The finale of this season,
it's very dramatic and very intense.
You're just a mistake!
No!
Complete our mission.
Open hails.
At the end of the first 10 episodes,
you kind of think that The Diviner's out of the story
and that's that.
But we really wanted to dive deeper.
We wanted to see a little bit of repair
between him and his daughter.
Before I had a daughter, this was mine!
Gwyn's relationship with The Diviner, her father,
is obviously very complicated.
I mean, she loves her father for better or for worse,
but also recognizes that she has to defeat his plan.
No, don't answer that hail!
She doesn't want to destroy Starfleet.
She has to save them.
But she also knows that it's up to her to save Solum.
Maybe you can unify them.
Do what I never could.
They get this really beautiful moment
where she gets this new perspective on him.
My father made mistakes, but he was right.
I need to save the Vau N'Akat.
So by the time she makes that decision
that she wants to return to Solum,
I mean, really see Solum for the first time
and continue his mission in a more Starfleet-y way.
I mean, it's a lot of pressure.
Through these joint experiences she has with the crew,
I think she's finally equipped
with the tools and the knowledge and the lessons
where she might actually be able to achieve it.
We have to destroy the Protostar.
Except the Protostar's auto-controls are fried.
Someone will have to stay back to detonate it.
It was a very difficult decision when we,
in a writer's room, realized that we needed to
destroy the Protostar and Hologram Janeway with it.
But for the type of storytelling
that my brother and I like to do,
we wanted a very emotionally climactic finale for our show.
I did what I had to so that you could
fulfill your potential.
It's a very Janeway thing to do.
I gave a small degree of sentience to Hologram Janeway
in this moment because it's important to lift them up
by showing them through my voice and my reactions,
even as the hologram, that it is
very, very difficult to say goodbye.
Very, very hard to know that I am sacrificing myself.
For Dal, I think that was a very important relationship
to him but also a very important sacrifice
for him to see as well.
And a sort of prestige point to know that
she thought he was ready to go forth.
Your potential is infinite.
What that hearkens back to, it's that relationship
that all parents must go through
of letting your child grow up.
It's a sad moment, but it's a moment that has to happen
as kids get older, when they find out who they are,
which is what the show's about.
Do you want us to consider letting them apply
to Starfleet Academy?
Including this Augment?
Dal had a very big mystery around his origins.
Typically, you would see he's the destined
fighter for whatever, the galaxy.
And we wanted to go the opposite way.
In essence, discovering that he's a laboratory mistake.
Dal finding out that he was an Augment
was really hard for him because, from the very beginning,
since he was orphaned on Tars Lamora,
he's always been looking for sort of his origin
and his place and as a Black person,
sometimes it can feel sort of like
there are these prejudices that hold you back
and being an Augment and not being allowed in Starfleet
was one of the sort of last prejudices of Starfleet.
You got in.
To see them break that was really inspiring to me.
And also I think for Dal because
it does give you a place and it does give you
something to be proud of.
And I absolutely love for Dal, at the very final episode,
the speech by Janeway, saying that he's a living example
of what Starfleet is all about.
It's all of us coming together.
[Dal] I don't want you to leave.
I like to watch Dal and Gwyn. I like to see them.
I'm watching them with very keen interest.
I've been rooting for Dal and Gwyn
since the very beginning.
I know Dal has kissed Gwyn before
and she's kind of been like, "Whoa, what are you doing?"
And sort of friend-zoned him.
So it's really endearing to see them grow closer together.
Gwyn teaches him responsibility
and a sort of a leadership style
and I think he teaches her how to have fun.
And they develop this tenderness and vulnerability
and they get closer and it becomes this romance,
which is just really sweet and touching and authentic.
You're gonna be our Captain?
In a way.
The end of Season 1 is a bit of a handoff.
The kids have had Hologram Janeway,
who's a kid-friendly Janeway
and now they've graduated to an Admiral Janeway.
She's no nonsense, so what you're gonna see in Season 2
is you're gonna see that relationship blossom.
Janeway is hands down
just one of my favorite characters ever.
I'm so glad that she's back
and that she plays such a pivotal role in this.
I mean, she's a leader, she's a true leader.
[Chakotay] It's day 72 since the Vau N'Akat
captured the Protostar.
I remember I had a little tear during the session
and the Hagemans were so, so lovely.
She's in pursuit, now, to find Chakotay for many, many years
and suddenly the voice is heard.
So it was emotional and it was profound.
And when I get to play those moments, it's very rewarding.
There are discussions of sending an exploratory ship.
I want to be on it.
What can we tease without blowing it?
What can we tease the fans?
In Season 2 we're gonna see a lot more familiar faces.
Admiral Janeway has promised them
a new ship, but not the Protostar.
So I think that's something that fans
can speculate on.
Something much bigger.
Gwyn is in for a journey.
She is going to Solum, she's separating from the crew.
She's engaging in a sort of,
I guess a long-distance relationship.
Dal, now he's gonna go from the Captain of his own ship
to an entire world of people who are also training
to be those things and really learning
his actual place in the universe.
I just hope that Dal can come to terms
with letting someone else lead
and if he can truly sacrifice his own ego
and become a member of the team.
I love the fact that we have sort of
all these different storylines going on by the end.
-We promise -We promise.
We're gonna deliver the goods in Season 2.
And it's magical.
Well, are you coming or not?