Gwyndala/Synopsis

The Story of the teenager alien girl Gwyndala, also know as Gwyn, from Star Trek Prodigy.
==Biography==
=== Early life ===
In 2366 while searching for the Protostar in the mines of Tars Lamora for years, the Vau N'Akat named Ilthuran subsequently renamed himself The Diviner became increasingly weakened and fearful for the future of his species and decided to create offspring to continue his work, a choice which was not to the liking of his right-hand man, Drednok, who then proceeded to extract his master's DNA to give birth to Gwyndala whom the Diviner has since considered his own daughter in reality a divergent clone of himself.
Throughout her life on Tars Lamora, Gwyn never learned all of her father's plans but learned starship mechanics, astrophysics, linguistics, and information technology from him because he secretly wanted her to be able to operate the Protostar if found. Due to her fluency in foreign languages, Gwyn usually accompanied Drednok on each new slave delivery. She also met a miner of the same age as her named Dal R'El who told her many stories about his life before arriving in this colony.
===Discover the Protostar===
In Lost and Found, Part 1, Gwyn and Drednok encounter the Kazon who deliver slaves to them daily for the mines, with Gwyn translating the pilot's words for Drednok. Seeing the young Caitian that the Kazon brought, Gwyn threatens him to be sent to the mines if he brought back another child as young before reassuring the young feline by speaking to her in his language. Drednok warns Gwyn that he is the only one speaking on behalf of the Diviner, leading Gwyn to question the robot as to why she has to translate when he is programmed to do so, just so Drednok will assure her that the Diviner to a plan for her, a plan that Gwyn resents not knowing about.
Soon after, her father summons her to his incubation room inside the Rev-12 to interrogate Dal about what he knows of the fugitive Zero, suggesting to have him talk through pain until Gwyn says it won't be necessary because she can get him to talk with enough time. After lecturing her daughter on the Vau N'Akat legacy that one day will depend on her, Diviner allows Gwyn to do as she sees fit but that if she fails, Drednok will use his own interrogation methods.
Dal brought to her, Gwyn begins by mentioning Dal's interstellar stories, only for Dal to chatter so she goes straight to his failed escape attempt following the sabotage of an manacle antenna by Zero. When Dal denies this, Gwyn begins to get more and more irritated, especially when Dal continues to be cheeky and sarcasm in his non-cooperation but upon realizing that Dal didn't even know that Zero is a Medusan, Gwyn understands that he knows nothing and has him go out. Dal then claims he can find Zero, prompting Gwyn to give him until tomorrow night to succeed before telling him that Zero was last sighted in the Northwest Crevasse.
In Lost and Found, Part 2, In her quarters, Gwyn shows the female Caitian her passion for languages ​​and new cultures until Drednok bursts in to tell her that Dal is no longer in the Northwest Crevasse. There with a group of sentries, the two find Dal wearing Chimerium he supposedly picked up while looking for Zero but Gwyn senses he is hiding something. Out of patience, Drednok decides to employ his method, sending Dal to surface work, against Gwyn's objection before she learns that her father allowed it.
Later, Gwyn speaks via transmitter with Dal, showing sympathy for her situation as the rebellious teenager claims they could have been friends otherwise while talking about what he calls The Window of Dreams. Suddenly, a violent landslide allows Dal to escape, unaware that Gwyn and Drednok orchestrated him to lead them to Zero.
Confronting Dal again deep in the Northwest Crevasse, Gwyn is stunned to discover a spaceship that Dal, Zero, Rok-Tahk, Jankom Pog, and Murf are trying to repair to escape. Dal offers Gwyn a place among them, only for Drednok and his sentries to arrest the young prisoners. Meanwhile, Gwyn learns from Drednok that the ship is called the Protostar and that's why the Diviner has been digging Tars Lamora for years. She then climbs on board, fascinated by this technology. Following the rebellion of the youngsters, Gwyn finds herself confronted by Rok, Jankom and Zero on the bridge but his mastery of combat and her strange golden weapon allows him to take over them. Unfortunately for her, the ship's sudden fall throws her off balance and allows Rok to catch her and Jankom to tie her to the captain's chair. After the Protostar escapes from Tars Lamora, Gwyn sees the stars for the first time and is dazzled by them. She then taunts Dal for not planning anything after the escape before former captain Katheryn Janeway's hologram appears.
=== Held as a Prisoner ===
In Starstruck, Gwyn yells at Janeway that she's the captain to take the ship back to Tars Lamora but Dal immediately makes it look like Gwyn is just sickly delusional. After the federation briefing is over, Gwyn is driven to the brig and along the way she warns the others that Dal is just a talker who will only put the others in danger, just for Dal to keep saying that she's crazy. Once placed in the cell, Gwyn endures Dal's taunts silently as Zero realizes he can't read her mind then she calls Dal a fool while warning him that the Diviner will come and make him pay.
Later, Rok brings food to Gwyn while questioning her on why she never did anything for those who were kidnapped and mistreated in the mines. Gwyn claims to have only listened to her father and simply thought that the Unwanted were just criminals but Rok denies this, stating that their only crime is to have allowed themselves to be captured before leaving the food anyway to the prisoners who seems touched by the act.
Taking advantage of the Protostar's energy drop absorbed by a white dwarf, Gwyn escapes to the escape pods but as soon as she arrives, the rescue shuttles are ejected from the ship by the panicked crew. Upon learning that there is a Vehicle Replicator in the Shuttle Hangar, Gwyn goes there to craft a Rescue Shuttle. Rok confronts her soon after, still resenting her for her role in Tars Lamora and the two end up fighting inside the still-under-construction shuttle. Physically disadvantaged and losing his golden weapon, Gwyn deactivates the Protostar's gravity before Rok catches her. Zero is quick to restore gravity with the help of Janeway, causing Rok to fall on Gwyn, who pinned to the ground, tries to take back her weapon but Rok prevents her from doing so. Once the Protostar got to safety, a re-imprisoned Gwyn was relieved that the danger had passed and then began to mope.
In Dream Catcher, as the gang prepares to explore an unknown planet in the Hirogen system, Rok and Dal handcuff Gwyn to prevent her from escaping again. Gwyn sardonically asks Dal what happened to the circumstances when they could have been friends, just so Dal seems indifferent. When Murf enters the brig, Gwyn notes the low intelligence of gelatinous creature and then telepathically summons her "Vau N'Akat Heirloom" to break free and scare Murf into cutting an automated robot in half. On the bridge, Gwyn puts into practice everything her father taught her while realizing that she had in fact been trained to pilot the Protostar. She then reconfigures Janeway to contact the Rev-12 and give Drednok her location.
About to take off, Gwyn is approached by Janeway who tells her that a Starfleet officer never abandons his crew, to which Gwyn coldly replies that they are not her crew. The living planet's roots then wrap around the Protostar, preventing it from flying away. She cuts off the roots as much as she can before meeting the Diviner but realizes it's a fake created by the planet and retreats into the Protostar. With the onslaught of the roots tightening on the Protostar to a critical level, Gwyn refuses to abandon the ship until Janeway brings her to see reason. In her escape, she escapes aboard the incomplete shuttle while rescuing a frightened Murf but crashes into the mountains. The group later finds them, with Dal blaming Gwyn for stranding them on this planet.
