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Star Trek: Prodigy

A group of enslaved teenagers steal a derelict Starfleet vessel to escape and explore the galaxy. A group of enslaved teenagers steal a derelict Starfleet vessel to escape and explore the galaxy. A group of enslaved teenagers steal a derelict Starfleet vessel to escape and explore the galaxy.

• Dan Hageman
• Kevin Hageman
• Rylee Alazraqui
• Dee Bradley Baker
• 174 User reviews
• 9 Critic reviews
• 2 wins & 3 nominations

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• Hologram Janeway …

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• Counselor Noum …

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• Trivia Set in 2383, five years after the ending of Star Trek: Voyager (1995) in the Prime Timeline.
• Connections Edited into Star Trek: Prodigy - Die Helden (2022)

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Editor's Note: The interview below contains major spoilers for Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2.

The Big Picture

• The Hageman brothers discuss their work on Star Trek: Prodigy , including the return of beloved characters and the naming of a character after Majel Barrett.
• They touch on the possibility of a Season 3 and the significance of reaching a broader audience through animation.
• The Hageman brothers also briefly mention their work on Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 2 , which is currently in production limbo.

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 has officially arrived on Netflix, and with it, the beloved animated series has delivered some of the best Star Trek storytelling in years . As we say later on in this interview, Season 2 is very much a love letter to the entire franchise, past and present. Prodigy has always been a perfectly crafted series that appeals to newcomers to the franchise and serves as a beautiful homecoming for longtime fans of the series. Season 2 picks up shortly after the close of Season 1, with Dal ( Brett Gray ), Jankom Pog ( Jason Mantzoukas ), Rok-Tahk ( Rylee Alazraqui ), Zero ( Angus Imrie ), and Murf ( Dee Bradley Baker ) adjusting to their new roles as official Starfleet cadets. Dal is also still reeling from the loss of Gwyn ( Ella Purnell ) as she embarks on her quest to prevent Solum’s future civil war.

Ahead of the premiere, I had the opportunity to chat with its creators, Dan and Kevin Hageman , for the fourth time, and this conversation was just as delightful as the rest. We discussed how they balanced all of the timelines that unravel in Season 2, how they turned a dork like Wesley Crusher ( Wil Wheaton ) into a time-traveling heartthrob , whether Dal and Gwyn still have a romantic future now that their roles have changed aboard the Protostar , the development of the new character Ma'jel, and what the status of Season 3 is now that Paramount+ has off-loaded the series to Netflix . Read on for the full transcript of our conversation below—which includes a minor update on the long-awaited Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark sequel .

COLLIDER: First and foremost, I have to congratulate you both on a fantastic season of television. I felt so many emotions watching seasons. I laughed, I cried. I felt all the things.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: Good, good, good. I'm so happy.

DAN HAGEMAN: It's so nice because these are the first reactions we're getting, so it's a fun day to talk to people.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: Yeah, you are the first.

I love that. The first episode had me crying, the last episode had me crying. As a Voyager fan and a Prodigy fan, it felt like a field day. Truly.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: Good! Thank you so much.

Star Trek: Prodigy

A group of young aliens escape captivity by commandeering a derelict Starfleet ship, the U.S.S. Protostar. As they navigate the galaxy, they must learn to work together and uncover the ship's secrets. The show blends adventure and discovery, appealing to both new viewers and longtime Star Trek fans.

How 'Star Trek: Prodigy' Turned Wesley Crusher Into Their Very Own Doctor Who

Right out of the gate, I want to know, how did you keep all of the timelines and the time travel straight? Does somebody have, like, a giant binder? Is there a board somewhere with red strings connecting everything together?

KEVIN HAGEMAN: Yes. At the end of Season 1, we were starting to put this stuff together because we knew if we ever did a Season 2, you had Gwyn going to current Solum, you had Chakotay in future Solum. So we, as a writers’ room, were drawing it out on the whiteboard. It was some ridiculous drawing. But thank god, we went to our doctor, Erin Macdonald, our science advisor, and she, as our theoretical physicist, took this and was like, “Yeah, this could work!” She did a much better drawing for us, like, “Yes! We can do this.” [Laughs]

So it's really applying actual science to the idea of multiple timelines and all of that essentially?

DAN HAGEMAN: I think it's our love, too, of all time travel stories where sometimes, when they get loosey-goosey with them, I don't necessarily buy that. But this was one where you've got a room full of Star Trek fans trying to figure out a time-travel season, so it was a lot of fun to dig into that and do it the best that we could.

I love how Wesley is essentially like a “Doctor Who” for the Star Trek Universe. It makes it so fun. Star Trek: Picard made me such a huge fan of Jack Crusher, and so the entire time that Wesley was bouncing around, I'm like, “Does he know about his brother?” When we do get that reveal towards the end, where he gets to meet his brother, it had me thinking, how on your side are you keeping things straight? I think Star Trek: Picard , the final season, was in development at the same time that Season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy was in development. What are those conversations like behind the scenes, making sure that shows and development in tandem are on the same page with these kinds of story elements?

DAN HAGEMAN: We were in conversation with Terry [Matalas] and talking about it. We were trying to figure out how old Jack was at that time. We were trying to figure out where we were because we knew we wanted the wrap-up of Wesley to be with his mother. That was the thing, where it’d be kind of weird if she didn’t say, like, “Oh, you've got a brother there, Wesley.” So, luckily we were doing it at the right place at the right time, and it all worked out.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: Even the team on Picard heard that we were really gonna be using Wesley, and so they very graciously called up and said, “We were hoping to do a little cameo for him too. What are you guys doing with him?” So, we were in sync. And I'm really proud and so happy now that the world can see that we're bringing Wesley back. I think a lot of the other shows were maybe scared to touch Wesley because he became this character…

DAN HAGEMAN: Too powerful.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: No rules, all power. What do you do with this character? But we loved that challenge. We wanted to make it that he’s not just a super being, but, my gosh, it must be a lot going on in his head. It's probably a little damaging, and it's hard to keep it together. So, I love his character in this.

DAN HAGEMAN: We talked about his ending in TNG and how he just walks off the stage, and we're like, “He's gotta have a better ending. He's gotta have more.”

KEVIN HAGEMAN: Yeah, he deserves more.

DAN HAGEMAN: He’s Wesley Crusher. We can't treat him like this.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: He's like the original prodigy, so we need him in our show.

I love his character design. I was so impressed by how everything about him felt like I was actually watching Wil Wheaton on screen. I had to keep reminding myself, “This is animation. This isn't actually a flesh-and-bone being.” Can you talk a little bit about your decision for how the character would look and how he would dress? He's got more swagger than I've pictured Wesley having.

DAN HAGEMAN: We talked a little bit about a Doctor Who/Willy Wonka — some guy whose mind would be fritzed. And in playing into that scruffiness, he had to have a sweater. I mean, it starts with a sweater. I think even, like, the fabric of time, the tapestry, was inspired by his sweaters. I think we wanted the scene, too, that we never got to where Rok got one of his sweaters, and it fits her. [Laughs]

KEVIN HAGEMAN: If you remember, one of our writers, Jen Muro, she grew up with Next Gen . She had a poster of Crusher on her wall.

DAN HAGEMAN: She's friends with him now, too.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: Yeah, she's close friends with him now. But it was just like, “How do we make them a fun heartthrob?” But also, I love the Doctor Who of it all, how very discombobulated he is. He's really an unstable and almost trustworthy mentor to come into these kids’ lives. [Laughs]

DAN HAGEMAN: I need to ask because we have yet to see the audience's reaction because you guys are the first people to see it, but did it work? When did you know it was going to be Wesley?

I didn't at first! My mom and I were having a conversation where we were like, “Who is this entity that's talking to them?” And I think my mom was the one that was like, “Maybe it's Wesley,” and I was like, “I don't know, maybe it is.” Because, I mean, we had that tag in Picard that he's a traveler now, and I was hoping for it. Then the reveal just worked so well.

DAN HAGEMAN: Because his voice is recognizable with the entity ball thing.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: But he's so good when he steps out for that big reveal. Wil was a monster in the recording booth. I think he was so excited.

DAN HAGEMAN: A monster in a good way, Kevin.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: Oh, yeah! He was amazing . He was so excited to bring his character back, and he really loved what we were doing.

DAN HAGEMAN: And really to take it to a new place, too.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: Yeah, he loved it. He always elevated everything.

I love what Prodigy has been able to do with these characters that we love, like Wesley and Chakotay and Janeway. It’s like a complete second life in this series. It's been a lot of joy to experience it.

DAN HAGEMAN: It's like all love letters.

It is! That's such an overstated statement to make, like, “This is a love letter to something,” but it truly is!

DAN HAGEMAN: Yeah, Chakotay’s got a cowboy hat. He’s gruff.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: [Laughs] Oh, I love grizzled Chakotay.

Where Does Season 2 Leave Gwyn and Dal's Relationship?

Oh, I know. Oh, gosh, it was so good. Being me, I have to ask, as the number-one shipper of Gwyn and Dal, are they now doomed to the narrative that captains and number ones never actually get to commit to their excellent chemistry? I’m really curious about that.

DAN HAGEMAN: That was a big conversation with Kate [Mulgrew], too, in the relationship with Janeway and Chakotay. I guess it's a little different for Gwyn and Dal because they knew each other before they held their positions.

We just got something similar to that over in Picard with Seven and Raffi, so I was like, “Not another duo that I love so much being doomed to the captain/number one!” [Laughs]

KEVIN HAGEMAN: I wouldn't say doomed. If we ever get the chance to do a Season 3, you know, we want to grow up with these characters. It wouldn't be picking up the next day — we would love to have a year or two go by and let's start seeing them all growing up. And I think there's a wonderful conflict there between Dal and Gwyn. There are emotions, there is a past, and they are serving positions of leadership on this ship. What happens? I would love to dive into that.

