- Title: Star Trek: Prodigy – Kobayashi
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Star Trek Saturday gives us another episode of Star Trek: Prodigy. “Kobayashi” reintroduces two concepts from previous incarnations of Star Trek. The first, the Holodeck, is discovered by Dal R’El (Brett Gray) who becomes obsessed with the second: The Kobyashi Maru Scenario. Much of the episode consists of Dal failing the Starfleet training scenario over and over before learning the lesson that the program is meant to offer. The hologram scenarios are notable for offering versions of several Star Trek characters to fill out the training crew making use of their voices from the Star Trek library including Spock, Uhura, Scotty, and Odo which limits what they can say but still works well enough to sell the premise of the episode while offering a hat tip to what has come before.
Elsewhere, Gwyn (Ella Purnell) works on restoring data that is hidden from Hologram Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) eventually revealing another familiar character from Voyager. While the main storyline is by far the most memorable part of the episode, offering nods to several of the previous shows, the episode’s B-story continues to do a bit of world building that is at least as crucial to season-long storylines in opening a door to begin explaining more of the ship’s history and perhaps, eventually, why Gwyn’s father covets it so much.
