Star Trek Prodigy Ep 11: Asylum [RECAP/REVIEW]

After many long stardates, approximately 8 months, the Paramount+ and Nickelodeon smash hit Star Trek Prodigy returns! Don’t call it a new season; this is the second half of the first season. So, the story picks up right where we left off!

Prodigy Ep. 11 kicks off with wishy-washy remembering

While the “crew” are racking up their “good guy points,” they find themselves on an aquatic planet in a new-to-TV Starfleet submersible. While trying to help rehome a glorious whale creature from poachers, Gwynn has another flash of a past memory. Holo-Janeway swoops down and uses an emergency transport to beam the pregnant whale and relocate her to find her pod.

Would this be First Contact or reintroductions?

The crew makes it out to CR-721 the furthest coms relay in the Federation. We meet a LTJG who keeps making the obvious Final Frontier joke, that falls on deaf ears. The kids explain that they “borrowed” the Protostar and want to join Starfleet. The LT goes to give bio scans to the kids. Telling Jankom that his people were one of the first to join the Federation, this goes to Jankom’s head. Rok, Zero, and Murph are all identified easily. Gwynn comes up as unknown and when Daal gets his chance to find out where he’s from… red flags go off that his species is on file ONLY at Starfleet HQ. He suggests everyone enjoys the hospitality and amenities of the base. Pointing Rok down a rabbit hole of all the different types of science she could learn in the process.

Zero suggests that Gwynn uses the base’s sick bay to help heal her fractured mind, where he vows to help his friend. During the whole handshake process, the LT links up with the Protostar to download the ship’s logs. All hell breaks loose! Systems start failing, and Gwynn is trapped in the med table about to drown. The base’s phasers turn on the star base. It’s a Murphy’s Law situation.

The cowardly LT abandons the ship and the kids are stranded on the failing and falling apart starbase, with no way back to the Protostar, because the umbilical was made from a force field and has destabilized. This forces the kids to make an extremely dangerous space not jump but leap of faith! Rok over-calculates, but Holo-Janeway once again saves the day, this time with a tractor beam.

Before the jump Zero had to save Gwynn from the malfunctioning Medtable. Fortunately, unfortunate Gwynn has an episode and in her stress and near-death experience, her memories come rushing back. Now back on the ship she knows WHY everything went all WOLF 359. The Diviner kept referring to A WEAPON.

Oh, Captain my now Vice Admiral!

In a holodeck flashback, we see the christening of the Protostar with Captain Chakotay and Vice Admiral Janeway as they banter back and forth about being careful. Plus Vice Adm. Janeway in the holorecording hints that she’s happy right where she is and has little desire to go back out there.

She is interrupted by the XO, where the Protostar’s unique warp signature has been traced to Tars Lamora. Vice Adm. Janeway and her away team search the surface only to find The Diviner in stasis…

CAPTAIN’S LOG: Prodigy Ep. 11

What an excellent way to come back after the long break! I’m glad to see that we didn’t get a big time jump; instead, a few weeks is sufficient. The dynamic between Zero and Gwynn is really growing. With Rok having been stuck in the earlier time loop, the fact that she now has a buffet of scientific fields to choose from is like a kid in a candy store.

One thing I found odd was the LTJG’s collar pips. He’s wearing both standard pips and provisional pips. (Just struck me as odd. I’m a vet and we notice uniforms, intensely.) Plus the fact that Holo-Janeway now has control of the transporter system and the tractor beam on such a large scale? I’m thinking she’s starting to overcome her core programming like a certain EMH we know.

Also, get your pause game started or if you can, go frame by frame. I think that bottle we saw christen the ship was from Chateau Picard! It even has the stamp that you would see from the physical bottle from “2386.” Nice subtle nod.

This episode was a nice way to slide back into the season. A perfectly paced 20-some-minutes of pure Trek fun! So the only place to go from here is up!

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