10 MORE Huge Revelations You Missed From Star Trek: Prodigy (Season 2)
Not even an army of transdimensional paradox eaters could make us forget these reveals.
Season one of Star Trek: Prodigy was hard to beat. Season two was some of the best Star Trek, full stop — a breathtaking time travel story with characters, ships, and places new and old. In short, Prodigy was a revelation with more than a few revelations of its own.
Prodigy's second season had twenty episodes at twenty(ish) minutes. It added to and enriched the canon in a way that even the most intransigent would have to admit was pretty special. Behind the scenes, those twenty episodes nearly never made it to air. If the plane over Netflix hadn't worked, we might have had to let loose the Loom.
Through the Vau N'Akat, Solum, Asencia, the Academy hopefuls, and even a new Nova Squadron (designed by Tom Paris!), season two innovated. The return of more legacy characters allowed it integrate into Star Trek, even more so than the first season.
Like we said in our previous article on season one, season two is a MUST SEE. We can only hope we'll get the chance to say the same about season three.
10. Tinker, Tutor, Doctor, Spy
Star Trek: Prodigy's second season marked the return of the Doctor — mobile emitter, sarcastic wit, and all. The last time we'd seen Voyager's EMH, he was delivering a baby as the ship raced home through the Borg transwarp network. Six years later (in universe), he was stepping out of a shuttle at Starfleet Academy to greet a group of much bigger 'kids'.
The Doctor had several large roles to play throughout. He was the Chief Medical Officer of the Voyager-A, and chief guide to those Academy hopefuls. As he put it, he hadn't "seen a crew this dysfunctional since the Cerritos".
The Doctor was also part engineer, building a temporal stabiliser for Gwyn. Romance was even on the cards… with Hologram Janeway?! In The Devourer of All Things, Part II, the Doctor got up close and personal with the action, when he boldly, if briefly, defied the Loom. "Take 20 milligrams of vengeance, you otherworldly tyrant!"
Then, true to Renaissance Man form, he got to do a bit of undercover work down on Solum in Touch of Grey. Impersonating the Admiral has got to break all kinds of Starfleet protocols.
The Doctor hadn't neglected his passions either — the holo-novel amongst them. Love in the Time of Holograms was a bit of a rip-off with one too many Rodrigos, giving Dal and company inspiration for an escape. The Doctor eventually settled on a different topic and title — The Mentor. Just don't ask him for opera lessons!