Gillian using the Voyager A to protect the Protostar through the wormhole under the nacelle like it was her baby.

That's perfect. Makes me wanna cry, it's so beautiful. 🥲

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It's honestly so fun seeing how Janeway interacts when she has a Commanding Officer. It's something we've never seen from all of Voyager, and the Admiral giving her orders being Jellico is such a good one.

Jellico isn't bad, he's just a giant stick in the mud. If people thought Janeway adhered too much to Starfleet in the Delta Quadrant, that would've been nothing if it was Jellico who was stuck in the DQuad.

But also Jellico trying to order Janeway from helping or rescuing members of her crew?

Well, Janeway reacts to those orders just as well as Seven reacts to orders she disagrees with.

LMAO.

I can't believe she did that.

I need Janeway to pull this off in front of Seven because I know, I know that Seven would say something snarky. And then repeat to Janeway, verbatim, all Janeway's lectures about hierarchy and following orders.

And, technically, she wasn't lying!

The fact that they brought back cetacean ops from Lower Decks is just incredible.

The fact that a... ahem.... mysterious returning character from Next Generation is a central figure for the plot is just so heartwarming and sweet and I love that they made him an insane dork!

The fact that the whole show is a Voyager spinoff, one of the LEAST popular Trek shows, is possibly my favorite part of the whole thing.

I feel like Star Trek Prodigy is not getting enough attention. It's a great show and a good starting point if you don't know much about Star Trek (it also ties in well with other shows in the franchise). 🖖

And it's a beautifully animated show.

So, first off, the new season of Star Trek Prodigy is one of the most phenomenal seasons of television I've ever watched, so please proceed and watch the hell out of it so that we can perhaps get a continuation.

With that said, proceed with caution, for there are minor spoilers ahead.

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Regarding what we got (or rather, didn't get) in terms of j/c shipping, I have read several opinions by several people who, apparently, feel betrayed by the promises made by the showrunners, and I hear those complaints.

However, hear me out.

First of all with regards to the actual content of the ship present in the season, I have to say that it's rendered pretty clear that, no matter the type of the relationship, these two people are one another's most important human. This is evident not only in the way others perceive Janeway's emotional attachment as detrimental to her duty as Admiral, but also in the way the characters themselves talk about one another.

For example, Janeway refers to Chakotay as her "number one", and given that she never used that term with other first officers, the phrase seems to convey something different. The hologram Janeway is all that stands between Chakotay and a possible descent to madness during his isolation. In a flashback, he even hands her the rock with the spiral pattern drawn on it, refering to her in no uncertain terms as "home". The list goes on.

But it's not just that, and the fact remains that most fans of the j/c dynamic were looking for a more outspoken romantic tension, a kiss, or a confession. And I understand the frustration that it didn't happen, however keep in mind that the second season had been written in its entirety when news of the show's cancellation hit the press, and the writers were evidently planning ahead with no intention to wrap things up this early (there's also a point to be made about writers not having to abide by the dystopian laws of modern streaming, where there is always the fear of cancellation looming over your head and interfering with the organic development of the plot, but that's another can of worms.)

One final point to be made is about the Hagemans and the nature of the work they usually do. Anyone who has ever watched their work on Tales of Arcadia will tell you they love their romantic sub plots, touching on the love lives of teens and older adults alike. Tales of arcadia is perhaps unique in how much, how delightfully, and how unpredictably it ships main and secondary characters alike, and I cannot believe the people responsible for such a colorful selection of romantic subplots would shy away from dealing with the most notable semi-canon ship to come out of nineties Trek.

The bottom line is, the show is beautiful as is. And hope is not lost on the j/c front. Romantic or not, they are canonical soulmates. And the nature of the showrunners ' previous works makes me believe that there were plans to make the ship canon further down the road.