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PRO · SEASON 22×03

Who Saves the Saviors

NOMADIC PICK · FUN PICKA time-travel jailbreak with real consequences.
FIRST SHOWN (US)
1 July 2024
ON
Netflix
STARDATE
61860.1
DIRECTED BY
Sung Shin

WRITTEN BYWritten by Erin McNamara

IN BRIEF

SPOILER-FREE

Thrown 52 years into the future, Dal and a handful of friends must help Chakotay escape from Solum without changing history, while Gwyn faces Asencia in a deadly ancient trial.

SYNOPSIS

SPOILERS
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The Infinity crash-lands on war-torn Solum 52 years in the future, carrying Dal, Jankom, Zero and Maj'el. Spotting the Protostar nearby, they hide their Starfleet insignia, hoping to stay out of history's way, but they are soon captured and thrown into a cell with Captain Chakotay and his Aurelian first officer, Adreek-Hu. Using a hidden tricorder, Jankom remotely operates his confiscated gadget to open the cell, and the group stage a distraction so the two officers can reach the Protostar. In the rush, a phaser rifle is dropped. Chakotay grabs it, fights his way aboard and flies off with Adreek-Hu, so the Protostar will no longer arrive empty at Tars Lamora. In the present, Gwyn, backed by Ilthuran, challenges Asencia to the Va'Lu'Rah, and the two fight with telepathically formed weapons. Gwyn is close to winning when the altered timeline catches up with her: she begins phasing out of existence, and Asencia claims victory.

DID YOU KNOW?

  1. 01Tommie Earl Jenkins voices Adreek-Hu, the Aurelian first officer who served with Chakotay aboard the Protostar.
  2. 02A line about having been friends in another time nods to TOS's “Balance of Terror”, a moment also echoed in Strange New Worlds' “A Quality of Mercy”.
  3. 03A Vulcan hiding their ears under a headband is a nod to Spock's disguise in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
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