PRO · SEASON 22×16

Ascension, Part II

NOMADIC PICK · ESSENTIAL VIEWINGZero's sacrifice and a daring manoeuvre.
FIRST SHOWN (US)
1 July 2024
ON
Netflix
STARDATE
None given
DIRECTED BY
Sean Bishop

WRITTEN BYWritten by Alex Hanson

IN BRIEF

SPOILER-FREE

As the battle with Asencia's warship rages, a terrifying new time weapon strikes Voyager, and the Protostar crew, Voyager and Nova Squadron must work together just to survive.

SYNOPSIS

SPOILERS
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The Rev-1 disables the Protostar and hits Voyager with the Incursor, a temporal weapon that threatens to age the ship to dust, and Commander Tysess is among those caught by its effects. Zero sacrifices their failing body to redirect the Incursor onto Maj'el's fighter, and Nova Squadron uses it to lure the weapon into destroying the Rev-1 with a daring manoeuvre called the Boothby Supernova. In the aftermath, Zero introduces their friends to the new containment suit Jankom has built for them, and Janeway announces that Starfleet Command is sending Voyager and the Protostar to Solum. In a final reveal, Asencia is shown to be holding Wesley Crusher captive, having stolen the secrets of her temporal technology from his mind. She tells him the battle proves that Starfleet is spread too thin to be ready for what comes next.

DID YOU KNOW?

  1. 01The Boothby Supernova is named after Boothby, the Starfleet Academy groundskeeper seen in The Next Generation and Voyager.
  2. 02The manoeuvre resembles the banned Kolvoord Starburst, which almost got Wesley Crusher expelled from the Academy in The Next Generation and cost cadet Nick Locarno his place.
  3. 03The Doctor suggests Cerberusian gene therapy to reverse Tysess's ageing, recalling Cerberus II from The Next Generation's “Too Short a Season”.
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