Well, my days of being glad I’m no longer on Twitter are certainly coming to a middle.

‘She was important because we think she’s important. That’s how everything happens. Every war, every religion, every love story.’

This was probably the most compelling part of the episode for me - the sort of idea that DW excels at.

It’s not even the first time this sort of sentiment has been expressed:

Nobody important? Blimey, that’s amazing. You know, nine hundred years of time and space and I’ve never met anybody who wasn’t important before.

Oh yeah, that makes sense!

The other unique aspects are interesting…

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I guess we’ll see how it all plays out…

I’m intrigued by Gwyn’s uniform - it looks almost, but not quite, Starfleet-issue.

It’s definitely operating on vibes more than on logic. That’s not very unusual for this show, but it definitely doesn’t always land right.

Yeah, I think it works well enough, even if it’s not super compelling.

Oh boy, Mrs. Flood…

At this point, she has to be a Time Lord, right? She knows what a TARDIS is (though crucially, she didn’t recognize the Doctor’s TARDIS until she actually saw it dematerialize, and she also didn’t recognize the Doctor himself), and in last week’s episode she exactly mirrored the Doctor’s line about Time Lords regenerating to “hide themselves away”.

The fourth-wall breaking stuff is interesting, but I feel like she’s got to be a Time Lord, possibly one we haven’t met before.

Well, there was the FASA game from the 80s, and Decipher had one in the 2000s.

Modiphius is the current license-holder, and has published both the First Edition under discussion here, and has a Second Edition coming out later this year.

My interpretation is that it’s mostly the idea that they believed that the incident was so important, it started to “bleed” into Ruby’s present in times of emotional distress.

If we want a stronger explanation than that, you could argue that that point in spacetime was probably weakened by the presence of the TARDIS and Sutekh at nearly full-strength, plus whatever weirdness was caused by the use of the time window to view those events, and the creation of the Memory TARDIS.

Either way, their dimensions are so different that I guess it would be pretty hard to determine which has the greater internal volume.

That was an almost stereotypical RTD finale - a strong emotional core, with a resolution that threatens to go off the rails entirely.

The actual resolution of the Sutekh part was probably the weakest aspect, for me. The Doctor…threw him into the time vortex again, but this time it’s permanent, I guess precisely because he’d done it once before. Okay, fine, I guess.

The stuff with Ruby’s mother resolved more nicely, even if I’m not sure the actual events on Ruby Road hold together all that well. The idea of someone being important simply because people believed her to be important is a nice sentiment, and Louise’s ordinariness makes Ruby a kind of anti-Clara (I really like Clara, but I still think this is a good thing).

Mrs. Flood still doesn’t seem evil to me.

Yeah, as recently as June 4, Prodigy-related content on StarTrek.com said the following in the footer:

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 is available to stream on Netflix outside of markets including Canada where it is available on CTV.ca and the CTV App, France on France Televisions channels and Okoo, in Iceland on Sjonvarp Simans Premium, as well as on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Central and Eastern Europe.

This latest announcement says:

Star Trek: Prodigy will stream on Netflix globally (excluding Canada, Nordics, CEE, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Belarus and Mainland China) and Season 1 is currently available on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe with Season 2 coming soon. Season two has launched in France on France Televisions channels and Okoo.

They’ve completely dropped the CTV reference, even though season 1 is still available there.

TNG’s costume department had a lot of…interesting ideas.

And in Prodigy’s case, Paramount’s press releases have never mentioned the Sci-Fi channel - just the website and app. And now they’re not even mentioning those…

Honestly, I don’t think it’s looking good.

I’d wager it’s the dreadnought, and it’s not particularly close.

The Breen ship absolutely dwarfs Federation HQ.

The Enterprise-J is huge, but I find fans often exaggerate its size even further.

The new uniforms look pretty white to my eyes.

Yeah, at the end of the day it’s a standard deleted scene - the information within it was conveyed just as easily by the Doctor explaining the situation to UNIT.

The airbrushing will continue until morale improves.

Did Eaglemoss get to any of those before they went under? Maybe they’re trying to avoid duplication.