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Star Trek: Prodigy – Kobayashi

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Star Trek: Prodigy - Kobayashi

Star Trek Saturday gives us another episode of Star Trek: Prodigy. “Kobayashi” reintroduces two concepts from previous incarnations of Star Trek. The first, the Holodeck, is discovered by Dal R’El (Brett Gray) who becomes obsessed with the second: The Kobyashi Maru Scenario. Much of the episode consists of Dal failing the Starfleet training scenario over and over before learning the lesson that the program is meant to offer. The hologram scenarios are notable for offering versions of several Star Trek characters to fill out the training crew making use of their voices from the Star Trek library including Spock, Uhura, Scotty, and Odo which limits what they can say but still works well enough to sell the premise of the episode while offering a hat tip to what has come before.

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Batman: Caped Crusader – The Stress of Her Regard

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Batman: Caped Crusader - The Stress of Her Regard

After seeing Harleen Quinzel (Jamie Chung)  as a recurring character in the previous episodes, you knew sooner or later we were going to get a Harley Quinn episode. Far less wacky than her introduction in Batman: The Animated Series, the version we get in Batman: The Caped Crusader plays on the psychologist’s cold calculation and drive to make the wealthy men of Gotham City pay. Both Batman (Hamish Linklater) and Barbara Gordon (Krystal Joy Brown) will uncover how the psychologist spends her free time breaking down the minds of men, brainwashing them, and driving them insane.

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Wizards of Waverly Place – Disenchanted Evening

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Wizards of Waverly Place - Disenchanted Evening

Wayback Wednesday takes us back to a family of wizards living in Waverly Place. After learning that TJ (Daryl Sabara) is a wizard whose parents are okay with him using magic whenever he wants, Alex (Selena Gomez) gets the group together unaware the secret to success is TJ having charmed his parents which he also does for Alex. While initially happy in a world where her parents don’t worry about magic, or anything else, Alex and Justin (David Henrie) decide to set things right after the pair show no concern with them leaving their younger brother on Mars (where the jumped to for a quick look for his school project).

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Hit-Monkey – Never Too Late

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Hit-Monkey - Never Too Late

After wasting a good chunk of his new limited-time body on getting black-out drunk, Bryce (Jason Sudeikis) does manage to make a connection with his daughter and help the Assassins Cooperative take down another target with the help of and old friend (Jason Sudeikis) who can slow down time which provides the perfect counter to their target who can see seconds into the future and is prepared for all attacks. As you would expect, it’s a bloody episode with some wallowing from Bryce which eventually does lead to the kind of honest admission Iris (Cristin Milioti) shows interest in.

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Delicious in Dungeon – Griffin/Familiars

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Delicious in Dungeon - Griffin/Familiars

Leaving the comfort of the Golden Country, the party sets off to find the Winged Lion who may help them in their quest. The change in scenery breaks the calming spell effecting Izutsumi (Mitsuho Kambe) as the group find themselves in a dwarven cistern deep in the dungeon. “Griffn/Familiars” is notable for several reasons including providing some backstory for the mad mage Thistle (Yû Kobayashi) and lay the stage for the tight-lipped Senshi (Hiroshi Naka) to provide information about his own past. The episode ends at the beginning of Senshi’s tale. Before we get there, the party will have to deal with a Griffin (the first creature to have Senshi running in fear) but the Familiars created by Marcille (Emily Rudd) help take down the creature. Marcille is proud of her creations, although less so once  Laios (Damien C. Haas) begins cooking them for dinner.

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