=== Take Another Way ===
In Terror Firma, Turns out Gwyn broke her leg in the crash. With the Protostar ten kilometers from their position, the gang sets off with Dal unconcerned about Gwyn's fate unlike Rok. Gwyn uses her golden object as a splint and follows the group. At nightfall, they are continually attacked by roots and hallucinations generated by the planet "Murder" until Gwyn makes a flaming torch to repel the assaults. The youngsters, thanks Gwyn, only for an ungrateful Dal to remind them again that they're stuck here because of her. The argument is cut short when they are forced to take shelter from the acid rain.
Taking refuge in a Klingon ship, the gang refuels with the rations left behind while talking about the planet's ability to bring out their deep desire. When Dal walks away in frustration after his parents he never knew are brought up, Gwyn goes to see him and the two begin to bond over their similarly sad stories and passion for the stars that they realizes is the only thing the planet can't terraform, giving them a way to join the Protostar.
The next day, the group finds themselves confronted by Drednok who Jankom mistakes for a hallucination until he turns out to be real. Refusing to let Drednok hurt them, Gwyn steps in but when she refuses to step aside, Drednok tugs on her brace, knocking her to the ground and yelling at the others to flee. Unable to stand on her own two legs and suffering from the attacks of roots, Gwyn manages to crawl up to the Protostar where the Diviner is also. She begs her father for help as the roots almost engulf her, but Diviner chooses the Protostar over Gwyn, leaving her heartbroken. Her end seemingly near, Gwyn is rescued by Dal and returned to the true Protostar, the other in front of the Diviner having been nothing but a hallucination.
Together again, Gwyn and her friends warp away from the planet but are pursued by the Rev-12 which is gaining ground on them. The Diviner contacts the Protostar, relieved that his daughter is alive but now resents him for abandoning her in favor of the ship, to which the tyrant claims he had no choice then offers to spare the others if Gwyn gives him the Protostar. Definitely disillusioned, Gwyn betrays her father by activating the Proto-warp, allowing the Protostar to escape the Rev-12.
In Kobayashi, now in the Gamma Quadrant out of reach of the Diviner, a saddened Gwyn rests in the infirmary waiting for her wound to heal. She briefly crosses paths with Dal looking for Murf and thanks him for coming back for her. Dal instead diverts his act to Janeway and then tells Gwyn that they have moved into a cabin for her before leaving her to her grief. Later, Zero questions her about why she's not leaving the infirmary despite being healed, to which Gwyn replies that she's sad because she doesn't belong anywhere anymore. Sharing his similar feeling when he was ripped from his own kind, Zero convinces Gwyn that she can like him find purpose among the crew, emphasizing her ability to interpret a language.
She then helps Zero and Janeway find out why the Diviner was seeking the Protostar, discovering a data stream written in the language of her homeworld, Solum, which she finds strange as the Vau N'Akat have never met the Federation. After the stream cracks, the crew accesses a recording left by the Protostar's last captain, Chakotay.
In First Con-tact, the crew amused themselves by having fun teleporting anything until they receive a call from DaiMon Nandi, a female Ferengi whom Dal knew before being sent to Tars Lamora. The Ferengi then trick the crew into stealing precious crystals from a non-corporeal species named Cymari. Before realizing the trap, Gwyn played a key role in communicating with the Cymari, understanding that they are reactive to sound waves. Although they manage to take the crystals back from Nandi, Janeway berates them for violating the Prime Directive by causing damage to the species due to their naivety, thus betraying Starfleet and Janeway's trust.
In Time Amok, Janeway has the gang follow a teamwork exercise in the Holodeck to prevent their recent fiasco from getting to them. The Fox, chicken and grain problem quickly turns to disaster because of everyone's lack of cooperation, Gwyn on her side calling Rok a security officer to her displeasure. Later a Tachyon storm causes time to rip apart, separating the six friends into time phases as the Protostar is about to explode.
Joined by a Janeway moving through the time phases, Gwyn searches for a dilithium coupler to prevent the destruction but finds herself confronted by a duplicate of Drednok downloaded from the vehicle duplicator. Gwyn attempts to stop him only to be easily rebuffed and Janeway erased by the Chakotay codes Drednok had in memory. When Drednok II finds a good sized coupler, Gwyn assumes he is going to get rid of her but he replies that it would be against the Diviner's wishes, which upsets him as he only sees Gwyn as his master biggest mistake. Not having said her last words, Gwyn uses a console to cause an explosive decompression which throws the robot into space. Knowing that she was doomed, Gwyn sends a message to Rok's time phase, apologizing for pushing her to be what she is not and giving her the means to prevent the Protostar from being destroyed. Rok is eventually able to prevent the explosion, restore Janeway, and restore time, bringing all of herfriends back alive.
=== Confront The Diviner and Find Out the Truth ===
In A Moral Star, Part 1, The Diviner gives the crew an ultimatum: Return the ship to Tars Lamora or the Unwanted will suffer. They then begin to consider whether to warn the Federation hoping they will act in time or return to Tars Lamora and risk facing the Diviner. Despite the unsecured options leaning more and more towards returning to the colony, Jankom urges his friends to do what must be done together but Dal is too skeptical and leaves. Gwyn goes to see him, questioning his desire to want to be captain since he is unable to make a decision in this kind of moment. Dal admits to being afraid of losing all his friends and that he cannot take decisions lightly with so many lives at stake but Gwyn reminds him that he is not alone and that they will all go through together.
Working hand in hand, the band prepares their future mission down to the smallest detail. They also proudly put on the Starfleet uniforms of the Protostar and before they engage the proto-drive, Janeway congratulates them for truly representing the spirit of Starfleet today. In orbit of Tars Lamora, Gwyn and Zero are in the transporter room and she notices Zero is surprisingly calm, the Medusan actually afraid of being used by the Diviner as a weapon again but Gwyn assures him that no one will be injured if all goes well.
With the Protostar pulled by tractor beam onto the Rev-12's landing pad, the crew again find themselves facing the Diviner and Drednok. The Diviner notably displays his distaste for the Starfleet uniform unlike his daughter before changing the deal to have Gwyn go with him. Although her friends object, Gwyn plans to take the deal in exchange for all miners being released and the Rev-12 being given to her friends. Dal begs her not to do that but she doesn't change her mind, especially wanting to redeem herself for having done nothing during all these years at Tars Lamora. The deal closes, Gwyn bids a warm goodbye to her friends and then she, her father and Drednok board the Protostar.
In the air, the Diviner destroys the Rev-12's generators to disable the atmospheric shields and thus doom the residents of Tars Lamora, much to the horror of Gwyn who calls her father a monster. Once away, Gwyn demands that Diviner finally reveal the truth he's been hiding from her for years and why he abandoned her if she's so important. The Diviner claims he chose the Protostar because he was blinded by his duty but now realizes that she matters to him and he can't go through with it without her. The two Vau N'Akat telepathically switch so the Diviner can explain his plan only for him to notice that Gwyn is hiding something. Much to his fury, the Diviner discovers that Gwyn and her friends stole the Proto-core earlier.
In A Moral Star, Part 2, Gwyn tries to subjugate her father by using her Vau N'Akat Heirloom but Diviner reminds her that he was the one who gave her this object before handcuffing her with it. After Drednok is allowed the Diviner to retrieve Proto-core from Murf's gelatinous body before being destroyed by the Unwanted, Gwyn is revealed to have enhanced Janeway to be on her side despite her prior reprogramming by Drednok. The Diviner subdued when Janeway damages his survival armor, Gwyn comes close to putting her father's plans in jeopardy until the tyrant reveals that Solum and the Vau N'Akat still exist but have no long time. Shocked, Gwyn freezes Janeway and demands the whole truth from her father.
