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

The Doctor says 'So-lum,' Zero says 'Soh-lem ['solemn'],' let's please, please not call the whole thing off again! My Bolian hearts couldn't take it! However it is pronounced, we knew Gwyn(dala) was headed back to her home world at the end of season one in order to provide her people with a brighter future. As with, and because of, time-travel, what happens when she arrives turns narrative and character on their head, all the while giving us the most finely detailed, visually stunning look at Vau N'Akat society, culture, and history, enough to keep Federation scholars busy for decades.

'Solum' may also sometimes sound like 'solemn,' but that is the antithesis of a descriptor for Star Trek: Prodigy's second season. The show is resolutely transcendent, never allowing itself to fall into the darkness of the themes it is exploring, never becoming the allegory or the high stakes it presents. As I will discuss later, a hope runs through it, and more than that, a sense of humour, too — self-referential, self-deferential, always hilarious.