WARNING: Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, episodes 9 & 10, “The Devourer of All Things, Parts I & II”
The safe house that Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) uses to hide from the Loom in Star Trek: Prodigy will look familiar to fans of Star Trek: The Original Series. In Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, episode 9, “The Devourer of All Things, Part I”, written by Jennifer Munro and directed by Sung Shin, Wes is revealed to be the mysterious benefactor of Dal R’El (Brett Gray), Gwyndala (Ella Purnell) and the rest of their young crew. Wesley tasks the former crew of the USS Protostar with preserving the prime Star Trek timeline, by returning their ship to Tars Lamora, where their younger selves had previously found it.
However, before Wesley can send Dal and the crew to rescue Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran), they’re attacked by the terrifying Loom. To escape, Wesley Crusher uses his Traveler powers to open a vault that leads to an office in the 1960s. This office, used by Wesley and the Protostar crew as a safehouse in Star Trek: Prodigy, was last seen in Star Trek: The Original Series season 2, episode 26, “Assignment: Earth”, further emphasizing the connections between the Travelers and Supervisors.
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Wesley Crusher’s Prodigy Safehouse Belongs To Gary Seven From Star Trek: TOS
In Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, episode 10, “The Devourer of All Things, Part II”, written by Aaron J. Waltke and directed by Sean Bishop, it’s confirmed that Wesley is taking refuge in a replica of the office from “Assignment: Earth”. In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) encounter Supervisor 194, also known as Gary Seven (Robert Lansing). The artists on “The Devourer of All Things” do a great job of recreating Gary Seven’s office down to the tiniest detail, from the Beta 5 computer concealed in the book case to the avocado-colored telephone.
Wesley states that their safe house isn’t Gary Seven’s actual office, but an old facility used by Star Trek‘s Travelers to train Supervisors who work in different time zones. The office seen in Star Trek: Prodigy is designed to mimic 1968, on the day of the Apollo 7 launch, confirming the identity of the rocket that Gary was trying to detonate in “Assignment: Earth”. Therefore, the office that hides Wesley and the Protostar crew from the Loom is the very same one that trained Gary Seven ahead of his encounter with Kirk and Spock in Star Trek: The Original Series.
Star Trek: TOS’ Gary Seven’s Connection To Prodigy’s Traveler Explained
In Star Trek: The Original Series season 2, episode 26, “Assignment: Earth”, Gary Seven is dispatched to 1968 by his superiors to check on the status of Agents 201 and 347. Discovering that they had been killed in an automobile accident, Gary took up their mission to quietly prevent humanity from instigating a nuclear apocalypse. Star Trek: Picard season 2 revealed that Gary Seven and his fellow agents, the Supervisors, were actually working at the behest of Travelers like Wesley Crusher, to maintain the fragile web of time.
Confirmed Supervisors | Star Trek Show In Which They Appear |
|---|---|
Gary Seven (Robert Lansing) | Star Trek: The Original Series |
Tallinn (Orla Brady) | Star Trek: Picard |
Wesley confirms this in Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, when he tells Dal R’El that the Supervisors are the Travelers’ “field agents” in “The Devourer of All Things, Part II.” Now that Prodigy has confirmed the importance of these Star Trek time travelers, it will be interesting to see if more Supervisors appear in the franchise. Kore Soong (Isa Briones) was recruited by Wesley Crusher in Picard season 2, but it remains to be seen if she’ll be following in the Traveler’s footsteps or will instead be a successor to Gary Seven’s Star Trek: The Original Series legacy.
Star Trek: The Original Series
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Star Trek: The Original Series follows the exploits of the crew of the USS Enterprise. On a five-year mission to explore uncharted space, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) must trust his crew – Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy (Forest DeKelley), Montgomery “Scotty” Scott (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Sulu (George Takei) – with his life. Facing previously undiscovered life forms and civilizations and representing humanity among the stars on behalf of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets, the Enterprise regularly comes up against impossible odds and diplomatic dilemmas.
Star Trek: Prodigy
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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.
