Star Trek

• Title: Star Trek: Prodigy – First Con-tact
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Star Trek Sunday gives us another episode of Star Trek: Prodigy. “First Con-tact” introduces DaiMon Nandi (), the Ferengi conwoman who raised Dal R’El (Brett Gray) and convinces him to help her in what she describes as a victimless scheme of acquiring a valuable gem from a nearby world. Under the guise of first contact, our rag-tag crew and Nandi encounter the harmonic aliens of the planet who need the crystals to survive. Out for herself, Nandi steals one of the crystals almost getting away with the theft and revealing Dal wasn’t kidnapped. She sold him into servitude. 

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• Title: Star Trek: Prodigy – Dream Catcher
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Star Trek Sunday gives us another episode of Star Trek: Prodigy. After a two-part opener on a slave labor mining planet and an episode of the new crew learning to trust the ship and their holographic helper, “Dream Catcher” offers the first episode that fits more into the Star Trek mold as the crew make their first away mission to what seems to be a Class M planet devoid of life. Although we still get characters not quite acting in the Starfleet manner, such as Gwyn (Ella Purnell) breaking out of the brig and attempting to steal the ship and Dal R’El (Brett Gray) hot rodding around the planet blissful unaware of the danger everyone is in, the setup of a planet (which uses invaders own dreams against them to lull them into acceptance as it consumes them) could easily have fit right in as a stop for the original Starship Enterprise.

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