10 MORE Huge Revelations You Missed From Star Trek: Prodigy (Season 2)

7. Whale Of A Time

Cetacean Ops, or starship navigation by marine mammals, has a curious history, most likely beginning as an in-joke on a turbolift door in Star Trek: The Next Generation. We first saw it aboard the Cerritos in Star Trek: Lower Decks, though we had heard about it over the comm in Yesterday's Enterprise — "Doctor Joshua Campbell, report to Cetacean Ops".

Prodigy's second season revealed that the Voyager-A had at least one Cetacean Ops. It was home to Gillian, a humpback whale named in honour of Doctor Gillian Taylor from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. She was also a direct descendant of George and Gracie, as were all humpback whales in the 23rd and 24th centuries. Minimum viable population be damned!

Through Gillian and Cetacean Ops, we learnt a few things about Murf, too. As Rok-Tahk noted, his species evolved from aquatic sea life. Their speech patterns were too complex for the universal translator, but could be understood by a whale. Murf's glowing underwater transformation was a sight to behold! Gillian then became an interpreter for "Murf speak".

And, over in the Mirror Universe, "even the whales are evil!"