Ultimately, Star Trek is a workplace story, and so many of the best relationships in television shows have come out of the workplace dynamics.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: I know. I hope people watch it. I hope there's a future.

I definitely hope for a Season 3. There was another dynamic that was introduced in Season 2 that I really loved. I loved everything with Z's journey through this season. I love that they got to experience touch and all of these things. I was noticing there's a little bit of a hint of a flirtation maybe between Z and Ma’jel. Was that something I should have been picking up on?

DAN HAGEMAN: Absolutely.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: Oh, absolutely. They have this great affinity toward each other.

DAN HAGEMAN: They can read each other’s minds. We just thought that was such an interesting connection. You would naturally gravitate towards someone who can read your mind. [Laughs]

KEVIN HAGEMAN: And , I'm sorry, they're teenagers! They're all teenage characters. Come on.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: We all know what it's like to be a teenager. [Laughs] I haven't forgotten yet.

I also wanted to talk about Ma’jel as a character. I love when series get the opportunity to name a character after somebody who is such a prominent and important figure in the history of a franchise. Can you both talk about the decision to name Ma'jel after Majel [Barrett]?

DAN HAGEMAN: I'm not sure who had the idea.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: I don't know who in the writers’ room — it wasn't us. It was someone else, but it just made so much sense. It was a great nod. It just sounded right, too, for her as a character. It was easy to say, too. It rolls off the lips. Sometimes you come up with names for Star Trek and it's really clunky.

DAN HAGEMAN: Like adding the apostrophe to the name Ma’jel. Michaela Dietz…

KEVIN HAGEMAN: Who's the voice actress for her. I mean, to try to get a voice actor, for her to try to tackle doing a Vulcan, like at least in live-action, you could have these beautiful subtleties. It's so hard in animation, especially in a TV show pipeline. So, her voice, how Vulcans speak, but to try to emote still, very subtly, in it, it's really a challenge, and she was just awesome. She knocked it out of the park for us.

What Is the Status of 'Star Trek: Prodigy' Season 3?

I know we've talked a little bit about Season 3 here, but what is the status of Season 3? What do fans need to do aside from watching to ensure that the most noise is out there that we need a Season 3? We need to see what happens on Mars! We need to see where this story is going.

DAN HAGEMAN: I think Season 3 is outside the sphere, much like the Federation outside Utopia Planitia, and outside the streaming wars. So, we'll see what happens. It feels like if the fans show up and there's an appetite there, I mean, Kevin and I have always dreamt of writing Season 3. Even if it's not something that comes soon, even later, I think tonally it translates itself to live-action. So, I could see something, like, 10 to 15 years down the road, after all the Trek fans finally get over, their fear of animation and check it out and start wanting it. It could be a possibility then, too.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: I always say we're so happy and relieved to have the Star Trek community embrace this show and see what it truly is. I think now, on Netflix, it's about reaching outside of that sphere, right? It's reaching kids who maybe all they know is growing up on Star Wars and getting them introduced to Star Trek .

It kills me that people don't give enough credit to animation because some of the best storytelling I've encountered in the last decade has come from animated series and animated movies.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: It's exactly the same as live-action. There's no difference when you're on the page.

For my final question as we wrap up, I wouldn't be me if I didn't ask about Scary Stories [ to Tell in the Dark ] 2 . How are things progressing with that? Are you getting any closer to it happening? I know with the strikes last year that definitely put a damper on a lot of projects, but where are we on that one?

DAN HAGEMAN: I don’t know. I think we’re in the dark.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: It’s stalled right now. We actually don't know. We wrote a draft, Guillermo [del Toro] had a story direction of where to take it…

DAN HAGEMAN: We can't go too much into it, Kevin.

KEVIN HAGEMAN: No, we can't go into it, but we wrote something, and that's the last we know. We know a lot of people liked it, but we also know that nothing's happening right now. [Laughs] We’re in the dark with you guys.

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Star Trek: Prodigy

Star Trek: Prodigy is an animated series that premiered on 28 October 2021 , first on the streaming service Paramount+ , then on Nickelodeon , [1] a conglomerate sister broadcasting channel. It is the ninth Star Trek spin-off and the third animated Star Trek series, following Star Trek: The Animated Series and Star Trek: Lower Decks . Unlike the previous animated series, this is the first to be rendered entirely with computer-generated imaging and 3D modeling. Previously, the Star Trek: Short Treks episode " The Girl Who Made the Stars " was produced in a similar fashion. Two seasons were produced before the series' cancellation on 23 June 2023 .

Alex Kurtzman stated that unlike Lower Decks , Prodigy will be kid-focused with an " entirely different perspective and an entirely different tone, " adding, " What's exciting about it is not only looking at each animated series as what's the different tone, but what's the different technology we can apply to these things so that visually they're entirely different? " [7]

In February 2019, it was announced Nickelodeon had entered talks to air the show, and Trollhunters writers and executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman had boarded the project. [8]

On 24 April 2019 , it was revealed that the series would indeed air (but not debut) on Nickelodeon and focus on a group of lawless teenage characters finding a derelict Starfleet ship which they use to " search for adventure, meaning and salvation. " [9]

In May 2019, CBS filed trademarks for the titles " Star Trek: Section 31 " and " Star Trek: Prodigy ", with posts on Reddit later in the year attaching the Prodigy title to the second animated series. [10]

On 23 July 2020, it was revealed that the show would, in fact, be named Star Trek: Prodigy , and that it would air on Nickelodeon in 2021. [11] [12] The premiere episode did air on the channel on 17 December 2021, but on that occasion it was an one-time-only affair. [13] It was eventually announced that the first ten episodes (parts 1 and 2) would belatedly air regularly on a repetitive basis on the broadcaster in the home market one year later, starting on 8 July 2022 . [14]

In 2022 , Prodigy 's first season was nominated for "Outstanding Animated Series" in the inaugural Children’s & Family Emmy Awards , and won the Emmy for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Production Design." [15]

In 2023 , Prodigy 's first season was nominated for a Television Critics Association Award in "Outstanding Achievement in Family Programming," a category with both animated and live action content intended for family and young adult audiences. [16] It was also nominated for another Children's & Family Emmy Award for "Outstanding Sound Design." [17]

• 1 Opening credits
• 2.1 Starring
• 2.2 Recurring characters
• 3.1 Season 1
• 3.2 Season 2
• 4.1.1 Cancellation and pick-up
• 4.2.1 Products
• 5 Related topics
• 7 Footnotes
• 8 External links

Opening credits

The opening title sequence for Star Trek: Prodigy was unveiled on 31 August 2021 , with theme by Michael Giacchino . [18]

• Brett Gray as Dal
• Ella Purnell as Gwyn
• Jason Mantzoukas as Jankom Pog
• Angus Imrie as Zero
• Rylee Alazraqui as Rok-Tahk
• Dee Bradley Baker as Murf
• Jimmi Simpson as Drednok
• John Noble as The Diviner
• Kate Mulgrew as " Captain Janeway "

Recurring characters

• Jason Alexander as Dr. Noum
• Robert Beltran as Capt. Chakotay
• Eric Bauza as Lt. Barniss Frex (season 1)
• Billy Campbell as Thadiun Okona (season 1)
• Ronny Cox as Adm. Edward Jellico
• Michaela Dietz as Maj'el (season 2)
• Daveed Diggs as Cdr. Tysess
• Jameela Jamil as Ens. Asencia
• Kate Mulgrew as Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway (season 1) / Kathryn Janeway (season 2)
• Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher (season 2)

Episode list

PRO Season 1 , 20 episodes:

PRO Season 2 , 20 episodes:

Development

In July 2019 , the Hagemans announced the full writers' room for the show. [21] Among those revealed to be writing the series are Trollhunters writer-producers Aaron Waltke and Chad Quandt , The 100 writer-producers Shawna Benson and Julie Benson , Black Sails writer Lisa Boyd , Shades of Blue writer Nikhil Jayaram , and Diandra Pendleton-Thompson .

In October 2019 , Kurtzman said that this series will be animated in a digital 3D style, like Ninjago or Trollhunters , as opposed to the more "cartoon" look of Star Trek: Lower Decks . He also confirmed that the series had been picked up for a two-season order, and that a title had been chosen for the series, but he was not yet ready to reveal it. [22]

In the same interview, Heather Kadin said that, due to the time-consuming process of 3D animation, the series would likely air later than 2021 . Kadin also emphasized that the Hagemans' writing style will be accessible to kids without patronizing them or alienating their parents:

" The reason we went to the Hagemans is because if you've seen their work, you know that they're not writing " Muppet Babies ". It's not "Little Spock and Little Kirk." It's not playing down [to viewers] that way. " " Even [with] their characters in Ninjago – they are teenagers – I was able to watch that with my kids and they write with a very epic quality. They tell stories the way we tell stories in live action: serialized, turning over cards… " " I think it will be a great way for fans to introduce the franchise to their kids, and for new fans to be formed, because it's such a big franchise, [it can be hard] to get into as a kid. " [23]

In an October 2020 interview with Trek Report , producer and writer Aaron Waltke said that Prodigy aims to bridge the gap between old and new iterations of the Star Trek franchise , with a series that strikes a tone of hope and idealism. [24]

" It's been exhilarating to make a series that honors classic Trek for legacy fans like myself, but also provides an entry point for new audiences to be introduced to the world of the Federation and its aspirations for an idealistic future, even when facing adversity. Writing the return of our beloved Voyager captain feels oddly iconic, like a homecoming for me. And we hope to create something both young and old can watch together… just as I once did with my dad all those many years ago. " [25]