In the Holodeck, the Diviner shows his daughter a depiction of Solum today while explaining to her that the Vau N'Akat believe to be the only life form in the universe but that after first contact with Starfleet, fifty years of civil war between the Vau N'Akat supporting the Federation and those refusing change have ravaged Solum. The Diviner also reveals that the remaining Vau N'Akat sent him from the future to prevent First Contact, his plan being to destroy Starfleet by using a virus planted in the Protostar to cause every ship in their fleet to destroy each other. Refusing to trade one massacre for another, Gwyn tries to resonate with her father but it falls on deaf ears as Dal arrives in an attempt to stop the Diviner just to be subdued. Gwyn tries to hit the Diviner but is easily repelled by the old fanatical Vau N'Akat disgusted by his daughter choosing to help Dal than her own people. Before the Diviner can harm Dal, Zero arrives and uses his true Medusan form to mentally destroy the Diviner but accidentally injures Gwyn due to his reflection on Dal's combadge.
During the days following the crew's victory, Zero continued to care for Gwyn until she recovered, having only forgotten the traumatic event. Now leaving Tars Lamora behind and the Diviner no longer a threat to anyone, Gwyn and her friends then embarks on a new journey to join Starfleet.
=== Continue the Journey ===
In Asylum, weeks having passed since Tars Lamora left, Gwyn, Dal and Jankom try to save an Aquathawn from local aquatic hunters to preserve the ecosystem of the aquatic planet they are on. As they lure the huge creature to safety, Gwyn briefly revisits a forgotten fragment of memories just before they were swallowed by the Aquathawn. The rest of the team then teleports the beast aboard, causing it to spit out the submarine. Zero worries about Gwyn's new vision resulting from his previous action but the girl assures the Medusan that he has nothing to blame.
Once the Aquathawn was moved to safety, the Protostar called at station CR-721 for the gang to attempt a first interaction with Starfleet. Greeted by the only resident of the station, Barniss Frex, everyone passes a biometric scanner, that of Gwyn indicating nothing since its species is not yet known while that of Dal is immediately referenced priority to Starfleet Command. Later, Gwyn gets placed by Zero in the station's sickbay in hopes that this will unlock that lost memory. The weapon previously hidden by the Diviner soon activates and infects the station, programming it to destroy itself, trapping Gwyn in the water-filled sickbay. Despite her friends' vain efforts to get her out, she frees herself by using the Heirloom to break the glass. The crew then dons spacesuits to escape through the void before the station explodes. Recovered by Janeway, Gwyn suddenly remembers everything she had just forgotten weeks ago.
In Let Sleeping Borg Lie, the band examines in the Holodeck the recorded events of the Diviner recounting his plan to destroy Starfleet before starting to look for the famous weapon hidden on board the ship. After a long search, they come across a hidden trap door that Gwyn manages to open with the Heirloom, putting them in the presence of the weapon. Gwyn deduces it's from the future and Jankom attempts to destroy it with a phaser, only for the seemingly sentient weapon to break down to dodge the shot. At the same time, the Protostar crosses paths with an inactive Cube Borg, worrying a Janeway preferring to leave the place immediately since she knows very well what the Borg are capable of, but Gwyn thinks that the Borg's ability to adapt could give them a way to get rid of the gun, a risky plan the gang agrees to attempt.
With the Protostar inside the Cube and briefed by Janeway on everything he has to know about the Borg, the team sets out to find the vinculum to access all of the Borg Collective's data, anguishedly crossing paths with the Borg drones in sleep at their Regeneration alcove. With the vinculum found, Jankom cannot hack it due to the lack of interface, leaving the only option to bond with the Collective, which Gwyn refuses until Zero volunteers. Unfortunately, the Borg at the time and quickly surround the young people on a bridge trying to return to the ship. The phasers are quickly ineffective, Gwyn goes into close combat but the drones are terribly tough. Dal, Rok and Jankom are captured while Gwyn manages to escape through the opening Dal gave her.
In contact with Janeway, Gwyn hides out of sight in a hallway with advancing Borg which she manages to pass anyway unnoticed by suppressing any hostile movements or thoughts. She finds her friends held up at operating tables, only to be captured in turn by drones led by a now assimilated Zero. Before the rest of them are assimilated, Gwyn manages to reach what remains of Zero by helping the Medusan overcome his fear of hurting others and making him realize that he is part of their family. Zero's spirit awakening knocks out the entirety of the Borg, allowing the gang to break free and return to the Protostar. Once away from the Borg Cube, the group decides that because of the weapon now known as the Living Construct which unfortunately cannot be disabled or moved, they cannot rejoin Starfleet until they find a final solution. They do not wait with enthusiasm to respond to a distress signal because even if they still can't join Starfleet, they can still do good.
In All the World's a Stage, having arrived at the M-class planet the signal originated from, Gwyn suggests teleporting to the planet despite the sub-space distortion interfering with the systems. Leaving a Rok tending to an apparently ill Murf on board, Gwyn, Dal and Zero arrive in a forest where they soon encounter Enderprizians, somewhat eccentric people who encountered the USS Enterprise in the 23rd century and kept incomplete knowledge of Starfleet since then and whose distress signal was actually a call for a Starfleet ship. In the wreckage of a Freighter serving as a city for the locals, the quartet learns through a theater show that the last members of Starfleet to come to this world have left a prophecy saying that the next to come will rid them of a menace called the Gallows. Gwyn continues to think that these people should be helped but Dal remains uncertain since these people are living a lie without realizing it. Shortly after, the young Huur'A returns to the city, infected by a disease transmitted by the Gallows.
In the local infirmary, Jankom cowardly suggests stopping the adventure but Gwyn refuses to let them go. Dal is suddenly infected as well, causing Zero to stay by his bedside and Gwyn to seek Rok's help in finding the source of the disease. Equipped with EV suits, Gwyn, Rok and Jankom walk through the forest to the cave of crystals where the Gallows live. After a landslide, the trio discovers that the so-called Gallows is actually the Galileo, an old shuttlecraft from the 23rd century whose plasma leaks have been flowing for a millennium and cause toxic gas fumes on contact with the crystals. of dilithium composing the cave. With the source of the disease found, Gwyn tries to contact Zero but the subspace warp prevents the transmission. Jankom manages to use the Galileo's relay system suspended on the edge of a cliff to contact Zero, moments before the cave begins to collapse on the trio, forcing them to take refuge in the shuttlecraft until the Protostar comes to their rescue. Back in the village, the band is hailed as a hero by the Enderprizians and exchanges some resources with them in the principle of Second Contact before resuming the journey.
