admonition : Contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Star Trek : Prodigy time of year 2 !
Summary
Having watched every episode of the brilliantStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 , I start to recall that the showrunners , Dan and Kevin Hageman , might also be fans of twenty-first centuryDoctor Who . apply thatProdigyseason 2 is an larger-than-life time change of location escapade , it ’s only lifelike that it traverse the fandom streams betweenStar TrekandDoctor Who . To be clear , aside from one bit of dialog that has entered our ethnical lexicon , I only noticedProdigy’scrossovers betweenStar TrekandDoctor Whobecause I ’m a huge fan of both franchises myself .
I grew up in the UK in the 1990s , and was raised on a unfaltering dieting ofDoctor Whorepeats and the 1990sStar TrekTV shows thatStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2lovingly draws upon . Prodigyseason 2 continues the tale of severalStar Trek : Voyagercharacters , and moderate multiple references to otherTrekshows . There are also game law of similarity , lineament moments and duologue that seem to referenceDoctor Whofrom 2005 onward . It might be careful , it might be a complete happenstance , but as a fan of both show , I greatly enjoyedProdigy ’s plain love for the 21st century era ofDoctor Who .
Ncuti Gatwa ’s Doctor desire to visit the USS Enterprise , setting up a long - look crossover between Doctor Who and Star Trek . But how would it form ?
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Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2’s Doctor Who References Explained
“…this timey wimey stuff hurts my head.”
The most obvious character toDoctor Whocomes inStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 , installment 1 , " Into the rift , Part I",written by Dan & Kevin Hageman , and directed by Ben Hibon . As the Doctor - not that one - briefs the young Academy hopefuls on their time - locomote missionary work to economise Captain Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ) , Dal R’El ( Brett Gray ) mentions that " … this timey wimey stuff ache my top dog . " While the phrasal idiom " timey wimey " has pretty much move into the ethnic lexicon , it did originate in Steven Moffat ’s script for the classicDoctor Whoepisode " Blink " . In " Blink " , David Tennant ’s Tenth Doctor described the time - space continuum as a " testis of wibbly , wobbly , timey wimey stuff . "
Dal and Janeway detest clip traveling , or at least hate the experience of getting their chief around the wibbly wobbliness of it all .
With " wibbly wobbly , timey wimey stuff " , Steven Moffat make a double-dyed elbow room to describe the vagaries of temporal mechanics . InStar Trek : Prodigy , both Dal andJaneway detest time travel , or at least detest the experience of come their heads around the wibbly wobbliness of it all . So I whole understand whyProdigyadopts that description into their own lexicon . While that ’s the most overt character reference to Steven Moffat’sDoctor Whoscripts , there ’s a weird law of similarity between Gwyndala ( Ella Purnell ) and the Eleventh Doctor ( Matt Smith ) later inProdigyseason 2 .
Star Trek: Prodigy is the first TV series in the Star Trek franchise marketed toward children, and one of the few animated series in the franchise. The story follows a group of young aliens who find a stolen Starfleet ship and use it to escape from the Tars Lamora prison colony where they are all held captive. Working together with the help of a holographic Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), the new crew of the USS Protostar must find their way back to the Alpha Quadrant to warn the Federation of the deadly threat that is pursuing them.
At the end ofStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 , episode 3 , " Who save The Saviors",written by Eric McNamara , and directed by Sung Shin , Gwyn is trapped inside an ancient grave on Solum . In the next instalment , " Temporal Mechanics 101 " , drop a line by Keith Sweet II , and directed by Ben Hibon , Dal and the crowd of the Infinity are given coordinates to travel back through time and deliver her . The estimation of using future knowledge to relieve someone from a prison house cell in the past is effectively how the Eleventh Doctor get himself out of the Pandorica inDoctor Who ’s time of year 5 coda , " The Big Bang " .
Ncuti Gatwa makes a gossip in " Space Babies " that refers to an off - concealment adventure that read the Eleventh Doctor into another sci - fi cosmos .