In February 2021 , it was announced that Prodigy would debut on Paramount+ in 2021. An image of the alien bridge crew was also released. [26]

On First Contact Day in April 2021 , the Hagemans revealed that the series will be set in the Delta Quadrant in 2383 . They also revealed an image of Captain Janeway as she will appear in the series, and explained that the character will appear as an emergency training hologram on board the starship. A new summary of the series' premise was also released:

Prodigy " will follow a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search for a better future. These six young outcasts know nothing about the ship they have commandeered – a first in the history of the Star Trek Franchise – but over the course of their adventures together, they will each be introduced to Starfleet and the ideals it represents. " [27]

In May 2021 , more details about the cast were released, with the main voice cast revealed. [28]

On 23 July 2021 , a teaser trailer was released during the Paramount+ Star Trek Comic-Con@Home panel, revealing the first animated footage of the series along with the first look and name of the vessel, the USS Protostar . [29]

The series' opening title sequence was publicly released on 31 August 2021 , as part of a Paramount+ presentation to the Television Critics Association . This presentation also confirmed that the series' theme music had been composed by Michael Giacchino , and the music for the series would be composed by Nami Melumad . [30]

On 28 October 2021 , the series two-part pilot " Lost and Found " premiered on Paramount+. A total of ten episodes aired intermittently until 3 February 2022 .

On 27 October 2022 , the remaining ten episodes of Season One began to air weekly.

Cancellation and pick-up

On 23 June 2023, Prodigy was cancelled by Paramount+. While Season 2 was allowed to finish post-production, it, along with the series as a whole, would be sold to any interested third-party outsider. [31] The series removal from Paramount+ was affected three days later, on 26 June 2023. [32] On broadcast hiatus at the time of its cancellation, the series was not allowed to return to Nickelodeon either. [2]

Paramount did not provide a clear reason for the unexpected cancellation. News sites such as TrekMovie.com , ScreenRant, and Inverse suggested that the cancellation was motivated by cost-cutting measures and tax write-offs, whereas Paramount itself had intimated in a statement to TrekMovie.com that it was part of clearing the way of the upcoming merger of Paramount+ with Showtime by " refining our content offering to deliver the best streaming experience for subscribers ". Paramount concurrently assured TrekMovie.com that it remained stoutly "invested in growing the Star Trek franchise". [33] [34] [35]

On 21 July 2023 , co-executive producer Aaron Waltke announced on his Twitter account that the entire first season had become available for digital purchase at digital vendors like Prime Video , ITunes Store , Google, and others. Until then, only the first ten episodes had been available, in tandem with the physical PRO Season 1, Volume 1 DVD and Blu-ray home video format releases. [36] A run on the DVD and Blu-ray stocks still available at retailers at the time of the cancellation announcement caused them to sell out quickly in the home market. [37]

The fanbase also tried to organize an online campaign to save the series. [38] [3] On 24 August 2023 , in an effort to find the show another home, a fan raised US$1,200 on GoFundMe to have an airplane tow a banner reading, "#SAVE STAR TREK PRODIGY" over the Los Angeles offices of streaming services Netflix , Amazon Prime , and Hulu . [39] A drawing with the same hashtag is set to be among the items going to space on a Blue Origin (part of the empire of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ) flight. [40]

Kevin Hageman expressed in an interview that his desire was to see a third season come to fruition, that will eventually lead up to an animated film series. [41]

On 11 October 2023 , it was Netflix that announced that they had picked up Prodigy , with season two set to premiere on 1 July 2024 , [42] after season one had debuted on the streaming service later in 2023 on 25 December, [43] [44] which incidentally, managed to break into their own Top-Ten streaming listings all around the world, including that for the home market. [45] If renewed, Netflix would have to pay for, and license future seasons themselves. [4] The second season was also picked up by streaming service SkyShowtime, the Paramount+ spin-off. [46]

On 22 March 2024 , the series unexpectedly debuted in France on the public television service France.TV as well as on AppleTV+ France, ahead of the Netflix release. [47] After some initial confusion, Dan and Kevin Hageman apologized for an "unfortunate miscommunication". [48] [49] [50]

On 1 July 2024 , season two debuted on Netflix, and while contrary to its preceding season failing to do so on the home market, [51] it did manage to enter several regional Netflix Top-Ten listings in markets abroad again, most notably in Europe (including premature release country France) and India. [52] Afterwards, it was announced that Prodigy would lead the CBS lineup at San Diego Comic Con with a screening and Q&A panel on 28 July with Kate Mulgrew and Brett Gray in attendance. [53]

In June 2019 , Eaglemoss/Hero Collector 's project manager Ben Robinson indicated that the company would manufacture starship miniatures from this series, [54] though that intent was thwarted by the company's bankruptcy on 5 August 2022.

On 13 July 2021 , ViacomCBS Consumer Products and Playmates Toys jointly announced that the latter had acquired new licensing for "action figures, vehicles and ships, role play and other toy categories," and slated the first of these products for retail release in 2022. Among other Star Trek series and films, this licensing encompasses Star Trek: Prodigy , Star Trek: Lower Decks , Star Trek: Discovery , and Star Trek: Picard . [55] On 6 December 2023 however, Playmates announced that after only thirteen releases, they would no longer produce action figures from the Star Trek license, Prodigy included, due to low sales. The Hologram Janeway figure from Prodigy remains unreleased. [56]

On 18 August 2022 , it was announced that two new tie-in books, Supernova (also the title of a video game releasing in October 2022 ) and A Dangerous Trade would be released on 17 January 2023 . [57]

Related topics

• PRO directors
• PRO performers
• PRO studio models
• PRO writers
• Star Trek: Prodigy novels
• Star Trek: Prodigy on Blu-ray
• Star Trek: Prodigy on DVD
• ↑ The show did however premiere on some foreign Nickelodeon subsidiaries where Paramount+ was not (yet) available. One such market concerned the Netherlands and Flanders, where the in the Dutch language dubbed version of the show debuted for an one-time run on the local Nickelodeon Benelux channel on 18 April 2022 , albeit the first ten episodes (parts 1 and 2) only. [1] Repetitive regular airing of the entire first season started on 31 October 2022 in support of the local Paramount+ encompassing SkyShowtime which had been launched in the country six days earlier, and where Prodigy was included in its startup content catalog.

Dutch SkyShowtime Prodigy title card, still available for streaming pursuant its formal removal from the franchise

• ↑ An online Change.org worldwide "Save Star Trek Prodigy!" petition was initiated on 23 June 2023 by a " Trekkie " which managed to surpass 17,000 signatures in a couple of days. Still, after the initial rush, fervor slowed downed considerably as it took a further four months to double that number when the petition closed later that year on 11 October with the petition initiator claiming victory after the Netflix pickup had been made public by stating that the fan's voices "were heard". [5]
• ↑ There was very little doubt left, if any at all, that the franchise had no intent whatsoever to pay even a single penny more for Prodigy beyond the season two post-production completion, after they had taken their definitive leave of the series in their official statement, "Star Trek: Prodigy will not be returning for the previously announced second season. On behalf of everyone at Paramount+, Nickelodeon, and CBS Studios, we want to thank Kevin and Dan Hageman, Ben Hibon , Alex Kurtzman, and the Secret Hideout team, along with the fantastic cast and crew for all their hard work and dedication bringing the series to life. " [6]

External links

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Star Trek: Prodigy takes a different opening tack than any previous Trek series

The show aims at viewers who are tuning into the final frontier for the first time

by Dylan Roth

When the title of a new TV series begins with “Star Trek,” it’s natural to be intimidated. The Trek franchise has a well-earned reputation for having a dense canon, which has been built up over the course of 55 years and more than 800 canonical installments. It’s possible to start any individual series and eventually get your bearings, but many of them aren’t terribly welcoming unless you’ve absorbed the prerequisite mythology, either directly or through cultural osmosis. Star Trek: Prodigy , the new animated series that premiered Oct. 28 on Paramount Plus, fully breaks from this trend, presenting Star Trek in an entirely new way, and becoming the most accessible jumping-on point for the franchise since J.J. Abrams’ 2009 film reboot.

Most Star Trek spin-offs presume a level of pre-existing engagement in the franchise, and use their first episodes not to sell viewers on Star Trek , but to sell them on this Star Trek . They’re in the business of iteration and contrast, of proving that this incarnation has something sufficiently different in store. For 1987’s The Next Generation , the very premise of doing Star Trek without familiar characters Kirk and Spock was novel enough to differentiate the series. Deep Space Nine and Voyager are distinguished by their placement in space, Enterprise and Discovery by their placement in time, Picard and Lower Decks by their vastly different approaches to the legacy of The Next Generation . Every series has developed its own identity, but each is defined from the outset by its relationship to what’s come before.

But the double-sized premiere of Prodigy seems to be entirely in its own lane, refreshingly unconcerned with previous Star Trek series until two minutes before the closing credits. The first episode, “Lost and Found,” takes place on the mining colony asteroid Tars Lamora, where teenage prisoner Dal R’El (voiced by Brett Gray) is making his umpteenth unsuccessful escape attempt. Over the course of this opening hour, we see Dal assemble a ragtag group of fellow enslaved workers to hijack an advanced derelict starship that’s buried within a crevice of the asteroid.

Anyone even vaguely familiar with Star Trek will recognize this ship, the USS Protostar, as having all the aesthetic markers of a Starfleet vessel. Dal and his companions, however, do not — in fact, they’ve never heard of Starfleet or the United Federation of Planets that it serves. To them, it’s just a way out of bondage. The fact that it’s also their gateway into a diverse space utopia only sweetens the deal. They’re in the middle of their own space adventure, only to discover at the last minute that they’re on Star Trek , whatever that is.