In Crossroads, the gang stops on a snowy planet to hide the Protostar while they go to the Federation to warn of the danger of the Living Construct. Once the ship is covered in snow, the young people go to the Denaxi Depot and meet Captain Okona who offers them his services to leave the planet. Dal doesn't consider the offer but Gwyn is of the opinion to consider the offer if Okona's ship is fast enough, only for Xindi-Reptilian security agents to arrest Okona for smuggling, forcing the gang to take their way. Splitting up to cover more ground, Gwyn enlists the help of a Klingon pilot who quickly covets the Heirloom but Gwyn refuses to give it to him, so the Klingon tries to take the item by force, just for the Ensign Asencia stand up to him and force the Klingon to leave. Initially relieved to meet a Starfleet officer, Gwyn panics when Asencia reveals that her father is aboard their ship. She tries to slip away but Asencia holds her back to find out where the Protostar is from her, forcing Gwyn to run behind moving vehicles and hide in them as soon as Asencia loses sight of her.
Gathering the crew, Dal warns his friends that he has encountered Starfleet officers but that it is not good, moments before the officers in question led by the real Janeway spot them and pursue them. In hiding, Gwyn reveals that the Diviner is on Janeway's ship despite Zero having said he was no longer a threat, while Rok is upset that no one thought to tell them about the Living Construct. The Xindi-Reptilians suddenly chase them after being alerted by Janeway and Gwyn is of the opinion of retrieving the Protostar before Starfleet. Managing to flee from the depot in a local vehicle, the youths are chased through the snowy valley by the Xindi-Reptilians and also discover Okona on board. The pursuers accidentally cause an avalanche which buries them but the gang escapes thanks to Jankom connecting a Chlorine Trifluoride propulsion to their vehicle to boost acceleration. Returning to the Protostar, they hurry out of the planet's orbit.
Unfortunately, Vice Admiral Janeway chases them aboard her quantum slipstream Dauntless-class starship, forcing them to warp but the Dauntless is still able to track them. Since the Living Construct could infect all of Dauntless just through communication, the gang can't do anything but keep running. Suddenly, Murf appears in a new form after mutating and accidentally triggers a torpedo launch. They nearly proto-warp, only to be shot at in their third pod, knocking them out into the Neutral Zone. Since no Starfleet ship can enter the area without instigating a war with the Romulan Empire, they have no better choice at the moment than to enter the Neutral Zone by modify their shields so as not to be detected by the Romulans while the real Janeway is stopped by Commander Kaseth's Bird-of-Prey.
=== The Neutral Zone ===
In Masquerade, Gwyn asks the daydreaming Dal if he's located a starport to get the ship repaired until Okona suggests going to Noble Isle. While Zero and Jankom stay aboard the Protostar, Gwyn and the others descend to the planet via the space elevator away from the ion storm and then Okona takes them to the lab of one of his clients, Dr. Jago. The scientist quickly takes an interest in Dal and reveals through an advanced scan of his DNA that he is in fact an alien hybrid Augment resulting from the work of the doctor Arik Soong's proteges, plunging Dal into an existential depression but Gwyn affirms that his origin doesn't change how they see him. Jago then offers Dal a procedure to "fix him" by epigenetic dermal implant to awaken her dormant alien genes and thus become a better version of himself, which Gwyn disapproves by telling Dal that he does not need to be repaired and that they are only there for repair the ship. Dal seeming to take Gwyn's advice into consideration, the group then leaves to buy the equipment.
Later, Gwyn and Rok carrying backpacks full of listening Okona recounted an old adventure until Dal concluded the story as if he had read it telepathically. Gwyn notices Dal's strange change in attitude, especially when he uses the word "perspicacious" which she's never heard him said before but it's only when Dal takes Okona down that Gwyn starts to get suspicious. Shortly after, Gwyn stops moved by the puppies of a pet store, moments before the group finds themselves surrounded by the Romulans working for the Tal Shiar. Okona cowardly slips away, much to Rok and Gwyn's disgust, then Dal succeeds in bringing down the Romulans with unusual physical prowess. The girls discover that Dal has unwittingly had the Jago's implant installed on his neck to activate his dormant genes but at the cost of physically beginning to mutate badly and become unclear-minded, which Gwyn exasperatedly hopes is not permanent.
The quartet returns to the elevators but are ambushed in full mounted by the Romulans who fire on the windows but Gwyn prevents the worst by accessing the oxygen helmets for everyone before the pressure is critical. She briefly uses her Heirloom as a shield but puts it away on Rok's advice before lightning strikes the Romulan's metal gear. Dal's condition worsens as they go up and the enemy keeps firing, just for Murf to save the day by defeating the Romulans with his new abilities due to his recent transformation, making Gwyn think they have found their new chief of security. Once Vice-Admiral Janeway deflects the torpedoes tossed at the Protostar should it fall into Romulans hands but whose sudden defeat no longer makes it necessary, Dal bitterly regrets his reverberating fiasco of his fear of being a genetic mistake and wanting to be as good as Okona but Gwyn assures him that he is not a mistake and that he can't be as good as Okona because he is already better than him who left them while Dal didn't. Back on the repaired Protostar, Gwyn looks Rok and Zero return Dal to his normal appearance, to the delight of the whole crew.
In Preludes, Gwyn listens to Rok, Zero, and Jankom's stories of their lives shortly before their capture at Tars Lamora. It is also revealed that she was present when Zero was imprisoned in the penal colony, an event she still regrets. Once the stories are finished, the crew congratulates themselves on having repaired the proto-core before wanting to listen to Janeway tell the life of the real Janeway.
In Ghost in the Machines, the gang trains for days in the holodeck for their next potential encounter with the Dauntless when they leave the Neutral Zone but fail yet another time, Gwyn comes to think there might be time that they give up trying to join Starfleet. They directly take their minds off it by tasting Tellarite ice cream while releasing their personal thoughts, Gwyn affirming while gorging herself on whipped cream that she would like to slap her father with her hands. The group returns to their room after overindulging in food and Gwyn gets into physical exercise using her Heirloom as a pull-up bar when she notices a Tellarite from the holodeck walking down the hall. The rest of the teens in turn meet holographic characters and then everyone realizes they're still inside the holodeck.
Unable to deactivate the program and Janeway unable to do anything either, the gang enters a tower that is part of Zero's personal program. As the program involves solving a mystery, the gang assumes that solving it would end their situation and begin searching for a Skeleton Key. Surprised by the strange light outside, they go out to find themselves in an alley occupied by Tellarite bikers. Jankom identifies the program as his and quickly confronts the bikers, only to be punched and feel pain indicating that safety protocols no longer work, forcing the gang to defend themselves against the bikers or be injured. They then catch the Tellarite having a tattoo of the skeleton key and the inscription Keyclub but the individual disappears and the decor changes to black and white doubled with the appearance of the club in front of the gang. Inside, the teenagers discover with confusion that they are in Murf's program and that he knows how to sing the moment he picks up the microphone. While searching on her own, Gwyn encounters her father in the form of a holographic bartender, making her uncomfortable and causing her to confide in The Diviner putting the weight of Solum on her shoulders without asking. Dal and Jankom get in trouble with gangsters, so the group escapes through a hidden tunnel in the piano.
Now arrived in Dal's pirate boat program, the gang are quickly attacked by a gigantic version of a holographic animal of Rok. Gwyn saves Jankom from being dragged into the sea by the beast's tentacle until Rok scares him away by giving him fruit. The boat continues to sink anyway, then Murf finds another clue but Zero realizes they are on an endless hunt in order to stay busy while something is up. The holodeck finally stops as soon as the band refuses to play any longer, they are greeted by a relieved Janeway, only for them to realize that she was the one who locked them in the holodeck due to a secret pre-programming generated by the Living Construct that started when Gwyn suggested not to go to the Federation anymore. Gwyn deduces that they were locked up so that Janeway could program an automatic route to the Federation so that the mission to destroy Starfleet could be concluded. The red alert then goes off and once on the bridge, the gang discovers the Protostar is now face to face with the Dauntless, that they have left the neutral zone and the controls are locked.
