By “Star Trek: Prodigy” will set course for its new home on Netflix this coming Monday, December 25th.
The series was famously cancelled and the first season was removed from the Paramount+ service in June, even as the second season was nearly finished production.
Paramount pledged to finish that season in production and by October, Netflix had acquired the series with plans to air the second season in 2024.
Speaking with Collider recently, writers and executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman say that despite all that’s happened, they are hopeful about the show’s future and have crafted the story in a way it could go for years. Dan Hageman says:
“At the end of episode 40 there’s a nice wrap-up. [We] never want to leave people hanging… [but] there’s threads of what’s next. If we’re lucky enough to go to Season 3, I’m really excited about where the show can go. We wrote this thing to go seven seasons at least.”
Kevin Hageman says he hopes this can continue in the vein of The Original Series:
“I hope people will look back at our show and be like, ‘Oh my god, they followed the footsteps of The Original Series. It got cancelled, and they got brought back to life. Oh, here comes Star Trek the motion picture.’ Why not?”
“Star Trek: Prodigy” follows the young crew of the U.S.S. Protostar, a Federation starship with an experimental propulsion system, which the characters discovered buried within the prison colony of Tars Lamora – deep in the Delta Quadrant.
The voice cast includes Brett Gray (Dal R’El), Ella Purnell (Gwyn), Rylee Alazraqui (Rok-Tahk), Angus Imrie (Zero), Jason Mantzoukas (Jankom Pog), Dee Bradley Baker (Murf), John Noble (The Diviner), Jimmi Simpson (Drednok) and Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway.
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