Comment on Star Trek Prodigy season 2 spoilers
khaosworks@startrek.website 11 months ago
Annotations for Star Trek: Prodigy Episode 2x01 Sneak Peak:
Dal refers affectionately to his friends as “criminals”, since they technically stole Protostar to find the Federation. He also says that he and the others are in different divisions. As we saw in last season’s finale, Rok is in xenobiology with Jankom in Engineering and Dal I assume was in command.
Gwyn left the others to go on a mission to her home planet of Solum, to try and stave off the war-torn future they were told about.
Jankom has a new haircut, takes sonic showers and is trying to be more polite - something a bit disturbing for a Tellarite, as Zero points out, in their new suit we saw at the end of last season.
The kids are going with Janeway on a mission, which Jankom points out will stand them in good stead when applying for Starfleet Academy. As pointed out last season, the kids are not in the Academy, but warrant officers-in-training.
The shuttle carries the registry number NCC-74656-A, indicating it belongs to the Voyager-A. The Doctor, while a hologram, can walk about thanks to his mobile emitter, a 29th Century piece of technology (VOY: “Future’s End”). We saw a 25th Century version of the emitter used by Raffi in PIC: “Imposters”.
The destruction of the Protostar occurred in the Season 1 finale, and opened up a wormhole to the alternate future Chatokay is now in, 52 years from now where he is a captive on Solum (about 2436-7; the last time we saw the kids it was 2384, with the Stardate in the 61000s, 20 years after TNG’s first season).
Dal complains about “timey-wimey” stuff hurting his head. The term entered popular usage in the Doctor Who episode “Blink”, when the Doctor said: “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey… stuff.” His mentor, Janeway, also complained that time travel and paradoxes give her a headache (“Future’s End”).
The new ship is the USS Voyager-A, NCC-74656-A, a Lamarr Special-class starship, a refitted Intrepid-class and outfitted with technology Voyager gathered from her 7-year journey through the Delta Quadrant. It has 29 decks, 800+ crew and 2 schools, compared to Voyager’s 15 decks and 160 crew. The presence of schools may either mean a training vessel or families on board.
The Doctor says the rest of Starfleet is busy with the Romulan Evacuation, to help the Romulans escape the impending supernova of their star, which we know has been going on since 2381. Jellico mentioned in PRO: “Masquerade” that the Federation and the Romulans were working towards peace, which tracks with this. Alas, we also know the effort will collapse in 2385 with the Mars Attack (PIC: “Remembrance”), and the Romulan star itself will explode in 2387 (ST 2009).
passinglurker@startrek.website 11 months ago
How do you fit 14 extra decks into a refit? with that many decks this ship would be the size of a sovereign class.
GoodAaron@startrek.website 10 months ago
It’s a refitted Lamarr class, not an Intrepid class
passinglurker@startrek.website 10 months ago
Yes, that is what I was saying…
khaosworks@startrek.website 11 months ago
As we’ve seen in PIC with the Titan-A, Starfleet engineers have a very loose definition of what constitutes a refit. Basically as long as you use some of the old structure in the new one, no matter how many doodads you add or on expand it, they call it a refit.
passinglurker@startrek.website 11 months ago
I don’t think that flies here. The Luna class and Neo-Connie have arguably similar internal volume so taking the bits out of a Luna could be enough to drive a Neo-Connie. Going from Intrepid sized to Sovereign sized though is a much bigger jump. Also I don’t see where you’re getting the word “refit” from in the first place? are you just assuming cause the ship is roughly intrepid shaped?
khaosworks@startrek.website 11 months ago
I may have misinterpreted what the Doctor was saying - “Lamarr Special-class… refitted from stem to stern”. He could be referring to a refitted Lamarr.
USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 11 months ago
I don’t think your assessment of the Luna-class and the Constitution III is accurate. They are entirely different, and the PIC production crew deciding that “refit” is basically just a word that the Starfleet Corps of Engineers will drop at a hat doesn’t change that.
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The instagram log that explains the history of the Titan A claims that it was constructed “using much of the internal components” of the Luna-class ship, and that’s why it’s a refit, but that plans to build the new ship on the spaceframe of the old were set aside mid-way through.