Star Trek: Prodigy's USS Protostar was created to fix the mistakes made by Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and her crew during seven seasons of Star Trek: Voyager. As the only Federation vessel in the Delta Quadrant, the USS Voyager had to make some difficult decisions while traveling this previously uncharted region of space. Mistakes were certainly made, and Janeway was always willing to accept the consequences of her actions. Her new starship, the USS Dauntless, was a reminder of those mistakes, as its namesake was an elaborate trap designed by a vengeful scientist, widowed due to Janeway's temporary alliance with the Borg Collective.
Star Trek: Prodigy established that, by 2383, it was much easier to travel between the Alpha and Delta Quadrant. This opportunity was made possible by the experimental proto-drive equipped aboard the USS Protostar. Janeway hoped the Protostar's mission would go some way to mending the mistakes she had previously made. Commanded by Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran), the Protostar fell through a temporal anomaly into an alternate reality and never got to carry out its mission. However, once Vice Admiral Janeway and her crew of warrant officers rescue Chakotay from this alternate timeline in Prodigy season 2, the third season could send them all back to the Delta Quadrant to fix these 10 mistakes from Star Trek: Voyager's past.