Shifting the perspective of the characters from seasoned professionals coping with new wrinkles to complete outsiders learning the ropes was a deliberate decision made by series creators Kevin and Dan Hageman ( Trollhunters, LEGO’s Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu ), as they explained at New York Comic Con earlier this month. Star Trek head honcho Alex Kurtzman tasked them with devising an entry point through which young, uninitiated viewers might find their way into Star Trek , and determined that the best way to do that would be via characters who would be introduced to it themselves.

Exploring the Star Trek canon is typically easier with a guide, and the crew of the Protostar have one of their own — a holographic training program in the likeness of Star Trek: Voyager ’s Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). Introduced at the end of “Lost and Found,” Hologram Janeway is the only element that places the episode in a particular place or time in the Star Trek universe.

Prodigy has a few other, looser ties to the franchise’s past. Three members of the main ensemble represent races from previous Star Trek works, but each is more obscure than the last. Jankom Pog (Jason Mantzoukas) is a Tellarite, the least recognizable of the Federation’s four founding species (alongside Humans, Vulcans, and those blue guys with the antennae, the Andorians). Zero (Angus Imrie) is a Medusan, a non-corporeal entity whose people haven’t been heard from since the 1968 episode which introduced them. Rok-Tahk (Rylee Alazraqui) is a Brikar, a species that originates in Peter David’s tie-in novels from the 1990s, and has never been depicted on screen before. Since even the established pieces of lore are plucked from obscurity, viewers for whom “Lost and Found” is their very first Star Trek aren’t missing anything. At least for now, dyed-in-the-wool Trekkies have almost no advantage over the new kids.

This distance from the larger Star Trek universe won’t last, and it’s not meant to. The Hagemans have already indicated that the Protostar’s course will take them closer to Federation space, and that they’ll encounter more familiar characters and cultures over time. This doesn’t have to make the series any less approachable to new viewers. As the young crew journeys in from the outskirts, hopefully new fans can be gradually acclimatized. Success would mean that a young viewer can explore the wider Star Trek library with Prodigy as their compass, not their homework agenda.

The first episode of Star Trek: Prodigy’s 10-episode opening season is now streaming on Paramount Plus, with new episodes arriving on Thursdays.

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And you thought it was just a kids' show… Why "Prodigy" is the perfect continuation of Captain Janeway's story.

Of all the TV Treks to date, " Star Trek: Voyager " is the one with the most definitive ending. From day one, the show was on a mission to get Captain Janeway and her lost-in-space crew back from the distant Delta Quadrant. Once that objective was achieved in series finale "Endgame", however, there wasn't much left on the ledger labelled "unfinished business". The series certainly wasn't calling out for a follow-up, but two decades later it's got one — and it's great.

Okay, " Star Trek: Prodigy " isn't technically the eighth season of "Voyager", but it's undeniably the '90s show's spiritual heir. Unlike "Picard", which used its third season to deliver the perfect send-off for the "Next Generation" crew, "Prodigy" substitutes wall-to-wall nostalgia for youthful exuberance, to tell the story of a bunch of kids who stumble on a grounded Starfleet vessel in the Delta Quadrant.

They're a likeable group seemingly focus-grouped to look good on a lunchbox. Indeed, on many levels, "Prodigy" is the quintessential Nickelodeon animation, working through a playbook that's been serving Saturday morning cartoons since the '80s. A gang of mismatched heroes with plenty to learn? Hat tip to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Characters trapped in an unfamiliar and hostile alien location? Thank you, "ThunderCats". A cute, wise and indecipherable sidekick? That'll be Brain in "Inspector Gadget". They've even brought the obligatory mentor along for the ride.

But while it would undoubtedly have been easier to set a fun, kid-friendly cartoon in a loose facsimile of the "Star Trek" universe, "Prodigy" goes all in and embraces the franchise's history with the same reverence "The Clone Wars" and "Rebels" had for the "Star Wars" movies . That aforementioned mentor is an Emergency Training Hologram based on a certain Captain Kathryn Janeway (voiced by original actor Kate Mulgrew ), and she ties the voyages of the USS Protostar to nearly six decades of "Trek" storytelling — while helping her protegés to learn the ropes, and shape the future of the universe. 

The show is ingeniously structured, drip-feeding the " Star Trek " references to keep older viewers interested without alienating new recruits. Like most of the show's younger viewers, the rag-tag crew of the Protostar (each one an extra-terrestrial) have no knowledge of Kirk, Spock and the rest of the Federation. But with Janeway as their guide, their close encounters with Tribbles, the Borg and even the Kazon (Klingon-esque antagonists so lame that "Voyager" quickly left them behind) provide a gateway to "Trek"'s wider universe, plotting a course for the real story to get started.

"Prodigy" may be targeted at kids, but it's hard to imagine how any show could more embody the values of "Star Trek". As in "Voyager", the crew of the Protostar are charting a course through an unknown region of space, working as a team to science their way past the obstacles they encounter, while formulating theories that (almost) sound plausible.

As with all the best Starfleet crews, the chemistry is fantastic, all the way from conventionally cocky Dal R'El, to malleable Mellanoid slime worm Murf, and — perhaps best of all — Zero, a telepathic, non-corporeal Medusan. Their species first appeared in "Star Trek: Original Series" episode "Is There in Truth no Beauty", and they have to keep their true form hidden in a robot suit to avoid driving shipmates mad. (Just as "Voyager" did with the entirely CG Species 8472, "Prodigy" relishes the fact its alien lifeforms aren't limited by what's feasible for human actors in prosthetics.)

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The production also features none of the "it'll do…" mindset you'd once have expected from a kid-oriented spin-off. The theme is by top Hollywood composer Michael Giacchino (whose previous credits include "Rogue One", "The Batman", JJ Abrams first "Star Trek"), while the voice cast is packed with top talent like John Noble ("Fringe"), Daveed Diggs ("Snowpiercer") and Jameela Jamil ("The Good Place"). The space battles are pretty spectacular, too.

And for anyone expecting a dumbed down plot, "Prodigy"'s second season shoots preconceptions down faster than you can say "Temporal Mechanics 101". The foundations of season two were laid in season one, when the real Janeway (now a Vice Admiral, as revealed in " Star Trek: Nemesis ") learned that an experimental starship called the USS Protostar — under the command of her former first officer, Chakotay — had been located on a planetoid called Tars Lamora, and was now under the control of a bunch of fugitive kids.

Without venturing too far into spoiler territory, what follows is a complex and sophisticated story involving time loops, a first contact scenario gone horribly wrong, and an antagonist with a serious (and, arguably, understandable) grudge against Starfleet. It has monsters (known as the Loom) who can erase their victims from history, and a brief excursion to the Mirror Universe — where, yes, goatee beards are still a surefire giveaway that you're talking to a villain. It also features some refreshingly familiar voices (Robert Beltran as Chakotay, Robert Picardo as the Doctor, Ronny Cox as Admiral Jellico ), and a pivotal role for a former boy wonder who quit Starfleet to play at being Doctor Who.

If "Prodigy" is not quite "Voyager" season 8, it's definitely season 7.2, a passing of the torch to the next, next generation. This show was never about Janeway, Chakotay or the Doctor but its wonderful, cynicism-free celebration of "Star Trek" could never have worked without them. 

As this era of Starfleet deals with synth uprisings and the evacuation of Romulus — events destined to leave lasting scars on Jean-Luc Picard and the Federation — it's good to know the crew of the Prodigy are still out there, somewhere in the cosmos. There's no question they deserve a third season to see what strange new worlds they might find.

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All of Star Trek: Prodigy Will Finally Be Released On Blu-ray

The final frontier of the streaming wars is here.

When fan-favorite series Star Trek: Prodigy was unceremoniously taken off Paramount+ in 2023, fans were not only angry and confused but also, concerned. Generally speaking, at least before 2019, when a TV show wasn’t available to stream, it was at the very least available to purchase, or, better yet, on Blu-ray or DVD. But, in the limbo period between Prodigy leaving Paramount+ and the show finding new life on Netflix, only the first half of Season 1 was on Blu-ray.

But now, with Season 2 streaming on Netflix, fans don’t have to worry too much about streaming problems ever again. For hardcore Trekkies, Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 is currently available in two Blu-ray sets, and as of November 12, all of Season 2 will be out on Blu-ray, too. Here’s the details.

Prodigy beyond streaming

Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) was a big addition to the Prodigy crew in Season 2.

While all 40 episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy Seasons 1 and 2 are currently streaming on Netflix, the future is always in motion. And, while both seasons are currently available for VOD purchase, the series will finally be all on physical media on November 12. Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS Home Entertainment have confirmed that instead of releasing Prodigy Season 2 in two home video sets (which was the case with Season 1) all of the episodes will be on Blu-ray on November 12. There are also optional DVDs which will be manufactured on demand (MOD).

The Blu-ray set will also include behind-the-scenes extras, including:

Producing Prodigy : The Legacy

• Producers and Wil Wheaton discuss creating an introduction for new audiences of Prodigy, all the pieces of Legacy Star Trek, and how Prodigy fits into the greater canon.

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• Producers discuss the Protostar crew coming from being heroes on their ship to becoming part of something much bigger in Season 2, and Wil Wheaton speaks on his character Wesley Crusher coming back to Star Trek and how that return affected him.

