Star Trek: Prodigy season 2’s "Cracked Mirror" takes one of the franchise’s darkest playgrounds, the Mirror Universe, and makes it vivid, clever, and surprisingly emotional without losing the show’s accessibility for younger viewers. By weaving Chakotay's long-awaited reunion with Janeway into a tour through alternate realities, the episode becomes both a lore-rich crossover and a character-driven story about who these heroes choose to be when everything familiar is twisted.
Back to Voyager… but wrong
The episode begins with the Protostar finally reaching Voyager‑A, only for the crew to discover that a temporal tear has turned the ship into a stack of alternate realities, each deck reflecting a different possible timeline.
As Chakotay, Dal, Gwyn, Jankom Pog, Rok‑Tahk, and Murf move through the ship, they confront universes where past choices, like Admiral Janeway’s fate or the Protostar’s weapon, played out very differently, forcing them to see how fragile their own “prime” reality really is.
This structure enables Prodigy to honor previous Voyager stories, such as “Shattered,” while providing the kids with a crash course in how one decision can reshape everything.