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Star Trek: Prodigy – Dream Catcher

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Star Trek: Prodigy - Dream Catcher

Star Trek Sunday gives us another episode of Star Trek: Prodigy. After a two-part opener on a slave labor mining planet and an episode of the new crew learning to trust the ship and their holographic helper, “Dream Catcher” offers the first episode that fits more into the Star Trek mold as the crew make their first away mission to what seems to be a Class M planet devoid of life. Although we still get characters not quite acting in the Starfleet manner, such as Gwyn (Ella Purnell) breaking out of the brig and attempting to steal the ship and Dal R’El (Brett Gray) hot rodding around the planet blissful unaware of the danger everyone is in, the setup of a planet (which uses invaders own dreams against them to lull them into acceptance as it consumes them) could easily have fit right in as a stop for the original Starship Enterprise.

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The Umbrella Academy – The Unbearable Tragedy of Getting What You Want

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The Umbrella Academy - The Unbearable Tragedy of Getting What You Want

Set six years after the Third Season finale, The Umbrella Academy has returned to the present and a new timeline in which none of their powers exist. Going their separate ways, the family comes together in “The Unbearable Tragedy of Getting What You Want” for the birthday party of Diego (David Castañeda) and daughter Grace (Ciara Rose Feeney). The remain together for the rescue of Viktor (Elliot Page) who is kidnapped on the way to the party by an odd man (David Cross) with a story to tell the group about a missing girl (Katharine King So) who needs their help.

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The Lazarus Project – Episode 16

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The Lazarus Project - Episode 16

The Lazarus Project concludes with our time-traveling agents plans go mostly to shit, thanks to one member doing what’s necessary to protect the future leading to the death of several of the team and all those from the past who knew about time travel. It’s a bloody finale. While the episode ends with a tease of what a third season of the show might have looked like, the season finale works pretty well as a series finale with the time loop destroyed, and the future safe, but plenty of questions about the present as George (Paapa Essiedu) returns to a world different than the one he left with lingering questions about whether the actions of the Lazarus Project, and Sarah (Charly Clive) in particular, worked out for the best.

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Star Trek: Prodigy – Lost and Found

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Star Trek: Prodigy - Lost and Found

The two-part opener of Star Trek: Prodigy drops us into a mining colony somewhere outside of Federation space in the Delta Quadrant where we meet the cocky Dal R’El (Brett Gray) who along with the oversized Rok-Tahk (Rylee Alazraqui) will discover a way off the asteroid in a Starfleet vessel buried under a large deposit of the expensive crystals the group are forced to mine. Joining them in their escape are the argumentative Jankom Pog (Jason Mantzoukas), Zero (Angus Imrie) an energy being within a robotic exoskeleton, the gelatinous Murf (Dee Bradley Baker), along with the facility commander’s daughter Gwyn (Ella Purnell) who they kidnap helping to facilitate their escape.

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The Lazarus Project – Episodes 14 & 15

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The Lazarus Project - Episodes 14 & 15

The team’s mission in the past gets a new start as this time they successfully end up in 2012 only for things to go horribly wrong with the majority of them dying along with the people they came back to save. The final two episodes heading into the season, and what would become the series, finale deal with the past members of the Lazarus Project running into the future versions leading to bloodshed and all kinds of questions. The episode also explores Wes’ (Caroline Quentin), her relationship with Robin Lerner (Colin Salmon), and the moving up on the attack on the time travel facility leading to a complete failure for George (Paapa Essiedu) and Sarah’s (Charly Clive) mission.

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