“In Seldon’s Shadow”
We cut to Synnax, Gaal’s completely waterlogged home planet, where she and Salvor met for the first time at the end of season two and Salvor revealed that she’s Gaal’s daughter. Gaal’s confused because as far as she knows, she doesn’t have a daughter, but she does remember preserving an embryo in the distant past—which, Salvor tells her, was implanted in the woman she believed was her biological mother until she learned about Gaal. Salvor points out they’ve both been in cryosleep for over a century—a sci-fi quirk that means Salvor is now actually older than Gaal—and tells Gaal that she always felt a connection to her. That’s how she knew to head to Synnax, for instance. But it’s weird to feel this sudden intimacy with a stranger, and the women quickly agree Salvor should call Gaal by her first name, rather than “Mom.”
