'Star Trek: Prodigy' And The Protostar Crew Will Dock At Netflix On Christmas
'Star Trek: Prodigy' And The Protostar Crew Will Dock At Netflix On Christmas
The streamer certainly came through on their promise. Only so much time left in the year after all.
Star Trek: Prodigy is officially headed back to legal airspace, right under the Christmas tree. Netflix has announced as part of their Geeked Week festivities that season 1 of the rescued animated series will debut at its new home on Christmas Day, December 25.
About a month ago, to the joy of global Trekkies, the streamer announced its pickup of the abandoned Paramount+ series after more than three months of campaigns to save it. Prodigy’s original home had renewed the series for a second season in November 2021, just a couple of weeks after season 1 had premiered. It had even scheduled to premiere Prodigy season 2 in Winter 2023 as recently as March. Suddenly, at the end of June, Paramount+ canceled the series with Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, The Game, and other original series amounting to dozens of removed titles including original movies and Nickelodeon library series. Prodigy itself is a Nickelodeon Animation Studio production, a Nicktoon and work on season 2 was allowed to continue while it was shopped.
Netflix’s pickup stated that season 1 would arrive by the end of the year, and in such a small window already, does so with a week to spare in 2023. Essentially, instead of premiering season 2 in winter 2023 as initially planned, season 1 gets to re-premiere in that slot before season 2 instead gets an early 2024 release. Its cancellation and removal from Paramount+ left a hole in what had been pretty consistent scheduling this year amongst the service’s Star Trek series, with its Winter 2023 release situating it between Lower Decks season 4 (concluded on November 2) and Discovery’s fifth and final season, which was given an early 2024 window before the debacle. Still no indication that it will be moved up to close the gap, especially following the double strikes that likely hinder the year’s release consistency for the self-proclaimed “home of Star Trek”.
As explored previously, being both a Star Trek property and a Nickelodeon property makes Netflix rather familiar ground for Prodigy. However I did neglect to mention that the explosion in popularity for the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise brought on by both series’ addition to the streamer was two years after it had announced a live action series adaptation. Said addition of the original series would turn out to be about four years ahead of said live action series’s premiere, as Thursday also brought the Geeked Week announcement that it would happen on February 22 and may very well be around when Prodigy season 2 premieres.
The series’ official description describes “a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search of a better future.” This crew, of the Protostar consists of Dal voiced by Brett Gray, Gwyn voiced by Ella Purnell, Rok-Tahk voiced by Rylee Alazraqui, Zero voiced Angus Imrie, Jankom Pog voiced by Jason Mantzoukas, and Murf, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, with Kate Mulgrew reprising her role as Admiral Kathryn Janeway. John Noble as The Diviner and Jimmi Simpson as Drednok also starred, while featured recurrers included Daveed Diggs as Commander Tysess, Jameela Jamil as Ensign Asencia, Jason Alexander as Doctor Noum, Robert Beltran (Janeway’s #1 on Voyager) as Captain Chakotay, and Billy Campbell as Thadiun Okona.
Kevin and Dan Hageman developed the series along with modern franchise shepherd Alex Kurtzman and his team at Secret Hideout. The Hagemans also serve as showrunners and executive producers. Heather Kadin, Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth serve as executive producers with Kurtzman and the Hagemans. Aaron Waltke and Patrick Krebs serve as co-executive producers. Ben Hibon directs, executive-produces and is credited as the show’s “creative lead”.
Source: Netflix Geeked