Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy 1x09 - "A Moral Star, Part 1"
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I had thought the novels might be the best place to look, but Aaron Waltke has mentioned on a couple different podcast interviews that Murf’s origins were mentioned specifically on one of the shows.
Oh, hadn't heard that yet.
Well then ... I guess folks will have to scour the several hundred episode scripts for the answer then.
In a weird way it’s nice to have it narrowed down like that, but it’s also pretty freaking daunting, what with 803 episodes having aired before Murf’s debut.
The caretaker looked like a purple blob when he was dying and Murf could be a baby Nacene, Denevan neural parasites are slimy blobs and could perhaps combine to form a more gentle and complex lifeform, the coalescent or silver blood lifeforms could have relatives that aren't mimetic, or the Protostar could have had bio-neural gel packs that somehow merged and formed a lifeform 
I wish that site that searched the transcript page didn't die.
I noticed a small continuity snag/animation error. There's one shot of Zero at a console, after painting themselves in the uniform colours, where they're back in their regular colours.
I'm not complaining about it, just making an observation. Shit like this happens all the time.
I'm not complaining about it, just making an observation. Shit like this happens all the time.
Apparently though, what Murf is, has never been SEEN on screen, only mentioned.The caretaker looked like a purple blob when he was dying and Murf could be a baby Nacene, Denevan neural parasites are slimy blobs and could perhaps combine to form a more gentle and complex lifeform, the coalescent or silver blood lifeforms could have relatives that aren't mimetic, or the Protostar could have had bio-neural gel packs that somehow merged and formed a lifeform
I found this at Memory Beta ...
Gelloid
"The Gelloids were a species, composed largely of protoplasm.
They were known to the Federation by the 2370s.
A Gelloid was visiting Deep Space-9 in 2370, when the station became home to a disorientated group of Horta.
When the Horta found their way onto the space station's promenade the people of the station, including the Gelloid and an Avian trader, were rather startled and in the ensuing chaos the Avian's talons got stuck in the Gelloid's gooey protoplasm.
(DS-9 Novel "Devil in the Sky)"
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Gelloid
Though I don't know if they were ever mentioned in any of the shows.
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I saw this today. It's making me really wonder how they're going to get the Protostar back. Gwyn's father is something else.
He seemed to be in trouble when he got stuck between stuff while the Protostar crashed on the evil vine planet. Somehow he couldn't get out and trilled like he's in distress, and then Gwyn saved him, IIRC.
It would be interesting to see if parts of Murf stay alive and can perhaps even form their own heads when split off. If that's the case, you'd have to wear a living creature as armor XD
But if you can 'harvest' armor goo from him that doesn't have its own mind, and if he can regenerate whatever he loses, you could cover entire ships with that stuff
What is your daytime job, evil schientist?
Two words: Brad Dourif!
Interestingly, if Murph has been mentioned onscreen then it's likely (unless it was a Voyager episode) that they're yet another member of an alpha quadrant race far from home.
That'd be years after this.
Hardly half. I think 14? Presumably worlds close to the neutral zone with unpleasant history with the Romulans. Still a bleak, depressing place to take the Federation...
I'll just keep periodically watching reruns. Work, work, work...
That'd be years after this.
Hardly half. I think 14? Presumably worlds close to the neutral zone with unpleasant history with the Romulans. Still a bleak, depressing place to take the Federation...
I'll just keep periodically watching reruns. Work, work, work...
I wonder if all the rescued children will become the ship’s crew and recurring characters. They will need to do something with them unless they find some conveniently nearby planet with a galactic orphanage. I hope they keep the little Caitian girl and make her a main character. They also need a human.
My prediction: Janeway’s upgrade.
Jankem talks about being from a Tellarite Sleeper Ship, which I previously speculated could mean he was from a time when early in the Tellarite space age, before they had developed warp drive and therefore before the Federation existed. This could explain how he doesn't know about the Federation, and why the Federation didn't react to his apparent abduction.
Janklom could be centuries old but, like Khan, would only have resumed aging when released from cryogenic sleep.
It would be literally like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Problem with it is that the only series which comes to mind that could have something like Murf would be TOS only because more 'exotic' (and less humanoid) species were mentioned in TOS.
Apart from that... I do not recall any other Trek series that could have referenced Murf's species.
There are some vague similarities in Murf's composition and the Founders gelatinous state... but its just that... 'vague' at best.
Murf has no ability to shapeshift and he's pretty much indestructible (at least when it comes to energy/explosions/radiation)... the Founders have no such ability and can easily be vaporized (but for all we know, Murfs exterior could be more vulnerable).
This is a distinct possibility.
Gwyn was seen working on Janeway's holo matrix while the kids were preparing to integrate their plan before jumping back to Tars Lamora.
My guess is she anticipated her father and Drednok will try overwriting Janeway and installed subroutines to protect her (which Drednok obviously didn't see because Janeway is a low priority system and has access to low priority systems) and possibly also give her greater command access to the ship in the process.
So, right now, Va'uk/Nat Janeway is probably still real Janeway and playing possum (waiting until the time is right).
We'll see.
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