Wheaton recently told Inverse that “Wesley's the original prodigy,” in reference to his circle journey from The Next Generation to his big guest role in Prodigy Season 2. And it seems we can expect these Season 2 special features to dive even deeper into that concept while reminding fans that Prodigy isn’t just a Voyager sequel, but a sequel to The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine , too.

Prodigy Season 3?

Kevin and Dan Hageman at San Diego Comic-Con 2024.

While this fledgling Star Trek series certainly found a bigger audience with Season 2, thanks to Netflix, it's unclear if a third season is a certainty or not. While the ending of Season 2 does leave the adventures for the Protostar crew open-ended, there’s also the sense that Prodigy has come full circle. According to showrunners Dan and Kevin Hageman, “there’s a lot of dreaming on Season 3,” though nothing has been confirmed yet. Dan Hageman even specifically told Inverse that he hopes for “a live-action” version of Prodigy somewhere down the line.

But for now, if fans want to avoid the streaming complications of the 21st century, adventure in the 24th century will be forever available on good old-fashioned discs.

Star Trek: Prodigy is currently streaming on Netflix.

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Star Trek: Prodigy's Connection to Voyager, Explained

Quick links, star trek: voyager was a historic entry into the ever-growing universe, star trek: prodigy turned to janeway to create a direct line to the past, star trek: prodigy also brought in the 'real' vice admiral janeway, season 2 of star trek: prodigy promises even more connections to voyager.

The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Prodigy , Season 1, now streaming on Netflix.

After being unceremoniously pulled from Paramount+, Star Trek: Prodigy has a second chance on Netflix to bring Gene Roddenberry's universe to a new audience. The animated series is clearly for kids, but good storytelling is good storytelling. The heartfelt adventures of a group of kids on a hijacked starship looking for a place to belong is one that appeals to all ages. However, a big selling point for longtime fans is how the series is connected to Star Trek: Voyager , working as a kind of stealth sequel. There are many ways that Star Trek defied conventional wisdom through history. The first series failed to reach 100 episodes before NBC canceled it.

Despite missing that milestone, it became one of the highest-rated shows in syndication for decades. This created a generational fanbase large enough to sustain a second wave of the universe, starting with Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1986 that lasted into the 20th Century until Paramount's network failing ended Star Trek: Enterprise . When the studio launched its own streaming service, like with its network, Star Trek was its flagship franchise. However, the new series, from Star Trek: Discovery to Star Trek: Lower Decks are squarely aimed at adult fans. Only Star Trek: Prodigy exists to attract a new generation of fans to the saga of Starfleet. Still, this is the first true "shared universe" in fandom, so it's only natural the show connects to its past. That connection is strongest to Star Trek: Voyager , the show that ran from January 1995 until the spring of 2001.

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Paramount wanted its own sci-fi feature film franchise, so it turned to Star Trek , which was even more popular a decade after its cancelation. The films led to The Next Generation followed by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , a show set on a space station rather than a starship. This was followed by another "ship show," which made history as the first series to be led by a woman captain, Kathryn Janeway. The premise found the USS Voyager stranded 75,000 light years from home, meaning the writers couldn't rely on classic villains like Klingons or Romulans. However, they were able to bring the Borg to the show in a big way.

Voyager was the flagship show for the United Paramount Network (UPN), effectively a large-scale syndication strategy masquerading as the "fifth network." The series was met with criticism from fans (as all new Star Trek shows were), but over two decades later, it is as beloved as any entry. In Season 4, the show introduced Seven of Nine, played by Jeri Ryan, who has since gone on to return in Star Trek: Picard and now commands the USS Enterprise-G. However, it's Captain Kathryn Janeway who is Starfleet's most important commanding officer. She brought the crew home and dealt a disabling blow to the Borg, Starfleet's most fearsome enemy.

Because of the massive scope of the series finale, it left some fans unsatisfied when the show ended. The final shot shows the USS Voyager returning to Earth. However, outside of a brief Janeway cameo in Star Trek: Nemesis , fans never knew what happened when the crew got home after seven years together on the wildest frontier of the Milky Way Galaxy. Despite being centered on a group of new characters, Star Trek: Prodigy serves as the spiritual sequel Voyager never got.

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The most prominent connection to Star Trek: Voyager in Prodigy is, of course, the inclusion of a holographic training advisor based on Captain Janeway. She isn't the Captain Janeway, but rather is a separate entity with the character's personality, experiences and duty of care for her crew. The USS Protostar is an experimental starship found by Zero, Dal, Jankom Pog and the rest of the kids who make up its unorthodox crew. Instead of being Starfleet-trained, they are simply trying to flee a life of oppression, bondage and forced labor.

Along with everything that's Janeway, including Mulgrew providing the voice, the holographic advisor has all the "powers" of a fully-integrated artificial intelligence. She is able to control functions on the ship, seemingly with her thoughts. She is knowledgeable about every aspect of the Protostar's functions, and she's an excellent teacher for these kids who'd never heard of Starfleet before. Like the organic version, Hologram Janeway becomes the maternal figure in the family of this crew. She is also willing to sacrifice herself to save her crew and make sure they get to their new home.

The second major connection to Star Trek: Voyager is the inclusion of Commander Chakotay, now a captain and voiced by Robert Beltran. He was originally the commanding officer of the Protostar. However, after falling through a temporal anomaly of some kind, he and his official Starfleet crew are lost in the future. The mystery of what happened to him in the Delta Quadrant is a major one throughout the first season of the show.

Star Trek: Prodigy Is a Must-Watch for Janeway and Voyager Fans

The first season of the animated series was split into two parts. Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1, Part 2 introduces the organic Kathryn Janeway properly. She is hunting both the USS Protostar and her long-lost friend. While Hologram Janeway was a loose connection to Voyager , this character is a direct one. Longtime fans, or kids who binge-watched the live action series in between the season's two parts, are able to see what happened to her since Voyager went off-the-air in 2001.

As any fan knows, Vice Admiral Janeway is relentless in her pursuit of the Protostar. She believes hostile forces have taken the ship, and she's partly right. While in the future, Chakotay made first contact with a species called the Vau N'Akat. The revelation they weren't alone in the universe caused a civil war. Two surviving members of the species were sent back in time to destroy Starfleet rather than prepare their people to accept the larger galaxy. However, upon learning who the crew actually is, she immediately becomes their advocate.

In the Season 1 finale, Janeway argues in front of a Starfleet tribunal to not just forgive the kids who "stole" the Protostar but admit them into Starfleet. Dal is revealed to be genetically augmented, illegal in Starfleet. Still, she is successful in convincing the powers-that-be to allow them to train with her to become warrant officers in the fleet. She will be taking on the role her holographic double did, but guiding these cadets through training, life-and-death adventures and turning them into officers who will do credit to Starfleet.

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Hologram Janeway, at least the one with memories of her crew, was destroyed with the USS Protostar in the Season 1 finale. While she could technically come back, Prodigy has the genuine article now. Still, every good story tied to Voyager needs a holographic character, so Season 2 brings back the Doctor , the original sentient hologram. He will join the kids on their training mission, as they learn about the galaxy and continue the search for Captain Chakotay.

If that weren't enough, instead of another "Protostar-class ship," the main characters of Prodigy will embark on a different, more storied vessel. If the commanding officer's name is Janeway, the ship she leads should have a storied name as well. In a clip of Season 2 released on Star Trek 's website, the Doctor takes the kids to their new vessel, the USS Voyager-A. It's possible the Doctor and Janeway won't be the only former crew members on the vessel, so even more connections are possible.

Star Trek: Prodigy is a more episodic series, but it does maintain a narrative throughline along its seasons. Thus, Season 2 will likely be largely about locating Chakotay, perhaps even bringing him back onto the crew. Since Janeway is a vice admiral, there is no reason her first officer couldn't hold the rank of captain. While there will be many connections to past iterations of Star Trek , Prodigy deeply tied to Voyager .

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 is streaming on Netflix, with Season 2 expected in early 2024.

Star Trek: Prodigy

A group of enslaved teenagers steal a derelict Starfleet vessel to escape and explore the galaxy.

Release Date 2021-10-28

Creator Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman

Cast Kate Mulgrew, John Noble, Jason Mantzoukas, Brett Gray, Angus Imrie, Jimmi Simpson, Ella Purnell, Dee Bradley Baker

Main Genre Science Fiction

Genres Animation, Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure

Rating TV-Y7

Franchise(s) Star Trek

Main Cast Kate Mulgrew, Rylee Alazraqui, Dee Bradley Baker, Brett Gray, Angus Imrie, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas and John Noble

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When the planet reveals itself, the Infinity touches down in an expansive structure that truly does seem to be of both the past and the future. It’s beautiful: meticulously engineered and dusty, sands of time flowing off the geometric edges. It’s later referred to as a ziggurat, which was honestly a new word to both my kids and to me. I love that! To my kids, the ziggurat had the feeling of a temple from The Legend of Zelda series and the sense of foreboding as our crew tentatively walked around added to the feeling that this was definitely going to turn out to be a boss-battle level.

They come across a giant statue of what appears to be a random alien to the crew and to my kids, but to us older fans is immediately recognizable as The Traveler . We hear echoes of a conversation about leaving this plane or staying to save it. When I watched initially, I has assumed it was pieced together from old dialogue, but I was tickled to see the name Eric Menyuk in the credits. A very surreal, cool cameo.

And the surreality rolls on, as our crew comes across a 20 th century Earth vault door (Doesn’t every ziggurat have one?). Jankom (Jason Mantzoukas) prepares to bust it open, but no need as the door begins to open on its own. My kids had absolutely no idea who was going to appear on the other side of that door. By this time, I had figured it out, and yet, still, when grown Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) introduces himself I have to admit I felt a little goosebumpy!

