Star Trek: Prodigy

Training Officer's Log, Stardate 607125.6.

After the crew's last mission conducting first contact

went terribly awry,

I fear their failure is tearing them apart.

Falling down is easy.

It's getting up that takes practice,

which is why, as their advisor,

it was time to stir things up.

Ugh, this is a waste of time.

This is a riddle that needs to be solved.

You must work together to get a fox, a chicken,

and a bag of grain safely across.

Oh, why can't we just row 'em all across

and get this over with?

Because if they're all in the same boat,

the chicken will eat the grain

and the fox will eat the chicken.

If you take the grain first,

that leaves the chicken and the fox.

Oh dear, that won't work.

Mr. Foxy wouldn't hurt a feather.

Jankom's hungry. Let's eat the fox.

It's my duty as captain to listen to my crew.

But when they say stuff like that, gonna ignore it.

If we take one across,

there's no rule to say we couldn't take another back.

Getting warm.

Imagine if you tried working together.

Ah, ah!

Bad, Mr. Foxy, bad!

Ahh!

Who had the boat?

Not me. Greatest show ever.

If you just--ah!

Hey, Security Officer, could you please keep the fox

from eating the feathered thing?

Stop calling me that.

I don't wanna be Security Officer.

Ahh!

Computer, end simulation.

We can't do the impossible.

Impossible?

You have everything to solve this problem,

if only you would solve it together.

You can't let failure tear your crew apart.

- Well, maybe we aren't a crew. - Careful, Cap.

You make it sound like we're not Starfleet cadets.

Dot, dot, dot.

That's because I'm not.

I lied. I made us all lie.

We aren't Starfleet. We aren't a crew.

Who are we kidding?

We're a bunch of strangers who stole a ship.

You stole this ship?

It's time to come clean.

Oh, great.

Jankom take a ship? Ugh.

Perhaps I should explain.

Our Diviner.

There is another inquiry pertaining to the reward

for information about the Protostar.

Another inquiry?

Or is it another grifter who knows nothing,

calling to waste our time?

This inquiry appears to be promising.

Salutations.

I hear you're in the market for a certain ship,

if the reward is still available.

My patience grows thin, Ferengi.

Speak, and be wary of spewing lies.

Your fugitive vessel contained chimerium,

did it not?

I'm sending the coordinates.

The Protostar jumped too far, Our Diviner.

It would take months for the REV-12 to catch them.

But if we have their location,

there are other ways to make our presence known.

Vehicle replicator activated.

Telling all our secrets.

Ruining all the f--what in the name is that?

It's a tachyon storm.

Jankom was afraid it was a physical manifestation

of how he feels.

You didn't like Janeway finding out the truth?

Then we could've gone to the Federation.

We could have had a better life.

But now who knows where we're going.

Aimlessly heading towards the tachyon storm,

whatever that is.

Keep your boots to the ground because it might mess

with our gravity,

the one thing holding us together.

Wait, what, gravity?

Gravity's the only thing keeping the Proto-Drive stable.

What's going on?

I'm reading incredible power influxes.

We may not be cadets,

but believe me, Jankom's trying to fix it.

As I explained to Zero, cadets or not,

you are still my crew, and I'm programmed to help.

Uh-oh.

Oh!

Huh?

Why does the alarm sound funny?

Ah, great, now the lights are broken, too?

Hm, my temporal settings are all over the place.

- What's happening? - Stupid tachyon storm.

Janeway to crew. Did anyone else feel that?

Computer's saying there's no other life forms onboard.

That can't be.

Oh no, core breach! There's been a rupture.

If the core's breached, the engine can't equalize

the gravity shell of the Proto-Drive.

And gravity is what keeps that star from exploding.

That alarm tells me we've got ten minutes to fix this.

I just need to recalibrate the warp...

ah, ah!

The ship, it exploded. But we still had ten minutes.

Yet I'm here.

And everything appears to be in order.

And still only one lifeform aboard.

Engineering. Jankom, come in.

Janeway!

What happened? Where is everyone?

There was this weird purple ripple.

Then everyone vanished.

And now everyone's moving weird.

I've been alone ever since. Where were you?

I was with Jankom after we entered the Tachyon storm...

There was an alarm, and then the Proto-Drive...

The Proto-Drive what?

We need to see the engine.

I've never seen it do that.

The ripple that passed through us all,

it was some kind of time anomaly.

Fortunately, I can adjust the speed

of my settings to be here,

but everyone must be stuck in their own temporal phases.

That's why with Jankom, everything was sped up.

But here, everything is slowed down.

Temporal what?

We were once all in one ship, yes?

When we went through the tachyon storm,

something unusual happened.

Though it appears you are alone,

everyone is still in the same ship,

just moving through time at different speeds.

Like, for Jankom, time moves faster.

But for you...

Time goes by really slow.

Yes.

But there's a problem on this ship, you see.

And if it's not fixed in ten minutes,

something terrible will happen.

Oh no.

You'll be okay.

Because remember, time moves differently.

For some, ten minutes can go by in an instant.

But lucky for you, it will feel like an eternity.

But what about my friends?

Rok, you must listen to me.

You have to repair the warp containment

to prevent a core breach.

Core breach?

I know it's a lot, but you have

to get our ship's warp containment balance right,

or else the Proto-Drive star

will be released all at once, almost like a supernova.

Stop it! I don't understand.

You have to try.

Computer, make Janeway go away.

No!

Ah, there you are.

I see you've adjusted your temporal settings.

And I see you've figured out time phases.

Talk to me.

Once I realized the warp core was damaged,

I deduced the only way to restore gravitational balance

was to reroute power from the primary warp drive

directly to the Proto-Drive

using a Warp Matrix, which I am currently creating.

I like it.

A Warp Matrix will normalize our time component

and stabilize these fractures.

And better yet, save everyone.

But to know how much time I have,

I need one piece of data.

Was Rok's time faster or slower than mine?

Slower, much slower.

Fascinating.

We're trapped in oscillating time.

Time works like a damped sine wave.

Those closest to the blast are most affected,

in alternating patterns, fastest and slowest,

then faster and slower, then fast and slow.