Synopsis: While Gwyndala travels to Solum to try to prevent the start of a civil war, the rest of the Prodigy crew join Vice Admiral Janeway on her mission to save Captain Chakotay.
This two-part episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory—that just as an acorn has everything inside it to become an oak tree, we all have inner daimons with all the information we need to become who we are meant to be.
In “Into the Breach, Part I and Part II,” sometime after they return to the Alpha Quadrant, Murf, Rok-Tank, Jankom Pog, Fugitive Zero, and Dal R’El all get messages from Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway that they are to join her on her mission. When they arrive aboard the new Lamarr Class Voyager-A they learn that they will each be working in different departments. Jankom Pog will work in engineering, Murf in security, Fugitive Zero in sickbay, Rok-Tank will work in Cetacean Ops in xenobiology, and Dal R’El in command training. Dal R’El is unhappy to learn that this means a lot of reading for him. Rok-Tank tells him that this is their chance to get into Starfleet Academy. Dal R’El contacts Gwyndala (Gwyn). Her mission is to travel to Solum to stop a civil war that has not yet begun. Fugitive Zero overhears something in sickbay and tells Dal R’El that Janeway is hiding something and that something is afoot in Shuttlebay 3. Fugitive Zero, Dal R’El, and Jankom Pog sneak into a Jeffries Tube. Murf joins them. They make it to Shuttlebay 3, where they find a cloaked ship, Infinity. After Dal R’El indicates to Janeway that the Prodigy crew knows about what is going on in Shuttlebay 3, Janeway tells them that the ship, Infinity, might be able to safely make it through the wormhole to rescue Captain Chakotay, but that they need to wait 41 hours before they enter it. Meanwhile, on Solum, Gwyn’s appeal to the elders is unsuccessful when Asencia arrives and tells them that Gwyn is a traitor and should be arrested. Gwyn escapes, and finds her father, Ilthuran, who tells her he will help her. Back on Voyager, Maj’El, a Vulcan Nova Squadron candidate, overhears Dal R’El and tells the rest of the Nova Squadron to head to Shuttlebay 3. The Prodigy crew get there first and boards Infinity. The Nova Squadron candidates fight them. Infinity is accidentally activated, but it is too soon. Infinity goes into the wormhole.
In this episode, reminiscent of the two-part episode that began season one, the different individuals all had their own strengths and interests, which will be used aboard Voyager. Murf in security, Fugitive Zero in sickbay, Rok-Tank in xenobiology, and Dal R’El in command training. This can be seen as illustrations of Hillman’s acorn theory in that they all listened to their own inner daimons as to what they were meant to be, and now their skills will be used as they become part of Voyager’s crew on the vessel’s new mission.
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