185. How To Train Your Loom (Prodigy 2.17 and 2.18)

Anika and Liz send a bunch of kids off on a black ops mission, which is a cool and normal thing to do and definitely something a healthy maternal role model would do. Oh yeah, we're discussing the Star Trek: Prodigy episodes "Brink" and "Touch of Gray", including... Kids are gonna learn about plausible deniability sooner or later It was always going to be Ascensia versus Gwyn And Ascencia versus Janeway Girl you have too many nemeses, put one back Wesley's plan fails because he didn't expect Gwyn to prioritise her father. WHICH SAYS A LOT ABOUT HIM.  (A fun question: how much of Picard's relationship with his parents did he replicate with Wesley, and how does that impact Wesley's relationship with the kids now?) Like Discovery, Prodigy has a really fluid hierarchy among the kids Liz threatens to write a book called Management Lessons from Michael Burnham and Dal R'El  We are thoroughly dismayed to find ourselves shipping Holo Janeway/the Doctor