Heartwarming / Star Trek: Prodigy

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Star Trek: Prodigy

Season 1

"Lost and Found"

• When a Kazon slaver offers a Caitian child to Tars Lamora at half price and Drednok accepts the offer we get a rare instance of a threat being heartwarming when Gwyn angrily tells the slaver that if he ever brings them someone so young again he'll be enslaved in the mines instead.
  • Gwyn is later seen showing a linguistics hologram to the child.

"Starstruck"

• Hologram Janeway speech to assure the crew after the events of the episode is certainly this.
  Hologram Janeway: I must say, when the Federation first formed, it wasn't pretty. A collection of species, entirely unfamiliar to each other, different languages, different cultures, but with one shared aspiration: to be better. I've seen my share of wayward crews, and I can tell you this—you've got potential.

"Dreamcatcher"

• As Hologram Janeway sees the kids off as they explore the planet, she tells them to look out for each other. She sounds almost like a mother seeing her kids off to school.
• Dal proves himself to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold when, upon learning the truth about the planet, he immediately goes back to save the others rather than hightailing it back to the safety of the Protostar.
• As she is trying to evacuate the crashing Protostar, Gwyn sees Murf pinned by some crates and saves him even though she's risking her own life to do it.

"Terror Firma"

• The crew's heart to heart about the illusions they saw.
  • What Rok-Tahk says about the cute animals not being afraid of her, while sad due to implying that she's never had friends who weren't afraid of her, is also heartwarming because now she does have such friends.
• The above leads to some sweet bonding between Dal and Gwyn.
• After figuring out how to make it back to the ship, Dal shares the credit with Gwyn in a supplemental Captain's Log.
• The crew coming back to save Gwyn from the vines. This gives her the last piece of motivation she needs to complete her Heel–Face Turn.

"Kobayashi"

• When Gwyn thanks Dal for saving her last episode, he awkwardly claims that it was Janeway's idea; later, however, Jankom lets it slip that it really was Dal's idea. Gwyn can't help but smile at this.
• The use of archival audio for the holograms of Scotty, Uhura, Spock, and Odo. The original actors are listed in the credits, and the episode is even dedicated to James Doohan, René Auberjonois, and Leonard Nimoy!
  Hologram Spock: Permission to come aboard, Captain.
  • And to top it off, the bridge used for the simulation is that of the Enterprise-D!
• After lecturing Dal on what makes a good captain, Hologram Spock acknowledges his potential by saying he is "Stubborn as another captain of the Enterprise". He then bids him farewell with the Vulcan salute. Which Dal mistakes for a high five.
  • Hologram Spock getting Dal to understand what it truly means to be the leader of a crew.
  Dal: I've never captained a ship. I never had a crew. What do I know?
  Hologram Spock: That the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
  Dal: So, a good captain puts the needs of the crew first before himself. Maybe I should be using these ears more than my mouth.
  Hologram Spock: It is the only logical conclusion. In your own way, you are as stubborn as another captain of the Enterprise I once knew.

"First Con-tact"

• Gwyn comforts Dal after Nandi’s betrayal, telling him that he at least knows who his real friends are now.
• More of a Fridge Heartwarming, but the fact that Nandi, for all her duplicitous conman ways, is able to operate as a DaiMon, basically an independent ship's captain, despite being female indicates that Ishka's gender equality reforms have borne fruit.

"Time Amok"

• Dal tells Janeway that the crew aren’t the Starfleet recruits they initially claimed to be. Despite her surprise, she makes it clear to them that they are still her crew, and she will continue to help them.
• After Gwyn ends up losing the Warp Matrix while fighting Drednok, she uses her remaining time to record a Captain's Log for Rok, who is in the slowest timeline, giving her the information, she needs to build a new Warp Matrix as well as assuring her that she has what it takes to succeed at whatever she chooses to do.
• Rok repairing Janeway's holo-matrix, failing 276 times until she got it right.
• Everyone giving Rok a big hug for saving the day.

