Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1, Episode eleven – “Asylum”A cool homage to Star Trek Generations in Star Trek: Prodigy season 1, episode eleven additionally reveals that the USS Enterprise-B and the USS Protostar share an odd factor in widespread. A flashback to the launch of the Protostar in 2383 confirmed Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) wishing her costly buddy, Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran), best wants on his new mission. however Chakotay’s sick-fated first command into the Delta Quadrant echoed the calamity that befell Captain John Harriman (Alan Ruck) and the USS Enterprise-B.
Star Trek Generations started with a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne hurtling by house and christening the hull of the USS Enterprise-B in 2293. Star Trek: Prodigy cleverly nodded to this iconic second by exhibiting a champagne bottle smashing into the hull of the mannequin-new USS Protostar on the day of its launch. whether or not or not this custom was widespread all by Starfleet’s historic previous, Star Trek periods was the predominant time a starship was proven to be christened with champagne. nonetheless the champagne bottle itself seems to herald misfortune as a outcome of the two situations Star Trek has proven it to happen finish in a horrible disaster for maiden voyages of each starships, the Enterprise-B and the Protostar.
What occurred To The USS Enterprise-B In Star Trek Generations
The maiden flight of the USS Enterprise-B in Star Trek Generations was meant to be a straightforward “hop throughout the photo voltaic system” and a publicity stunt for the mannequin new Excelsior-class starship. Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Montgomery Scott (James Doohan), and Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) attended the Enterprise-B’s launch as particular friends. however moments after the starship started its inaugural cruise, sensors detected a misery beacon from an El Aurian ship containing Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) that was beneath assault by the Nexus. Worse, Captain Harriman was utterly unprepared for a disaster, and the Enterprise-B lacked key personnel and gear that weren’t on account of arrive till “Tuesday.”
Captain Kirk briefly took command of the Enterprise-B, however gave up the massive chair to Captain Harriman so as that he might take care of a draw again under decks. whereas the Enterprise was ready to rescue the El Aurians, the Nexus’ shock wave struck the starship and ripped a hole in its hull. Captain Kirk was misplaced and believed lifeless, although he was truly transported into the Nexus, an vitality ribbon past time and house. the fact about what occurred to Kirk wouldn’t be acknowledged till the twenty fourth century, nonetheless the Captain heroically died saving Veridian III alongside Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). After the disaster of its maiden voyage, the Enterprise-B did not match the distinguished legacy of Kirk’s Starship Enterprise.
What occurred To Captain Chakotay And The USS Protostar In Star Trek: Prodigy
The destiny that befell Captain Chakotay and the USS Protostar is one in every of Star Trek: Prodigy season 1’s best mysteries. primarily based on the clues revealed, all by Chakotay’s first mission, the Protostar encountered an “anomaly” and was boarded by Drednok (Jimmi Simpson), the Diviner’s (John Noble) robotic enforcer. it is pretty potential that the Protostar’s Proto-Drive initiated a time warp as a outcome of the starship ended up marooned in Tars Lamora in 2366, 17 years earlier than its launch. but the Diviner had administration of the Protostar finally as a outcome of he was ready to place in the residing Constuct, a Starfleet-destroying weapon, aboard the starship earlier than he misplaced it.
it is unknown what occurred to Captain Chakotay and the Protostar’s crew. The Protostar was deserted till Dal R’El (Brett grey) and his teenage alien associates commandeered the starship and have become its new crew, with Hologram Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) advising them. however it absolutely’s truly ironic that each the Enterprise-B in Star Trek Generations and the Protostar in Star Trek: Prodigy have been ceremoniously christened with champagne bottles proper earlier than disaster struck.
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