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

6. Solum: A Celebration

Star Trek: Prodigy surprised and delighted by the richness and diversity of alien species on display. The Vau N'Akat were never the monolithic 'bad guy'. The Diviner's daughter Gwyn(dala) was proof of that. The first time round, we got a brief glimpse via the holodeck at their homeworld. Season two treated us to an in-depth look at Solum and its people.

Some complex temporal mechanics provided two different versions of Solum — one in "present day" 2384, the other 52 years later. In the present, Gwyn's return home hadn't gone as planned. Asencia beat her to it, turning the Elders of Solum against her. Gwyn escaped to the 'Southern Bazaar' where she met Ilthuran, a younger version of The Diviner.

He was a kind, softly spoken astronomer, using his observatory to gaze at the stars in hope, glad to meet his daughter from another time. Through Ilthuran, we learnt a lot more about Vau N'Akat society and technology.

Not all Drednoks were killing machines. Some were just a "library with legs" like Ilthuran's "Lorekeeper". The knowledge and history of the Vau N'Akat were stored in a reliquary known as "the Arcanum". Millennia old, the ancient rite of "Va'Lu'Rah" was the foundation of Vau N'Akat culture, as Gwyn was about to find out.

In the end, Asencia was defeated by the Uprising, led in large part by Ilthuran and Asencia's younger self. First contact was made the right way with Admiral Janeway. The civil war had been prevented.