My kids could tell that this was a BIG reveal, so we paused when they asked me who that was. My oldest was delighted when I told her he was around her age when he was on Star Trek: The Next Generation and he was allowed to FLY THE SHIP — instant cred right there! But my quick intro turned out to be unnecessary as Rok covers the highlights and Wesley fills in the rest.

The addition of Wesley Crusher is like a piece of the puzzle that I didn’t even realize was missing from the show, but ends up completing it. Of course we need Star Trek’s original prodigy to help mentor our next next generation. And what a great mentor he’s grown to be. He’s a guide and a guardian, the only timeless being who hasn’t given up on our reality. Dal (Brett Gray) and company might have been a little more weary, but my kids implicitly trusted him from the start. From his mission, to his cool look, to his hyper manner of speaking about complicated things, everything about him endeared him to my kids right away.

Wil Wheaton gives his best performance as Wesley Crusher to date. He plays it loose and confident in a way that makes perfect sense for a man who has taken the journey Wesley has taken in his life. He manages to evoke the growth of the character while maintaining the core of this person we’ve known, and he’s played, since he was a teenager. The way he made his voice crack on lines like “my mom lives here” felt like putting on your favorite old sweater.

He’s aided, of course, by the characteristically sharp and snappy dialogue of Jennifer Muro, who wrote Part I and other equally dynamic episodes this season. Here her talent for elevating characters helps Wesley come off as equal parts genius and unhinged in the best possible way.

When I was a young person watching The Next Generation , Ensign Wesley Crusher was my stand-in. I wanted to be him (or be his best friend and science with him, either one would work!). And now, for my kids, Traveler Wesley Crusher is like the cool uncle who’s going to let you stay up late and eat junk food and who you know you can trust with anything. I can not overstate just how deeply I felt the torch-passing of this beloved character from myself to my own next generation. Truly, a gift.

After we meet our resident time traveler, he gives the gang some insights into the nature of how time works within the Star Trek universe. Another great Prodigy explainer graphic comes to life as he talks about how we are in the Prime timeline and there are many branches with things like alternate timelines and different planes of existence. Name drops of the Mirror Universe, the Narada incursion (aka the Kelvin Timeline film series), Fluidic Space (from Voyager ), the Mycelial Plane from  Discovery  (you’re not supposed to know about that one!), and the Temporal Wars add a really great Star Trek touch to the otherwise generic sci-fi concept of a multi-verse.

Prodigy once again does a fantastic job of breaking down complicated concepts in ways kids new to such things can understand. My crew had no trouble understanding the situation with such a great breakdown and visual aids. And honestly: I think the reoccurring sweater metaphor helped! After the fifth or sixth mention, my daughter asked “Why is he so obsessed with sweaters?” and I laughed so hard. We paused again and had a really great time looking up pictures of young Wesley and his unparalleled fashion from TNG. They liked that his look now incorporated one of the old designs. “It looks good now !” my daughter laughed.

As our Traveler tries to figure out the next move, time stops once again for everyone — except the extra-temporal Gwyn and Wesley. And this time, we get to meet the cosmic scavengers threatening our timeline. They are called the Loom, and they are terrifying. They don’t just end your life, they erase your entire existence. And they are here. The creature design on the Loom is top notch. Every detail — from the chill inducing chittering sounds and screeches they make, to the way they just SHOW UP because they are drawn to your presence — ups the sense of dread the surrounds them.

Visually, they are stunning: giant monsters covered in tentacles that wave like flames; color-changing dragons with tree frog arms and terrifying faces that look like they are covered with ancient masks. The tentacles themselves are thick and appendage-like, yet appear almost woven out of yarn, as if each one was forged out of a trophy from a piece of the fabric of existence they have destroyed. They are stunningly cool.

In keeping with their Temple-like surroundings my kids stuck with the Zelda theme and took to calling these guys “Time Blight Gannons” (in homage to the natural force bad guys in Breath of the Wild : Wind Blight, Thunder Blight, Fire Blight, and Water Blight Gannons), which is really a testament to how fantastic the Loom design is.

Gwyn and Wesley put temporal bands on the arms of the rest of the gang and they all make their escape: straight into Gary Seven’s apartment from “Assignment Earth”. Which really makes perfect sense now, but I never would have guessed in a million years. Amazing!

While our gang is safe for the moment, Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and the Voyager -A are following the Infinty’s path from the last few episodes. Janeway receives another call from Admiral Jellico (Ronny Cox), who orders her back to Earth again. For the first part of her response, we are treated to Janeway’s three rules of captaining, first heard in the Voyager episode “Dark Frontier.” That really feels like it belongs in Prodigy . Next, some fun humor as Janeway perfectly executes a fake static and hang up maneuver— very satisfying! By the time they find the planet, the Loom have already arrived.

Tysess (Daveed Diggs) prepares an away team and brave Mej’el (Michaela Dietz) volunteers to go, as she is the only one on board with a psychic link to Zero (Angus Imrie) which might make them easier to find. Some really great creature-feature action as Tysess, Maj’el, and some red shirt named Middleton tip toe through the ziggurat and we get glimpses of the Loom scurrying around. And then we get a taste of the full terror we are up against as poor Middleton becomes the first victim of the Loom. He disintegrates out of existence. Chilling! Even more chilling when Tysess reports the loss to Janeway and she has no idea who Middleton is. He never existed at all.

Maj’el makes a bold move worthy of a Trek hero and disobeys orders so she can stay behind and find the crew. She stumbles across Wesley’s temporal chamber and tries to contact Zero.

Meanwhile, back at Gary Seven’s pad, Wesley enjoys a mango juice. He mentions an old Earth record: Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”, which is a very worthy addition to the small canon of real world pop culture referenced in Star Trek . They are trying to wait out the Loom. In a very trippy moment the old fashioned telephone rings and it’s Maj’el asking for help as the Loom closes in on her.

Wesley doesn’t think they should save her, as it could expose their position to the Loom, but luckily, Dal isn’t having it and opens a portal for her. A nice moment of game recognizing game as Dal commends Maj’el on her rash decision making. Another nice moment as Maj’el and Zero reunite when she literally falls into their arms.

But only a moment, as the Loom have found them. Through another portal they go, in the closet, another lovingly recreated detail straight out of “Assignment Earth.” But the temple — the trans-dimensional time ziggurat, to be more specific — is overrun. They try to make their way to the Infinity , but it too is overrun with Loom and eventual poofs out of existence as well.

There’s no where to go and no more moves to make as the crew are surrounded by Loom. Until Janeway goes full hero-mode and lures the Loom to Voyager , buying them, as Wesley puts it, “their only shot to fix the Universe”. It’s incredibly satisfying to witness Janeway spring into action like this again. Furrowing her brows the way she did in live action. Kate Mulgrew is perfection as we get a “Stay away from my crew” and “Fire!” in the authoritative and commanding way we were lucky enough to experience so often in Star Trek: Voyager .

This sequence is incredibly suspenseful, aided by Nami Melumad’s fantastic score. There are real world consequences as crewmen get blinked out of existence and the rest try to out run the Loom making their way through the ship. The EMH (Robert Picardo) is building phase discriminators, but he’s a doctor, not an assembly line, and he doesn’t have enough for the whole crew yet. It appears nothing can stop the Loom, not even a level ten forcefield.

Counselor Noem (Jason Alexander) bravely steps between the Loom and Maj’el’s Nova Squadron friends and they appear doomed, until Janeway goes full action -hero-mode and lures the Loom away from the Voyager and to her shuttle, which crashes onto the ziggurat after some hot-shot moves.

Janeway’s action-hero mode comes complete with her tank top from her fantastic Die Hard -style episode, “Macrocosm”. The thing that I love about that is that it is completely out of nowhere and unnecessary in such a delightful way. In “Macrocosm,” the ship was hotter than normal so she took her jacket off. Here, she does it just as a little gift to us, to signal her giving it all for her crew. I squealed with joy. My kids wondered what I was reacting to. “That’s what Janeway wears when she’s being a badass!” I told them. They didn’t care but it was a detail I certainly appreciated.

Our crew has made it back to Wesley’s chamber and this time we get references to Boreth time crystals and the Orb of Time , and that’s more than enough for me to believe in the tech of Wesley’s destiny calculator here. He gives them the warning not to look at the stream, or they will see their own future. Anyone surprised that Dal peeked? All three of my kids said that they would peek as well. I guess I’m too traumatized by Christopher Pike’s run in with a Boreth crystal to be so bold, as I voted “no spoilers.”

The machine doesn’t work until he adds Maj’el to the equation and, as we all have felt since we first met her, she takes her rightful place as an official member of our crew. The portal to the next part of the journey opens and — with Janeway’s blessing — all seven step through. And we get one hell of a parting shot as through the portal are the Protostar —and Chakotay (Robert Beltran).

The end of “The Devourer of All Things” marks the midway point of the season — what an epic ten episode arc in and of itself! So much Trek , in every aspect of that word, has been packed into such relatively short episodes. The setup for the second half is clear in both the stakes and the solution and I feel very lucky that with the whole season dropping at once, I only had to wait as long as it took Netflix to load the next episode to continue the journey.

Stay tuned for our next  Star Trek: Prodigy review, covering Season 2’s “The Last Flight of the Protostar” two-parter!

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Everything We Know About Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2

10 star trek: prodigy things to know before season 2, the mcu already told you who its main anchor being is 2 years ago according to loki theory.

• Star Trek: Prodigy introduces a young group of Starfleet cadets on adventures, connecting to the greater Star Trek universe.
• Timeline of Prodigy starts in 2383 after Voyager's return, with time travel leading to a 2435 alternate future storyline.
• In Season 2 of Prodigy, there will be time travel for a connection with multiple Star Trek series, exploring new wormholes and alternate futures.

