Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Prodigy | 2x19 & 2x20 "Ouroboros" (startrek.website)

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Loglines

Part I: A desperate Asencia launches an all-out attack on the Federation that will destroy subspace, while Wesley and the cadets try to correct the timeline.

Part II: The cadets fight Asencia in a battle for control of Solum and the future – but a sudden invasion by a destructive species complicates their end-game.

Part I written by: Kevin Hageman & Dan Hageman & Aaron J. Waltke

Part I directed by: Sean Bishop

Part II written by: Kevin Hageman & Dan Hageman & Aaron J. Waltke

Part II directed by: Ruolin Li

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[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately, this has bugged me more the more I've thought about it. I think it undercuts the urgency of the entire season, which repeatedly emphasized how important it was to send the Protostar through the wormhole and making things exactly the way they were in season one.

Except it's apparently fine for Solum to never have its disastrous civil war, and never train soldiers to go back in time, even though that was absolutely critical to the story.

It seems like an effort to have their cake and eat it, too. Even if you can make it work logically, I don't think it works thematically.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Protecting their reality (the prime timeline) from the Loom is the main source of urgency right? That's why they needed to get the Protostar to the right place, to protect the present.

Which creates the chilling thought that the "future" with Solum's civil war would be consumed by the Loom.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 4 months ago

That’s why they needed to get the Protostar to the right place, to protect the present.

Right, but they've engineered a "present" in which Gwyn shouldn't exist, which is exactly what they spent the bulk of the season trying to avoid, down to her having to wear the armband to stabilize her.

IDK, at best I think it's way messier than he should be.

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