=== Federation Space ===
In Mindwalk, the Protostar goes into warp drive, still pursued by the Dauntless. Dal and Zero attempt to communicate telepathically with the pursuing ship, only for Dal and the real Janeway to swap bodies. The gang finally explains to the Vice Admiral the reason why they keep running away from her, showing her the Living Construct, making her realize the current dangerousness of the Protostar while realizing that she was wrong about the young. Before Janeway attempts to return to her normal body through physical contact with Dal in the warp, Gwyn thanks her for giving them a chance and states that if they make it to Starfleet they might see her again, especially since Gwyn knows Dal will like it more than anyone. Janeway unfortunately reveals to Gwyn that Dal is an Augment, he can never be afforded to join Starfleet, much to Gwyn's shock. Later, after Janeway and a Dal manage to return to their respective bodies, the Protostar comes out of the warp and the crew realizes to their dismay that they have entered Federation space, surrounded by dozens of Starfleet ships.
In Supernova, Part 1, The Badass Situation, Gwyn hopes Janeway can prevent the worst from happening, except that Dal admits he may have tarnished the vice admiral's reputation while he was in her body. The Protostar's crew regain control of the ship and attempt to evade the fleet while saving shields. Dal remains convinced that they will eventually join Starfleet, so Rok tries to tell him about the Augment banning but Gwyn stops her from revealing the thing, not wanting to hurt Dal's hopes. The shields ultimately fail and the Protostar can no longer escape, prompting Gwyn to want to attempt an offensive approach on her own with a phaser rifle to buy time, especially knowing that her father will make things worse. Dal warns her that it could destroy her chances of joining Starfleet with them, to which Gwyn realizes he must know the truth. Because she says there is something he better know from her, Dal misinterprets what she is insinuating and kisses her. Gwyn reacts surprised to the kiss, making Dal embarrassed until she tells him the truth about her Augment status that he will stop him from joining Starfleet. Though devastated at first, Dal remains determined to get his friends into Starfleet even if he can't.
Upon detecting three lifeforms on board, Dal asks Gwyn to guard the bridge while the rest of the gang deal with the invaders. While the others confront another Drednok, Gwyn hides at the entrance of the Diviner and another Vau N'Akat known as the Vindicator, who had posed as Ensign Asencia when they first met. While her father finds himself confined in the cargo hold with the Living Construct, Gwyn hostilely confronts Asencia, ordering him to get out of his ship before the two women come to the clash armed with their Heirlooms. Although less skilled, Gwyn manages to scratch Asencia in the left eye. As the fight escalates, Gwyn tries to convince her eldest that there must be another way to save their people but Asencia refuses to listen to reason and calls Gwyn just a mistake that wasn't supposed to exist before disarming and subduing her.
Asencia then orders Diviner to open the calling frequencies, only for him to choose his daughter over the mission, sending Gwyn's Heirloom back against Asencia but she grabs it and impales the Diviner with it. Gwyn goes to her injured father's bedside as Asencia and her Drednok end up spreading the Living Construct through Starfleet ships. As Asencia and Drednok escape from the Protostar, the dying Diviner confesses his remorse to his daughter, having only ever wanted to save their world but is convinced she can unite their people better than he ever could, that there is no barrier she cannot overcome and that she is his spirit's song, his Gwyndala, the last thing he says before he dies. After the Diviner's lifeless body disintegrates, Dal expresses sympathy to a grieving Gwyn, shortly before the Universal Translators cease to function due to the Living Construct.
With things continuing to go downhill, Gwyn is able to bring her friends back together with her fluency in languages that she can use for good. The gang contacts Vice-Admiral Janeway and together they find a solution to contact the allies of the Federation because they do not have the Starfleet signature and therefore cannot be infected by the Living Construct. Gwyn contacts a Klingon captain, begging her to relay the distress call out of her own belief that everyone in the universe can find their place despite their differences through Starfleet, also asking for help from allies, civilians and even outsiders to help them not let the coexisting dream die. Gwyn's message first seems futile but at the last moment, Klingon, Ferengi, Vulcan and Gorn ships arise from the warp to help stop the self-destruction of the Starfleet's armada. Unfortunately, the Living Construct also infected other distant ships with distress calls, making things worse. In her despair, Gwyn realizes there is nothing they can do to stop this destructive madness.
In Supernova, Part 2, Faced with their inability to prevent the destruction of the Starfleet armada, the gang reluctantly agrees to have the Protostar self-destruct to destroy Living Construct's influence on Federation starships but from warp to limit the explosion zone of the proto-core which could destroy the whole galaxy. Dal initially volunteers to stay on board when the ship is evacuated because the self-destruct command can only be triggered manually, but Janeway offers to take her place since she can download a copy of her memory to survive, an option with which the crew is not comfortable with despite it being their best option. Gwyn and Rok take care of making a shuttlecraft for the evacuation thanks to the vehicle replicator and once that is done, the six friends go one last time to the bridge where they have lived so many adventures before bidding farewell to Janeway . Aboard the shuttlecraft, the gang takes a last look at the Protostar and then sees its disappearance into the warp and its destruction, creating a wormhole. A little later, they find out that Janeway couldn't save her memory because of her past experience with teenagers which made her program too heavy to be moved from the computer in time and leave a goodbye message instead, encouraging them to pursue their dreams and that it was a pleasure for her to have traveled with them.
A month later, the shuttlecraft crashes in San Francisco Bay and the gang is quickly rescued by Starfleet. The teens are taken to Federation court where they stand trial for stealing the Protostar and other things, but the real Janeway stands up for them, knowing full well that they are good people and have never done anything but saving the Federation. Later at the end of the deliberations, Janeway tells the teenagers that the charges against them are dropped but that they unfortunately could not integrate Starfleet Academy because of the inequality it would create for others. Nevertheless, five of them are allowed to become warrant officers under Janeway. Dal initially believes he is the one not taken until Gwyn reveals that she is not coming with them as knowing what will happen to her people when the first contact will take place, she must find Solum and save the Vau N'Akat in her own way, Starfleet offering to help her return to her home planet. Although sad, these friends accept her choice.
While adjusting to their new life in the Federation, Dal and Gwyn are in a screening room discussing their rocky start, with Dal using Gwyn's old mispronunciation "cat boots" and the girl amusedly correcting the sentence in "cahoots". Gwyn then reveals to him that she located Solum by remembering the particular star clusters seen in Solum's holographic projection. The duo then expresses the idea that a younger version of the Diviner exists in the current era. Dal then tells Gwyn that he doesn't want her to leave, which she already knows before they share a kiss promising that they will meet again. As Gwyn leaves, her friends are present as the shuttle flies out of Earth.
=== Arrival on Solum ===
In "Into the Breach, part 1", Gwyn has been on her way to Solum for a long time now. She receives a video call from Dal and after asking how the gang is doing, Gwyn senses that Dal is not very happy at the moment. Dal admits to having difficulty adjusting to Starfleet, to which Gwyn compares it to her own anxiety about meeting her people to avoid civil war. When Dal begins to doubt the flow of time once Gwyn convinces Solum, Gwyn guesses that he hasn't read Temporal Mechanics 101 and then explains to him that she hopes to create a future that is no different. Alas, as Dal clumsily expresses his idea of ​​a future for them, the connection is lost.
