Summary
- Star Trek: Prodigy has been saved thanks to the passionate fans who rallied behind it, with 34,000 signatures on a petition and flying a banner over Netflix's headquarters.
- Season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy is in progress and is looking and sounding fantastic, with the final mix for the last quarter of episodes underway.
- Season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy picks up where season 1 left off, with the young crew of the USS Protostar becoming the warrant officers of Admiral Kathryn Janeway and embarking on a mission to rescue Captain Chakotay from a hostile world. The season will also feature appearances from The Doctor and the USS Voyager-A.
Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman thanked the fans for saving Star Trek: Prodigy at New York Comic Con, and executive producer Aaron J. Waltke offers an exciting update about Prodigy season 2. On October 11, Star Trek: Prodigy's creators and co-showrunners Kevin and Dan Hageman announced that Netflix is Star Trek: Prodigy's new streaming home, 4 months after the beloved, all-ages animated series was canceled and purged from Paramount+. Star Trek: Prodigy season 1's 20 episodes arrive on Netflix later in 2023 and 20 all-new episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 are coming to Netflix in 2024.
As reported by TrekMovie, Alex Kurtzman opened NYCC's Star Trek Universe panel by thanking the fans for saving Star Trek: Prodigy with their passion and creativity, such as garnering 34,000 signatures in an online petition and hiring a plane to fly a #SaveStarTrekProdigy banner over Los Angeles (including Netflix's headquarters). Read Kurtzman's quote below:
Before we get started I want to just clear the elephant in the room. Star Trek: Prodigy is back! And Star Trek: Prodigy is back because you guys brought it back. What you did has not been since since TOS. Star Trek belongs to two entities: Gene Roddenberry and the fans. That’s it. And it is because of you, because of your almost 35,000 signatures on that petition, a plane over Netflix, and they heard you.
So from the bottom of my heart, because we love Star Trek: Prodigy so much, and Dan and Kevin Hageman, and Kate [Mulgrew] and the entire cast and crew, I just want to be able to thank you. Thank you so much for what you did, it was incredible, truly.
On October 17, Star Trek: Prodigy executive producer Aaron J. Waltke posted an exciting update on Twitter/X about the progress of season 2's final batch of episodes. Check out his post below:
