Streaming service Disney+ releases the the 18th episode of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian, starring Pedro Pascal. Katee Sackhoff, Ahmed Best (Star Wars: Episode I) Temuera Morrison (Star Wars: Episode II) guest star. 
The training of foundlings and adult warriors alike continues in the Mandalorian covert, and this includes Grogu, who bests Paz Vizsla’s son Ragnar in dart training. Ragnar wanders off from the others in embarrassment, only to find a large flying creature bearing down on him. It picks him up and carries him away, followed by Vizsla and other with their jetpacks; they exhaust their fuel trying to chase the creature and rescue the boy. Bo-Katan has a different idea, following the creature in her ship and mapping the way back to its nest. She, Vizsla, the Mandalorian and others mount an attempt to rescue the boy before he becomes the creature’s next meal. Grogu is left in the care of the Armorer, and suddenly remembers how he escaped the Jedi purge: a Jedi named Kelleran Beq saved him and, in a ship from Naboo, got Grogu away from Coruscant.
written by Jon Favreau & Dave Filoni
directed by Carl Weathers
music by Joseph ShirleyCast: Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Katee Sackhoff (Bo-Katan Kryze), Emily Swallow (The Armorer), Ahmed Best (Kelleran Beq), Brendan Wayne (Mandalorian Warrior), Lateef Crowder (Mandalorian Warrior), Wesley Kimmel (Ragnar), Jason Chu (Mandalorian Judge), Tait Fletcher (Paz Vizsla), Temuera Morrison (Clone Troopers), Juan Javier Cardenas (Senate Guard Captain)
Notes: Kelleran Beq was introduced in the short-lived Star Wars-themed game show Star Wars: Jedi Challenge, which premiered on YouTube in 2020. In that respect, Beq bearing resposibility for the safety of younglings does match up with what had been seen in that show, though whether this makes the game show canonical is left open. As in Jedi Challenge, the role of Kelleran Beq is played by actor Ahmed Best, who played Jar Jar Binks in the prequel trilogy.
LogBook entry by Earl Green