15 Ups & 0 Downs For Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2
The difficult second album is a triumphant achievement in space, time, and thought.
I can only join the already numerous reviews and voices in saying that this is quite simply one of the finest outings of Star Trek of the contemporary period, if not of further back. Season two lives up to, even surpasses, its series title. It is prodigious, truly remarkable in every sense — balancing a complex, utterly gripping season-long story arc, multi-character development, a litany of references, callbacks, flashbacks, and injecting an astonishing degree of creativity, all with apparent ease. I laughed. I cried. I sat in awe. I cannot praise it enough.
As for those still too intransigent to watch 'a kids' show,' they could do with being a little less childish, and a little more at the same time. Star Trek: Prodigy teaches us to embrace the sense of fearless frivolity a good deal of us lose by 'growing up'. It also tells us never to back down from, or be afraid of, the serious in life, and, most of all, to always have hope.
Prodigy is so successful because it reminds us that, as adults, we're all just big kids pretending that we're not. Its greatness is the no-small feat that we embrace our inner child.
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!