In "Into the Breach, part 2", an anxious Gwyn once again links the First Contact protocols, worried about the possibility that the Vau N'Akat will refuse to listen to reason, despite her pilot having complete confidence in her. Finally in orbit above Solum, Gwyn is teleported to town, her arrival is immediately noticed by the townspeople. She barely begins to introduce herself as an ambassador for the Federation when two guards force her to follow them. Taken to the audience room of the Elders of Solum, Gwyn begins a second time to speak on behalf of the Federation but while she encourages the Vau N'Akat to share their knowledge with the cosmos if they accept that they are the only ones in the universe, Asencia shows up, having arrived on Solum earlier. The fake ensign discredits Gwyn with lies about spying for the Federation and the fact that she wasn't born on Solum like she was. The Elders quickly side with Asencia and order Gwyn's arrest but she manages to escape the quarantined building.
On the streets of Lower Town, Gwyn continues to evade guards and requests an emergency teleport, only for the shuttle to be destroyed by Vau N'Akat ships. Left to her own devices, Gwyn's senses respond, guiding her to the observatory where she senses a familiar presence. Infiltrating inside, she meets the astronomer who owns the place who is none other than the Diviner's younger counterpart, Ilthuran. Ilthuran is skeptical of the fact that he is Gwyn's future father, as well as her warning of the civil war she is trying to prevent, but it is only once that Gwyn shows that her Heirloom and Ilthuran's are the same as Ilthuran accepts Gwyn as his daughter.
In order to best help Gwyn, Ilthuran shows her the Arcana, the reliquary of Solum's history. Simultaneously, Gwyn meets the modern-day Drednok whom she mistakes for the more evil one she knew until Ilthuran assures her that he is only the keeper of knowledge. Gwyn asks how to make herself heard by the Vau N'Akat and Drednok tells her about the Valu'Ra, the oldest rite of Solum whose winners are recognized as true Vau N'Akat. This ritual being extremely dangerous and having not been practiced for millennia, Gwyn decides to give it a try.
In "Who Saves the Saviors", Gwyn returns to see the Elders in the company of Ilthuran and although the latter confirms that she is of his blood, Gwyn chooses to prove her legitimacy by challenging Asencia at Valu'Ra. On a rocky plain, Gwyn and Asencia descend into an ancient arena, without their Heirlooms, where Gwyn is able to sense that it is the source of all Heirlooms, seconds before dodging an attack from an Asencia armed with a Heirloom created by the energy in the arena. Gwyn in turn creates her own Heirloom and begins a closer fight against Asencia as the platform reaches the bottom.
The confrontation intensifies, with Gwyn confronting Asencia for her stubbornness in leading Solum to war because she is afraid of a future that does not yet exist, but as The Vindicator refuses to listen to reason, Gwyn uses her control Heirlooms to create a climbing wall to escape the arena, pursued by Asencia. Halfway through the release, Gwyn begins to suffer from a time paradox due to his friends tampering with Chakotay's escape to the Solum of the future. With her body continually becoming intangible, Gwyn eventually falls into the void. Fortunately, her fall is cushioned by a mass of Heirloom but unfortunately, the opening to the arena is closed, trapping a weakened Gwyn inside.
In "Temporal Mechanics 101", still affected by the effects of time distortion, Gwyn receives a vision of a galaxy and a voice telling her that her time has not come and that she must stay together with someone. As the vision ends, Gwyn sees Ilthuran coming to her aid, although he cannot move her due to her body continuing to become incorporeal. In the alternate future, Dal, Zero, Jankom and the Vulcan Maj'el discover Gwyn's state due to her quantum signature being shifted between existence and non-existence. Having heard their voices, Gwyn tells Ilthuran about her friends, who later learns that he already met them when he became The Diviner, a character he never intended to become.
Her friends are able to return to the Solum of the present thanks to a homemade time machine. She reassures them that the younger version of the Diviner is on their side. Zero injects a chronitonic dose into Gwyn to stabilize her while she is moved. Before boarding the time machine that can suddenly fly, Gwyn promises Ilthuran that she will return. Once repatriated to Voyager, she has a temporal stabilizer placed on her arm by the Doctor in order to remain stable for a while. With the others, she mentions their mysterious benefactor who has continued to help them reunite.
=== Search for Protostar and meeting with Wesley Crusher ===
In "Observer's Paradox", Gwyn thinks she has failed to save Solum, when suddenly Murf draws the cosmic spiral she saw in vision, leading the gang to try to understand what their gelatinous companion is trying to tell them. Attempts to translate Murf's language failing in turn, Gwyn and Dal seek information on the spiral and find a link with the people descended from the Nicarao of which Chakotay was a member. Thinking that Chakotay is the one who sent the message, the gang turns to Rok who is unwilling to help them for fear of being compromised in their future in Starfleet, but Gwyn is able to convince her to help them. With Rok, the gang finally finds the solution in the whale Gillian who manages to understand Murf once he joins her in her tank. They get the word "Find me" and some numbers which Gwyn discovers is a frequency she must change on her time cuff despite the risk of doing so. Gwyn finds herself teleported into space, seeing the spiral again before the entourage becomes so urgent that she backs off, having at least figured out that the spiral is a map to Chakotay's location.
In "Imposter Syndrome", finding Chakotay's location on a missing planetoid, the gang plans to take the Infinity to find Chakotay before the ship is destroyed on Starfleet's orders. They make holograms of themselves to hide their absence from Voyager but things go wrong, with the holographic doubles mistaking themselves for the real ones and trying to hijack the Infinity in their place. After successfully resetting the glitch, the gang teleports aboard the Infinity before it hits the star and begins their quest for Chakotay.
In "The Fast and the Curious", the gang attempts to reach the Spiral Nebula more quickly through an annex warp conduit left by the Borg, although Gwyn is initially against it because of their past experience with the Borg. In full distortion, the Infinity is diverted by the Kazons to a planet under their control and whose leader, Ekthi, forces the gang to participate in a ship race as compensation for having taken the warp conduit which he considers to be his. Dal and Jankom end up crashing after a collision with the last competitor towards the end of the race which was rigged from the start but Gwyn and Rok come to their rescue. The gang subsequently discovers that an artificial intelligence actually controls the Kazons as well as the race. Zero is able to turn it off, at the cost of damaging the containment suit. In this chaos, Gwyn's armband was damaged but Rok repairs it.
In "Is There in Beauty No Truth?", the gang stops off on Ovidia 4, a planet inhabited by telepaths of all kinds, including Medusans who have obtained physical envelopes and who have invited Zero telephatically. Zero subsequently obtains an organic body and the others are happy about it but they eventually discover that the inhabitants of Ovidia 4 have a dangerous ritual of fleeing from a flying creature for the sole purpose of feeling fear. Zero is saved and decides to continue the journey, much to the delight of the crew.
In "The Devourer of All Things, part 1", Gwyn records a diary where she confides her inner uncertainties as well as her fear of her life hanging on her armband, although she is convinced that being among her friends put things back in order. The gang arrives at the coordinates but finds nothing until Gwyn theorizes that the planet is out of phase like her, helping Rok find the planet through remodulation.
