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I have no problems with an younger Wesley. If you travel through space, time and universes, you can visit say, the XIX Century when you are 35 years old and the XXI Century still in your 20's. That's why Q's appearance at the end of PIC never bothered me.

Aaaaand here they are at last, my serious grudges with PRO: Wesley became The Doctor (from Doctor Who) and, lo and behold, enter the Langoliers from Stephen King (aka bad CGI even for 1995 standards) disguised as sentinel squids from The Matrix.

Sure, its actually a grudge with writers and execs shamelessly stealing, I mean, incorporating stuff from other movies, series, etc. in Star Trek lore. It is way too common (and honestly embarassing) in recent Trek. A couple of Easter eggs are fun and tasty, but too much chocolate will ruin you day like a xenomorph chestbuster Gorn spawn...

This put, I do think PRO, as a whole, is way better than the other new ST shows even with these major facepalms, an opinion I formed after watching the whole season. Character development, pacing, everything else compensates the pain inflicted by the facepalms. Again, this is no small feat for a kid's show dumped by some poor-sighted execs.

PRO could, in my mind, have reached unprecedent heights if more original paths were pursued. Investing in good writers with original (and good) ideas should always be the top priority. I bet 1000 Quatloos that's the propper way to increase the franchise's value.

Having not read the review, I am sad to hear you didn't love this episode; my wife and I certainly did, wishing this Wesley would get his own spinoff. I found his performance delightful- and took it to be a Wesley younger (based on the vocal performance as well as mannerisms) than the more seasoned, more sober version that we met on Picard.

Likewise, tanktop Janeway in full action mode had me cheering out loud- now that's what I'm talking about!

Most notably- for anyone who hasn't read them (don't), the series seems to be borrowing from the Star Trek: Coda trilogy of novels, in much the same way that season 2 of Discovery repurposed the Section 31: Control novel. In that story, Wesley is the first responder against a frontline invasion of temporal parasites that can pass through shields and hull and dissolve victims with a touch, out to consume the 'dying' timeline, and recruiting Starfleet help to fight back against the menace. Personally, I hated those novels and found the ending nihilistic to the Nth degree; but I found it fascinating (and fun) that Prodigy is taking that storyline and adapting it into what I anticipate will be a much more positive, hopeful, and optimistic ending!

I personally loved Wesley in this season.
They did admit they took some inspiration from Doctor Who with him.

The JAG recreation has 'advocate' spelled wrong (but otherwise looks great!).

3 episodes past the end of Is There in Beauty No Truth, my 8-year-old just said "I think Prodigy is the best Star Trek show so far. It's sad and happy and great all at the same time!"

The filler feeling we get from "The Fast and the Curious" and "Is There in Beauty No Truth?" is, I think, mostly because the show has a main story arc combined with stand-alone episodes. There are more fillers because the season has 20 episodes. From my point of view this formatting has great potential- characters, plots and world building can be fleshed out. Now, due to its target public (actually showrunners' perception of the public), the emphasis will be in action. Directing "Is There in Beauty No Truth?" through a more cerebral path would be an unlikely move, for good or for bad. I do feel a number of PRO plots suffer from this "could be much better if.." feeling. This is not exclusive to PRO. This is mostly due to my Star Trek likes and views.

This put... One more rogue computer episode, one more racing episode, two more copy/switch people episodes, one more imperfect paradise episode.

ETA: Oh, loved the shuttle designs. I still think PRO as a whole is better than DIS and SNW (I do crave for liking SNW but...).

I did think the first appearance of Parises Squares on Trek, and the humor of the Doctor realizing he's unintentionally inspired the switch, made for an excellent scene. I never took the switcheroo as an exciting cliffhanger, but more of a comedic point, and so the comedic payoff completely worked for me, and the plotline fulfilled it light comic function, in my book. (Plus, it provided a decoy to showcase the new apparent threat without actually losing one of the main characters, which worked as effective foreshadowing in spite of the episode plotlines going elsewhere).

Fast and the curious is probably my least favorite of the season. Not bad, just kinda boring and weird.
Also I don't believe you ever did add the shuttle image to the database, I can crop it if that'd be helpful.

For Is There No Beauty in Truth, I enjoy the subversion where a non-corporial being chooses to become corporeal.

Stay off of Trekmovie.com if you don't want a prominent main-page massive spoiler. :-(

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Here are some beautiful shots of the USS Protostar, taking from the time-lapse footage in #StarTrekProdigy's "Last Flight of the Protostar II".

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Of course, quadrotriticale is blue in #StarTrekProdigy's "A Tribble Called Quest"⬆️, just like it appeared in #StarTrekTOS' "The Trouble with Tribbles"↙️ and #StarTrekDS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations"↘️. :-)

We're watching #StarTrekTNG's "Power Play" (after two episodes of #StarTrekProdigy season 2, obviously 😅) right now. I really really can't wait until I re-research this episode sometime next year. There is soooo much stuff in there!! :-)

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Maj'el was quoting nobody else but the great Captain Jean-Luc Picard himself in #StarTrekProdigy's "A Tribble Called Quest"↖️↗️, who originally said "Things are only impossible until they're not" in #StarTrekTNG's "When the Bough Breaks"↙️↘️.👌👌

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How could I ever forget writing about this one: Beverly's last advice to Wesley in #StarTrekTNG's "Journey's End"➡️ was to always dress warmly...and when we meet him again in #StarTrekProdigy's "The Devourer of All Things I"⬅️, that's what he first talks about!😍

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At one point in #StarTrekProdigy's "A Tribble Called Quest"↖️, Dr. K'ruvang exclaims "Qu'vatlh", which means "#*@!" according to the Klingon Dictionary ↘️😋. Gwyn said this in "Starstruck"↗️ and Martok calls Worf and Alexander this in "Sons and Daughters"↙️. :-)

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These comparison screenshots show some of the differences between the #StarTrekProdigy Klingon Bird-of-Prey model ("A Tribble Called Quest"⬆️) and the original model from "Star Trek III"⬇️. Notice the additional guns on the wings and the missing red "head" tube .

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When identifying the Tribble in #StarTrekProdigy's "A Tribble Called Quest"⬆️, Rok uses the newer scientific name "Tribleustes ventricosus", introduced in "The Trouble With Edward"⬇️. Maybe she already knew it was also genetically modified, like Larkin's tribble?

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Fun fact: I chose the name of the Excelsior II class USS Eureka for season 2 of #StarTrekPicard. I was looking for names similar to "Excelsior" and found out that "Excelsior" was the state motto of New York. I looked for other US state mottos and saw that "Eureka" is California's state motto. That's how the ship got its name. :-)

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#StarTrekProdigy's "Last Flight of the Protostar II" features the first actual dialogue reference to Archimedes in all of #Startrek. We do have 2 previously mentioned starships named USS Archimedes and USS Eureka each, though! :-)