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