The gang lands on the planet and explores a local temple with a half-past, half-future feel where only one form of life is located. In Chakotay's place, they meet Wesley Crusher, a former Starfleet midshipman turned Traveler, and although the man acts moody, he turns out to be the one who sent the messages to the gang to get them here. After almost incongruous explanations about the multiverse and other existing realities, Wesley warns the gang that the paradox born from the previous chronological change causes the appearance of holes from which cosmic scavengers known as the Looms emerge, feeding on dying timelines. Gwyn asks if her death would prevent her friends from being devoured, only for Wesley to say that it wouldn't be enough but that everything could be fine if the Protostar returned to Tars Lamora at the right time, erasing the threat. Wesley then begins to place the crew in different positions which activate switches in the ground but the scavengers tumble out. With her friends frozen in time, Gwyn obtains temporal stabilizers from Wesley to revive them. A Loom attacks and the phasers do nothing to him, forcing the gang to flee. They touch Wesley's safe and suddenly find themselves in a retro 60s office.
In "The Devourer of All Things, part 2", with the only plan to restore the timeline being to find the Protostar, the gang saves Maj'el in time who came to investigate their disappearance from a Loom, unfortunately attracting none others in the process, forcing them to return to the temple. Outside, they are almost caught by the Weavers but Voyager's intervention allows them to retreat to the back of the temple. Wesley begins placing the crew on tiles again in order to obtain the necessary quantum signatures but nothing happens until Maj'el joins the practice, allowing Wesley to open a portal to where the gang is supposed to surrender before the Weavers surround them. On the other side, the gang finds themselves on a semi-desert world where they finally find the Protostar displaced in time.
In "Last Flight of the Protostar, part 1", approaching the Protostar, the gang falls into a net before meeting a Chakotay stranded on the planet for a decade, as well as the Janeway hologram. All these years alone have made Chakotay embittered and demoralized, just as he is stubborn in keeping the Living Construct away from the Federation, the gang's plea to the threat already avoided changing nothing. Problems are piling up, with the proto-core having been ejected and the warp engines completely drained, the Protostar will not fly. Despite the misunderstandings, the gang is able to partially repair the ship and give Chakotay some hope. Following Dal's disappearance, Gwyn and the others find him underground after fleeing from giant worms, as well as the body of Chakotay's second in command, Adreek. However, they discover that in these last moments, Adreek had managed to create antimatter, enough to allow the Protostar to leave. Following these events, everyone offers a eulogy to Adreek.
In "Last Flight of the Protostar, part 2", the Protostar is sure the path to complete repair, having to obtain by completely the matter to create a reaction with the antimatter, and for this deuterium gas must be collected in the eye of the storm across the steam ocean. As the Protostar becomes a makeshift boat, the group sails on the ocean of steam. Dal failing to prevent a collision with the reefs, Gwyn took his place at the helm in time, eventually becoming her permanent position. The storm engulfs the ship in the evening, not preventing the crew from managing to absorb the deuterium in the Protostar's engines, finally allowing them to escape the planet.
=== Second trip on the Protostar and travel between realities ===
In "A Tribble Called Quest", needing bosonite to recreate the proto-star powering the proto-core, the group goes to an M-class planet with a natural supply of bosonite. There, they come across a group of mutated Tribbles nearly killing them, with Zero ending up injuring them. They then meet a Klingon geneticist, Dr. Kluvang, who tried to stop the Tribbles' continued reproduction by retrovirus only to cause their current mutation. The Klingon tells them that the only bosonite deposit is located in the heart of Tribble Omega's nest, making them first have to eliminate the Tribbles with an enhanced retrovirus in order to obtain the bosonite.
Meanwhile, Gwyn begins to bond with Maj'el due to their own personal doubt such as fear of being able to save Solum or Maj'el's uncertainty over her place among the gang. Both come to agree that life is filled with uncertainty, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to achieve a goal. Suddenly, Rok gives life to a Tribble-Brikar hybrid for whom Gwyn takes a particular liking and to whom Dal gives the name Bribble.
Once the retrovirus is developed, the gang attacks the Tribbles, Gwyn and Dal take care of placing the teleportation devices around the bosonite deposit, only to be chased by the giant Tribbles. Joined by their friends, the situation becomes desperate and the young people are forced to immobilize Kluvang so that he does not face exploding the bosonite to destroy the entire area. Bribble is able to communicate with the Tribbles and gets them to renounce their hostility. With the mission successful, the proto-core is reconnected.
In "Cracked Mirror", the Protostar crew joins Voyager, only to discover that they have landed in an alternate reality, at the same time as Gwyn begins to suffer from the paradox again. As they move around in the Voyager elevators, the gang keeps changing reality over and over again, Gwyn's group finding themselves in a reality where the Living Construct destroyed Starfleet. Gwyn believes that launching the proto-drive weakens the fabric of the universe due to the state of the timeline and Maj'el notes that Gwyn won't survive too much travel between realities, nor will she be able to stay here. With the help of an alternate Okona, Gwyn, Dal, Murf and Chakotay try to teleport to the others.
The experiment goes wrong, with the group ending up in the Mirror Universe and separated from Maj'el. Once escaping the brig, they are quickly discovered by the Janeway Mirror and flee through the Alternate Voyager until they reach the bridge in order to use the deflector to return home. From there, they see the Looms appear and storm the Terran Empire ship. Despite an unlikely alliance between the two camps, a Weaver enters the bridge and nearly erases Gwyn but she manages to activate the deflector in time. All together, they return to the good Voyager and Chakotay finally reunites with the real Janeway. Dal is happy to have returned from this trip with Gwyn, to which she happily agrees.
=== The Ultimate Conflict ===
In "Ascension, part 1", the Voyager crew waits for the solution to send the Protostar back to the correct time on Tars Lamora to repair the Timeline. Ultimately, Admiral Jellico orders that the ship from another time be given to the Department of Temporal Investigations to take over, something which greatly exasperates the gang due to their personal involvement, although Dal thinks it is time to let the professionals act rather than risk losing Gwyn on a whim, an opinion that Gwyn somewhat shares. Gwyn is subsequently invited to the bridge where Janeway receives a message from Solum via Ilthuran. He warns them that Asencia has taken too much power and will go to war against the Federation, through futuristic technology that allows Asencia to build a fleet under energy domes where a few hours outside become months inside, something even the Vau N'Akat could not do in the despotic future. Ilthuran is subsequently captured by an Asencia taunting her enemies from the transmission, just as she mocks Gwyn for losing her Heirloom to her. Obtaining Voyager's sub-space coordinates at the same time, Asencia sends them a new major problem: a gigantic Vau N'Akat ship appearing out of nowhere.
The enemy ship attacking both Voyager and the Protostar, Gwyn and her friends join Chakotay aboard the Protostar to fight, especially since the destruction of the Protostar would spell the final end of Gwyn. As Voyager continues to be siphoned off energy, the Nova Flyers provide a diversion so that the Protostar crew can isolate firing coordinates for Voyager. Unfortunately, Un Voyager's quantum torpedoes are running out of energy and are intercepted by the enemy ship's assault drones.
