star Trek Prodigy has been completed and I adore this show so much.

I love Rok's enthusiasm and Jankom's grumbling and Zero's journey to realising how to fell like Them. Murf running around like a chaotic toddler and Gwyn developing her confidence and Dal learning to trust others. I love the introduction on Ma'jel in season 2.

As a J/C shipper I also adore the entire journey to getting Chakotay back and him and Janeway being so deeply happy to be together again. And at the end of season 2 when they give the kids the new USS Prodigy, they're together to give the kids the keys and they're like a couple of proud parents and they're so delighted to be able to do this for them.

We have chaos and the side stories and Wesley Crusher's Doctor Who impressions and tank top Janeway and the ship almost falling apart and hope and revolutions and fighting back against tyranny and the crew coming together even stronger than before because they now believe in their own capabilities.

I sincerely hope we get more of this beautiful, wonderful and hopeful show!

@netflix please renew for Season 3!

#setacourseforseason3

[joju-but-trek]

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2, Episode 10: The Devourer of All Things, Part 2

Can someone just let Janeway say "fuck" already?

If we're treating this as the midseason finale, I can work with that. The first ten episodes function stand on their own as a unit pretty well. It's a good arc that builds to the conclusion here that leaves the characters right at the start of the next arc. There's a lot of excitement while it's going on, and a lot gets packed into this episode as a finale, but it's very enjoyable while it's happening. 9/10

As I'm putting this together, I'm realizing that this is the first episode where the main cast from last season plus Ma'jel are all in the same place and the same storyline for the whole episode. It recontextualizes a lot of the early half of the season as buildup to this, which changes the way the first half of the show works. It's all a buildup to what comes after this point in a single story.

My favorite thing in this episode specifically is Janeway. I'm on the record as being glad the show isn't about her and the younger crew, but Janeway had a ton to do here and it was phenomenal seeing her in action. Having her so fiercely fight for her ship while also interacting with the surface mission while also putting everything together was brilliant. And I wasn't kidding when I said she should be allowed to say fuck. Finding out that one of her crew being unpersoned deserved it.

The unpersoning is great genuine horror, and as bad as it sounds to say I'm glad we got to see it in action on a redshirt. Granted, half the ship gets this treatment eventually, but it starts with a redshirt and that was not lost on me. That whole sequence was also great for Tysses, who I was not expecting to be as prominent as he was, but I'm glad he is because Daveed Diggs was fun.

I appreciate how Ma'jel migrated to the main plot, especially the scene where she ditched her communicator. It was a good showcase for her in how she got there, and also landing in Zero's arms was nice. At the end, including her in the calculations as an equal part of the team was a nice story and visual moment.

The last shots of the rusted Protostar were gorgeous. It looks so haunted and that works so well. I'm excited for where the show is going to take Chakotay.

I've been informed since my last review (by some very official sources - hi and thanks!) that the office Wesley hides everyone in is actually from a TOS episode that I haven't seen. So, there's that. Wesley in this episode wasn't as all-consumingly amazing, but there was so much else going on that there wasn't a lot of space for him. That's fine, given how much Janeway got to do.

[thelongestway]

I'm rereading Time to Orbit: Unknown in honor of the ebooks coming out (and that it's something of a day off for me), and as I was getting groceries A Horrible Crossover Thought popped into my head.

TTOU/Star Trek: Prodigy.

After the first meeting on neutral ground.

On the Courageous:

Tal: ALIENS. COOL ONES!! Did you see the one built like a brickhouse?

The Friend: She's a Brikar, Tal. And very good at her job, if a little young. This Friend wonders if we can get her to help with the genetics...

Tinera and Denish: wait. these kids were. convict miners. fucking what.

Aspen: ...and one of them got woken up on a sleeper spaceship to fix it while ever more problems cropped up and at the end of it the AI said he'd used up too many resources and he decided to jump out in an escape pod.

Tinera: AND THEN HE GOT CAPTURED AND MADE INTO A CONVICT MINER GIVE ME THOSE VAU N'AKAT I WILL HAVE THEIR HEADS.

Adin: Tiny, I think that one's already dead anyway.

Tinera: Not with those kids' luck he isn't.

On the Prodigy:

Gwyn: ...Well, here we are, first contact with a spacefaring race, us representing Starfleet - didn't expect to have it happen quite so quickly. But all the languages!..

Jankom: And their ship! Brrr, it gives Jankom flashbacks.

Rok: They even have someone named Friend! It's so nice!

Dal: Nope. Nope. No it isn't. Something is wrong here. Does it even count as first contact if they're obviously some sort of weird alternative humans? This is Not Normal!

Ma'jel: They seem like perfectly normal humans to me.

Zero: ...and one perfectly normal hive mind.

Everyone: WHAT.

Zero: What?

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#816

I wound when the Prodigy team came up with Ma'jel, it seems interesting PRD and LDS both added vulcan women as re-occuring characters.

I previously confessed I wonder why Prodigy did Maj'el after Lower Decks had already done T'Lyn. 3/4s of the way through Prodigy I have to recant because Maj'el is simply a really solid Vulcan character who is fully vulcan, logical, heroic and nice (once she warms up the prodigies) without ever being seen a as a cultural rebel or 'not vulcan'. She's actually a great addition to the cast.

Posting these confessions back to back since they're the same op and the same subject.

[annakie]

Okay so I just finished season 2 of Prodigy.

