Ah! It's too tight!
It's not too tight.
You're just not holding still.
In the beginning of Prodigy,
we had to introduce each character and then, as it unfolds,
you can see who sparks, who gets upset with whom,
what's going to happen, and that just keeps building.
[Zero] Starfleet, here we come.
Well, at the beginning of the show,
a bunch of teenagers end up finding a derelict starship.
And they escape their plight.
They've got The Diviner, this big bad guy who is after them.
They end up allying with his daughter, Gwyn,
and we end up finding out
that there's a baby star aboard it.
And there's also a malevolent plan by The Diviner,
wanting this ship.
If you do not comply within one day's cycle,
the miners will pay the price.
It all leads up to a finale, a midseason finale,
where they have a choice
of either using their last proto-jump to get back
to Starfleet or to go save the miners on Tars Lamora,
where they came from.
And of course, they choose to save the miners.
In episode 10, Gwyn discovers her father
is actually from the future.
In the future, Starfleet's first contact with Solum,
their home world, causes a civil war
which basically destroys Solum and all of their people
and so he wants to destroy Starfleet by using this weapon
that is hidden on the Protostar.
So, once this plan was revealed, you know,
Zero decided to show The Diviner their real form
which drives any being who sees them crazy.
Gwyn catches Zero's reflection in Dal's badge
and basically loses her memory and so she forgets everything
that The Diviner has told her.
And at the very end, we find out that,
though they've gotten away from The Diviner,
there's one person they have not gotten away from
and that's Admiral Janeway.
So we pick up in episode 11 and some time has passed.
They decide to go try
to do some good deeds around the galaxy.
The one that we wanted to show did involve a whale, so yes,
it might have been a little homage
to a favorite Star Trek film of ours.
It is a weapon.
Episode 11, where we pick back up,
Gwyn basically has flashbacks,
but she can't quite grasp onto it.
Not knowing that there is this weapon on the Protostar
that could destroy Starfleet.
So that relay station is part of the Federation.
Well, we wanted to take our time as our kids start
to venture into Federation territory
and in the writers' room,
we absolutely fell in love with the idea
of what would be the furthest outpost for Starfleet
and who would be on this?
Welcome to CR-721!
Dal really is just interested, first of all,
just as Starfleet in general.
I think Dal has had such a giant journey,
so I think him seeing his first Starfleet person
was really exciting to him,
but also kind of challenging because, you know,
he wants to be the Captain and wants
to sort of make a good impression.
I think it's also just like a little beacon of hope for him.
It gives him a glimpse of what Starfleet is
and what their futures can be, but also,
it gives a glimpse to what this weapon can do.
And that's something we didn't wanna wait on.
We showed you at the end of episode 10
that there's a weapon aboard the ship
and it would be a shame not to show what that weapon does.
-[Rok] Two, one. -[Zero] Two, one, now!
Part two of Season 1 is jam-packed.
There's gonna be a little budding romance happening.
Huge adventures, huge mysteries,
and secrets still about to be revealed.
There's gonna be a little bit of science.
[Computer] There are currently 196 branches
of science.
There's gonna be a lot of science, actually.
Okay, a lot of science.
A lot of science.
I've got my work cut out for me.
Definitely more growth.
Lots more lessons and obstacles as they sort
of traverse Federation space.
So, that's always gonna be fun to watch Dal humble himself
and learn lessons. And lots more of the rest
of the characters coming into their own
and really finding their roles
in what they wanna do, as well.
There's going to be Klingons, there's gonna be Romulans,
and there might be Borg.
And I have to say, huge emotion is coming. And we think,
in the first 10 episodes, you've just met these characters.
You're starting to like 'em.
I think you're gonna fall in love with them
in these next 10.
There's always that tension,
which is absolutely imperative to a good series.
The Hageman Brothers really know how to retain that tension.
[Asencia] Who is it?
Whoever he is, he's alive,
and hopefully he'll have answers.