Star Trek: Prodigy has seen its young group of aspiring Starfleet cadets embark on some fantastic adventures, but when does the show take place within the Star Trek timeline? Following Dal R'El (Brett Gray) and his ragtag group of friends aboard the experimental USS Protostar, Prodigy is the first Star Trek series created specifically for a younger audience. Still, the show has plenty for adult fans to love, as it builds on previous Star Trek series, particularly Star Trek: Voyager, and has many connections to the greater Star Trek universe.

After escaping the Tars Lamora prison colony, Dal and his friends steal the USS Protostar and embark on a series of adventures, aided by a hologram of Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). The kids eventually set out for Starfleet, hoping they can become true cadets, as the real Admiral Janeway pursues the Protostar. At the end of Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 , Admiral Janeway recruits Dal and his friends as Warrant Officers, and they set off to find the original crew of the Protostar, including Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran).

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 joins season 1's episodes on Netflix in summer 2024 so that all 40 episodes will be available on the streamer.

When Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 Takes Place In Star Trek’s Timeline

With time travel involved, prodigy's timeline can be a bit confusing..

The main storyline of Star Trek: Prodigy begins in 2383, five years after the USS Voyager returned from the Delta Quadrant in Star Trek: Voyager's series finale. Triumphantly back Alpha Quadrant, Janeway was quickly promoted to Vice Admiral and attended the launching ceremony of the USS Protostar. Under the command of Captain Chakotay , Janeway's dear friend and former First Officer, the Protostar then set off for the Delta Quadrant to clean up any messes left by Voyager's interference in the unexplored area of space.

For reference, Star Trek: Lower Decks takes place in 2381, and Star Trek: Picard begins in 2399.

Soon after arriving in the Delta Quadrant, Chakotay and his crew encountered a temporal anomaly that sent them about fifty years into the future to the year 2435. The Protostar landed on the planet Solum, whose people, the Vau N'Akat, sought to destroy the United Federation of Planets to prevent the collapse of their own society. Although the Vau N'Akat managed to plant a weapon on the Protostar, Chakotay sent the unmanned ship back in time before the weapon could be used. The Protostar ended up on Tars Lamora in the year 2366, where it sat until Dal and his young friends stumbled upon it in 2383.

Refresh your memory with 10 things to know from Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 before Prodigy season 2's 2024 Netflix debut.

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Will Have Time Travel To An Alternate Future

The majority of the voice cast from Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 return in season 2, for a time travel adventure that will connect multiple Star Trek series. At the end of Star Trek: Prodigy season 1, Starfleet discovered that the destruction of the Protostar had created a new wormhole to the same coordinates where Chakotay and his crew had been lost. As Admiral Janeway, Dal, and the rest of their crew take the USS Voyager-A in search of Chakotay, they will have to travel through this wormhole into the alternate future.

When the Protostar arrived on Solum in 2435, the remnants of the Vau N'Akat people saw it as a way to save their civilization and get revenge on the Federation for the decades of civil war caused by First Contact. The events of Star Trek: Prodigy's season 1 finale, however, altered the future, since the Federation now knows about these events. Plus, Gwyndala (Ella Purnell) travels to her home planet of Solum with the hope of reuniting her people and preventing the civil war, and it remains to be seen what effect her efforts will have.

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Star Trek: Prodigy is the first TV series in the Star Trek franchise marketed toward children, and one of the few animated series in the franchise. The story follows a group of young aliens who find a stolen Starfleet ship and use it to escape from the Tars Lamora prison colony where they are all held captive. Working together with the help of a holographic Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), the new crew of the USS Protostar must find their way back to the Alpha Quadrant to warn the Federation of the deadly threat that is pursuing them.

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Kids in Charge: Star Trek: Prodigy's Fresh Approach to the Galaxy

Even though they're not yet in Starfleet, the Protostar crew rely on and support each other just as much as the crew of any other starship.

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What makes Star Trek: Prodigy completely different from any other Trek ? The youngest characters get to make the biggest decisions. Fans of all ages have embraced this series because having a Star Trek show that centers and values young characters not only allows the telling of their stories, but it also suggests we can learn from the fearlessness, passion, and ingenuity of young people. While chaos often reigns in the free-form leadership space on the U.S.S. Protostar Bridge, in the end, their collaboration works.

Friends make excellent family. "Time Amok"

Of course, we've seen kids in other Star Trek shows, including Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation , Jake Sisko and Nog on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Naomi Wildman and Icheb on Star Trek: Voyager , and Adira Tal and Gray Tal on Star Trek: Discovery . However, we've never encountered a critical mass of decision-making young people until Star Trek: Prodigy . The smart characters on the U.S.S. Protostar solve problems in a fresh way informed by their youthful optimism — and sometimes fear or arrogance — that adults would never attempt.

While its focus on young characters makes this show unique, Star Trek: Prodigy does share the universal Trek concept of having one's interspecies crew become family. Even though Dal, Gwyndala, Jankom Pog, Rok-Tahk, and Zero are not yet in Starfleet, the Protostar crew rely on and support each other just as much as the crew of any other starship.

Interspecies friendships are the best. "The Nagus"

On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Jake and Nog's friendship provides a preview of the interspecies connections among the crew in Star Trek: Prodigy . On DS9, Jake and Nog are best friends who take care of each other. These two get into good fun and dig themselves out of complicated problems with their combination of Ferengi business savvy and wisdom from The Sisko. However, unlike the Star Trek: Prodigy kids, Jake and Nog don't make the big decisions in this show focused on the Dominion War .

How many kids wish they could dismiss an annoying adult? "Kobayashi"

In addition to supporting and connecting with each other like a generally functional family, the Star Trek: Prodigy kids take center stage in decision making while Emergency Training Hologram Janeway provides advice, if they choose to accept it. This dynamic makes Star Trek: Prodigy satisfying for anyone who is or remembers being an adolescent. The Protostar crew can dismiss Hologram Janeway when they're feeling overly confident or completely overwhelmed, a tactic perhaps some Earth-based kids wish they could deploy. "Janeway, dismissed!" says Dal as he prepares for his lengthy Kobayashi Maru holodeck experience after she had suggested it might be too challenging for him.

Rok-Tahk deactivates Hologram Janeway when she’s feeling overwhelmed. "Time Amok"

"Computer! Make Janeway go away!" cries Rok-Tahk in the excellent science episode, "Time Amok." She's just a kid but she's being asked to build a warp matrix to save all her friends by keeping the U.S.S. Protostar from exploding. It's overwhelming! However, because she has almost all the time in the world and she's really smart, she's able to learn all the science in order to fix the problem and get her friends back, including Hologram Janeway.

In Ray Bradberry's chilling short story "The Veldt," human children use a holodeck program set in African lion territory with the safety settings off in order to have the computer neutralize their parents. That's not what the Protostar crew are doing to the adult-presenting hologram built into the ship. Being able to summon or dismiss Hologram Janeway as well as leave her behind on the Protostar helps the crew stumble through experiences that force them to grow and learn. Failure and "learn-by-doing" experience provides a key to wisdom and knowledge that would be less potent if they had to follow orders from some non-holographic Starfleet adult, like Admiral Kathryn Janeway or grumpy Dr. Noum.

Zero reading Dal's angry mind. "Starstruck"

If young people of all ages find themselves envious of the Protostar crew's ability to dismiss a holographic adult, Zero's application of their telepathic abilities with in-over-his-head Captain Dal provides adults with insight into the enigmatic mind of a kid in the midst of a brain growth spurt. How many parents wish there was a mind-reading Medusan (safely ensconced in protective gear) who could let them know what their own Captain Kid was thinking?

Several Star Trek shows have created young characters willing to engage the Borg, including Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Prodigy .

Consider Naomi Wildman on Voyager. Born on a starship stuck in the Delta Quadrant, Naomi —one of the youngest characters in the greater Star Trek universe — fearlessly befriends former Borg Seven of Nine. Both Naomi and Icheb (one of the Borg children Voyager rescues) provide opportunities for Seven to grow emotionally, although their characters primarily help to illuminate Seven's re-humanization, not their own internal development, as with the Protostar crew.

Naomi Wildman in Seven;s Borg regeneration alcove. "The Voyager Conspiracy"

In "The Voyager Conspiracy," the episode opens with Naomi standing in Seven's regeneration alcove. She's just hanging out in the cargo bay, maybe pretending to be a Borg, and waiting for some kadis-kot game time with Seven. She isn't wary of Seven's Borg infrastructure because she hasn't yet learned to fear like adults do.

Big bad Borg cube, tiny little Protostar : let’s go check it out! "Let Sleeping Borg Lie"

The Protostar crew are similarly brave when confronting the Borg in "Let Sleeping Borg Lie." When they see the Cube, adult-brain Hologram Janeway immediately urges the Protostar crew to retreat. Against her advice, the Protostar 's crew decides to board a dormant Borg cube to discover more information on the Vau N'Akat Living Construct weapon from the future implanted within their ship. Only a group of confident kids would willingly visit the Borg to find some answers. Like Naomi, they haven't learned how to fear like adults do. In doing so, they get another clue to the Living Construct mystery that ultimately helps them save Starfleet.

At 17, Gwyn is one of the older members of this youthful crew and the only one with a parent in the show. Unfortunately for Gwyn and her crew, the mean and controlling Diviner and his killer robot Dreadnok chase after the Protostar for much of Season 1. Obviously, not the happiest of families! When given the chance to take the Protostar from our youthful heroes, The Diviner prioritizes securing the ship over saving his daughter from the class M Murder Planet. Gwyn is crushed.

