TL;DR – This two-parter was a clear love letter to Star Trek.   

Disclosure – I paid for the Netflix service that viewed this series.

We are at the midway point in Star Trek Prodigy’s second season, and what a season we have had so far. We have swapped around holograms, had conversations with whales, been led by mysterious foes, and also discovered that The Doctor (Robert Picardo) 100% has written at least one enemies-to-lovers holonovel. However, everything is about to shift under their feet, and I can’t wait to see how.

So, to set the scene, after taking some shortcuts through an abandoned Borg Transwarp Conduit and stopping to get Zero (Angus Imrie) a real body. The team of Dal (Brett Gray), Gwyn (Ella Purnell), Jankom (Jason Mantzoukas), Zero, Murf (Dee Bradley Baker), and Rok-Tahk (Rylee Alazraqui) have arrived at the coordinates in the nebula hoping to find a clue from Chakotay (Robert Beltran). But when they find a planet hidden in subspace, things take a turn. Now, from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.

This is an episode that only works because the writers understood three key points: where these episodes landed in the season, how the characters needed to get pushed into the next phase of their adventure, and how an overexcited Wesley Crusher  (Wil Wheaton) would be the perfect vessel to make that happen. Wesley Crusher has such a presence in this episode thanks to the way he is written and performed by Wil Wheaton. This is Wesley, who has been at this job for a very long time and might be the last Traveler left in this timeline. He is an interesting combination of a friendly mentor and someone who has seen things.

I would recommend this episode alone for the phrase “Trans-Dimensional Time Ziggurat,” a combination of words I don’t think has ever existed in English before. It has me wondering why because they are perfect. However, I am also impressed how these episodes got into the weeds of Star Trek time travel lore without bogging the story down. In a concise amount of time, we get references to the Mirror Universe, the Kelvin Universe, the Mycelium Space, and even a nod to Voyager’s Fluidic Space. This is while also looping the Travelers in with Gary Seven-style observers from the Original Series who last showed up in Star Trek Picard and who were decimated in the Time Wars of Enterprise and Discovery.

They linked all of this together but didn’t let it bog down the story because they built it into the fabric of the episode. I loved the little jumps into side and pocket universes, including the 1960s lounge. Then we have the reveal of the main villains this season, with the time vultures, who eat timelines that paradoxes have damaged. These monsters can phase through almost everything while also removing you from ever existing, and you don’t know it is happening because they freeze time. That is a good villain. The fact it scares Wesley and engages Action-Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) only helps sell their danger. There were times, even though I know where this series is pitched, where I was concerned about if they were about to kill off some key characters.

This is all added to by the stellar production this season. The visuals have always been good in this series, but they are taken to the next level here. The beautiful ziggurat, with sand falling like waterfalls, was a great set to tell this story. I loved the design of Wesley Crusher, which is clearly a much older Wes, but also produced in the style of the show’s animation. Then there is the USS Voyager-A, which has such a presence in this episode combined with a musical score that knows just when to hint back to classic themes and when to go in its own direction.

 In the end, do we recommend Star Trek: Prodigy – The Devourer of All Things, Part 1 & Part 2? Absolutely. This season keeps going from strength to strength. We are only at the halfway point, and I can’t wait to see where it goes from here.    

By Brian MacNamara: You can follow Brian on Twitter Here, when he’s not chatting about Movies and TV, he’ll be talking about International Relations, or the Solar System.

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Credits – All images were created by the cast, crew, and production companies of Star Trek: Prodigy
Directed by – Sung Shin & Sean Bishop 
Written by – Jennifer Muro & Aaron J. Waltke
Created by – Kevin & Dan Hageman
Based On – Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry & Star Trek: Voyager by Rick Berman, Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor
Production/Distribution Companies – CBS Studios, Nickelodeon & Netflix
Starring – Brett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, Dee Bradley Baker, Wil Wheaton, Robert Picardo & Kate Mulgrew with Michaela Dietz, Jason Alexander, Daveed Diggs, Ronny Cox & Eric Menyuk and Sunkrish Bala & MacGregor Middleton