STAR TREK: PRODIGY
SEASON 1, EPISODE 4
SEASON 1, EPISODE 4
Dreamcatcher
Series: Star Trek: Prodigy - (2021 - current)Season: 1
Episode #: 4
Original Airdate: 11/11/2021
Writer(s): Lisa Schultz Boyd
Director(s): Steve Ahn and Sung Shin
Guest Stars
John Noble as The Diviner
Jimmi Simpson as Drednok
Bonnie Gordon as the voice of the U.S.S. Protostar's Computer
Stardate: Unknown
Synopsis
Onboard the U.S.S. Protostar, and at the suggestion of Hologram Janeway, Dal records a captain’s log where, after admitting he doesn’t know what stardate it is, speaks about learning how to operate the ship — and most importantly, how to set the autopilot. Dal is just getting comfortable with their escape, and ability to hide from The Diviner, when Janeway flags a discovery: an uncharted M-Class planet in the Hirogen system. Because this is supposed to be a Starfleet crew, they’re required to investigate. When Dal pushes back, Janeway threatens to report him to Starfleet Command. Dal finally agrees to the away mission, something the rest of the crew is very excited about, and Zero proceeds to land the Protostar on this mystery planet. The ride down is a little bumpy, but the ship makes it intact.
This new world is beautiful, but it hides great dangers as the crew quickly finds out. Dal, Jankom Pog, Rok-Tahk, and Zero each get a sleek tricorder. Hologram Janeway instructs each of them to record their findings on this planet. They also receive Type I phasers (which Jankom Pog promptly shoots himself with) and find the Runaway, a very cool space car, before they head out to see what new things this planet holds in store for them. Janeway, being a hologram, must remain aboard the ship while the crew sets off to explore.
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Back on the ship, it seems that Gwyn has chosen her side. As soon as the crew disembarks from the Protostar, she manages to get ahold of her weapon by utilizing her telepathic link with it, and escapes from her cell in the brig. She makes her way to the bridge and even reprograms Janeway to allow her access to the ship’s controls. It turns out that Gwyn has all the knowledge and skills to take command of the Protostar on her own — because that’s what The Diviner has been training her to do from childhood. She sends a message to her father, alerting him to the Protostar’s location.
Dal’s eagerness to jet out on his own, by himself in the Runaway, spells doom — because he doesn’t spend the time sticking with and looking out for his crew, they all split up and each ends up in a dangerous situation. Zero is the first to make an odd discovery about this alien planet: There are absolutely no nutrients in the soil. But then, how is it possible that it supports so much plant life? The planet seemingly creates something which will entice each of the crew members, which then allows the planet to consume them. For Jankom Pog, it’s delicious smelling food, for Rok-Tahk it’s cute, cuddly lifeforms (that don’t register on the tricorder), for Zero it’s a mystery (in this case, the Protostar’s engine), and for Dal it’s his parents (though he can’t remember what they look like). While they’re occupied with whatever the planet has conjured up, this world is slowly trapping them. Whatever life is present on the planet appears to Dal as Hologram Janeway and tries to convince him that she can give him whatever he wants if he stays on the planet, but he sees through her deception. Dal realizes that his crew is in a lot of trouble and jumps back in the Runaway, desperate to gather his people and get back to his Janeway onboard the Protostar.
Back on the Protostar, Gwyn is trying to take off, but the lifeform on the planet has hold of the ship and won’t let it leave. After a revealing conversation with the lifeform masquerading as Gwyn’s father (she realizes that it’s not him after he tells her he’s proud of her — which is heartbreaking and shows us a lot about the relationship between Gwyn and The Diviner), she lifts off in the ship as Dal and the crew approach. But Gwyn can’t make her escape after all. The tendrils engulf the Protostar and Hologram Janeway orders Gwyn to abandon ship. There’s no way the ship will be able to escape. Gwyn races toward a shuttlecraft to make her escape. At the last second, she grabs Murf and takes him with her. The Protostar crashes hard back into the planet and Gwyn’s shuttle suffers a similar fate.
Dal and the others arrive at this shuttle after witnessing the crash of both ships. Looking across the vast expanse of the planet, they realize they’re all stranded…
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