"A Moral Star, Part One"

• When the crew decide to rescue the inhabitants of Tars Lamora, Janeway sincerely compliments them on their bravery, noting that nothing is more Starfleet than trying to help others against long odds.

"A Moral Star, Part Two"

• When the miners are suddenly able to understand each other thanks to the translators the crew has, they're overjoyed.
• When Gwyn learns that her father is from a future where his people were destroyed by a civil war resulting from first contact with the Federation and that her father intends to destroy the Federation in order to prevent that first contact she still doesn't agree with the Diviner and tries to convince him not to trade one tragedy for another by pointing out that he could talk to the Federation.
• Jankom tells Rok to hold the door as he tries to fix the Rev-12's engines. He is overwhelmed by the damage done and can’t figure it out. Rok glances at the set up and comes up with some Technobabble. In a heartbeat, Jankom changes plan - HE holds the door as Rok enacts her plan. No hesitation on his part about being outdone as an engineer.

"Let Sleeping Borg Lie"

• Gwyn breaking through Zero's Borg brainwashing using The Power of Friendship.

"All the World's a Stage"

• The Reveal that the Starfleet officer who worked to save the Enderprizians generations ago was one of the Red Shirts from Star Trek: The Original Series, Ensign Garrovick. He gave his last measure trying to protect the inhabitants of a planet he crash-landed on, and is memorialized generations later as a savior, held up along with his crewmates as an ideal to emulate.
• That the Enderprizians know so much about the Enterprise crew to emulate them, despite having never met them, suggests that Garrovick told stories about his crewmates. Garrovick's faith in his crew turns into something bordering on a religious faith among the Enderprizians that Starfleet would return to help one day.

"Crossroads"

• Dal meeting the real Janeway for the first time. Even though she has only known the boy for a few seconds, Janeway is easily able to tell what Dal is after and gives him some good advice.
  Dal: Have you ever wanted something so bad, but you're afraid if you say the wrong thing you'd mess it up?
  Janeway: Often, but fear of failure has killed more dreams than anything else. So I usually go for it.
  Dal: (with a smile) I should have known you'd say that.
  Janeway: You want to inlist in Starfleet.
  Dal: Yes! but...
  Janeway: No buts. In Starfleet, you make it so.

"Mindwalk"

• Once informed of the full situation, Janeway immediately assures the kids that she is with them and starts trying to figure out ways to help them. When they try to apologize for the mind swap, she simply says that it's not the worst thing that's ever happened to her.
• While restrained in Sickbay, the Diviner has Dal (whom he thinks is Janeway) at his mercy.
  Diviner: You must think I'm a monster Admiral. For most of my life, Starfleet has been my sworn enemy. The villain that destroyed my world. Your kindness was unexpected. But, I have a mission to complete. The Federation's destruction will bring my people salvation. Which is why I must do, this... (releases the restraints holding Dal/Janeway) I save your life, as you saved mine.

"Supernova, Part 1"

• Janeway is trying to convince the security guard to let her out when the guard suddenly drops the forcefield, revealing that she was one of the Brenari refugees that Janeway had saved from the Devore and was now returning the favor.
• Gwyn's speech about Starfleet to a Klingon Captain, that everyone needs a place to be accepted, inspires all the Federations allies in the region to help out and lend their shields to help them survive as long as possible.

"Supernova, Part 2"

• Admiral Janeway insists that the kids are heroes, not criminals, and will not tolerate them being denigrated.
  Admiral Janeway: In their absence, and in my presence, they get our respect.
• A bit of Fridge Heartwarming, but when Zero is given their new suit, the Starfleet technicians in the room aren't wearing protective visors when helping Zero into the suit, meaning they were risking insanity if anything went wrong with the process. The only reason for them to do this (discounting an animation/continuity error) would be to be comforting presences to Zero as they adjust to the new suit.

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