Gwyn surely tried a very direct approach. Kinda bad from Starfleet (Gwyn was clearly getting coached) to just send her in like that, they might as well have send someone from among themselves if they wanted Gwyn to be so open about it.
While speculating, I had never considered that Ascencia might take matters into her own hands and warn her people themselves. Probably because I had come under the impression, mistakingly, that merely the knowledge of alien life could already trigger the conditions for civil war. It made for a good sequence, though.
It did require a lot of coincidence that Gwyn just happened to escape in a direction that led to her being within "bluetooth" (blueface?) range of her father. Would maybe have been better if she had been able to research that beforehand. The meeting with her father was lovely, though.
I liked the detail that Gwyn had been studying first contact protocols, learning everything about first contacts and consequences is entirely in character for her, given the situation. It also makes sense that her father is an astronomer; of course he would be enthusiastic about extra-Solum life.
Vau N'akat architecture sure has a tendency toward megalomania, but we already knew that from season 1, I suppose.
Lots of coincidences on Voyager as well, but all in good fun. I was a bit disappointed that Janeway did apparently not secretly wish to enlist the Protogies and that the hints given were does not intentional.