The Diviner taught Gwyn language and negotiation skills. "A Moral Star, Part 1"

Once he experienced Zero's unrestrained traumatic energy on Tars Lamora, The Diviner's post-Zero recovery included a softening of his heart. He finally saw Gwyn as an important individual rather than just a cog in his revenge machine deployed against Starfleet. While fans were all rooting for The Diviner's comeuppance at the end of " A Moral Star, Part 2 ," it's a testament to this show's writer’s room that, just nine episodes later, we mourn with Gwyn as her father dies in her arms.

Gwyn negotiating with Klingon Captain Taij. "Supernova, Part 2"

At the end of his life, The Diviner makes a type of apology to her and finally seems filled with love for his daughter. Just a few moments later, Gwyn uses diplomacy and language skills she learned from her father to save Starfleet. Despite all the challenges of growing up with an intimidating father on a chimerium-encrusted prison asteroid, polyglot Gwyn ultimately learned valuable skills from her father that helped save so many lives.


Like Gwyn and The Diviner, Adira Tal from Star Trek: Discovery and Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation also share the screen with and learn from father figures — Commander Paul Stamets and Dr. Hugh Culber for Adira and Gray, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard for Wesley. Adira and Wesley are both brilliant young people inside of Starfleet who have genius-level skills in engineering as well as standard adolescent awkwardness in social situations, like many young people.

Commander Paul Stamets has his first "dad moment" with Adira Tal. "People of Earth"

Unlike Gwyn and the Diviner, Adira's relationship with Culber and Stamets on Discovery is filled with love and support from the beginning. Commander Stamets actually has his first "dad moment" the very first time he meets Adira and begins to explain his beloved spore drive system. You can actually see Anthony Rapp's famously cantankerous Stamets turn into an absolute creampuff while confronting super smart Adira about the sabotage and the science.

Captain Picard shows Wesley Crusher the captain's chair. "Encounter at Farpoint"

Gwyn's relationship with her intimidating father who finally has a change of heart more closely resembles Wesley's relationship with the reserved, but kind-hearted, Captain Picard on The Next Generation . Like The Diviner, early season Picard did not appear to like children or, at least, he was indifferent to them as important factors on his ship. Despite Picard's oft-repeated claim that he doesn't feel comfortable around children, he finally loosened up and developed a surrogate father relationship with Beverly and Jack Crusher's son focused on Starfleet and duty.

Star Trek: Prodigy has captured the hearts of so many new and long-time fans in part because we all remember the challenge of surviving adolescence. The episode " Masquerade " even has a hilarious "simulation" of Dal going through a type of puberty on genetic overdrive. Everyone remembers what it was like to stumble through the experience of being an awkward young person, maybe wanting to fit in, and working hard at trying to figure out who we were and who we wanted to become.

Thanks to the hard work of the creative Star Trek: Prodigy team, fans laugh at the crew's youthful hijinks while, at the same time, we learn how to go boldly forward with the kids in charge.

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Last month at SDCC Paramount announced the second season of  Star Trek: Prodigy  was being released immediately on VOD, with a Blu-ray and DVD arriving in November. We now have more details on the disc release.

Bringing Prodigy home

In Season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy:  “the Protostar crew are assigned a new mission aboard the USS Voyager-A to rescue Captain Chakotay and bring peace to Gwyn’s home world. But when their plan goes astray, it creates a time paradox that jeopardizes both their future and past”. The 20-episode second season arrived on Netflix on July, garnering acclaim here at TrekMovie and with critics and fans. And on November 12 the season will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD (MOD).

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In addition to every episode of the second season the home release incudes two all-new featurettes with exclusive cast & crew interviews. The special features for the set are:

• Producers and Wil Wheaton discuss creating an introduction for new audiences of Prodigy, all the pieces of Legacy Star Trek, and how Prodigy fits into the greater canon.
• Producers discuss the Protostar crew coming from being heroes on their own ship to becoming part of something much bigger in Season 2, and Wil Wheaton speaks on his character Wesley Crusher coming back to Star Trek and how that return affected him.

Here is a clip from the “Legacy” feature…

Pre-order Prodigy season 2

You can pre-order the Blu-ray from Amazon for $24.49 and the DVD for $19.99 .

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Season 2 now streaming in SkyShowtime countries

The second season was released in July on Netflix worldwide with the exception of a few markets. On August 17 all of season 2 began streaming in the SkyShowtime countries: Albania, Andorra, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.

Here is the SkyShowtime trailer…

For fans in Canada, Prodigy season 2 is not available for streaming, and it isn’t clear if, when or where it will be released for streaming. However, season 2 is available now in Canada for digital purchase (on Apple/iTunes). It will also be available on Blu-ray and DVD in November.

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It sounds like there’s not as much, but what’s there is potentially very nice material, so that’s good. I do wish we could have some audio commentary, though. That’s probably my favorite typical DVD / Blu-ray extra, and Prodigy is the only one of Star Trek’s three animated series that hasn’t received any on its disc releases. But this is still a Day 1 purchase for me.

Is it too late to do something about the art with Jankom’s prosthetic being on the wrong arm?

I agree with you that audio commentaries can add a lot of fun! Too bad we’re not getting any.

Good catch on Jankom’s incorrect hand – that’s quite a bad boo-boo to make for the art department! But I’m pretty sure that it’s not worth it to them to correct, and that we’re stuck with the error… 😬

I noticed it when we saw the key art right as S2 was about to be released on Netflix, and mentioned it then. I assume the character images here were individually rendered (correctly) by artists who actually work on the show, and then a graphic designer who doesn’t know the characters flopped the image for this art. Bleah.

The disc release is a bit under three months away; I’m guessing it’s too late to do something about it, but hopefully not.

Have any Canadians been able to find Prodigy season 2 VOD on anything else other than iTunes? The article lists Amazon and Google Play but I can’t find it there.

Sorry, that was an assumption. Release only stated it was available on VOD. We have reached out to see if there are others besides iTunes.

In USA it is available at other VOD options. For example here is link for Amazon https://amzn.to/46WuDxe

I found a person selling it on Etsy on Blu ray. It was worth it. Fantastic show.

You bought a bootleg.

I must have this when it comes out in November.

Best show in modern Trek by far for me!

I’ve noticed over the past couple of years that international release dates/info are no longer provided with the press releases for Trek physical media. But I’m not worried, typically they will follow not too far behind.

Typically, but not always. For example, season 3 of Lower Decks was delayed here by almost a year compared to the US release. By contrast, Lower Decks season 4 was only delayed by 4 months.

Star Trek's Kate Mulgrew Has One Condition To Return As Kathryn Janeway

The last time Trekkies saw Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) in live-action was via a video call to Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) in 2002's "Star Trek: Nemesis." In animation, however, we've been spoiled with the volume of Janeway in recent years. In "Star Trek: Prodigy," a holographic version of Janeway, also played by Mulgrew, served as an ersatz mother figure for the show's teenage protagonists. The real-world Janeway also eventually became involved in the action, and she too was impressed with Dal (Brett Grey), Gwyn (Ella Purnell), and the rest of the Protostar teens, to the point where she helps them apply to Starfleet Academy. In the show's second and final season, Janeway even lead a quest to rescue her old first officer, Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran), and brought the "Prodigy" kids along.

While there are currently no plans to bring Janeway back to "Star Trek" after the end of "Prodigy," Mulgrew, 69, said that she is still open to the idea. After all, ever since 2017, Paramount has been launching new "Star Trek" shows on the regular, with many of them reviving long-moribund characters for new adventures. There was a series called "Star Trek: Picard" devoted to Picard, while "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" recast multiple characters not seen since the original "Star Trek" TV series in 1966. As such, there's not much — other than money — preventing Paramount from asking Mulgrew to step in front of the cameras again as Admiral Janeway.

In a 2022 interview with TrekMovie , Mulgrew laid out a few mandates she would require to accept the role, however. It seems she wouldn't want to come back as a supporting player. It would need to be for a legitimately grand, outsize adventure, even bigger than what Janeway has gone through before.

Only 'extraordinary' adventures for Janeway

Mulgrew, it seems, had already talked with Alex Kurtzman, the head honcho over at "Star Trek," about the possibility of returning in live-action. At the very least, she was able to communicate her mandates clearly. It seems that Mulgrew wanted Janeway to remain clear-headed and resolute. Janeway, Mulgrew felt, shouldn't have to struggle through any petty personal angst. She should be ready to take command, and happy to do so.

Also, Mulgrew wanted a large story. It couldn't be small and personal and calm. It had to be even more impressive than her elongated quest from the Delta Quadrant to the Alpha Quadrant (as dramatized in seven seasons of "Star Trek: Voyager"). And it had to have a good script. As Mulgrew put it:

"I said this to Kurtzman. The writing is going to have to be absolutely exquisite and as tight — I mean so tight. I want that language to just burst! And I want the story to be so tenuous and taut. I said, 'No languishing.' I don't want peaks and valleys. I want a Janeway that everybody can say, 'That's what she's become. I'm with her! This is great!' Right? And I think some sort of extraordinary adventure. Even greater than ' Voyager .' Even greater than the Delta Quadrant."

Whether or not Kurtzman has been brainstorming ideas for Mulgrew remains unknown. As of this writing, the series "Starfleet Academy" is in the works, while "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is the only ongoing "Star Trek" TV show without a known expiration date. There haven't been any announcements about a show that would take place in Janeway's timeline, nor any reports that she will appear on any other "Star Trek" series (likely via time-travel).

It seems that, for the time being, the grand adventure will have to wait. But if Kurtzman changes his mind, he should remember that Mulgrew is standing by.