- 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.
Highlights of the episode involve insights into the characters via the hallucinations the planet gives them, and Gwyn choosing the crew over her father (who chose the ship over her) and saving Murf (Dee Bradley Baker) from the planet finally cementing the crew. We also get the reveal that the ship gets its name from a Protostar within the ship whose energy can be used to increase the warp speed (allowing them to escape the Diviner). It’s also worth noting is it is strongly hinted that Hologram Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) appears to know these aren’t Starfleet cadets but decides to humor them for reasons yet unrevealed (even before Gwyn’s rewriting of the ship’s command codes giving her full control).