I woke up early this morning and got a few episodes in.

I WFH so I worked all morning getting shit done, and then watched at lunch, and then my normal Monday afternoon work is work that can easily be done while multitasking watching things, so I actually got a ton of work done while watching straight through the afternoon and finished the last 5 or so episodes after work/dinner.

I posted a few posts today with some thoughts but hey let's make it more coherent.

Heavy spoilers!

I loved this season so, so much from start to finish. It somehow never felt like there was a lull. Every episode either did something interesting or pushed the story forward in an important way.

So many shows do that "one story in a long season" thing and the show really suffers for it in the middle, especially. But I, personally, never felt that, even when they were taking diversions like getting Zero a body, that and the Tribble episodes might have been the "slowest" and still, I really enjoyed those.

Digging deep into the tropes and finding something new.

And the arc actually came together so well and nothing felt forced. It was a complex arc, too. So many moving parts, and it would have been easy to lose some threads and let things drop, but it actually felt like every element was important and it all tied together nicely.

They did a great job giving recaps where needed to reinforce what was going on in the storyline and why they were doing what they were doing, which was appreciated. I never felt lost. No arc felt like it dragged on too long.

Everyone got their moments to shine. Some of the characters had more of an arc in the season, like Zero, and some had less, like Jankum, but no one felt left behind from the main cast. I think it would have been easy, especially with adding in a new major character to the group, Ma'jel, but they really made her fit in. I especially love that they used Wesley to help cement her part in the group.

And yeah, the cast was huge. Seven main "kids" now. Janeway, Chakotay, Wesley, and the Doctor all felt like main cast throughout the season, plus Ascencia, Dreadnok, Ilthuran, Tysess and Noum... the cast is huge but everyone had a place. With 20 episodes they had some time to breathe, and I loved that.

The kids each had a lesson to learn, something to contribute. Gwyn was at the center of it all even more than last year, but she's such a fantastic character that holds the story up so well.

Of course there's a contrivance in things like... them not getting thrown in the brig in the first couple of episodes, and the fact that the ending was something allowed at all when they literally just said because of the Synth attack on Mars ships were in short supply but I mean, all easy to overlook in the name of the Story needs to happen. None of it really bothered me.

But as much as I love the kids, what they did with the legacy adult characters this season meant the most to me.

The Doctor fit right into this show, and was such a great inclusion. Still the same egotistical but loveable hologram. It was so good to have him back. And that scene with him and Holo-Janeway was adorable. I was glad to see that their rights weren't affected in the Synth attack -- at least not yet!?

I don't know if ANYONE would expect Wesley Crusher. That hit me in the face like a ton of bricks, seeing Wes again, and it was amazing. He's now been in Picard, Lower Decks and now Prodigy and every time I'm just delighted to see him.

But this was definitely his best re-appearance so far. A Wesley Crusher at his full Traveler powers. He was so smart, and funny, and a little manic with his big brain running at a thousand miles an hour. It really felt like this was what Wesley always had the potential to be, a real logical progression in the best way from the Wes we saw at the end of TNG. Space, Time and Thought all coming together and he had awesome magical powers to go along with it.

I was hoping after his initial two episodes that he'd be back! They dropped some decent hints about it, and they mentioned him almost every episode while he was gone, so having him in the final handful of episodes was amazing. And it seems like he might have a place in the future of the show, if we get that future! (and GOD I hope so.)

But my absolute favorite part was the MOST unexpected. I was hoping we'd get to see a bit of him calling Beverly. But then the hug, he went and saw her and Wil's voice breaking when he said Hi to her and gave her the hug broke me, and I cried.

Then, holy shit, they closed the loop on that burning question so many of us had at the end of Picard S3, if Wesley ever met Jack. Wes met his brother, and spent time with Beverly, and that meant so much to me.

It's crazy that the ending of this season tied up loose ends from other shows, and integrated those shows into the universe with fewer seams. It was amazing.

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And as great as all of everything else was... I just want to be more coherent about Janeway and Chakotay.

Not going to lie -- the fact that there wasn't a kiss, or an obvious love confession did sting a little, but what we got was so, so good, and it was enough.

I do get it -- this is a kid's show and as much as we love them and how important they were to the season, this show is about the kids and not J/C as much as some of us are watching for J/C reasons. I'm not mad about it.

We got fed. More than Voyager.

You'd have to be blind to not admit that there was love there, on both sides. They never gave up on each other, they both looked forward to that reunion, they were terrified of losing each other again but did their duty. There was a little tiny bit of hand holding and quite a bit of touching. It's enough, it's canon enough for those of us who have been shipping it since Season 1 of Voyager.

And like I said in that previous post, they did so much more for Chakotay than Voyager did. This post summed it up better than I could. This season took two of the most maligned and neglected characters from their initial iterations -- Wesley and Chakotay -- and not only did them justice but made them the best versions of themselves. I felt like I was seeing the Chakotay from the Beyer novels on screen, the character he always should have been.

His relationship with Dal was an unexpected delight and I very much hope that in season 3 that mentorship continues.

I need more of that Chakotay. I need more of Janeway and Chakotay together. I just need so much more of this show.

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I love every Trek. Yes, even that one that isn't that popular, or that other one that people forget exists. But this was without a doubt one of my favorite seasons of any Trek ever.

I'm so mad at Paramount's treatment of this show.

I'm so glad that Netflix stepped in and let us get this one.

I need at least one more season, y'all.