- 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.
Memorable moments of the episode involve the crew playing with the transporter (mostly on food and Murf), the reveal of the depth of Nandi’s treachery, Gwyn (Ella Purnell) and the rest of the crew understanding Dal’s past better, and Dal standing with the aliens and his crew against the harmful actions of his old friend. The bungled first contact mission horrifies Hologram Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) playing in a confession in the next episode as well.
