15 Ups & 0 Downs For Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2

16. UP — Tale Of The Tail Of The Tale Or Temporal Mechanics 101

What is so brilliantly clever about this season of Star Trek: Prodigy is that it tells you what it is planning in about the first 10 minutes of the first episode, but then, like the ouroboros, comes back around to surprise you time after time. '(Haven't you read) "Temporal Mechanics 101"?' is very much the point, as well as the tribbles. Like Dal, none of us had read it either, but by episode 20, we'll have learnt enough to know that the end was in the beginning.

Prodigy's second season is, indeed, a masterpiece of storytelling, flawlessly constructed and woven into one of the most complex and intricate "timey-wimey" plots Star Trek has ever been gifted. If that weren't extraordinary enough, the ouroboros, or the tale of the tail of the tale of season two is, in fact, a return full circle — and in truly mesmerising, majestic fashion — to the very first episode of season one.

Chef-d'oeuvre, magnum opus, take your pick! And not once, not even for a second, does the show underestimate or diminish its audience's ability to comprehend the mechanics of time travel. Like Dal, all we needed was a primer from Dr. Erin!