In "Ascension, part 2", the Protostar comes to the aid of Defenseless Voyager at Gwyn's insistence despite the potential risks, eliminating the attacking drones. Asencia then launches the Incursor missile against Voyager and the Protostar is paralyzed in the enemy's tractor beam. The Vau N'Akat weapon pierces Voyager's hangar and spreads a wave of temporal radiation throughout the ship, to which the gang can do nothing as Protostar is also siphoned off by the Rev ship. Before it was too late, Zero managed to hack the Incursor, at the cost of losing its organic body, so that it latched onto the Novas Flyers and crashed into the Rev, destroying the ship. Following this victory, the gang now welcomes Zero in a body similar to his containment suit but with sensory sensors to be able to feel everything. Janeway then announces that Voyager and Protostar will leave for Solum once repairs are completed.
In "Brink", Gwyn is very concerned with the future of the Federation and Solum commonly at stake due to Asencia's future weaponry, proposing that she and her friends go to Solum to gather information since they not officially Starfleet and therefore would not cause any provocation. She also offers to rescue Ilthuran to help in the fight, which Janeway approves of. Back in their old clothes, the gang is joined by Maj'el, to Gwyn's pleasure. At the last briefing before the mission, Janeway reminds them that they should only collect information and not engage in combat, then in the teleportation room, Dal assures Gwyn that she is capable of leading them to Solum's salvation.
Infiltrating the city, the gang moves in a cloaking force field among the populace, tightly packed together. They then receive a transmission from the Vau N'Akat resistance from the observatory. Searching the trashed place for clues, Gwyn reactivates Drednok to find out who sent the message, unexpectedly learning that it is Asencia before it turns out to be the younger Asencia, disgusted by the cruelty of her older counterpart to the point of forming the uprising with Ilthuran. A comparison of Vau N'Akat's future and present technology helps the gang realize that Asencia has captured and is using Wesley as a source of secrecy for her weapons of war. Gwyn then splits the team in two, she with Rok, Murf and Zero to go and free Wesley while the others go to rescue Ilthuran.
Entering the complex after having neutralized two guards following the force field malfunction, Gwyn's team makes their way to a weakened and disoriented Wesley who is unfortunately too tired to use his powers so that they can escape, forcing the group to improvise. Outside, Wesley panics when he realizes that the gang has been separated since they don't understood that the warning about staying together meant never separating, Gwyn's decision having seriously changed Wesley's prognosis and she begins to blame herself for it. Dal's team arrives, only to be revealed to have been captured by Asencia before Gwyn's team is surrounded by her minions. As Asencia thanks Gwyn for indirectly revealing that Ilthuran will obstruct her plans, Dal takes out the teleportation device at Gwyn's direction and gives it to Wesley and Ilthuran, teleporting them both to Voyager.
In "Touch of Grey", Asencia uses her new captives as propaganda to push the Vau N'Akat to reject other life forms at the same time as she uses them to force Janeway to surrender. In the prison train where the gang is held, Gwyn still regrets her previous mistake which she thinks cost Solum's future but her friends on the contrary approve of the choice she made because the war of the future could have already taken place if Asencia still held Wesley and Ilthuran. Subsequently placed in a prison located on the ruins of a destroyed city, the gang finds themselves confronted by a Loom under the control of Asencia. Surviving for a moment against the rampaging creature, the young people are saved by the intervention of Janeway, The Doctor, Chakotay and Wesley, allowing them to escape. Wesley then brings in the decoy ship and despite Asencia's attempts to shoot it down in the sky, everyone escapes unharmed. As Solum continues to descend into chaos, Gwyn and her friends are more than determined to restore the flow of time, also receiving support from Starfleet's senior officers.
In "Ouroboros, part 1", with Asencia desperate and on the verge of madness opening several spatio-temporal rifts on many Federation bases, the opportunity to send the Protostar back to the past finally presents itself. Before merging the energy of the faults to create a vortex on the desired space-time destination and although the risks of failing are colossal with serious consequences, the crew of the Protostar boards their ship in preparation for the dangerous mission which awaits them, with the support of Voyager which will buy them the time it takes. Before leaving, Gwyn exchanges a few nice words with Rok.
Gwyn, Dal, Murf, Jankom and Ilthuran are teleported to Solum as the exploration team, having to reach the Asencia research tower to extract the necessary data. Once again, the effects of the paradox affect Gwyn due to the space-time tear but Gwyn intends to put the mission first. At the foot of the tower, Gwyn has the Drednok and Watchers units avoid another path to the top. They get caught at the ladders, forcing Ilthuran to stay back while the others continue to climb the ladders. They receive the coordinates of the correct location of the time rifts for the correct path to the past as they reach the top of the tower, only to be attacked by Asencia and her Drednok. The console burned out in the firefight, the only thing to do is use the transceivers. Gwyn confronts Asencia alone so her friends can have a chance to ascend, also wanting her Heirloom back. A third fight follows, to the disadvantage of Gwyn just armed with a metal bar and still suffering the effects of time.
At the climax of their confrontation, the two fighters fall to the bottom of the tower and Gwyn finds himself at the mercy of Asencia but Dal is able to reconnect the transmitters, suppressing Asencia's fleet as the rifts converge into a vortex. The Vau N'Akat subsequently give their will to Gwyn, allowing her to control all of the Heirlooms' energy, disarming Asencia. Stubbornly trying to regain her Heirloom, Asencia eventually breaks her natural connection and finds herself in a semi-vegetative state, leaving Gwyn victorious.
In "Ouroboros, part 2", with Asencia defeated and the Looms emerging from the vortex to attack Solum, Gwyn and her friends return to the Protostar where the last thing to stop the Looms from doing harm is to send the starship through the vortex before it's too late. Chakotay volunteers the dangerous maneuver of passing through the Looms but the gang refuses to leave him alone. Supported by Voyager, the Protostar penetrates inside the vortex, continually assaulted by waves of Looms. The two ships hold out until the storm passes. After seeing echoes of the past, the gang finally approaches Tars Lamora, meaning they must leave the Protostar, but not without a final goodbye with Hologram Janeway as well as the Protostar. History finally returns to normal, the Looms leave and Gwyn can finally remove her temporal armband.
Time passes, Solum has joined the Federation and the band has become very popular among Starfleet's young hopefuls. At First Contact Day, the friends discuss how things have just changed for the better when suddenly, news of the destruction of the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards on Mars occurs, severely shaking the entire Federation. Starfleet is gradually falling into denial, operations reduced, resources running out, exploration being suspended, protection of fellow Federation citizens increased, all Academy courses suspended indefinitely and plans for the future uncertain.
The gang is just as demoralized, as if their entire path to joining Starfleet had led to nothing but a dead end. Fortunately for them, the now Admiral Janeway offers her young friends a new ship of the same class as the Protostar, the USS Prodigy, refusing to let Starfleet decommission it in the current times and certain that the gang will be a good crew for this ship made to explore. Janeway then offers them rank pips, making them Ensigns for field mission. Visiting the bridge where the Janeway Hologram turns out to have been installed after its program was able to be copied, Dal decides to everyone's surprise to give up being the captain of the Prodigy, having ended up seeing in Gwyn a better captain than he never will be and deciding instead to become her second, even Janeway gives Gwyn her approval.
Subsequently, dressed in new Starfleet uniform, accompanied by Bribble and everyone in the position that suits them perfectly, Gwyn and her friends set off aboard the Prodigy for new adventures into the unknown.
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