The solution that Dal and theStar Trek : Prodigykids receive is a lot less complicated than Steven Moffat ’s solvent inDoctor Who , but the law of similarity is there . One last similarity betweenProdigyandDoctor Whois the introduction of the Loom , secular existence that banquet on aberrant timelines . The Loom is the dead on target threat inStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 , butthe Loom ’s motivations bear a Brobdingnagian similarity with one - shotDoctor Whovillains , the Reapers , who fed on the alternate timeline make when Rose Tyler ( Billie Piper ) prevented her founding father from being bolt down in a traffic fortuity in Paul Cornell ’s " Father ’s Day " .
Doctor Whospinoff media found that Time Lords were n’t born but were instead craft on elephantine genetic loom .
The Hageman Brothers Characterize Wesley Crusher As “A Little Bit Doctor Who”
One of the biggest surprises ofStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 is the homecoming of Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher , who has changed a bully deal since his concluding appearance inStar Trek : The Next Generation . view Wesley in activity as a Traveller , I was strike by Wil Wheaton ’s performance , which seemed to be leaning more on the like of Matt Smith and David Tennant inDoctor WhothanTNG ’s Wesley Crusher . Wes even quoted Sylvester McCoy ’s Seventh Doctor by observing : " time will tell , it usually does " . In anexclusiveScreen Rantinterview , Kevin and Dan Hageman talk over bringing Wesley back , identify their characterization of him as :
A little MD Who , a short Willy Wonka …
Prior to becoming the Fifteenth Doctor , Ncuti Gatwa had asked his agent to put him forrard for type like Doctor Who or Willy Wonka .
Doctor Who And Star Trek Have A Long History Together
Turning Wesley Crusher intoStar Trek ’s solution toDoctor Who , while Dal quotes David Tennant , maintains a foresighted relationship between both franchises . The recentDoctor Whoreferences inStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 retain a tenacious custom pass back decennium . For exercise , a output decorator ’s prank inStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s time of year 1 finale , " The Neutral Zone " , revealed the first fiveDoctor Whoactors to be sexual intercourse of Claire Raymond ( Gracie Harrison ) , though this was later cut out for the Bluray remaster .
More recently , Ncuti Gatwa ’s Fifteenth Doctor implied thatStar TrekandDoctor Whotake place in the same fictional universe . What ’s heartening about this continuing relationship betweenStar TrekandDoctor Whois that I grew up at a time when you had a choice of one or the other . Doctor Whowas offset in 1989 as the UK get down screeningStar Trek : The Next Generation , whileStar Trek : Enterprisewas delete in 2005 , just asDoctor Whoreturned to telecasting . Asthefuture ofProdigyseason 3is unsettled , Doctor WhoandStar Trek ’s twenty-first century second chance should give the Hagemans some hope .
I find it cheer thatDoctor WhoandStar Trekaren’t rival , but instead learn from each other and push their storytelling in new focal point as a issue .
Star Trek: Prodigy is the first TV series in the Star Trek franchise marketed toward children, and one of the few animated series in the franchise. The story follows a group of young aliens who find a stolen Starfleet ship and use it to escape from the Tars Lamora prison colony where they are all held captive. Working together with the help of a holographic Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), the new crew of the USS Protostar must find their way back to the Alpha Quadrant to warn the Federation of the deadly threat that is pursuing them.
19 years afterEnterprise ’s cancelation , andStar TrekandDoctor Whoare both gem in the crown of their several streaming services . And yet , if the lovesome nod toDoctor WhoinStar Trek : Prodigyare anything to go by , neither enfranchisement sees the other as rivalry , they take intake from each other instead . As a lifelong buff of both , I find it cheer thatDoctor WhoandStar Trekhave never been rivals , but alternatively learn from each other and advertise their storytelling in unexampled directions as a result .
Star Trek : Prodigy is the first TV series in the Star Trek franchise marketed toward children , and one of the few revivify series in the franchise . The narration follows a group of untested aliens who see a stolen Starfleet ship and expend it to escape from the Tars Lamora prison house dependency where they are all defy captive . solve together with the help of a holographic Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) , the new crew of the USS Protostar must find their way of life back to the Alpha Quadrant to warn the Federation of the baneful threat that is pursuing them .
The latest Doctor Who serial stick in the Fifteenth Doctor , joined by newfangled companion Ruby Sunday .
The latest Doctor Who series introduces the Fifteenth Doctor, joined by new companion Ruby Sunday.
