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

3. Temporal Mechanics Times Two

In the first episode of Star Trek: Prodigy, Dal R'El and Rok-Tahk found the USS Protostar abandoned in the Northwest Crevasse of the Tars Lamora prison colony. What neither knew was who had placed it there. The answer to that mystery was twofold with temporal mechanics.

In the original timeline, Captain Chakotay, trapped in the future on the war-torn Solum, sent the Protostar back on autopilot through a temporal anomaly. Those events were changed, however, by Dal, Zero, Jankom Pog, and Maj'el when they travelled to future Solum in the USS Infinity. Chakotay and First Officer Adreek escaped aboard the Protostar instead.

The Infinity's temporal shielding, designed to resist paradoxes, created a paradox in which two versions of past, present, and future were trying to exist at once. The only way to solve the problem was to find the Protostar and to send it back to Tars Lamora at precisely the right moment.

Everything came full circle in the season two finale. It was the 'kids' who had sent the Protostar back in time for themselves to find, combadge carefully placed. The end was also the beginning.