Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Prodigy | 2x19 & 2x20 "Ouroboros"
cybervseas@lemmy.world 1 month agoOne thing that’s going to bug me for a while is how Solum can progress peacefully without contradicting season one
Temporal Mechanics! ;-)
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 month ago
Unfortunately, this has bugged me more the more I’ve thought about it. I think it undercuts the urgency of the entire season, which repeatedly emphasized how important it was to send the Protostar through the wormhole and making things exactly the way they were in season one.
Except it’s apparently fine for Solum to never have its disastrous civil war, and never train soldiers to go back in time, even though that was absolutely critical to the story.
It seems like an effort to have their cake and eat it, too. Even if you can make it work logically, I don’t think it works thematically.
cybervseas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Protecting their reality (the prime timeline) from the Loom is the main source of urgency right? That’s why they needed to get the Protostar to the right place, to protect the present.
Which creates the chilling thought that the “future” with Solum’s civil war would be consumed by the Loom.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 month ago
Right, but they’ve engineered a “present” in which Gwyn shouldn’t exist, which is exactly what they spent the bulk of the season trying to avoid, down to her having to wear the armband to stabilize her.
IDK, at best I think it’s way messier than he should be.