Stardate 607125.6: Following the misadventure with Nandi, the Janeway training hologram decides to the Protostar’s misfit crew through some basic problem-solving drills in the holodeck, but when even those fall through, Dal admits to Janeway that the Protostar was stolen – she isn’t dealing with an unusually troublesome batch of Starfleet Academy cadets. The Diviner is contacted by Nandi with information on the Protostar’s whereabouts – too far for the Diviner’s ship to reach, but his knowledge of the ship’s systems means he can interfere from afar. With the crew too distracted and dejected to guide the ship from the bridge, the Protostar drifts into a tachyon storm which destabilizes the proto drive, which emits a wave that passes through everyone at a different moment, splitting them into different segments of time. For Jankom, time is accelerated, and he is unable to stop the destruction of the ship; Zero has only slightly more time and devises a means of saving the ship, but they are unable to implement that solution themselves. Gwyn has a bit more time than Zero, but finds herself contending with a copy of Drednok uploaded to the Protostar’s vehicle replicator by her father. The fate of the ship falls to Rok-Tahk, who has only a message from Gwyn and Zero’s schematics to go by – and, thanks to Drednok, not even the Janeway hologram for company.
written by Nikhil S. Jayaram
directed by Olga Ulanova and Sung Shin
music by Nami Melamud
Star Trek: Prodigy main theme by Michael Giacchino
Cast: Brett Gray (Dal R’El), Ella Purnell (Gwyn), Jason Mantzoukas (Jankom Pog), Angus Imrie (Zero), Rylee Alazraqui (Rok-Tahk), Dee Bradley Baker (Murf), Jimmi Simpson (Drednok / Dred 2), John Noble (Diviner), Kate Mulgrew (Hologram Janeway), Robert Beltran (Captain Chakotay), Bonnie Gordon (Ship Computer), Grey Griffin (Nandi)
Notes: According to Star Trek: Prodigy writer Aaron Waltke, the unusual stardate at the beginning of the episode is indicative of the temporal problems caused by the tachyon storm in the ship’s path.
LogBook entry by Earl Green